Laplante
♂Jean Baptiste Laplante
Born 1800, St. Antoine, River Raisin, Northwest Territory.
Jean Baptiste Laplante (born 26 March 1800) was a man of the Northwest TerritoryW. He was the third great-grand-uncle of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the brother of Julia Adele Laplante (1811–1861), Nancy Jane’s third great-grandmother.
A published genealogy of the Detroit River families gives his birth as 26 March 1800 at St. Antoine, the parish of the French settlement on the River Raisin south of Detroit, and names his parents as Jean Baptiste La Plante and Mary Dorcus O’Connell/Colne(y) (born about 1773). It lists him as the third of three children born to the couple there, after Elisabeth in June 1795 and Marie in February 1798. The Vincennes parish indexes name the same parents for his sister Julia Adele Laplante.
By 1805 the family was at Vincennes, on the Wabash, where his brothers Joseph Narcissus and Hyacinthe and his sister Julia Adele were born. Whether he went with them is not recorded, and nothing is known of his later life, his marriage or his death.
Notes
Namesakes
His name was a common one, and several men called Jean Baptiste Laplante lived in Québec, Detroit and Vincennes in these years. One at Detroit, whose wife was called Apoline, had a son Pierre baptized there in 1791; the Detroit River genealogy treats that couple as a separate family. A Québec man, Jean Baptiste Laplante dit Champagne (born 1756), married Archange Vallière in 1782 and was still living in Québec in 1810; family trees have often confused him with the father of this family.
Family time line
No marriage or children recorded.
Recorded events
| Event | When | Where | Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 26 Mar 1800 | St. Antoine, River Raisin, Northwest Territory | from a compiled source |
Sources
- Denissen, Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region (revision), p. 688 — John Baptist Prisque Laplante × Mary Corollay, St. Antoine, River Raisin 1794 — Birth, about this person
Borders as they stood about 1800, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.