John Askin Jr. (c.1765 – Jan 1, 1820) — British Indian Department officer and merchant in Upper Canada and the Upper Great Lakes; collector of customs at Amherstburg and storekeeper at Fort St. Joseph. Fought at Fallen Timbers (1794), played a key role in supplying blankets that Madelaine Askin and fort women turned into the first Mackinaw jackets (1811). Son of a United Empire Loyalist.
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[…] John Askin Jr. (c.1765–1820), son of an Irish fur trader and his First Nations wife, fought at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 and remained steadfast to the Crown through two decades of contest over the Upper Great Lakes. He and his wife Madelaine are credited with inventing the Mackinaw jacket in 1811. His son John Baptist Askin (1788–1869) served at the capture of Michilimackinac in 1812 and interpreted under Colonel Procter at the Battle of Frenchtown in January 1813. […]
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