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Mons . Duduit was born near Paris in 1770, and came to Gallipolis in 1790, one of the victims of the Scioto Company fraud, and with him his wife, a lady of a very wealthy and refined family. He lived seven years in Gallipolis, and while there was variously employed, He was a great hunter, and known as the best marksman among the French settlers. He was also one of the four spies, heretofore mentioned, who scoured the country around Gallipolis on the watch for Indians, serving in this capacity about three years, Colonel Robert Safford, for a time being his companion. M. Duduit went to the grant in 1796, being one of the first there, and assisted in erecting the log houses for the families, who came March 21st, 1797. He became busily engaged in improving his land, and soon had a fine place. His wife died July 11th, 1811, and he remarried July 3d, 1817. He was in the war of 1812, where he rendered efficient service, and died April 5th, 1836.