Excerpt from Historic Rock Island County: History of the Settlement of Rock Island County From the Earliest Known Period to the Present Time
At what time these two tribes came to Green Bay is not known. Marquette's map of 1673 locates the Foxes on the Fox River between the' present Green Bay and Lake Winnebago. Father Claude Allouez, when he established the mission of St. Francis Xavier in 1669, found them located near, and in 1672 he commenced preaching the gospel to them. Early in the eighteenth centurv they were driven from Green Bay and the Fox River by the Menominees, who were aided bv the Ottawas, Chippewas and the French.
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