Isaac Batt (bef. 1731 - 1791)

Born before 7 Jan 1731 in Widford, Hertfordshire, England

Husband of Unknown Batt — married 1756 in York Factory, Rupert's Land

Descendants

Died 1791 after age 59 in Manchester House, Pikes Peak, Saskatchewan, Canada

Biography

Isaac Batt is Notable.

• Isaac Batt was a fur trader mostly with the Hudson’s Bay Company and the first record of him dates to 1754. In 1758 he was west of Cumberland Lake, in 1763 near The Pas and in a later year on the upper Assiniboine River. In 1771/72 he was with Louis Primeau. In August 1773 he and James Batt left York Factory, Manitoba but had to turn back because of low water. In 1776, he hired his services to Joseph Frobisher, one of the "Pedlars" who carried on trade competitive to the HBC. He did, however, return to company services the next year and finished his life in the inland trade. In 1791 he left Manchester House to go hunting with some Indians he did not know. They robbed and murdered him. He was one of the few HBC men killed by Indians.

• Isaac Batt Metis d-1791 is claimed to have wintered 1766/1767 Alberta. He was a free trader but worked for the HBC (1754-1775).

• Batt was known to have had a native family as early as 1777, and at his death he left descendants in the fur trade country. An associate, James Spence Sr, left legacies to his “Indian Wife Nestichio daughter of the deceased Isaac Batt” and their four children.

• For most of its existence it was an outpost of Fort Paskoya. It was closed in 1759 with the fall of New France. The site was apparently well-chosen. In 1775 the "Pedlars" built post in the area before moving upstream to Fort Sturgeon in 1776. In 1795 the Pedlars or North West Company built a Fort St Louis on the right bank of the river immediately below Peonan Creek. About five miles upstream were three more houses possibly called Isaac's House, named after Isaac Batt, and Fort aux Trembles. In 1796 the Hudson's Bay Company built the first Carleton House a mile and a half downstream. In 1846 the Hudson's Bay Company built its Fort St. Louis a few miles from original fort. This fort became linked to the Carlton Trail by a side route called Fort à la Corne Trail in the Saskatchewan Valley.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Batt

• https://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/8/8f/Spence_Family_Descendants-5.pdf

• http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/batt_isaac_4E.html

• https://archive.is/mdt7r#selection-1167.5-1167.134

• http://www.glenbow.org/collections/search/findingAids/archhtm/extras/sinclair/m-8736-9.pdf

• Source: S-483581668 Repository: #R-998425720 Title: Saskatchewan, Canada, Residents Index (SRI), 1800-2012 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. APID: 1,8953::0
• Repository: R-998425720 Name: Ancestry.com
• Source: S-483650301 Repository: #R-998425720 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Page: Ancestry Family Tree Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=64602835&pid=230
• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J74V-VF4 : 11 February 2018, Isaac Batt, 07 Jan 1731); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 991,404.

Acknowledments

• This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. Batt-208 was created by David Wishart through the import of Wishart.ged on Jan 13, 2014.