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17 Medico-Legal J. 1 (1899-1900)

handle is hein.journals/medlejo17 and id is 1 raw text is: MINNESOTA. BY CLARK BELL, ESQ., LL. D., OF THE BAR OF N. Y. CITY. EARLY TERRITORIAL HISTORY. In i688 Nicholas Perrot first planted the Cross and Arms of France on the soil of Minnesota and laid the first formal claim to the country for France, he built a fort at Lake Pepin near Lake City. Jean Nicolet, a French explorer, in 1635, wintered near Green Bay and brought to Montreal the first mention of the Aborigines of Minnesota. In 1650 to i66o, Groisellers and Radison, Frenchmen, winter- ed among the Sioux Indians in the Mille Lacs Region. Duluth had ascended the St. Louis River to Fond du Lac and held a cduncil with the Sioux Indians in 1679 and 168o, he met Louis Hennepin, a Dutch priest, at the Sioux village of Mille Lacs Sioux. The French after 1696 occupied it and in that year Le Seuer built a fort on Isle Pelee in the Mississippi River below Prescott. In 17oo Le Seuer established Fort L. Huillier, on Blue Earth River, and in 1727 the French built another fort on Lake Pepin with Sieur de Lapperreire as commander. By the treaty of Versaillies, France ceded that part of Minnesota lying east of the Mississippi River to England and.west of that river to Spain. In 1796 the laws of the Ordinances of 1787 was extended over the northwest. May 7th, i8oo, that part of Minnesota east of the Missis- sippi River became a part of Indiana by the division of Ohio. On December 2oth, 1803, that part of Minnesota west of the Mississippi River for forty years in possession

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