Joseph Bonne

Joseph Bonne or Bone (born 1793) was an early settler of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, of Creole origin. Bonne served as an interpreter to the 1818 treaty between the Quapaw and the United States, and was a recipient of a land grant as a result of the 1824 treaty.

Ancestry Joseph Bonne was the son of Michel Bonne, a voyageur, and Marie Jean, a woman of Native ancestry. Sources differ on whether Marie Jean was of Quapaw descent. She might have been known also as Marie Louise; alternatively this might have been the name of Joseph's step-mother. Tomlinsson states that the first court in Jefferson County was held in Bonne's log cabin.