Talk:Joseph Nicollet

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link to Jackson, Mississippi planters?
I read this article at a local library, while hoping that a problem Windows update would finally install after failing several times, and so had some time to separate the death section to indicate Nicollet's contributions were recognized at the time, though I couldn't quickly find his cause of death nor if he ever married. I also noticed that one of the article's main sources was Encyclopedia Brittanica, which seemed to follow his article in Appleton's Cyclopedia (though that incorrectly gives his name as "Jean Nicholas Nicollet"), particularly about why he emigrated from France. Thus, I couldn't answer those questions, nor learn anything about his birth family. I tried to track him down in the online U.S. Census files, but couldn't (either he was in transit in 1830 and 1840 or subsequent indexers really spelled his handwritten name oddly). However, I noticed that Peter and Louis Nicollet were minor planters (and slaveowners) in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1820 census. Might they be relatives or the reason why this Nicollet was particularly interested in the Mississippi drainage? Clearly he's not the Joseph Nicolet (sic) living in New Orleans in 1860 (according to the state slaveholder census) and in Nashville, Tennessee in the late 1870s, but both those cities are in the Mississippi basin and so they also could conceivably be relatives. FYI, I know that John C. Fremont, who was detailed to accompany this Nicollet in 1840, later got into trouble for abolitionist views.Jweaver28 (talk) 19:32, 11 September 2018 (UTC)