How old was charbonneau when he married sacagawea?

Answer 1

Sacajawea (or Sacagawea) was born c. 1788. Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper, acquired her from a Hidatsa warrior and took her as his wife when she was 13. After the expedition, Toussaint took a job with the Missouri Fur Company, and stayed at Fort Manuel Lisa in present-day North Dakota. Evidence suggests that Sacagawea died at the fort in 1812. Some Native American oral traditions relate that rather than dying in 1812, Sacagawea left her husband Toussaint Charbonneau, crossed the Great Plains and married into a Comanche tribe, then returned to the Shoshone in Wyoming where she died in 1884.

In either case, they would've been married for 11 years.

Answer 2

Toussaint Charbonneau was born on March 20, 1767 in Boucherville, Quebec. While working for the North West Company Charbonneau encountered the established settlement of Mandan and Hidatsa tribes near present-day Bismarck, North Dakota. He settled amongst these tribes as a trapper, laborer, and an interpreter of the Hidatsa language in 1797. Soon after his arrival, Charbonneau purchased two captive Shoshone women: Sacagawea and "Otter Woman", from the Hidatsa who became his "wives".

Depending on how "soon" after his arrival that he married Sacagawea, I say he had to be either 30 or 31 years old.

Answer 3

Yes Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau did get married and they also had a baby. I hope this helped you....thanks for reading