Claude Marin de la Perrière (1705 – before September 28, 1752) was a

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fur trader. The son of

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and Louise Lamy, he was baptized in

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. Marin de La Perrière was involved in the

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by 1727. In 1733, he was based at a post near the mouth of the

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. From 1738 to 1741, he was operating at the Michipicoten, Ontario

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in partnership with his cousin

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. In 1737, he married Marie-Madeleine Regnard Duplessis, the daughter of Nicolas Antoine Coulon de Villiers. In 1741, Marin de la Perrière and de Quindre moved their operations to Fort St. Joseph. In 1747, they relocated to Michilimackinac; de Quindre moved to

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two years later. Marin de la Perrière died in the middle of 1752.

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