Notes for Jean Baptiste Pelletier

Notes for Jean Baptiste Pelletier

John Baptiste Peltier bought from John Baptist Campau and Catherine Perthuis a farm on the north east coast of Detroit later known as the Leib Farm where he lived the rest of his life. On January 19, 1790, he deeded the farm to his youngest son, Felix. (Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region, 1701-1936, page 950)

A Jean Bte. Peltier is mentioned in the Survey of the Settlement of Detroit made by order of major Depeyster the 16 day of July 1782. This could be Jean Bte Sr. or Jr. (Source Michigan Pioneer Collections, Volume 10, 1886, pg. 607) In household: 1 married woman, 4 young and hired men, 2 boys, 6 horses, 4 oxen, 5 cows, 4 steers and heiffers, 10 hogs, 400 flour, 32 bushes of wheat sown, 3 arpents of indian corn sown, 17 bushels of oats sown, 110 arpents of clear land.