When the fur traders came to early America in roughly 1749 (before Lewis and Clark...), French fur trader Daniel Duluth came to Minnesota to secure land for France and is possibly guilty of replacing an early a land claim stone written in an old ruin script thought to be left in 1362 from earlier traders in connection with the Knights of Templar (the Kennsington stone). Duluth has only recently been implicated in secretly switching these land claim stones from 1749 in hopes of securing land in the "New World" for the French government, namely to impress the King of France.