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sent by General Amherst to proceed westward and take over the posts 
of Michigan. The negotiations between Rogers and Bellestre, Com- 
mander of Detroit, were carried on through M. Babee for the French 
and M. Brehme for the British. This was doubtless Jacques Duperon 
Baby, the son of Raymond Baby and grandson of Jacques Baby de 
Rainville, who came to Canada from Guienne, France, with the Carignan 
Regiment. Duperon Baby was appointed in 1788, a Justice of the 
Court of Common Pleas for Hesse, being associated with Alexander 
McKee and William Robertson. He was born in 1738, and died at 
Sandwich in 1796. He was the only French-Canadian fur merchant 
at Detroit. On the 20th November, 1760, he married Mlle. Suzanne 
de la Croix Reaume. There were eleven children, seven sons and 
four daughters. The four daughters married Caldwell, Thomas 
Allison, Ross Lerin and Bellingham (afterwards Lord Bellingham). 
Daniel, Antoine and Louis entered the British Army; Pierre studied 
medicine in Edinburgh, and returned to practise in Upper Canada; 
Jean Baptiste was one of the members for Kent in the fifth Parliament 
(1809-12). William L. was another son. Jacques, or James, the 
eldest of the family, was educated at Quebec and in Europe, was 
made a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and an Executive 
Councillor. 
Francis Dufresne Baby, member of the Executive Council of 
Quebec, was a younger brother of Jacques Duperon Baby. 
The children of Honourable James Baby, and Eliza Abbot were as 
follows:—Jacques, a lawyer of Toronto; Raymond, sheriff of Kent; 
Charles and William of Sandwich; and Eliza who married Hon. 
Charles Casgrain, son of Pierre Casgrain, Seigneur de la Bouteillerie. 
Thérése Baby, daughter of Jacques Duperon Baby, married (1) John 
Cassidy, (2) Thomas Allison. Her daughter, Susanne Allison, married 
Philippe Aubert de Gaspé. 
The successor of Francis Baby in the representation of Suffolk 
and Essex in-1796, in the 2nd Parliament, was John Cornwall of 
Colchester. 
Kent county was granted two representatives. It included every- 
thing left over from the other eighteen counties. The following is 
the description in the proclamation :— 
“Which County is to comprehend all the country not being territories of 
the Indians, not already included in the several counties hereinbefore 
described, extending northward to the boundary line of Hudson’s Bay, includ- 
ing all the territory to the westward and southward of the said line to the 
utmost extent of the country commonly called or known by the name of 
Canada.”’ 
