[1] One Commandant of the Fort was the famous Chevalier Jacques Testard de Montigny, Knight of the Order of St. Louis.
By 1718, there were a number of French Canadian families living in the area near the fort.
Other families settled across the river from the fort in an area which was called Munnomonee, because of the Menominee native people that lived there.
[2] In 1733 the Sauks, allied to the Meskwaki (Fox), attacked the French at Fort La Baye.
He prevailed and in 1739 the Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of Canada, wrote "Sieur Marin has re-established peace and quietness".