Editing Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (section)

===Peoria===
In 1815, a land claim that had been submitted by Nicholas Jarrot to the land commissioners at [[Kaskaskia, Illinois|Kaskaskia]], [[Illinois Territory]], was approved. In the claim Jarrot asserted that a "Jean Baptiste Poinstable" had been "head of a family at Peoria in the year 1783, and before and after that year", and that he "had a house built and cultivated land between the Old Fort and the new settlement in the year 1780".<ref>{{cite journal|title=Kaskaskia Land Claims|journal=American State Papers, Public Lands|date=December 1815|volume=3|issue=233|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=030/llsp030.db&recNum=15|access-date=6 September 2010|page=4}}</ref> This document has been taken by Quaife and other historians as evidence that Point du{{nbsp}}Sable lived at [[Peoria, Illinois|Peoria]] on the [[Illinois River]] prior to going north to settle in Chicago.<ref name="Quaife1933p43">{{Harvnb|Quaife|1933|p=43}}</ref> However, other records demonstrate that Point du{{nbsp}}Sable was living and working under the British at the Pinery in Michigan in the early 1780s.<ref name="Mitts" /> The Kaskaskia land commissioners identified many fraudulent land claims,<ref>{{cite book|last=Alvord|first=Clarence Walworth|title=The Illinois country, 1673–1818|year=1920|publisher=Illinois Centennial Commission|pages=[https://archive.org/details/illinoiscountry100alvo/page/417 417]–427|url=https://archive.org/details/illinoiscountry100alvo|access-date=6 September 2010}}</ref> including two previously submitted in the name of Point du{{nbsp}}Sable.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Land Claims in the District of Kaskaskia|journal=American State Papers, Public Lands|date=January 1811|volume=2|issue=180|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=029/llsp029.db&Page=122|access-date=6 September 2010|page=122}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Land Claims in the District of Kaskaskia|journal=American State Papers, Public Lands|date=January 1811|volume=2|issue=180|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=029/llsp029.db&Page=130|access-date=6 September 2010|page=130}}</ref> Nicholas Jarrot, the claimant, was involved in many false claims,<ref>{{cite web|last=Swenson|first=John F|title=Peoria, Its Early History Re-examined|url=http://www.earlychicago.com/essays.php?essay=8|work=Early Chicago|publisher=Early Chicago Inc|access-date=6 September 2010|archive-date=10 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710164150/http://www.earlychicago.com/essays.php?essay=8|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Swenson suggests that this one was also fraudulent, made without Point du{{nbsp}}Sable's knowledge.<ref name="Swenson" /> Although perhaps in conflict with some of the above information, other historical records suggest that Point du{{nbsp}}Sable bought land in Peoria from J.{{nbsp}}B. Maillet on 13{{nbsp}}March 1773 and sold it to Isaac Darneille in 1783, before he became the first "permanent" resident of Chicago.<ref>Franke, Judith A., ''French Peoria and the Illinois Country 1673–1846'', Illinois State Museum Society, Springfield, IL 1995 p.{{nbsp}}37 and ''The Inhabitants of Three French Villages at Peoria, Illinois'', compiled by Ernest East, 1933, and included in Judith Franke's book p.{{nbsp}}99, {{isbn|978-0897921404}}</ref>