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THE MURPHY SETTLEMENT
The vicinity where is now located the city of Farmington was known as the "Murphy settlement" during the Spanish occupancy of upper Louisiana. William Murphy, from Tennessee, came to this neighborhood in 1798, authorized to make a settlement on the St. Francois river. It is said that he was a Baptist preacher, but this is hardly probable, because before he could secure a permit to settle under the Spanish rules and ordinances, he was required to make a declaration that he was a Catholic, or that he would rear his family in the Catholic faith. The settlement of Protestant preachers especially was prohibited. Murphy, after receiving permission to settle, returned to Tennessee and died there. It was not until 1801 that the first tree was felled in this settlement by David Murphy, his son, who came out from the Gabourie, where he had settled in 1799 with his slaves. In 1802 he was joined by his brother, William, Junior, who had first settled in Illinois, but, as he was the owner of twelve slaves, crossed the Mississippi in 1798 and took up his resi- dence on Gabourie creek, near Ste. Genevieve, and moved from there to this neighborhood. Richard also settled here in 1802, and in 1803 Mrs. Sarah Murphy, widow of William Murphy, Senior, with the remainder of the family, Isaac, Jesse, Dubart, Joseph, and one or two daughters, and some negro slaves, also moved from Tennessee to upper Louisiana. She made the journey down the Tennessee river and up the Mississippi in a flat-boat with her family and servants, and after much hardship and peril reached Ste. Genevieve; on Jan- uary 10, 1804, she arrived at the home of her son, Richard, then located not far from the present site of Farmington. Manifestly Mrs. Murphy was a woman of great energy and ability. Within three years after her arrival she organized and taught the first Sunday school west of the Mississippi river. She was a sister of David Barton, elected first United States senator from Missouri. Michael the Terre Blue prior to this time; Robert Adams (1803); Elijah Benton (1803), brother-in-law of Francois Wideman, settled fifteen miles in front of the settle- ments on promise of Commandant Vallé, made to Wideman, that all his con- nections he could induce to come to upper Louisiana might settle on the frontier; Dr. Jesse Benton (1803), a physician, settled on the west branch of Big river, a brother or relative of Thomas H. Benton, afterward returned to Tennessee; George Cunningham; Isaac Doghead (1803), a German on this river opposite Pratte's Spring branch, most probably related to John Doghead who was an early settler in the St. Louis district; Elias Austin Elliott (1803); William North (1803); John Michael Rober (1803), also on the Joachim and Mill creek; Michael Rafer (1803), on this river and Joachim, may be Robert; James J. Withrow (1803); Francois Grondon (or Grondine), likely from Kas- kaskia, on Mine fork of this river; Louis Self.
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and Joseph Hart, who claimed to be Catholics, settled in this neigh- borhood in 1800, and Benjamin Petit in 1801 opened a farm on the north fork of the St. Francois river. He was a large slave owner, and he and his son, John L. Petit, traded up and down the St. Francois river. « James Campbell, it seems, worked for him, but afterward moved to Louisiana. Jonathan Dosley built a grist-mill in 1801 in this settlement, and his widow, Mary, lived here and operated this mill in 1802.72 Samuel Pierceall lived near there on Flat river in 1803, so also Jacob Doggett, who discovered "Doggett's Mine." Frederick Connor, afterward a resident on the Joachim, lived on the Terre Blue in this same locality prior to 1799; John Anderson, called John Crow Anderson, lived on the Terre Blue in 1798, and in Bellevue valley in 1803. Jacob Mosteller, apparently a German, lived on Hazle Run of Terre Blue in 1803, was a hatter by trade and carried on his busi- ness on his farm.73
Nathaniel Cook in 1799 settled several miles southwest of the Murphy settlement, and ever since that locality has been known as the "Cook" settlement. Nathaniel Cook was a native of Kentucky, and after the acquisition of Louisiana by the United States, occupied a conspicuous position in the early history of Missouri. He was a
72 In this Murphy settlement on the St. Francois we find George Silas (1798); Christopher Anthony (1799) at Ousley or Housley's settlement; James Carnavan (1799); James Dotson (or Dodson) (1799), received a grant with James Carnavan to farm and raise cattle; in 1801 Dodson was also on the Mississippi; William Dillon (1799); Jonathan Owsley (or Housley) came to the country in 1797, and settled on the St. Francois in 1799; Thomas Ring (1799); Pierre Veriat (1800) came from Lorraine, France, married Rhoda Christy of Virginia in 1801; John Beene (Bean) (1800); Thomas P. Bedford (1800), cultivated land here awhile and then abandoned it, in 1801 or 1802 sold to pay his debts and bought by Girouard, afterward his wife married a man named Leposte; William Crawford or Crafford (1800); Joseph Frederick (1800), afterward at Pointe Coupée, in lower Louisiana; Joab Line (1800), from Tennessee, had two children and two orphan children, settled about four miles from the river on the north fork, next to the Murphy claim, and had a controversy with Murphy as to the boundary of his land which was brought up before De Luziere, the commandant of New Bourbon; Murphy secured most of his land and crop; While living here Line's wife eloped in 1802 .- American State Papers, 2 Public Land, page 509. Line also on Wolf creek; John Clements (1801), a witness as to events on this river; John Kephart, or Capheart, a German, settled on the north fork of the St. Francois, he came from North Carolina. Mathew Logan (1801), at Housley's settlement; Louis Martin (1801), on this river and in St. Louis district; John Mathews, from North Carolina, settled on the north fork of this river in 1802, at that time known as Housley's settlement; John Reaves (1801), says in 1804 on account of the Osage Indians, the inhabitants were driven together for a common defense, and that they raised a common crop in that year; Peter Burns, Senior (1802), was scared off his prop- erty by Osage Indians into the settlement. John Mathews says at that time these Indians com- mitted several depredations and forced the people for safety to the settlements, particularly the women; Patrick Estes, came with Murphy from Tennessee and settled on this river in 1802; James James, lived here but in 1803 sold out and moved to Cold Water, St. Louis district; Robert Burrus (1803), seems to have been familiar with settlements on this river; James Crawford (1803), brother of Thompson, moved to Cape Girardeau in 1805; Thompson Crawford was an early resident; Jacob Chambers (1803), at Housley's settlement, and on Callaway's Mill creek; Adam and William Johnson (1803); Robert A, Logan (1803); John Mann (1803); John Taylor (1803); Henry Burley; Charles Logan.
73 On Terre Blue, a branch of Big river, we find Joseph Mosteller (1799); Robert Estes dit Eastrige (1801), lived at a spring on this branch; Abraham Parker (1801); John A. Henton (1802); John Andrews (1802); John August (1802); Jean Burk, Sr. (1799), a blacksmith (forgeron), prior to this time in Ste. Genevieve.
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ST. MICHAEL
deputy surveyor in this district, and appointed one of the first judges of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions at Ste. Genevieve, and in 1812 was major in Dodge's regiment of Missouri rangers, and in 1820 elected a member of the Constitutional convention. During many years he was a prominent political character. John B. Cook, one of the first judges of the Supreme court of Missouri, was his brother. Daniel P. Cook, the first representative in Congress of the state of Illinois, and very conspicuous as an early leader of the anti- slavery party of that state, was another brother. Cook county, in which the city of Chicago is located, was named in honor of Daniel P. Cook. 74
The beginning of a settlement where Fredericktown is now situated was made in 1800, but that settlement was then known as St. Michael. Here a grant of four hundred arpens was made to
74 The Cook family originally from England, came to Virginia in the early part of the 18th century. About ten years after the close of the Revolutionary War, John Dillard Cook moved to Scott county, Kentucky, where he lived as a thrifty farmer. His eldest son, Colonel Nathaniel Cook, went from Kentucky to Missouri in 1797. Before leaving his native state he was in some skirmishes with the Indians. He served in the second war for Independence, and com- manded a regiment at the battle of Lundy's Lane. He was elected a member from Madison county of the Constitutional convention in 1820. At the election held August 23, 1821, Colonel Cook was a prominent candidate for lieutenant- governor, being defeated by a small plurality. He was a formidable opponent of Thomas H. Benton for the United States Senate the first time that distin- guished man was elected. In 1802 he married Honore Madden, daughter of Thomas Madden, the Spanish deputy surveyor for the Ste. Genevieve district. The only surviving member of Colonel Cook's family now (1905) is Mrs. Letitia Frissell, of Oak Ridge, Missouri. Daniel P. Cook, a younger brother of Colonel Cook, after he was admitted to the bar removed from Kentucky to Illinois, and .was identified with the early history of that state. He was supreme judge of the state, and at one time, probably during J. Q. Adams' administration, was bearer of dispatches to the English court. He was also a member of Congress from Illinois. His wife was the daughter of Governor Edwards of Illinois, and their only son is General John Cook, of Illinois. Daniel Cook was not yet forty when he died, in 1827, at Springfield. He led the anti-slavery party of 1824 to victory in that great and momentous contest in Illinois. John D. Cook, the youngest of the three brothers, was born in Orange county, Virginia, in 1790. He studied law under General Talbert of Frankfort, Kentucky, and in 1814 married Miss Sarah Kiddleton Taylor, cousin of General Zachary Taylor, and soon after moved to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. John D. Cook comes into prominent notice as a member from Ste. Genevieve county of the Constitutional convention mentioned above. He was appointed one of the supreme judges of Missouri, upon the organization of the state, August 12, 1821, which office he resigned in 1823. He was twice reappointed, but, refusing to serve, was appointed circuit judge of the tenth circuit. The circuit then included nearly all southeast Missouri. This office he continued to hold until the election of General Taylor to the presidency, when he was appointed United States district attorney for Missouri, which position he held at the time of his death, in 1852.
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thirteen individuals, the grant lying between Saline creek and the Lit- tle St. Francois. It was purely a French-Canadian settlement in the beginning. The first residents of the village of St. Michael were Peter Chevalier, from the Aux Vasse; Paul, Andrew, and Baptiste De Guire, from Ste. Genevieve; Antoine, Joseph, Nicolas, and Michael Caillot dit Lachance, from near New Bourbon; Gabriel Nicolle (or Nicolee), from Grande river; Pierre Variat, who also had lived on Grande river, and in 1804 on the St. Francois, and three others. John Callaway, an American, had settled on the Saline creek here in the previous year, 1799. These settlers were all engaged more or less in lead mining at Mine La Motte, situated only a few miles from St. Michael. It is worth remembering that at Mine La Motte, on the 7th of April 1774, seven persons engaged in mining were killed by the Osage Indians, undoubtedly the bloodiest massacre in upper Louisiana during the Spanish regime. Joseph Vallé a son of Don Francesco Vallé, aged twenty years, was among those killed. The others were Jacques Parent, aged twenty years, Auguste Chatal, aged thirty-five years and Menard, aged thirty years, all Canadians, Dupont, a native of France, aged thirty years, an Englishman named Phillips, aged thirty years and a negro named Calise. From the church records of Ste. Genevieve, it appears that these victims of Indian warfare were reinterred in 1778 in the Catholic cemetery there. On the road leading from Mine La Motte, Louis Lacroix settled in 1798. He was a lead miner by profession, interested in mines at Old Mine, Mine à Breton, as well as at Mine La Motte; also claimed an interest in a concession at Belle Pointe on the Saline in 1798 with Antoine and Gabriel Caillot dit Lachance. Belle Pointe is a locality not cer- tainly identified, but likely was a place on the road to Mine La Motte. In 1804 La Croix was at Fourche à Courtois.
At an early period a number of settlers must have resided at what was even at that time known as Old Mine on Old Mine creek, in what is now Washington county. From the church record of the parish of St. Ann, Fort de Chartres, under date of September 28, 1748, it ap- pears that Pierre Wivarenne, of Picardy, France, and his wife, Marie Ann Rondeau, were "habitans du village des Mines", no doubt refer- ring to this earliest mining settlement in Missouri. This Wivarenne we may be certain came from Picardy with Renault. A number of citizens of Ste. Genevieve subsequently were interested in mining
379
SETTLERS ON THE JOACHIM, &c.
here, among others Joseph Pratte, Amable Partenais dit Mason and Baptiste Placet. About thirty-one inhabitants resided at Old Mine when the country was transferred to the United States, and made claim to four hundred arpens of land there.75 Not far from here was the Fontaine de la Prairie, three-fourths of a mile from the New Diggings' Mine. In 1803 Gideon Treat established a tan-yard in this prairie.
Within the limits of the present county of Jefferson, along the Joachim, the Plattin, and on Big river, a number of settlements were made before the Louisiana purchase. William Null, Senior and Junior, in 1799, located on Joachim creek; James Varnum built a distillery between the Joachim and Plattin in 1801, and carried on business there until 1804. In 1798 Francois Wideman operated a ferry at the mouth of the Joachim across the Mississippi, where Herculaneum was subsequently laid out, built a bridge across the Joachim for the accommodation of carts, carriages, etc., but afterward sold out to Jeduthan Kendall.76 Among the earliest settlers on the Plattin was John A. Sturgis, who received a grant in 1796, and built a mill on this stream in 1798, which was carried away by a freshet. The mill was afterward rebuilt, and in 1800 he sold it to Jacob Horine and Jacob Donner,77 the consideration mentioned being fifteen hun-
75 Living at Old Mine and interested in the mines there were Jean Baptiste Miliet (Milliette) and son, had a grant at Old Mine in 1792, but abandoned it, and in 1799 it was re-granted to Jacques Guibourd, of Ste. Genevieve, interested in the mines here with Joseph Pratte; Stephen Deline (1797); August Vallé (1799). In 1803 a number of settlers, having lived at these mines several years, made a joint petition for a grant of their lands, among them Nicholas Boilvin, who in 1802 was at Mine à Breton, then on the Mississippi at its junction with Apple creek and subsequently at Prairie du Chien, see note 44. In 1806, Joseph Blay; Louis Boyer; Pierre Baptiste Boyer; Bernard and Veuve Theresa Colman; Alexander Duclos, belonging, no doubt, to the family of Alexander Decelle Duclos, who lived at Fort de Chartres in 1745 (see claim on account of Joseph Decelle, heir of Alexander Decelle, who lived at Fort de Chartres, 2 P. L., page 214-227); Antoine Govreau; Francois Maniche; Francois Milhomme (Millum), from Kaskaskia; Baptiste (Jean Baptiste) Placet (or Placey), was near Ste. Genevieve in 1797, and also interested in the mines at Mine à Breton in 1802; Jean and Charles Robert (Robar or Robin); Charles seems also to have been at Carondelet; James and Charles Rose; Jacques Bon (1801); Louis Milhomme, also interested in Mine à Breton prior to 1803; Jean Portell (1802); Francois Robert; T. Rose; Jacques Bequette; Charles P. Colman; Alexander Colman (1803); James Winston (1803).
76 Claiming on the Joachim we find James Lambert (1797); James Foster (1801), but afterward moved to Concordia parish, Louisiana; Walter Jewitt (1800); Benjamin Johnson (1802); Isaac Vanmetre (1801); John Atkins (1803); Philip Roberts (1803); Thomas Langley Beves (or Bevis) (1801); David Boyles (1803); also on Sandy creek; John Connor (1803), from Kaskas- kia; Randolph Harmstick.
17 American State Papers, 2 Public Lands, p. 529.
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dred gallons of merchantable whiskey, to be delivered in 1803 at the mouth of the Plattin, but cautiously the vendors inserted the addi- tional clause, that they would not be responsible if the boat should sink in the river on the trip down. Sturgis was syndic in the upper part of Ste. Genevieve district, his jurisdiction extending as far as the Maramec. He was a native of Pennsylvania and had served in the Revolutionary war. Another early pioneer here was Titus Strick- land, who came over from Kaskaskia in about 1796. He was a native of New York, but as a child was brought to Louisville, Kentucky. His wife was a niece of Captain Robert George. He served in the Indian wars of Tennessee and Kentucky in his youth before he came to upper Louisiana.78 Thomas Carlin, from Ken- tucky, settled on Plattin creek in 1801, and died here.79 Near the head waters of the Joachim and Plattin, Peter McCormick opened a farm in 1802. In 1818 he was an active Methodist, and took a deep interest in education.80 John Durlin, in 1799, established a vacherie (stock farm) on this stream, but in 1807, his place was sold at public sale for debt to Thomas Fiveash Riddick.81 On Fourche à
78 Featherstonaugh found Strickland "near a spring" on this creek, in 1834, very likely the original settler, because in 1851 he was still alive .- Excur- sion Through the Slave States, vol. i., p. 307. He had a lot at one time in the Ste. Genevieve "Big Field." In 1851 lived at Ste. Genevieve.
79 After his death his widow moved to Illinois with her family, and one of his sons was elected governor of that state, and the family became distinguished in the military service of the United States. Carlinville, the county seat of Macoupin county, Illinois, was named in honor of Governor Thomas Carlin.
80 John Mason Peck says: "Mr. McCormick, an old settler in this range, and regarded by all his neighbors as a sort of captain to whom they looked for guidance, though a backwoodsman, with very little school education, had sound common sense, and was determined to have a good school for his large family and the children of his neighbors. He enlisted some of his friends in Herculaneum 'to send him a rale teacher, none of those whiskey-drinking Irishmen, such as got into our settlement last year, or, sure as I'm a Methodist, we'll lynch him.' "
81 Among the residents on the Plattin we find: Thomas Comstock, from Kaskaskia, removed from there in 1784, presumably to Louisiana, and lived on the Plattin in 1795; Thomas Harrod; John Violeny (1798); Titus Strickland (1798), sold his claim in 1803 to John A. Sturgis, and moved to the Saline and New Bourbon; Joab and Eli Strickland (1798), may be sons or relatives of David Strickland; John A. Sturgis, Junior, was also here; a son of John Sturges Jacques Sturges in 1799 married Phoebe Strickland; Jacob Horine (1800); Michael Ragan (1800); Joseph and Thomas Bear (1802); Joseph Jerred (1802); John Donner (1802), from the name would infer he was a German; Humphrey Gibson, Senior (1802), his son Humphrey also lived here, and was a slave owner; Robert Smith (1803); Abner Wood (1804). On the headwaters of the Plattin and Indian creek a settlement was formed, known as the "Rich- woods settlement," and the following persons lived there or claimed property: Pierre Lord, but afterward, in 1799, in the St. Charles district; Francois M.
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BOIS BRULÉ BOTTOM
Courtois, Robert Hunter dit Polite Robert settled in 1799, but sold out to Pierre Abar, a Canadian, in 1801, and cultivated land at Old Mine on Little Mine river, Manuel Blanco being his tenant. Pierre Abar was also at Mine à Breton.
South of Ste. Genevieve, fronting on the Mississippi river for some distance, lies an extensive alluvial district now in Perry county, bounded on the north by the St. Lawrence creek and south by St. Cosme creek, and which has been known since the earliest times as Bois Brule bottom. This Bois Brule bottom is separated from the American bottom on the east side by the Mississippi river, and about opposite the upper end of this bottom was situated Kaskaskia. Among the first settlers in Bois Brule was John Baptiste Barsaloux, a travel- ing merchant, who lived in this bottom in 1787, and applied for a con- cession for himself and his father Girard Barsaloux.82 A notable event (at least, at that time) was the killing of one John O'Connor, who settled in this bottom in 1799, by a man by the name of Stone. This is one of the earliest murders in upper Louisiana of which we have any record. In 1803 O'Connor's property was sold at public sale to satisfy a claim of Dr. Walter Fenwick, to William Lowry or Laughry, a merchant of Ste. Genevieve, but who in 1802 lived on Indian creek. 83
Benoist (1800); Louis Giguire (or Zeguares) (possibly De Guire) (1800); Mich- ael, David, Jacob, and Benjamin Horine, were here about 1801, Horine station on the Iron Mountain railroad named in honor of this family; Avon Quick (1801).
82 Probably related to Nicholas Barsaloux, who died in St. Louis in 1776.
83 Other settlers in Bois Brule bottom and up and along Bois Brule creek were: John W. McClenahan, a native of Virginia, in (1796), was on Mill (now McClenahan) creek, at the edge of this bottom, where he started a mill in 1797; he moved away afterward and settled at "Pointe Coupée," in lower Louisiana, in 1803; Christopher Barnhart, seems to have been in this bottom on the Mississippi and on the St. Laurent in 1794, near where is now located the town St. Marys in Ste. Genevieve county; Jacob Crow (1795); Lewis Dickson (1796), at the lower end of this bottom, on Cinque Homme; William Burns (1796), in 1799 was in the St. Charles district; David Clark (1796), from Kaskaskia; John Graham (1796), from Illinois; Thomas Allen (1797), in this bottom on the Mississippi, joining the settlement at Barrens, also on Negro fork of the Maramec in 1803; Barnabas (or Barney) Burns, came to the country it seems in 1784, but lived here until 1797, and on Cape St. Cosme in 1801; James Burns (1797), waived his claim in this locality, married Eliza- beth Shelby, of New Madrid, daughter of David Shelby; find a James Burns afterward in St. Charles district, forty-five miles west of St. Louis, and may be the same. A James Burns on Crooked creek, in the Cape Girardeau dis- trict; Michael and Benjamin Burns were also here; Joseph Donohoe (1797), bought from Christopher Barnhart on the waters of the Mississippi and St. Laurent: Jean Jollin (1797); John Ross Mclaughlin (1797); Alexander Mc- Conohoe (1797); James McLain (1797), seems to have been in the employ of other inhabitants; Benjamin Walker (1797); Samuel Bridge (1798), from Mass-
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On St. Cosme, or Cinque Homme creek, which empties its waters into the Mississippi at the lower end of Bois Brule, a number of farms were opened, extending along and up the creek. At the mouth of the creek we find Levi Wiggins in 1801, and farther up John Duval in
achusetts, married a daughter of Benjamin Strother in 1799, came to New Bourbon in about 1794 and worked at his trade as a cooper, applying for land in Bois Brule in 1797, already taken by St. Jemme and Vital Beauvais. Same land was applied for by a man by the name of Samuel for Robert Brousteu or Broaster (Brewster) of Kentucky, who died before making a settlement; Elias Coen, worked for other inhabitants a number of years, and received a grant in this bottom in 1798 to establish a mill, was on Wolf creek, a fork of the St. Francois in 1800; Andrew Cox (1798), in this bottom and on the St. Laurent; Francois Clark, Senior (1798), from Kentucky, lived here on the Mississippi; Thomas Cochran (1798); Henry Clark (1798), eldest son of Francois Clark, name also spelled Clarek; James Davis (1798), sold out in 1803 to Francois Moreman of New Bourbon, lived on Negro fork in 1802, and on the St. Francois in 1803; Jonas Dutton (1798); James Dodge (1798), from Kentucky, on the Mississippi, in 1801 sold to Timothy Kelly; Joshua Dodson (1798), from Kentucky, lived on the Mississippi in Bois Brule bottom. sold to Timothy Kelly in 1801, in 1799 owned property on the St. Francois in partnership with James Connavan to farm and raise cattle, also on the Femme Osage in St. Charles district, where his property was sold in 1805 at mortgage sale to Thomas Smith; John Greenwalt (1798), also on the Saline; John Townsend (1798); James Thompson (1798), also on the Saline; William Vanburken (or Vanburkelow), a German (1798); Hypolite Bolon (1799), an Indian interpreter; Thomas Donohue (1799); in this bottom on the Mississippi and St. Laurent, had a tan-yard on the Saline; Joshua Fisher (1799) on St. Cosme creek; Absalom Kennison (1799), from Kentucky; Robert Mclaughlin (1799); John dit Jonas Nusam (1799); David Strickland (1799), a Revolu- tionary soldier, lived in this bottom but also interested in mines at Mine à Breton; in 1803 sold out by De Lassus at public sale to John Smith a creditor of Strickland; Elisha or Elijah Belsha (1800); Isaac Devore, Devee or Deveau (1800), on the Mississippi; Alexander Dandiere (or Dondle) (1800), seems to have been in partnership with John Hague in this bottom; William Flynn (1800), and his son, William; William Fitzgibbons (1800); John Harvin (or Haervin) (1800), also in St. Louis district; John Kennison (1800); Reuben Middleton (1800); John Morgan, Junior of North Carolina (1800); Henry Hatten (1799); James Murdock (or Murdough) (1800); Elizabeth Socherd (1800), from Kentucky, lived near Kennison there; Pelagie Aime (1801) a member of the Aime family of Kaskaskia; Archibald Campster (1801), died prior to 1804, his widow here at that time; Walter Smoot (1801), on the St. Cosme creek; John Smith, Senior (1800); Thomas Tucker (1801); Archibald and Solomon Morgan (1802); Josiah Millard (1805); Alexander Murdock (1803), on the Mississippi opposite Pole island; Elizabeth Carnes (?) (1802); Francois Clark, Junior (1803); David Crips (1803); William Gritz (or Crites, Krytz or Kreutz) (1803), a German or of German descent; Richard Hawkins (1803), acquired the head right of William Morse, from Kaskaskia, where he had served in the militia; Joseph Hagan (1803); George Belsha; James Cowan (or Coen), afterward moved to St. Louis district; Elisha Crosby; George Eagen (or Egers), a German, settled here, but absconded, leaving his wife, who remained in the bottom; A Joseph Elaire, a native of Canada, in 1800 married Rachael Eagens, of North Carolina, Archi- bald Comster, Benjamin Cox and Peter O'Neal being witnesses, may be related; Christian Fender, a German; Jacob Reed; James Wright, lived in this bottom, but moved to Brushy bayou, Rapides parish, Louisiana.
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