Antoine Francois Baronet Vasquez

Male 1783 - 1828  (44 years)

 

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Baronet Vasquez, Indian language interpreter

Capt. Zebulon M. Pike, with a company of 22 (Lt. James B. Wilkinson, Dr. John H. Robinson, three noncoms, 16 privates; and Baronet Vasquez, interpreter) set out from near St. Louis August 9, 1806, on an expedition to the West which began with a journey up the Missouri and Osage (by boat), convoying 51 Osages to their villages [in present Vernon county, MO]. (There were also two Pawnees to be escorted home.)

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Media Notesfrom Louise Barry's book, The Beginning of the West, Annals of the Kansas Gateway to the American West 1540-1854, page 54
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