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" The dwelling house in which he lived for very many years before 

 his death is still standing. It was built with a large lawn in front 

 and facing the front on Sandwich Street and the river, but has now 

 been turned into a double house and faces the back street, now Pitt 

 Street. He was very fond of horses, and always kept good ones, and 

 thought nothing of driving down to Quebec and Montreal in his sleigh. 

 On one occasion, when my grandmother was ill, he wanted a Detroit 

 physician, and drove to Detroit on the ice. When be started the ice 

 had shoved and was mioving down the ricer, but this did not daunt 

 him. He started across the river, jumping his horse and cutter from 

 one cake of ice to another, and succeeded in landing in Windsor safely. 

 He drove a covered calèche in summer when making long trips and 

 when he came down to visit uis at Rosebank, my father's residence 

 (near Amberstburg), which he frequently did, he would usually start 

 for home, a drive of 18 miles, about nine or ten o'clock at night, pre- 

 ferring to make the- journey through the night. 



"The Battle of Windsor (1837) was fo^ught in the orchard of 

 Francois Baby. 



" Jacques Duperon Baby was very friendly with the Indians who 

 deeded to bim tJho large tracts of lands. One tract, just below Detroit 

 on the River Eouge, another above Detroit on Lake St. Clair between 

 that city and Mt. Clemens, and another tract, the largest of all, was 

 30 miiles square on Lake Huron and the River St. Clair. Port 

 Huron and many other towns and villages are now built upon parts of 

 it. After the Declaration of Independence the Babys sided with Brit- 

 ish and came back to Canada to live, and the land was all forfeited." 



The father, Jacques Duperon Baby, lived on a farm where Windsor 

 now stands, and to this home P>ancis succeeded. Jean Baptiste lived 

 at Sandwich, and Hon. James Baby lived on a farm further east, near 

 Chatham. 



Francis Baby was born 7th December, 1763, and died 24th JSTovem- 

 ber, 1856; bis wife, Frances, died in 1838, aged about 59. There were 

 twelve children. 



1. Francis (born 1796, drowned 1828), father of F. R. Baby, of 

 Xew York, and of Albert F. Baby, of Cameron, Minn. 



2. James (born 1798), married Elizabeth Henderson. 



3. Elizabeth (born 1800), married Pierre Paul Lacroix. 



4. Edmund (born 1803), married Françoise Agatha Arket. 



5. Anne (born 1805), married William L. Baby. 



6. Emily (born 1807), married Dr. Albert K. Dewson. 



7. Henry (died young). 



8. Antoine Raymond (born 1811), father of Raymond Baby, 

 banker, oî Chatham, now of Windsor. 



