Jacques Campau Helped To Settle Detroit

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The first Campau featured in the Family Records book was Étienne Campau, son of Leonard and Françoise (Maugé) Campau, who was an armurier (gunsmith) by trade.   Étienne married Catherine Paulo, who was identified as a Filles du Roi (Daughter of the King) at Wikitree.  The Filles du Roi were sent to Canada as prospective brides for the bachelors in the male-dominated, small population living there at the time.

Jacques Campau, the 9th child of Étienne and Catherine (Paulo) Campau, a gunsmith, left Montreal and settled in *Detroit.  Jacques (per his grandson's biography) 'had previously served as a secretary and an officer to Cadillac. Jacques sold furs, grains, and bread at "one of the finest merchant stores" in Detroit by the 1740s...'.  After Cadillac's departure from Detroit, the growing Campau family returned to Montreal, coming back to Detroit after a few years.