Toussaint "Tess" Baptiste Charbonneau was born on month day 1804, at birth place, North Dakota, to Toussaint Laviolett (born Charbonneau) and Otter Woman Charbonneau. Charbonneau was a mix of European and native descents. "In November 1847, Charbonneau accepted an appointment from Colonel The rancheros hired local American Indians, mainly A measure of his success was that Charbonneau could afford the mining region's highly inflated cost of living. Toussaint was born on March 22 1767, in Boucherville, Monteregie Region, Quebec, Canada. This was because Charbonneau had received gifts from the North West Company upon news of his newborn son.Charbonneau, however, did make several contributions to the success of the expedition. He was helpful when the expedition encountered French trappers from Charbonneau and his family stayed with the Lewis and Clark expedition until August 1806. While his exact death date is not known, Charbonneau probably died in 1843, because that is the year Jean-Baptiste settled his father's estate. It is worthy of remark that this was the first child which this woman had boarn and as is common in such cases her labour was tedious and the pain violent; Mr. Jessome informed me that he had freequently administered a small portion of the rattle of the rattle-snake, which he assured me had never failed to produce the desired effect, that of hastening the birth of the child; having the rattle of a snake by me I gave it to him and he administered two rings of it to the woman broken in small pieces with the fingers and added to a small quantity of water. It is generally accepted that he died and was buried in Fort Mandan, North Dakota, but some believe he is buried in Richwoods, Missouri with a headstone marked "Toussaint Charboneau, 1781–1866" [sic]. Whether this medicine was truly the cause or not I shall not undertake to determine, but I was informed that she had not taken it more than ten minutes before she brought forth perhaps this remedy may be worthy of future experiments, but I must confess that I want faith as to it's efficacy.The infant traveled from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean and back, carried along in the expedition's boats or upon his mother's back. the weather was fair and could wind N. W. about five o'clock this evening one of the wives of Charbono was delivered of a fine boy. 3249, citing Mandan Indian Reservation, McLean County, North Dakota, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave . His presence is often credited by historians with assuring native tribes of the expedition's peaceful intentions, as they believed that no war party would travel with a woman and child. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Toussaint Charbonneau (22 Mar 1767–12 Aug 1843), Find a Grave Memorial no. In April 1807, about a year after the end of the expedition, the Charbonneau family moved to Clark evinces a philosophical taste in the preservation of many subjects of natural history. Jean Baptiste Charbonneau never recovered, and he died in Danner on May 16, 1866. That Charbonneau was not well liked by the whites in the Upper Missouri region is evident from a number of sources, and his position was probably maintained only because of the influence of William Clark in St. Louis — upon Clark's death in 1838, Charbonneau's job as interpreter came to an abrupt end. Boggs Manuscript About Bent's Fort, Kit Carson, the Far West and Life Among the Indians," Note: See photo of Charbonneau's memorial on this page, which gives his death as 1885 and states he was buried west of that site in the