Pierre-Henri Descomps dit Labadie

Baptized in St. Nicholas Parish in La Rochelle. Born May 11, 1705 in La Rochelle, France. He was the 7th child of Jean De Comps de la Badie and Marie Courrapied.

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Pierre was 20 when he came to Montreal, though he claims he was 23, perhaps wanting to be thought older for one reason or another. He became a “compagnon monsieur,” a “fellow carpenter,” that is, a member of the carpenter trade. His future father in law, Jacques de La Celle, was a “m. monsieur,” meaning “master carpenter” who would supervise projects and train junior carpenters. Perhaps Pierre worked with Jacques and this is how met and became engaged to his future wife, Marie Angelique La Celle. He is later listed as a “marchand,” merchant in Montreal.

Montreal, originally called Ville Marie, “Village of Mary,” came to be called Montreal after Mont Real “Mount Royal” in the center of the city. (Today “Mont Real” would be spelled “Mont Royal.”) Located at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Laurence Rivers, the city was originally occupied by the Iroquois Native American tribes. In 1611 French explorer Samuel de Champlain established a fur trading post there. Soon afterwards a Catholic Mission was built called Ville Marie, from which Montreal took its original name. The first true settlers came to Montreal in 1653. Montreal grew through the years. From 1715 onwards Montreal grew faster than Quebec. It became the main place soldiers, traders and merchants embarked to defend, trap or supply the settlements to the west. In it had a devastating fire and the city began to be rebuilt on a larger scale. All structures and the town fortifications were, however, now to be built out of stone. Government officials, upper class nobility and members of the business class tended to live in Quebec. Montreal tended to be a city of fur traders, outfitters, soldiers and explorers. It was during the period of expansion of the city that Pierre Descomps Labadie, in 1725, came to Montreal where he worked first as a carpenter.

On November 17, 1727, Pierre married Marie Angelique La Celle in Montreal. He was 21 and she was 22. Angelique had been born in Montreal Feb. 20, 1706. She was the daughter of Jacques Lacelle and Angelique Gibault. The original French marriage contract for Pierre and Angelique can be found in the Archives Nationales de Qeubec Montreal and the original French Marriage record can be found in the civil records of Notre-Dame de Montreal. Marriage contracts made by the couple before a notary were common and established co-ownership of property and settled other issues. Dated September 9, 1727, the marriage contract is 6 large handwritten pages signed by the couple, several of her Gibault and LaCell relatives and a few friends. The parents of the bride "promise and commit themselves, together and individually without discussion or hesitation to house, shelter and feed the aforementioned future spouses during a period of one year, counting from the date of the said marriage." The parents and relatives also promised several gifts to the couple, including kitchen utensils, furniture, firewood, and ermine cloth. They were married November 17 by a Priest of St. Suplice in Montreal (called Ville Marie in those days) before several witnesses. The Priest noted, "The husband signed the wife declared she did not know how to."

The Family of Anqelique LaCelle

The father of Angelique was Jacques Lacelle, who was born in 1670 in the Parish of Savingy-sur-orge, Paris, Isle de France, France, and died in Montreal 1739/40.  His father was Gilles de Lacelle, born Savigny-sur-orge, Ilse de France, France and his mother was Anne Beauregard. He immigrated to New France by 1698.  He became a master carpenter in Montreal and on Aug 8, 1698, he married Angélique Gibaut dit Pointevin, born 1677 in Lavaltrie Canada; (now Lanaudière, a part of north east suburban Montreal). Then Lavaltrie was a rural area of large manors along the St Laurance River.  Both Jacques Lacelle  and Angélique Gibaut dit Pointevin were still alive at the time of her daughter’s wedding in 1727.  The father of Angélique Gibaut dit Pointevin was Gabriel Gibaut dit Poitevin, born 1641 at the parish of Notre Dame, Lugignan, Pointiers, France, the son of Pierre Gibault (1615-?) and Renee Lorliere (1619-?).  Gabriel came to Quebec as a soldier with the Saurel Company of the Carignan Regiment of the French Army, which was sent to Canada to fight the Iroquois.  He stayed in Canada when his military commitment was over and worked as a miller.  He married 1667 in Quebec, Canada, Suzanne Durand. She was born 1653 in Montivilliers , a small town near Rouen, Normandie, France, daughter of Etienne Durand and Genevieve de la Mar of the same place. About 1667 she came to France as one of the “Les Filles du Roi” or “The King’s Daughters.”  These were women sponsored by the King of France to come and marry settlers in order to promote growth in the colony. She would have been about 16. Gabriel Gibault dit Poitevin died 13 October 1700 at the hospital and was buried the next day at Montréal. Suzanne Durand died at Lavaltrie after January 7, 1710. They had at least 7 children.  One of them, Angelique’s sister, Marie-Madeleine Gibault dit Pointevin was found guilty of hiding a pregnancy and abandoning her newborn, leaving the child to die in a basket. On October 7, 1697, she was hanged from a scaffold erected in the marketplace of Québec City.   Jacques Lacelle  and Angélique Gibaut dit Pointevin were married in 1698 and had at least 11 children, at least 4 dying in infancy.  Several of the children moved to the Detroit area.  A grandson of Jacques Lacelle and Angélique Gibaut dit, Jaques Lacelle III (1735, Montreal – 1791, Detroit), was an Indian trader with the Miami Indians in Detroit and then Maumee where he lived until 1776 in Miamitown now Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He then moved to Detroit.  Three of his sons were early settlers of Monroe, Michigan, then called Frenchtown, located on Lake Erie, south of Detroit.  Another grandson of Jacques Lacelle and Angélique Gibaut dit , Antoine Lacelle (1751-1830) married daughter of Isidore Navarre and Marie Francis Labadie, daughter of Alexis Labadie and granddaughter of Pierre Labadie and Angelique Lacelle. Pierre and Angelica Descomps dit Labadie in Detroit Pierre Labadie and Angelique Lacelle lived in Montreal for about the next 13 years. Not much else is known of Pierre and Angelique’s life in Montreal.  We know that their first five children were born there and that the first of them died soon after his birth in 1728.  Also Pierre started using the “dit” in his name where as the records in France omit it. About 1740 they and their children moved to the small village of Detroit.  We don’t know the exact date, but it was between the birth of their fifth child, Marguerite, born September 6, 1738, in Montreal, and the birth of their sixth child, Pierre, Sept. 5, 1742, in Detroit.  The only way to travel from Montreal to Detroit in those days was by water.  They would either travel west along the    river and down the Ottawa River into Lake Huron and then through Lake St. Claire into the Detroit River, or, more likely, down the St. Lawrence River into Lake Ontario, portage Niagara Falls and then through Lake Erie into the Detroit River. It was a six hundred mile journey through unsettled territory except a few forts such as Fort Niagara and Fort Frontenac.  A convey of canoes would filled with goods and supplies, merchants, immigrants and contingent of a couple of dozen soldiers who protected the fleet.  

Detroit was originally called “Fort Pontchartrain la Detroit,” or “Fort Pontchartrain of the straights.” The word “Detroit” is the French word for “straights”. It was founded in 1701 by the French explorer Antoine de la Cadillac, who named it for the Chancellor of France, Count Louis Pontchartrain. (Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans was also named for the Chancellor) The Fort was surrounded by a 25 foot high picket fence blockhouse over the main gate and light artillery at each corner.

For the first three decades of the existence of Detroit it was just a small frontier outpost populated by soldiers, fur traders and missionaries. Cadillac had envisioned, however, Detroit becoming a true settlement, inhabited not only by fur traders and soldiers, but also by French citizens and their families who would make Detroit their home. In 1734 Marquis Charles de Beauharnois de la Boische, Governor General of New France, received permission to make land grants to settlers and Detroit began to grow. It was during this period of growth the Pierre and his family came to Detroit.

These grants consisted of narrow strips of land along the river, 2 – 4 arpents wide and 40, 60, 80 arpents in depth. (An arpent is a French measurement that equals 192 English feet. A square arpent equals .87% of an English acre.) The narrow end of the property fronted along the Detroit River and its length extended inland. They were often called “ribbon farms” because of their unique shape. The settlers build their homes along the riverfront. It is said that for eight miles along the north shore of the Detroit River the line of houses gave the appearance of a continuous village. The need to be on the river for travel and communication and to be close together for protection against enemies determined the shape of these farms. Each farmer had canoes for use in the summer and a sleigh for use in the winter. There was only one road along the river and a few small trails behind the homes, impassable in the winter. The houses were usually of hewn logs, and later clapboarded and whitewashed. Handmade metal nails or wooden pegs were used in the construction. In most cases the house was surrounded by a garden, enclosed by a white picket fence. Near the house would have been a large outdoor oven where the family cooking and baking was done. These resembled large bee-hives in shape. Water was brought from the river in buckets and kept cool in the summer by pouring it in jars partially buried in the ground. For the most part the farms produced wheat, oats and some corn. Most farms had cattle, pigs, chickens, horses. There were many orchards of apple, peach, plum, cherry and pear trees. Detroit was once well known for its pear trees that still line some streets. As one author states, “The apple crop produced a superior cider, the peaches produced excellent brandy and there were both wild and cultivated grapes and berries aplenty, so that wine crocks were always full.” Life was simple and isolated without many of the signs of civilization to be found in Quebec and Montreal. For instance, an English official wrote after the capture of Detroit in 1760, “They are wholly illiterate… there will not be found 20 persons… who have the least pretensions to education or can even write their name and know the letters of a book.”

Pierre Labadie received a piece of property located about 2 miles southwest of the Fort and about a mile northeast of the Village of the Potawatomie’s, along what is now 23rd, 24th and 25th streets in Detroit. There is a map in the collection of the University of Ottawa Maps called “French Farms on the Detroit River, now on the American side, 1749” on which the Pierre Labadie property is shown. His name is spelled “La Bady” in the 1750 census where he is listed as having 27 square arpents (23 ½ English acres) under cultivation. Wheat, oats and corn were grown, and he raised poultry and owned 3 horses, 4 oxen, 6 cows and 2 hogs. There were two slaves in his service.

About 1760 Pierre built a house where the corner of Jefferson and 24th streets are currently located in Detroit. It was a log house later clapboarded. Possibly this house was replaced with a larger one in 1780. Carlotta Anderson, granddaughter of social reformer Jo Labadie, gives the following description of the house;

“It was about 40 feet wide, with spacious rooms and a kitchen. In the steep roof was another habitable floor, light provided by dormer windows, and above that, a loft. Many large receptions were held there. A later owner covered the logs with clapboards, build two frame wings and fitted up the interior in elegant style.”

The house was destroyed in 1910 to make way for a facility of the Detroit Gas Company. It was the oldest house in the city at the time it was torn down. When workmen were excavating the land after the house was torn down the skeletons of several Native Americans were found. C. M. Burton, Detroit City Historian, claimed the land had once been a Pottawattamie burial ground.

The house was involved in noteworthy incidents during Pontiac’s siege of Detroit and when the American’s re-occupied Detroit during the war of 1812 while Pierre Labadies son Pierre lived in the house. (See on Pontiac, next section, and the section on Whitmore Knaggs and Jossette Labadie.)

According to the book, “Legends of le Detroit” Pierre Labadie “…moved to Detroit and immediately took foremost rank in the affairs of the colony.” He seemed to have engaged in some mercantile business, as he did in Montreal, since he is referred in the 1759 marriage license of his son as a “… marchant et de cete villa” meaning “merchant and citizen of this city.” We know several members of his family, such as his wife’s brother, his son and several others participated in the fur trade and Pierre Labadie may have done the same. His role most likely would have been to grow food and sell it as supplies for the traders.

In 1749 the Governor General of New France, Roland Michael, Marquis de la Galissoniere, sent to the King a Memoir on the French Colonies in North America stating Detroit “…demands the greatest attention” emphasizing the importance of Detroit to the fur trade; “Throughout the whole interior of Canada it is the best adopted locality for a town where all the trade of the lakes would concentrate… It is sufficient to see its position on the map to understand its utility.” He was given permission to issue a proclamation to the inhabitants of New France which promised land, tools, and livestock to every family that would settle in a new development being opened on the south side of the Detroit River, across from the original settlement in Detroit. This is the area now occupied by Windsor, Canada. The first families to respond to this proclamation accompanied the new commandant of Fort Pontchartrain la Detroit, Jacques Charles de Sabrevois, from Montreal to Detroit the same year. Others who had already been living in Detroit joined these newcomers in receiving land. 22 settlers in all were granted lands 3 x 40 aprents along the south side of the river. There is a document in the Archives du Minsistere des Colonies, Paris, called “Noms des Habitans a qui l’on a Concedes des Terres de 3 Arpans de Front sur 40 de Profondeur en L’Anne 1749” (“Names of the Inhabitants to who were granted lands of 3 Arpents Frontage by 40 Arpents in Depth in the Year 1749”; recorded in the book, “Windsor Border Area”, pg. 45). One of the names was that of “Pierre Descompes dt. Labadie”. It is not known if he took actual possession of the land at the time. He continued to farm on the north shore and possibly he began to farm on the south shore as well. His son, Antoine Labadie, was given the land when he was married and moved to the south side in 1759.

In the years Pierre Labadie and Anqelique La Celle and their children lived in Detroit they saw a good deal of change and activity. It was a time immense growth of the area from a small settlement on the north side of the river to a larger settlement on both sides of the river. In 1736 there were 17 soldiers, 40 families, 80 men “capable of bearing arms” living inside the Fort. In 1740 there were 100 families in both town and country side “…as many traders as farmers.” By 1764 600 people were living within the fort and 2500 were living along both sides of the river.

They also saw changes in the policies and governments that ruled the area. France and England has long fought for supremacy in America. They engaged in conflicts large and small, and sometimes indirectly through their surrogate Native American allies. There was a series of wars that ended in the Peace of Utrecht in 1713 with Nova Scotia and New Foundland being ceded by France to England. Canada then went on the defensive to strengthen and retain their colonies of Louisiana and Canada. It was felt if Canada could build a series of forts from New Orleans to Quebec it would keep the British contained. It is one of the reasons Fort Detroit was built. The British, however, had overwhelming strength and control of the seas. In 1756 the French and Indian War began, called in Europe the Seven Years War. The French faced final defeat when the British captured Quebec and Montreal in 1759-60. The French army surrendered and in the Treaty of Paris all of the Colony of Canada, including Fort Detroit, was ceded to England. All of French Canada became a British colony, but with French civil law operating alongside English civil law until 1791 when Canada was split into the two provinces of Quebec and Ottawa and given representative governments. In the meantime Detroit became part of the United States after the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War, when all lands south of the Great Lakes were ceded to the new Republic. The area on the south side of the Detroit River, however, remained part of Canada.

Death of Pierre Labadie and Angelique Lacelle

Not much is known about Pierre and Anqelique Labadie after these events. They lived to see the Detroit transferred from British rule to American rule after the American Revolutionary War. Across the river, Assumption remained under British authority. Pierre Descomps dit Labadie died in September 1792, at the age of 87, and was buried in Detroit. It is not known when his wife, Angelique, died. She was still alive on September 24, 1767, when she was present at the baptism of Elizabeth Labadie, daughter of her son, Antoine Labadie, and Angelique Campau. There she was described as “La Dame LaBadie, grand,mere de l’enfant.”

The Children of Pierre Descomps dit Labadie and Angelique Lacelle

Pierre and Angelique has a total of eight children, the first five born in Montreal and the other four born in Detroit.

1.) Jean Baptiste Labadie (Dec 18, 1728, Montreal – August 8, 1828, Montreal)

2.) Antoine Louis Labadie (1730 Montreal • See chapter on Antoine Louis Labadie

3.) Marguerite Labadie (1734, Montreal - 1765, Detroit), married 1759, in Detroit, Claude Solo (1732, Montreal – 1799, St Antoine de River Raisin, now part of Monroe, Michigan), son of Pierre Henri Solo(1702-?) and Anne Teresa Gamelin (1706-1733). They lived for a time at the “Cote (Coast) de Potawatomies,” across the river from Detroit. They had 4 children, one of whom, Margerite Solo, married noted Indian Interpreter John Baptiste Sans Crainte. Margurite Labadie died in 1765 at the age of 31. Claude Solo married a second time a Sautesse (Ojibwa) woman whose is not known and had a son, Jean Baptiste Solo. The name “Solo” is a Basque name which means “rural estate” and refers to someone from or who worked on a rural estate. It is sometimes spelt “Soleau.” The family of Claude Solo and Marguerite Labadie were among the earliest settlers in the River Raisin area that became Monroe, Michigan.

4.) Marie Josette Labadie ( 1737, Montreal - 1799 Detroit), married 1755 Charles Chene (1732, Detroit – 1805, Detroit), son of Charles Chene dit St. Onge and Madeleine (or, Marie) Catherine Sauvage. The Chene dit St. Onge family was one of the oldest families in Detroit. Pierre Chene dit St. Onge, who married in 1676 in Montreal, to Jeanne Bailly, and had two sons, Charles and Pierre Chene dit St. Onge, who both came to Detroit in 1717. Charles, married in 1722 to Catherine Sauvage, and had 10 children, among them Charles Chesne, who married Josette Descomptes Labadie. His brother, Pierre Chene dit St. Onge, the brother who came with Charles Chene dit St. Onge to Detroit was also called La Butte, and many of his descendants were only known as La Butte. He also held office as a Native American Interpreter for a number of years. Charles Chene dit St. Onge and Josette Descomptes Labadie had 9 children. One of them, Marie Catherine Chene married 1777 Thomas Finchley, was business partner of John Askin and later the Lt. Governor of the Michigan Territory. Another child, Elizabeth Chene married in 1782 George Lyons, born 1753. After his death in 1794 she married a cousin, George Knaggs. George Lyons and Elizabeth Chene had several children including Elizabeth Lyons, born 1787, who was one of the four female cousins who were helpers of the catholic Priest at St. Anne’s In Detroit, Father Richard Gabriel. She never married. (See below on Monica Labadie Beaubien.) George Lyons and Elizabeth Chene also had a son, Archibald Leo Lyons born 1783, who married first an Ottawa Native American and then Elizabeth Roy. He drowned 1837. He had one child by his Ottawa wife and 6 by Roy, including Archibald Lyons, born 1826. He was a soldier in the Civil War and was taken prisoner and died in Libby prison in 1863, leaving behind his wife Emilie and two children.

5.) Marguerite Angelique Labadie (1738, Montreal – 1802, River Raisin, now part of Monroe, Michigan) She was married twice. 1st marriage: In Detroit in 1759 Martin Levry (1736-1775), son of Jacques Levry and Marie Tardy. His name is sometimes written Livry. Their marriage record in Detroit gives the name as “Pierre Martin aka Martin Livry .” 2cnd marriage: 1785 Etienne Laviolette (or, La Violette; 1736, Levis, Quebec – 1807, River Raisin, now part of Monroe, Michigan) widower of Judith Prudhomme, son of Jaques Jahan dit Laviolette and Anne Saureau. Marguerite and Martin had 6 children. Their son went by the name Jacques Levry dit Martin, and most descendants have used Martin as their surname

6.) Pierre Labadie (1742, Detroit – 1823, Detroit), married in 1770 to Teresa Gaillard dit Lionas (1746, Montreal -), daughter of Hippolite Gaillard dit Lionas and Marie Josette Debiens. At some point Pierre received the nickname Fillau and sometimes his name is written Pierre Labadie dit Fillau. The significance of the name is unknown. Pierre owned an African American slave named Baptiste Jaques whose mother was a slave owned by John Askin. Pierre and Teresa had 6 children, including:

Alexis Labadie 1774 – 1843 m. Isabella Bourg, daughter of Jaques and Marie Bourg of Témiscaming, along the Ottawa River in Western Quebec. Alex and Isabella were early settlers of what is now Monroe, Michigan. Still alive 1843.

Medard Labadie 1776 M. Marie Teresa Robert and by 1799 was an early settler of what is now Monroe, Michigan. He died in Monroe 1846, some sources say Montreal.

• Marguerite Labadie (1778, Detroit – 1850, Detroit), married 1798 James May. See on “The Labadies and the Presidents”.
• Jossete Labadie, a twin of Marguerite, (1778, Detroit – 1853, Detroit) married 1797 Wittmore Knaggs (1763, Maumee –1827, Detroit). He was a Detroit-based Indian agent for the American government and was tried for treason by the British during the War of 1812 and later released as part of a prisoner exchange. See on ‘The Labadie’s and the Knaggs.”

Monica Labadie (1787 Detroit – 1851 Detroit), married 1829 Anthony Beaubien. Monique dit Labadie became an influential figure in Roman Catholic charity in Detroit in the early 1800s along with three other Detroit women in educating children and caring for orphans. The four women were all cousins: 1.) Elizabeth Williams (1780-1843) was the daughter of Detroit merchant Thomas Williams and Marie Cecile Campau, cousin of Angelique Campau who married Monique Labadie’s brother Antoine Descomps dit Badishon dit Labadie. Monique Labadie and Elizabeth Williams were thus second cousins; 2). Angelique Campau (1764-1838, different than the wife of Antoine Labadie) daughter of Jacques Campau, brother of Marie Cecile Campau, and thus Angelique Campau was a cousin of Elizabeth Williams and second cousin of Monique Labadie. 3.) Elizabeth Lyons, who was the daughter of George Lyons and Elizabeth Chene, who in turn was the daughter of Charles Chene and Marie Josette Labadie, daughter of Pierre Labadie. Thus she was a cousin of Monique Labadie and second cousin of Elizabeth Williams and Angelique Campau. 4.) Monique Labadie herself.

They devoted themselves to this work while Father Richard Gabriel was parish Priest at St. Anne’s Catholic Church in Detroit (1798-1838). The four women taught school, acquired supplies, feed and housed orphans. Father Richard called them “Sisters” even though they were not part of any official order in the Catholic Church. He hoped to form a convent in Detroit and that they would be the nucleus. This convent was never formed. Two of the four women, Williams and Lyons, did join convents for a while – one in Montreal and one in New Orleans. They were all involved in social and educational work their whole lives. The school they operated represented the only education for the poor in Detroit at the time.

Monique Labadie was the only one of the four to get married. In 1829 at the age of 42 she married Louis Antoine Beaubian, age 45, one of the richest men in Detroit. The two of them used their wealth to help support Catholic social work in Detroit. After their only child died, they donated the land on which St. Mary’s Hospital was built and donated their own home on Jefferson Street between Antoine and Beaubien Streets for the Sacred Heart Academy to be operated by the Religious Order of the Sacred Heart. The Sisters were given the property in 1851 and Monique died later that same year. Her husband died in 1858. In 1861 several buildings were built on the property for the school that operated at that site until 1918, when it moved to another location.

7.) Alexis Labadie (1746, Detroit – 1816 Detroit) married in 1770 Marie Francis Robert (1851 Detroit – 1821 Detroit), daughter of Antoine Robert and Marie Louise Bequemont. He inherited the Pierre Labadie property in Detroit and owned several properties in Escorce, Michigan. These he later sold to his son Charles Labadie and his son-in-law Louis Le Duc. Alexis Labadie and Marie Robert had 13 children. One of them, Cecile Labadie, born 1778, married 1802 Louis Le Duc. They had a son, Oliver Le Duc, born 1812, who married Euphrosyne Durocher, a daughter of Laurent Durocher. From 1815 through 1861 Laurent held a variety of local and state governmental positions ranging from postmaster to State Senator. He was a member of the Michigan State Constitutional Convention. He fought in the War of 1812 and his letters preserved at the Monroe County Library serve as a primary account of the battles and massacre of the River Raisin. Another child of Alexis and Marie Robert, Marie Francis Labadie (1774 Detroit – 1836 St. Antoine River Raisin, now part of Monroe, Michigan) Married Isidore Naverre (1768 Detroit – 1835 St. Antoine River Raisin, now part of Monroe, Michigan) son of Robert Navarre and Mary Louisa Marsac, and grandson of Sir Robert Navarre who was born in the Isle de France, Paris in 1707 and was sent to Detroit by the Royal Government to be the Royal Notary in Detroit, a position he held 25 years. All marriage contracts, wills, sale of property and other legal transactions had to be written and approved by the Royal Notary. In 1747 he received from The French government a grant of land west of the fort since. After the advent of the British in 1760 Navarre's he retired to his farm, where he lived until death in 1791. The Navarre families are a direct descendents of the Kings of Navarre, France.

8.) Elizabeth Labadie (1749 Detroit – 1823 Detroit), married 1766, Jaques Antoine Baron dit Lupien (or, Lupon), son of Antoine Lucien Baron dit Lupien and Genevieve Diel, a Montreal family. They had two sons, Pierre and Antoine. clared not to know how to sign as well as Ester Ferret. The father was absent.

Born in France, moved to Montreal, traded with Natives. 8 Children attributed to French wife. However, French traders tended to marry in to Native tribes in order to trade with them, and register these kids as French with their French wife, so that the kids could continue the family business with the tribe. 992?/3530 West Jefferson ave (Formally River road) also known as the Labadie house. According to the City of Detroit Michigan 1701-1922, Volume 2 this house was built in 1786. It was considered the oldest house in Detroit for many years, It was built as a log cabin that had been modified over time. The round bay rooms you see on the side of the house were built on in 1831. according to the Burton Historical collection It stood on the American side of the river and the logs of which it was built received a shower of bullets during the War of 1812. and shortly after that it was covered up in clapboard siding. It's said Pierre Labadie was the one that built this house. Theirs a lot of history in regards to Labadie family in regards to this house that I can't fit in this description! the house stood standing until 1910 and it was Demolished to make room for a Gas reservoir tank. Another house I covered on here the Stephen Moore Residence 967/3511 Fort Street Sat right behind this house! Image credits, the first image is from the Library of congress dated unknown. the second image is from the Burton Historical collection supposedly taken before it was torn down in 1910." Mark Conett II. Facebook post on Detroit

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