Jean Baptiste Dumont (abt. 1775 - abt. 1850)

Born about 1775 in Bas-Canada [uncertain]

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Notes

With parents Jean Baptiste Guéret dit Dumont and Marie Ursule Marchand dite George, he would be all wrong, Jean Baptiste Dumont is the correct son for them.

Jean Baptiste Gueret dit DuMont and Ursule Marchand have been detached from this profile, they were never in Montréal but were in the region of Kamouraska. Note that Dumont gets used as a last name and as a dit name in many families, beware namesakes.

Biographi.ca data on descendant

The following biographical sketch is written in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XIII, 1901-1910^[1]:

The founders of the numerous and powerful Dumont clan were Gabriel’s grandparents, a Montreal fur trader named Jean-Baptiste Dumont and a Sarcee woman called Josette “Sarcisse.” Josette had begun living with a man named Bruneau in the 1780s and had one child with him. Following the custom of the fur trade, Bruneau turned Josette over to Jean-Baptiste Dumont in 1794. Their first child, Gabriel, was born in 1795 while Jean-Baptiste was employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Edmonton (Edmonton). A second child, Jean-Baptiste, followed in 1801. Around this time Dumont went to Lower Canada for about two years, passing Josette along to another trader named Paul Durant. When Dumont returned he attempted to reclaim Josette. Durant refused to give her up and Dumont took her back by force. The reunion produced a third child, Isidore, in 1808. After he came back to the west, Jean-Baptiste worked as a freeman, contracting for particular tasks at various HBC posts in the North Saskatchewan valley, for the rest of his life.

A Band of the Mountain Cree, and the Mountain Cree Band proper;1821-1850; Peechee aka. Louis Piche and Pesew (Mountain Lion). Largely Metis in origin, mixed with Cree, Nakoda, Chippewa/Ojibway, Tsuu T'Ina,& lesser Kutenai, Iroquois & Blackfoot. Roamed from Edmonton to Green River (WY), Flathead L. (MT) and Colville (WA). Successor bands under the leadership of his sons, Kiskiyew (Bobtail/Alexis Piche), Piyesew Chak & Ermineskin, of which Piyesew Chak's was the senior branch but disappeared & succeeded by Kiskiyew as senior branch, becoming Head Chief of the Mountain People, Head Chief of the West People division and Head Chief of the Upstream People, incorporating bands of mixed Cree, Nakoda, Soto, Kutenai, Chippewa, Soto, Beaver, Iroquois, Metis & Algonkian backgrounds. Son-in-laws include Chiefs Samson, Chiniki, Bearspaw, Capote Blank, Jacques Cardinal & successors.

He came to Saskatchewan District in the 1790's and was employed by the Hudson Bay Company. Entered the companies service at Edmonton House. He later served at Fort Carlton and Fort Pit around 1800 he married a pure blood from the Sarcee tribe according to the costume of the land. By he wife he had at least 3 sons and one daughter, they were Jean, Gabriel, Isidore. It is Isidore who would father the second and more famous Gabriel. By this marriage the Dumonts were excepted into the Blackfoot Confederacy. Jean Baptiste lived out the rest of his life in the Saskatchewan District. Listed in Geneology of First Metis Nation 1396 born 1775 married Josetee Carey Indian born 1780.

Sources

1. ↑ Roderick C. Macleod, “DUMONT, GABRIEL,” inDictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 13, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed August 8, 2022, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/dumont_gabriel_13E.html.

• University of Calgary : https://glenbow.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/m-8736-226.pdf

• Tree https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LRWY-SXH

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Dumont_(M%C3%A9tis_leader) Gabriel Dumont

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to Darrell Parker for creating WikiTree profile Dumont-139 through the import of Harriet Trotchie.ged on Jul 30, 2013.