Pierre Bonga

Pierre Bonga was reportedly the son of Jean and Jeanne Bonga, a freed slave couple who had belonged to the British officer commanding at Mackinac Island in the 1780s. Pierre worked for the North West Company, and later for the American Fur Company. One source says he married an Ojibway woman and fathered four sons, all of whom participated in the fur trade.

A second source shows children Marguerite (b.1797-98 in the Lake Superior area-d.1880) (m.Jacob Fahlstrom in 1823 at Fond du Lac); Stephen (b.jun.1799 near Superior, Wis.-d.1889) (m.Susan); & George Bonga (b.abt.1802 near Duluth, Mn.-d.1884) (m. to two Ojibwe women).Pierre was claimed to be in the North West Company with Alexander Henry at the Red River of the North in 1802. [Blacks in the West, William Sherman Savage, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1976, pp. 68-70]

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External links

* [http://www.nps.gov/untold/banners_and_backgrounds/adventurbanner/adventurestories/bonga.htm Link to Stories of Exploration]
* [http://users.usinternet.com/dfnels/bonga.htm Link to Trade Goods, a historical and genealogical view of the North American fur trade prior to the 1840s]