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In 1782, Antoine Oliviere (Oliver), dit Bellepeche; Charles Henrion; Marie Joseph! Godeau or Gobeau.
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and it is said that he sent Louis Lorimier to visit the tribes east of the river to induce them to settle on the west bank of the Missis-
In 1783, Joseph Verdon, a cabinet maker and turner, died at the age of nine- ty-five years in 1813; Jean Baptiste Vien, dit Noel (1783), probably a son of a Vien of the same name heretofore named, testified to events on the river Aux Cardes as early as this year, in 1797, at St. Ferdinand or Carondelet.
In 1784, François Marmillon, merchant of St. Louis, had a grant on the Mississippi; Duchemin; James Burns in this year sold one half of his land to Claibourne Rhodes.
In 1785, Jacques Loise, the best apples in the town grew on his lot says Andrew L'Andreville, tavern keeper and merchant; a Paul Loise here later, also Joseph at Portage des Sioux; Joseph Delisle; Louis Delisle, dit Bienvenue; François Dion, perhaps a relative of Nicolas who married Theresa Hervieux, in 1769, no doubt a Kaskaskia family ; Henry Duchouquette, dit Lafleur, married Felice Quior San Filip, and Jean Baptiste Duchouquette, dit Lami, married Marie Brazeau, this Duchouquette was at the mouth of the Osage in 1800 at Côte sans Dessein where he claimed that he established a vacherie; Louis Bou- doin, on Prairie des Noyers, and afterwards at Carondelet, married Marie Theresa Tesson in 1789; Joachim Roy, acquired property owned by Jean Rion (or Jean Cadet Rion); in 1790 Roy raised wheat on hislot, and in 1793 raised three hundred bushels of corn; a Carlos Charrion, dit Jean Rion, here in this year ; Jacques Faustin and one Chartron cultivated the lot of François Faustin, dit Parent. They were his nephews, and at the death of Chartron the lot became the property of Jacques Faustin; Herbert, dit Berry Tabeau, father of Jacques Tabeau, at Carondelet in 1786 and at St. Ferdinand in 1794; Joseph Larava or Lavarre; Antoine Marechal married Mary Catherine Tabeau, and lived at St. Ferdinand in 1796; Paul Guitard at this time owned a place called "Guit- ard's Cul de sac" in the prairie.
In 1786, François Flory (or Fleury, dit Grenier); Catherine Crepeau Tou- gard, probably a relative of Joseph Crepo the soldier; Joseph Sumande, in this year sold property to Jacques Clamorgan; Claude Duflon (or Dufloc), dit Pari- sien, sold property this year to one Francisco; Pierre Choret in this year married Marie Josephine Kiercereau.
In 1787, Claude Mercier, surgeon; Antoine Vincent Bouis, merchant, native of Marseilles, Sub-Lieutenant of militia, got out stone on his lot in St. Louis in 1790, was also on the Missouri in 1795; Dorlac, probably François, had a grant on Prairie des Noyers; Florence Flory, negress, willed her property to her daugh- ter Marie Flory ; Charles Roy, here and at Portage des Sioux; Joseph DeSautelle, married Theresa Mainville in this year; Jean P. Pourcelly, a Provençal, was a master baker of St. Ferdinand, moved to Carondelet prior to 1803.
In 1788, Carlos Leveille, a colored man, it seems resided in the block fronting on the river south of the present Lombard street; Botelar; Joseph Biancour; Louis Biancour; Jean Baptiste Belland, afterwards lived on the Missouri opposite St. Charles and then in St. Charles; François Cotard (1788), seems to have been the earliest resident on Mill creek, he cultivated land for Joseph Motard, and in 1807 was at St. Ferdinand. Joseph Motard claimed land on Mill creek in 1788 and had an orchard bearing fine apples, and in 1793 Louis Dubreuil testified that Motard had a number of people working under him there, and that his (Dubreuil's) father bought produce of him. Michael Marli rented the place for several years as also Charles Vachard. Calvin Adams and Patrick Lee were successively the owners of this claim and his inter- ests in the neighborhood.
In 1789, Simon Coussot (or Cuseau), in St. Charles in 1799; Noel Langlois; Amable Flamant, a stone mason.
In 1790, Gabriel Melody; Antoine Reihl (Reylh, Rheil or Reilhe), a mer- chant, lived on the river des Peres, and in the common-field near Carondelet one Antoine Reilhe, from Two Rivers, was the proprietor of a general store at Michilimackinac in 1783; Jean B. Dufaut, dit Benoni (also spelled Deffau, De- faut, Defaux), vestryman, married the widow of Louis B. Laroche, died 1802;
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sippi, and to protect the village. At a later date, however, Lorimier acted in these negotiations directly as commissioner of Carondelet, one Dubois, may be son of the old soldier Louis Dubois, afterward found at St. Charles; Joseph LaCroix, afterward at St. Ferdinand; François Vallois; Jean Baptiste Tardif (Tardit), in his will made Jacques Clamorgan, merchant of St. Louis, his heir; Pelagie Primo; Pierre Barribeau, in 1796, at Crève Cœur and Pierre Troye (Troge), Sub-Lieutenant of militia at St. Charles.
In 1792, Alexander Bellisime, born in Toulon, France, came to America during the Revolutionary war, died in 1833, sixty-seven years of age, hotel- keeper between what is now Myrtle and Spruce on 2nd street, opposite the old "Green Tree."
In 1793, Theresa Desmoulin; Ginginbre, returned to France in 1801 ; Joseph Calais, from Kaskaskia, also on the Missouri and at St. Fernando in 1797; Am- able Ouimate (Wimet); Jean Baptiste Ambroise Duval, dit Degroisiellier; afterward in 1799 in St. Charles district; Paul Guitard, a shoemaker, near St. Louis on Prairie des Noyers ; Louis Guitard, dit La Grandeur, and Vincent Gui- tard were his sons, Louis was also north of St. Louis on the Mississippi, his sons were natives of Illinois; Jean Baptiste Marli died in 1797, his son Duke and brother Michael also here; Joseph Roy; Joseph Lecompte.
In 1794, Joseph Pallardy, died in this year; Jean Baptiste Desmoulin, stone- mason, at St. Charles in 1800, and was 65 miles north of St. Louis; Marie La- Bastielle, a free colored woman, the garrison for the Spanish troops was imme- diately in the rear of her lot; Jean Beaufils; Joseph Oneille (O'Neil) (1793), native of Quebec, Canada, son of Pierre O'Neille, and Joseph Chandonair, a merchant in St. Louis prior to this time owned property on Lake St. Mary, New Madrid district and lake St. Isidore bought of Pedro Saffray in 1803.
In 1795, Antoine Chenie, also at St. Ferdinand; Louis Dumont (or Du- mond); Henry Belestre; Marie Bennet; Jean Belony Latresse; Catherine La- Violette, from Kaskaskia; Louis LaCroix, first came to St. Louis, but in 1798 a Louis LaCroix settled on the road leading to Mine LaMotte, in Ste. Genevieve district, near St. Michel, and may be the same. Joseph Labbadie, dit St. Pierre, afterwards moved to Florissant, a Joseph LaPierre in St. Louis in 1793, and perhaps same; Françoise Leveille, negress, no doubt related to Carlos already named; Joseph Lavallis; Titus LeBerge, Susa Leberge mar- ried François Tesson in 1787; Bazil Bissonette; John Stotts; Joseph Chartrand, owned property in the upper prairie near St. Charles on the Missouri in 1796, at Carondelet in 1797; Amable Chartrand, Senior, from Kaskaskia, at Portage des Sioux and Carondelet in 1802; Amable Chartrand, junior, and Thomas, also from Kaskaskia and afterwards at Carondelet; Adam Martin, in 1797 had a grant on the Missouri in St. Charles district, where in 1803 he employed a man by the name of Price to gather his corn, paying him two cows and calves; this place was on the frontier and the Indians were troublesome, lived at Marais des Liards; Theresa Barois (or Barion) near here on River des Pères; Françoise Brazeau, widow of Baptiste Charleville had a grant on the river des Pères.
In 1796, Joseph Louis (Lewis) in Bellevue valley; François Collard, near St. Louis.
In 1797, Jean Drouin, in St. Charles district, in 1799, 65 miles north of St. Louis; Jean Baptiste Morin, at Portage des Sioux in 1802, his brother Michael and mother Pelagie Morin were here prior to this time, and another brother Henry, later; John E. Allen testified to events in this year on the river des Péres, in St. Charles district in 1804; Claude Paneton; John Ball, on River des Peres near St. Louis and on Grand Glaise.
In 1798, Pierre Quenel; Margaret Martigny; Paul Depuis (Dupois); John Lard (or Lord), at Spanish Ponds; Dr. Mackay Wherry, in 1800 at Portage des Sioux, and raised corn on his lot there in 1802, also in the St. Charles district in this year; Louis Martin, afterwards at St. Ferdinand; James McDaniels on the River des Peres and Cold Water and Missouri; Jean Baptiste Louis Col- lin, in commons north of Grand Rue, St. Ferdinand in 1800-seems to have moved up from New Madrid.
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and invited these Indians to settle on the west side of the river to protect all the Spanish settlements from the incursions of the
In 1799, Louis Barois; Rene Brian; Hyacinth Egliz was also on the Missis- sippi and Maramec, and owned two tracts near Crève Cœur by purchase; Bazil Proulx, merchant, owned an estate consisting of a stone house, poultry house, petite mill, etc., was also at St. Charles in 1800, and on the Missouri; Pierre and Elizabeth Datchurut at New Madrid, 1792; Arend Rutgers, from Kentucky, merchant, was on the Dardenne in St. Charles district in this year, had a mill, store-houses, etc.
In 1800, Pierre Guerette, dit Dumont (or Dumond) from Kaskaskia; George Doggett was a witness to events in this year; Robert Forsyth; Henry Gratiot says as a boy played ball against Motard's mill with other boys, was a sort of re- sort for them; Mordecai Bell, in 1802 was on the Missouri, but sold his property there to Amos Stoddard, and after that this property was always called "Stod- dard's Mound;" Patrick Lee, merchant in St. Louis, bought property on Mill creek in 1802; Gabriel Lord; Edward Bradley near St. Louis and on the Missouri; François Dupuis (or Dupois), a mongrel, descendant of Claude Dupois; Pedro Saffilard, a witness in St. Ferdinand.
In 1801, Joseph Neptune, sailor, died in this year; Hypolite and Sylvester Papin; Hyacinta Hamelin (Amelin); Pierre Bequette, from Kaskaskia, a very ancient family there, part of them coming to St. Louis at an early date, and others in Ste. Genevieve.
In 1802, Pierre Coudaire (or Couderre), a Provencal; Louis Ambroise; Fran- çois Guinelle; Marie Simoneau; Phillip Guillory or Guillay ; Louis Grimard, dit Charpentier at St. Charles in 1799. Prior to and in 1803, other residents were: Francisco Brichinelle; Julien Papin Benito; Dominique Uge; Baptiste Belcour; Helen Lereux; Joseph Descary; Baptiste Molere or Molair; Jacques Lageuness; Mary Nicolle Lebois; Jean Baptiste Erebour, dit Maturin (or Mataurin); Helen Delorier; Joseph Leblond; Jean Baptiste Girard; Felix Fontaine; Joseph Que- nel; Jean P. Roy, dit Lapense, his property sold at public sale; François Cha- tillon, dit Godin; Robert Simpson bought property here prior to 1805; François Dorion, Junior; Mary Gyol de Guirau; Juan Gates; Charles Bosseron; Joseph Laprisse, was also at St. Ferdinand; Joseph Phillibert; Mathew and John Kerr; George and James Kennerly; Jean B. Larrade; Theresa Labbadie Joyal, daugh- ter of Labbadie, dit St. Pierre; Hugh Connor; Baptiste Corno; Pierre Lirette; François Labreche; Louis Blanchette, married an Indian; J. B. Lamarche, dit Bricot; Pierre Chalifour; William Clark, a blacksmith in St. Louis; Barthélemi Courtmanche; François Laplante Lerige; Jean Baptiste Dubay; Alexis Thi- beaut or Thibault; Jean B. Ferrot, merchant; Antonio Bonnemain, merchant; Jean P. Comegys; Michael Foucher; Joseph Montaigne; Robert Duncan; Ralph Davis; Eugene Dorys (Dorsieres) Denaux; Calvin Adams; Etienne Barre, merchant; Lagarciniere, merchant; Gaspard Roubieux (probably Roubiere, dit European) merchant; Gabriel de la Claire, merchant and soldier; François Barrouselle, a native of St. Domingo, merchant; Louis Coignard, merchant, native of Chatillon; William Bellsa; Pierre St. Jean, dit Sans Souci, also at Ca- rondelet; Louis Gibeau; Pierre Bordeau; Pierre Bourg; Samuel Solomon; Joseph Joinal LaBonte; Thomas Liggette; Jacob Brady; Jean P. Cabanne, native of Pau; Joseph Fayet; Louis Bouder; Pierre Valentine Ignace; Jean Jacques and Jean B. Lebeau; a Baptiste Lebeau in St. Charles in 1800; Jean B. Monier; Gabriel Paul; Pierre Panet; Andre Petteliar (or Peltier); François Doyon Emmons; White Matlock on the Missouri; Catherine Dodge on the River des Peres; François Hebert on the River des Peres; Mathew Remy (Ram- ey) and son Nathan; François Noise testifies he was a child in St. Louis when François Moreau in 1796 lived there, and fought with his son, Alexis Moreau, was also at Carondelet; Joseph Sorin, merchant, native of LaRochelle; Joseph Segond, merchant; Antoine Senacal; Provencal, (may be Pierre Coudaire) a trader, and may be the same who is referred to by Sinclair as "having been equipped with goods by Calve to trade in the Spanish country," and who refused
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Osages and other hostile tribes.117 At the time these Indians from the east side came to upper Louisiana it was also the policy of the Spanish government to strengthen in every way the military position of Spain in upper Louisiana, because the rapid expan- sion of American influence and increase of the population on the Ohio and in the territory between the Ohio and the Lakes filled the Span- iards with apprehension. The free navigation of the lower Missis- sippi was then a constant source of friction and controversy.
Colonel George Morgan, who came to upper Louisiana with a view of establishing an American colony in the Spanish possessions near the mouth of the Ohio, under a supposed grant of Don Diego Gardoqui, the Spanish ambassador at Philadelphia, visited St. Louis in connection with this project. Perez, in a letter to Governor Miro, informs him that Morgan was accompanied by seventyheads of families intending to settle, if he found a suitable location, and that in addition he had with him eleven Indians from on the Ohio; that he gave these some presents which made them "very happy," and that they promised to tell the chiefs of their tribes how well they had been received. He furnished Colonel Morgan provisions and there guides. The visit of Colonel Morgan resulted in the founding of New Madrid. It is said that while Perez was commandant, in 1792, honey-bees came for the first time to St. Louis. 118 Perez was an old
soldier. He was in the Spanish military service 38 years and 10 months. Entering as a private, he finally attained the rank of lieu- tenant-colonel of the Stationary Regiment of Louisiana; he saw active service in Spain and Portugal, and came with O'Reilly to Louisiana in 1763; participated in the campaigns in Florida under Galvez; in 1773 was at the siege and capture of Fort Manchack, and in 1780 at the capture of Mobile and Pensacola.119
Perez was succeeded in 1792 by Don Zenon Trudeau, "lieutenant- colonel and captain of grenadiers of the Stationary Regiment of to go to Michilimackinac and therefore is denounced by the English Commander as a "man of infamous character." (II Wisconsin Historical Collection, p. 158.) Julien Roy, married Marie Barbara Saucier, their son Louis in 1802 married Catherine Millette, daughter of Jean Baptiste Millette of New Madrid.
117 American State Papers, 5 Public Lands, p. 800.
118 Scharff's History of St. Louis, vol. 1, 212.
11% In 1793 he retired from the service on account of advanced age and ill- health contracted during the "rigorous winters which he endured" while "com- manding the settlements of the western part of Illinois for the space of five years" and prayed for the monthly pay of a lieutenant-colonel retired, but Carondelet thought the "pay of a retired Captain enough as it is known that he enjoys a fortune quite sufficient to support himself and family with decency."
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Louisiana."120 The population of the country now began to increase rapidly. Many Americans immigrated into the Spanish settlements, influenced by the free and generous donations of land. Probably in consequence of these numerous land grants and the increased value of land Don Antonio Soulard was appointed surveyor of upper Louisiana and acted as such from February 3, 1795, until the cession of Louisiana. Soulard was also captain of the militia, and Ayudante Mayor of St. Louis. In 1800 he was commissioned by the Marqués Casa Calvo, then governor-general of Louisiana, and Don Ramon de Lopez y Angulo, intendant-general of Louisiana, to make a report of the fortifications and necessary repairs and afterward, accordingly, made a full report to Lieutenant-Colonel Don Carlos Howard, mil- itary commandant of upper Louisiana, in regard to the same. Soulard was a native of France, had served in the French navy, and, wrecked in fortune came to Louisiana. In a memorial to the com- missioners to adjust land titles, he complains that the services he rendered were never adequately rewarded, and that he only received a concession of about four thousand acres of land, when he might have received much more "from the well known munificence of the Spanish government," which granted so much to "strangers scarcely known."
Shortly after he assumed his office Trudeau was surprised by the arrival of one Don Pedro Vial in St. Louis, who, accompanied by two young men, came "from the city of Santa Fe of the Kingdom of Nuevo Mexico, having been commissioned by Governor Don Fernando de la Concha to open a road from that city to St. Louis." Trudeau prompt- ly advised Baron Carondelet of the arrival of Vial, and that he reported that he had not encountered an obstacle that he had not conquered, and that he could have marched from there to St. Louis in 25 days. Trudeau took a deep interest in the exploration of the upper Missouri river, and in the expansion of the fur trade. Under his advice, in 1794 some of the merchants of St. Louis formed a company to exploit the fur trade on the upper Mis-
120 Trudeau was born in New Orleans Nov. 28, 1748-a son of Sieur Jean Trudeau, a lieutenant " des troupes de sa majeste détachée en cette col- onie." His mother was Marie de Carriere. He was well educated, had a family of several sons, one of his sons was Don Carlos Laveau Trudeau, surveyor general of Louisiana. Don Juan Baptiste Trudeau, the first school teacher of St. Louis, . was his relative. Among the militia who enlisted at Montreal in 1663, we find the name of Etienne Trudeau, may be a common ancestor of Zenon and Jean Baptiste Trudeau. (Sulte Canadien Française, p. 9.) Zenon Tru- deau in 1781 married Eulalie De Lassize, daughter of Nicolas DeLassize, cap- tain in the royal army, and commandant of the militia of New Orleans.
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souri, combining their capital for that purpose, and also agreed to use their exertions to penetrate the sources of the Missouri and "beyond if possible to the Southern Ocean." Clamorgan was active in organ-
-enon trudeau.
izing this company. At his instance the syndic of St. Louis called together the commercial community- comercia - of the town to organize a company to secure this exclusive trade "farther up than the Ponkas," the exclusive trade with this tribe having been granted to Juan Munie. All the merchants of St. Louis at that time were present at this meeting-viz., Reihle, Papin, Yosty, Motard, Sanguinette, Vasquez, Sarpy, Cerré, Roy, Saint Cyrete, Conde, Andreville, Vincent, Lafleur, Du Breuil, Marie, L'Abbadie, Chouteau Senior, Robidoux, Chauvin, Collell, Duroche, La Valle, La Goye, Chouteau Junior, Gratiot, Delor and Clamorgan. The articles of association approved by the government were submitted, but Reihle, Motard, Durocher, Vasquez, Robidoux, Sanguinette, Helena St. Grasse, Du Breuil, and Clamorgan only entered into the corporation. Clamorgan was selected as director, and in a letter to Carondelet explains that some merchants did not join for fear of loss, and others "with the intention of harming, if they can, in the future the enterprise, " and hence, since the company was about to incur "immense expense," peti- tioned that the exclusive trade on the upper Missouri be guaranteed the company for the first ten years, and Carondelet accordingly approved "the exclusive privilege" of trade for ten years.
This Missouri trading company was not a profitable venture; dissensions among the members, jealousies and want of confidence in Clamorgan making success impossible. Clamorgan, himself, under the name of Todd & Company, it was charged, monopolized the trade of the upper Missouri, and diverted it from New Orleans. Joseph Robidoux made an effort, without success, to have the company
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reorganized by Gayoso, and Clamorgan excluded from it,121 charging that Clamorgan's "probity was suspected by several," that he was "intriguing, of fluent tongue, pliant and even servile," but admits that he had been accustomed to conduct great operations. It also developed that at least some of the merchants who had refused to take shares in the company afterward petitioned that the exclusive trade of the company might be revoked, as Clamorgan had anticipated.122
THE CERRÉ HOUSE
In 1796, when the expedition under Lt. Col. Don Carlos How- ard 123 came up the river to St. Louis in keelboats and galleys, as already related, with a force of one hundred men, then almost an 121 A native of Guadalupe, a merchant, fur trader, explorer, and land specu- lator, acquired a claim of Regis Loisel to 157,062 arpens on the Missouri; made a claim for 136,904 arpens on the Mississippi below New Madrid (nowin Arkansas) to establish a rope walk and form a Canadian establishment; made another claim of 500,000 arpens fronting on the Mississippi, between the Dardenne and Cha- rette, to pay him for an exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains, as chief officer; and another large district on the Maramec under grant of Trudeau, dated 1795, and various other smaller claims, the whole of his claims amounting to nearly 1,000,000 arpens. He was in Mexico in 1808.
122 See Memorial of Manuel Lisa, Chas. Sanguinette, Gosti, Guillaume Hèbert, Gregorio Sarpy, G. F. Robidoux, Patrick Lee, F. M. Benoit, Andre dit Le- compte, Joseph Marie, Andreville, Jacento Egliz, A. Reihle, J. Moutard, Emi- leon Yosti, Antoine Reynal, François Valois, Gabriel Proulx, G. R. Spencer, Mackay Wherry, W. Lacroix Prieur, J. B. Monier, Antoine Janis .- In Archives of the Indies, Seville, cf.
123 Howard was an Irishman in the Spanish service.
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army, this event at the time created no little sensation. The year of the arrival of these boats became known as the "Année des Galères" among the inhabitants.124
Trudeau, on August 29, 1799, was succeeded by Carlos De- Hault DeLassus de Luziere, transferred to St. Louis from New Madrid, where he had been stationed as commandant since 1796. New Madrid commercially at that time was the most impor- tant station on the upper Mississippi. It was a port of entry, and all vessels going up or down the river, to or from New Orleans, were compelled to land there for inspection. The river traffic was rapidly in- creasing, and DeLassus complained that his duties were very onerous. Very likely on his application, he was transferred to St. Louis, so as to be nearer his father, the commandant at New Bourbon. Prior to the appointment of DeLassus, as lieutenant-governor of upper Louisiana, New Madrid was a separate and independent post, and the com- mander there exercised the power of a subdelegate. When DeLassus was transferred to St. Louis, New Madrid and its dependencies were attached to, and first came under the jurisdiction of, the lieutenant- governor of upper Louisiana. He was particularly advised by Gayoso, to encourage immigration from Canada, "as this is really the people we want," and he instructs him to ascertain " how it would be best to bring the people from Canada under the lowest expense. "125 De- Lassus was the last Spanish lieutenant-governor of upper Louisiana. While he was lieutenant-governor the people of St. Louis made a patriotic war contribution to aid Spain in the war.126
Small-pox first appeared in St. Louis in 1799, and hence the year was called " Année de la Picotté." The winter following being unu- sually severe, the year 1800 was known among the people as " Année
124 I Hunt's Minutes, Book I, p. 127, Missouri Historical Society Archives, Chouteau's evidence.
125 Letter Gayoso to DeLassus, March 2, 1799 - Chouteau Collection.
126 The subscription list preserved in the Archives of the Indies gives the names of"well-to-do people" of St. Louis who contributed on that occasion, and the several amounts, as follows: Gregorio Sarpy, 50 pesos; Carlos Gratiot, 50 pesos; Carlos Sanguinette, 50 pesos; L. P. Didier, 12 pesos; Francisco Marie Benoit, 30 pesos; Patricio Lee, 20 pesos; Pedro Chouteau, 50 pesos; Bernardo Pratte, 25 pesos; Silvestre Labbadie, 25 pesos; Jos. Robideau, 50 pesos; Francis- co Vallè (Vallois) 10 pesos; Benito Vasquez, 10 pesos; Andres L'Andreville, 10 pesos; Jos. Brazeau, 20 pesos; Don Luis Labeaume, 10 pesos; Luis Coignard, 10 pesos; Don Jos. Hortiz, 25 pesos; Antonio Reihle, 10 pesos; Jacinto St. Cyr, 50 pesos; Don Santiago Chauvin, 10 pesos; Don Antonio Soulard 30 pesos; Mackay Wherry, 20 pesos; Pasqual Ceré, 20 pesos; Juan Baptiste Trudeau, 5 pesos; Manuel de Lisa, 10 pesos; Don Auguste Chouteau, 100 pesos; and Don Antonio Vincent Buois, 50 pesos. Total 762 pesos.
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