Patrick Marantette
From Black Hawk Slept Here
Across the St. Joseph River from Mendon, Michigan, stands a large house that was built by Patrick Marantette shortly after the Black Hawk war. At the time of the Black Hawk war this place was part of the Nottawasepe reservation. Marantette operated a trading post here, first for his brothers-in-law, and then on his own.
Marantette claimed to have encountered Black Hawk as a customer at his trading post, not here on the St. Joseph, but back in 1825 before most of the Potawatomi reservations in southwest Michigan had been consolidated into a single one at Nottawasepe. In 1825 he was managing a trading post on the Coldwater River for his brothers-in-law. The story of his encounter with Black Hawk is in a separate article, Black Hawk does business at Marantette's trading post.
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Other items to be put in this article or referenced here
- Marantette and the Treaty of Chicago, 1833
- The long-running lawsuit against Marantette for destroying illegal whiskey on the treaty grounds
- Marantette's land entry
- Other biographical and genealogical information
- Comparison of Marantette to other Indian traders re the removal of Indians from Michigan
External links
The Spokesrider's blog entries about Patrick Marantette
- Marantette's government-paid lawyer 21 December 2007
- Sauk Trail 7 November 2007
- Marantette's first trading post 5 November 2007
- Marantette in Centreville 5 November 2007
- Marantette and the Treaty of 1833 2 November 2007
- Not an Amish schoolhouse 21 September 2007
- Ten O'Clock Treaty Line trip - September 9 2006 - From home to Middlebury IN 9 September 2006
The Reticulator's blog entries about Patrick Marantette
- But I was just following orders 21 December 2007
