Jean-Baptiste Bissot de Vincennes (Vinsenne) (19 January 1668 – 1719), a son of François Byssot de la Rivière, was born in New France and was a career man with the colonial regular troops. He spent a number of years at the end of his life as an agent of New France among the Miami Indians.
In 1696 Bissot was given a command among the Miami by Louis de Buade de Frontenac. The territory was located southeast of Lake Michigan in what is present day Indiana. In 1704 the current Governor-general of New France, Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, wrote the French court to emphasize the importance of Bissot's services to New France among the Miami people.
From 1712 until his death, Jean-Baptiste Bissot resided on a fairly permanent basis with the Miami to keep them from falling under the control of the British. After his death, a permanent garrison was established in the Maumee River area by Jacques-Charles Renaud Dubuisson.[1]