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About Jean-Baptiste Turpin dit Sandrille
The register at Fort Detroit, New France (now Michigan) has him listed as a Voyageur arriving on October 5, 1709. Within 6 months he married a Metis girl Marguerite Fafard, and within a year he had a son, also born at Fort Detroit.
One case of abuse concerned Margueritte Faffart, a French-Canadian woman who repeatedly left her French-Canadian husband for a series of Indian men. She eventually escaped to New England where she apparently married an Indian. In 1741, several witnesses testified to the fact that her (French) husband, Jean-Baptiste Turpin, had physically abused her. Amongst other things, while they were at Detroit, he had cut off her hair when in a violent rage and had then attacked her with an axe. Turpin was never prosecuted for his abuse. As seen in cases elsewhere in New France, the only possible legal exit strategy for an abused wife was proving that her husband was squandering her assets. Then the court might grant her “separation of body and goods.” In other words, the court granted separation not on the basis of the abuse (which was perfectly legal), but on the basis of tampering with the property that a wife had brought into the marriage. Similarly, documentation only exists about the Faffart-Turpin abuse case (which was never prosecuted) because property was at stake. Upon the death of Turpin, the question of inheritance came into play. His family claimed that Margueritte Faffart had given up her rights to her inheritance when she had left him; her family claimed that she remained his heir as she had only left her husband because of his abuse. In other words, both families stood to gain financially from the outcome. The court in New Orleans took a neutral position and divided the estate between the Turpin and Faffart family members. In the eyes of the law, and of those who upheld the law, marriage was about property, not the “love” to which Chassin had alluded in his letter back to Paris. Let us return to Nicolas Chassin, our Royal Storekeeper
http://www.wmich.edu/fortstjoseph/docs/women-of-new-france.pdf
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Jean-Baptiste Turpin dit Sandrille's Timeline
| 1685 |
November 23, 1685
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Montreal, Canada, Nouvelle-France
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| 1700 |
December 18, 1700
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Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, United States
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| 1710 |
December 14, 1710
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Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States
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| 1784 |
1784
Age 98
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Montreal, Province de Quebec
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