Chief The Leaf Wabasha I
(Abt 1718-1806)
Living
Mar-pi-ya-ro-to-win or Grey Cloud Woman
(Abt 1774-)

 

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James Aird

Mar-pi-ya-ro-to-win or Grey Cloud Woman

  • Born: Abt 1774
  • Marriage: James Aird 1783 about in Wabasha's Vil, , Spain Terr
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bullet  General Notes:

Her daughter named the same as her

From, Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Vol. XV, page 371
The name Grey Cloud in the Dakota or Sioux language is
Mar-pi-ya-ro-to, with the addition of one more syllable, win, meaning
woman. It was the Sioux name of both the wife and the daughter of
James Aird, an Indian trader. The wife, first bearing this name, was a
sister of the Sioux Chief Wabasha who took part in the war between the
United States and England in 1812, and her father's name also was
Wabasha. She was born at her father's village, where the city of
Winona now stands, and died in 1844 at Black Dog's village, sometimes
called Grey Iron's village, about six miles southwest of Mendota, on
the Minnesota river in what is now Eagan township, Dakota county. She
was buried in one of the Indian burial grounds near their village. Her
marriage to Aird was in 1783 or soon afterward, and they had one
child. a girl named Margaret.
Grey Cloud island, about five miles long and one to two miles wide, is
situated in the south end of Washington county, Minnesota, between St.
Paul and Hastings.

She was a powerful fur trader


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Mar-pi-ya-ro-to-win married James Aird 1783 about in Wabasha's Vil, , Spain Terr. (James Aird was born in 1763 in Ayrshire, , Scotland and died in 1819 in Prairie du Chien, , Indiana Terr.)




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