Augustin Mouet, sieur de Langlade, (with a number of name variations) (1703 – 1771), was born in
Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He was the son of Pierre Mouet, sieur de Moras.
Augustin obtained a fur trading license at
Michilimackinac in 1728. That year he married
Domitilde
Domitilde Marie Kapeouapnokoue (1692–1782, aka Ouikabe, LaFourche, Nepveu Villeneuve, Mouet) was an Odawa woman of the Nassauakueton doodem. Her father was chief Returning Cloud Kewinaquot and her mother was Nesxesouexite Neskes Mi-Jak-Wa-Ta-Wa. ...
, a widow with six children, who was the daughter of an
Odawa
The Odawa (also Ottawa or Odaawaa ), said to mean "traders", are an Indigenous American ethnic group who primarily inhabit land in the Eastern Woodlands region, commonly known as the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. They ha ...
chief and the sister to another. This strengthened his standing in the area. He was largely responsible for the establishment of the fur trading outpost that became
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The county seat of Brown County, it is at the head of Green Bay (known locally as "the bay of Green Bay"), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It is above sea lev ...
. In 1728 he also fought in the
Fox Wars together with
François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery.
Augustin was a
Canadian fur trader
The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur. Since the establishment of a world fur market in the early modern period, furs of boreal, polar and cold temperate mammalian animals have been the mos ...
in that region. His son,
Charles Michel de Langlade, was also involved in fur trading, and was a leader in the
French and Indian Wars.
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Notes
External links
''The Founders of Green Bay''''Early Canadiana Online (French)''Augustin Mouet d'Englade 1 (1703 - 1771) (French)''
1695 births
1771 deaths
Canadian fur traders
18th-century French people
People of New France
People from Green Bay, Wisconsin
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