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P5023

ID Number: P5023
Item Name: image
Title: Jacques Duperon Baby
Description: black and white portrait of jacques Duperon Baby; he is wearing French 18th century military uniform;
History: Jacques Baby, dit Dupéron (1731 – August 1789) was a Canadian fur trader and an employee of the British Indian Department. He married Suzanne Reaume dit La Croix at Detroit in 1760. They had 22 children, 11 of which survived into adulthood. After the British defeated France in the Seven Years War, Jacques Duperon Baby pledged his allegiance to the British. He proved his allegiance by providing supplies to the British at Fort Detroit during Chief Pontiac's siege of Detroit in 1763. Jacques Duperon baby owned about 20 slaves (Black and Indigenous) and upon his death in 1789 some were inherited by his sons, Jacques (James) and Francois.
Collection Name: Museum Windsor
Subject (Fre): N

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Baby family / Famille Baby

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