Etienne Campion La Bonte: (1702-1754)
     He was the son of Claude Campion Labonte & Anne Patron de La Ballance. Etienne married Marie-Charlotte Pepin (daughter of Robert Pepin Lachance & Elixabeth Royer) at Montreal in 1732. Their children were; Therese-Charlotte (b.1734)(m.Pierre Ignace Dubois Lajoye in 1754), M.Joseph (b.1736), Etienne-Charlotte (b.1737), Francoise (b.1737), Alexis (b.1741) & Marie-Charlotte (b.1745).
 

Etienne Campion: (b.Montreal - d.abt.1790)
     Etienne was hired by Alexander Henry & Co. for Michilimackinac (18 July 1761), in the 1770's he was licensed to trade out of La Baye (Green Bay, Wis.), Prairie du Chien & the Mississippi and in May of 1782 Etienne was trading for Richard Dobie and licensed for Michilimackinac. In 1784 he was sent by the Society of Merchants at Mackinac to the western tribes on the lower Mississippi (Labatte was sent to the Minnesota River & Sayer was sent to the Lake Superior area).

Alexis Campion:
     He was hired by Samuel Holmes (1762-63) as a boatman for La Baye and in 1779 is licensed for the La Baye area.
 

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