...is destroyed by a flood, the inhabitants remove from river bottoms to the present site......1785 New Madrid, settled as early as 1780, is laid out on an extensive scale by Col. George Morgan, of New Jersey , who had received a grant of over 12,000,000 acres of land from Spain......1788 Crozat succeeded by Don Manuel Perez as commandant-general of the post of St. Louis......1788 Zenon Trudeau suc...