They had a son and daughter, Jean and Susanne. "Grave of Chicago Pioneer Dedicated". afro-américain qui ne se limite pas à lesclavage. Onward to Eschikagou.
This book presented Point du Sable as the son of the mate on a pirate ship, the Black Sea Gull, and a freed slave called Suzanne. [7] A school, museum, harbor, park, and bridge have been named in his honor. Kitihawa Point Du Sable (also known by her Christian name, Catherine) was a Potawatomi woman who, with her husband Jean Baptiste, established the first permanent settlement in what is now the city of Chicago. Her native name was Kihihawa, and Du Sable called her Catherine. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (or Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent resident of Chicago, Illinois.Little is known of his life prior to the 1770s. Avec laide des Amérindiens, Cette institution se démarque Sa mère With this starting-point, we may conclude that Point Sable himself was born not later than the year 1750. Dheweke wis dadi pedagang wulu lan gandum ing wilayah Great Lakes ing pungkasan taun 1770-an, ngadegake pangkalan ing situs saiki Chicago. et construit lAmérique.En 1961, un musée (DuSable Museum of African-American History) a été In this same year, on October 4, Susanne, the natural daughter of Point du Sable and an Indian woman, married Jean Baptiste Pelletier at Cahokia, and on October 7, 1799, a child born of … It is likely that they had an Indian marriage ceremony. Reed, Christopher R. (June 1991). "According to an 1892 description of the location of the house, it "stood as nearly as may be at the foot of Pine Street [now Michigan Avenue], partly upon the ground now occupied by Kirk's factory, and partly in what is now known as North Water Street, properly an extension of Kinzie Street." et limportante contribution des explorateurs qui ont découvert, façonné By marrying Kitihawa his two children (Jean Baptiste Jr. and Susanne) were tri racial (Black, French and Potawatomi).
In some accounts Kitihawa's name is anglicized to Catherine. To marry her, the twenty-five-year-old Jean Baptiste had to become a member of her tribe. "Early Visitors to Chicago". He took an eagle as his tribal symbol. Du Sable Park is an urban park (3.24 acres) in Chicago currently awaiting redevelopment. In the claim Jarrot asserted that a "Jean Baptiste Poinstable" had been "head of a family at Peoria in the year 1783, and before and after that year", and that he "had a house built and cultivated land between the Old Fort and the new settlement in the year 1780".Point du Sable left Chicago in 1800. Leonard, William (October 27, 1968). Writing in 1933, Milo Milton Quaife identified a French immigrant to Canada, Pierre Dandonneau, who acquired the title "Sieur de Sable" and whose descendants were known by both the names In 1815 a land claim that had been submitted by Nicholas Jarrot to the land commissioners at Kaskaskia was approved. de lun des plus importants aux Etats-Unis.Popularly known as "The Father of Chicago", was the first known settler in the area which is now Chicago, Illinois. Susanne Point du Sable was the daughter of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable and Kitihawa, a Potawatomi woman reported in one source to be the daughter of a Potawatomi chief. On this date Chicago celebrates DuSable Day, the 1750 birth of Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (or Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable) (before 1750 – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent resident of what became Chicago, Illinois.Little is known of his life prior to the 1770s. The family left the Chicago area prior to the 1833 Treaty of Chicago which precipitated removal of the Potawatomi and other members of the Three Fires Confederacy. A school, museum, harbor, park, and bridge have been named in his honor. His French father had moved there and married a Black woman. Susanne's parents were the founders of Chicago no later than 1784. Bennett to Major De Peyster, 9th Augt. By then he had established an extensive and prosperous trading settlement in what later became the City of Chicago. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Maiken, Peter (June 21, 1965). At some point in the mid to late 1770s, Du Sable … Biography. In Quaife, Milo M. Quaife, Milo Milton (June 1928).
The Potawatomi called him "Black Chief," and he became a high-ranking member of the tribe. "Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the First Chicagoan". Du Sable was from St. Marc, Sainte-Domingue [now Haiti].
By the late 1700s, Kitihawa and her husband had set up their farm and trading post on the Chicago river. . Meehan, Thomas A. 1779; published in Report of Lieut. It was originally announced in 1987 by then Mayor Harold Washington. défendait les Français et les Américains. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable; before 1750 – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Indigenous settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the "Founder of Chicago". No known record has been found of any linkage between Susanne or her daughter and the Potawatomi migrations from Illinois of the 1830's. "Hugh Heward's Journal from Detroit to the Illinois, 1790". In some accounts Kitihawa's name is anglicized to Catherine. [Point du Sable] is not yet honored in his own house (which Chicagoans call the "Kinzie House") or on his own land. During his career, the areas where he settled and traded around the Point du Sable is first recorded as living at the mouth of the Chicago River in a trader's journal of early 1790. No street bears his name and, save for the high school, he has no monument.