Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, "Founder of Chicago": married Kitihawa (Potawatomi) at Cahokia, Oct 27, 1788 (Catholic ceremony; likely earlier Native marriage);…

SUMMARYJean Baptiste Point du Sable, "Founder of Chicago": married Kitihawa (Potawatomi) at Cahokia, Oct 27, 1788 (Catholic ceremony; likely earlier Native marriage); earliest Chicago River record May 10, 1790 (Heward's journal); late-1770s at Trail Creek (Michigan City, IN); sold out in 1800. Record. Birthplace on Ayiti (Kinzie 1856, "a native of St. Domingo"; Saint-Marc claims 1951/1953) = Disputed (historians: undocumented); Haiti honors him. Homesite National Historic Landmark 1976. Drop idea: "AYITI WAS THERE" (Savannah 1779, Yorktown 1781, New Orleans 1815, Chicago 1780s).