His given name and dates are unknown; a son-in-law of Augustin de Langlade, he married Agate de Langlade (b. 1722) before they came to Green Bay in 1745, and he died soon after; presumably before this marriage he fathered with a Menominee woman the mother of Cha-wa-non (or Cha-kau-cho-ka-ma).

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[Source: Grignon, Augustin. "Seventy-two years' recollections of Wisconsin" at Turning Points in Wis. History (www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/).]