Ancestry and Descendants of Joseph Barron the Indiana Interperter
Descendants of Isaac LE BARRON
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The Ancestry of Joseph Barron was done by another and I have not fully researched it but do have the documentation and sources in the PAF. I am slowly working on Joseph Barron's descendants and do have the documentation and sources in the PAF also - If there are any additionas and corrections please let me know - The data of his first wife Cecile is as given and found listed in the doucmentation listed by another -
Joseph Barron, the Indian Interperter first settled in Vincennes, Knoc, Indiana in 1790, and moved to Logansport, Cass, Indiana in 1827. Joseph Barron acted as interpreter in the negotiations of several of the early treaties with the Indians and was General Harrison's messenger to the Shawnee prophet in 1810, before the battle of Tippecanoe, to warn him against making further efforts to incite the Indians to hostility.
Beckwith, H. W. The Illinois and Indiana Indians Chicago: Fergus Print. Co., 1884, 98 pgs. - pg. 164-5 [footnotes] ...Indiana agents interpreter, Mr. Joseph Barron, a man whose long residence among the Indians, extensive acquaintance with their character, together with his unimpeachable veracity, confer much value upon all the information obtained from him." Joseph Barron for many years was the interpreter, friend, and constant companion of Gen. Harrison during all his offical career, as Goveraor of the Indiana Territory and Commander of the military forces of the Northwest, in the war oif 1812, assisting, as interpreter, at all of the treaties conducted by Gov. Harrison, and acting as spy, guide, and confidential messenger in the many perilous movements of his principal, during these time of troublesome Indian difficulties. He was a native Frenchman, of Detroit, and died July 31, 1843, at the home of his son, on the Wabash, near Logansport, Indiana.
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