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| | Journal of San Diego History |
 | | Sah-ca-ger-we-ah, or Sacajawea, was captured by a war party of Minataree and became the wife of Toussaint Charbonneau at the request of either Meriweather Lewis or William Clark, on February 8, 1805, only a few days prior to the birth of their child, Jean Baptiste, February 11. |
 | | Jean Baptiste was first taught by the Reverend J. Welsh, a Baptist minister, and then by Father Francis Neill, a Catholic priest who conducted a boys school in St. Louis. |
 | | Late in 1846, Charbonneau advised Cooke of a route "different in part, and further than that taken by the general (Kearny), viz: to descend the river further and fall into a road from El Paso to the mines." Apparently Charbonneau was aware that Kearney had ordered Cooke to locate a wagon road. |
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