François LaFromboise

Was a fur trader in the areas of Wisconsin and Chicago. Married Shaw-we-no-quah abt. 1780 in Mackinac Island, MI. They had four children: Claude, Alexis, Josette, and Joseph (and possibly another son). Francis was granted $2000 in the Chippewa Treaty of 1829 "for a canoe load of merchandise taken by the Chippewa and Ottawa Indians in 1799." "He was said to be improvident and, after wasting his property, was finally killed by the Winnabago Indians." Information gathered from the Gentner Family Tree site.

from earlychicago.com/encyclopedia; september 2014:

LaFramboise, Jean François, Sr. also François Dauphin de la Forest Laframboise; son of Jean Baptiste Fafard dit LaFramboise and second wife Marguerite Chatelain; brother of Joseph, Alexis, and Claude; member of the large LaFramboise family of French traders at Mackinac and Milwaukee; on Oct. 18, 1797 two young children [Fran%C3%A7ois, Jr. and Josette] were baptised as his natural children at Mackinac, mother not recorded, probably Indian. Jean François was sent to Milwaukee to run Alexis trading post by 1797, but within two years he incurred the enmity of local Indians and the business failed; during the winter of 1799 his canoe became imbedded within the lake ice at Chab-way-way-gun [Sheboygan] and its cargo of trade merchandise was stolen by Chippewa and Ottawa Indians. LaFramboise was known to be at Milwaukee as trader for several years after 1800 as noted by [see] Thomas G. Anderson in 1803; he and his Potawatomi wife Shaw-we-no-qua [meaning south-woman; Madaline, according to Eckert] were the parents of Claude, Joseph, Alexis, LaFortune; the family moved to Chicago in 1810 or 1811 and lived along the E side of the south branch, about a mile S of the forks, but left for Milwaukee shortly before the 1812 massacre; they returned in 1817 and purchased the Leigh farm from John Crafts, and, with son [see] François, ran a trading house on the W bank near the Forks between Madison and Washington streets. Congressional records show that on July 29, 1829, LaFramboise was awarded two thousand dollars for the 1799 loss of his canoe and merchandise by the Prairie du Chien Treaty; he died in Chicago on Apr. 26, 1830, and Stephen Forbes was appointed appraiser of his estate, which was divided equally between Claude, Joseph, Alexis, and Josette (Mrs. J.B. Beaubien), each receiving a fourth: $253.04. At the Indian Treaty of 1829 his heirs claimed and received in his name $2000. [12, 226, 275a, 585a] [665]

• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via brother Joseph La Framboise by SmartCopy: Jul 18 2015, 18:25:21 UTC