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2. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable [n 1]; before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]
Little is known of Du Sable’s early life. Historians believe that he was freeborn, the son of a Frenchman who moved to Haiti and the Black woman he married there. At some time in the 1770s the younger Du Sable went to the Great Lakes area of North America, settling on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Chicago River, with his Potawatomi wife, Kittihawa (Catherine).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 29, 2021 · A stamp issued by the United States Postal Service in 1978 features Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable (circa 1745-1818), the first non-Indigenous settler of an area called Eschikagou, now known as the ...
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Feb 3, 2022 · The pair settled by a place the Potawatomi called Eschecagou, on the north bank of the Chicago River at its junction with Lake Michigan. They had two children, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, Jr. and Suzanne. Though DuSable wasn't the first trader to pass through the area, he was the first non-Native person to stay and establish a permanent post.
Feb 12, 2007 · Jean-Baptiste-Point DuSable (1745-1818) Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, History of Chicago, Volume I (Illinois: Self-published, 1884) by Alfred Theodore Andreas. Jean-Baptiste-Point DuSable, a frontier trader, trapper and farmer is generally regarded as the first resident of what is now Chicago, Illinois. There is very little definite information ...
The African-American explorer Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable (c. 1745-1818), despite a long period during which his contributions were minimized, is now recognized as the founder of the city of Chicago. In the 1770s, du Sable and his wife established a farm and trading operation on the north shore of the Chicago River, near Lake Michigan.
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Jul 10, 2023 · Sometime in the mid-1780s, Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable, a Black man from Saint-Domingue, and his Potawatomi wife, Kitihawa, settled with their family on a swampy site near Lake Michigan called Eschecagou, “land of the wild onions.”. The homestead and trading post they built on the mouth of the Chicago River, with a comfortably appointed ...
