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Mons . Jean Baptiste Bertrand was a fine Latin and French scholar, and came with the emigrants to Gallipolis, in 1791. He was occupied for some time as a miller in a mill near the village. One day, while absent, he procured a substitute, who, while occupied in the mill, was killed and scalped by a hostile band of Indians. He obtained a tract in the grant, and by his genial disposition became very popular. He died at his residence in French Grant, March 21st, 1855, aged 94 years, the last man to survive of the original French of Southern Ohio.