Col.
Jacques
(James)
Baby
Born in Detroit, Province of Quebec
Ancestors 
Son of Jacques Duperon Baby
and Suzanne (Reaume) Baby
Brother of
Jacques Baby, Susanne Baby, Alexis Baby, Thomas Baby, Suzanne (Baby) Caldwell, Therese Duperron Baby, François Baby, Jean Baptiste Baby, Theotiste Baby, Catherine Baby, Pierre Baby, Archange Baby, Antoine Baby, Pierre Dit Duperon Baby MD, Monique Baby, Daniel Baby, Antoine DuPerron Baby, Louis Baby and Unknown Baby
Husband of
Elizabeth (Abbott) Baby
— married
1802 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Eliza Anne (Baby) Casgrain and
William Lewis Baby
Died
at age 69
in York, Upper Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 19 May 2016
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Colonel James Baby served in the Kent Militia, Canada in the War of 1812
Service started: 1812
Unit(s): 1st Regiment
Service ended: 1814
Service started: 1812
Unit(s): 1st Regiment
Service ended: 1814
Biography
James Baby is/was a significant Ontarian .
Born in Detroit and baptized on August 25, 1763 at Fort Pontchartrain,[1] James' family moved across the river to Sandwich when the Americans took control of the city. Appointed to the Legislative Council of Upper Canada in 1792, he was appointed a judge of the Western district the following year.
Col. Baby was commanding officer of the 1st Kent Militia during the War of 1812. After the war, he was appointed Inspector General and he moved to the capital of Upper Canada at York, where he continued as an active member of the Family Compact.
A slaveowner, he opposed Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe's attempts to prohibit slavery in Upper Canada.
He married twice and had five sons and one daughter. He was a widower for the last twenty years of his life.
Sources
- ↑ Registre du fort Pontchartrain de Détroit Concessions, 1734-1753, baptisms, marriages, burials, 1704 - 2 Feb.1765 (to p. 340)
- John Clarke, “BABY, JAMES,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 6, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 19, 2016, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/baby_james_6E.html.
- Soldiers of the King, William Gray, 1995, pg. 39.
- Wikipedia page for James Baby.
- Souvenirs of the Past: Giving a Correct Account of the Customs and Habits of ...By William Lewis Bâby.
- Canadian Encyclopedia: James Baby
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