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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
Lieut.-Gov. Don Pedro Piernas arrives at St. Louis to assume the Spanish authority over upper Louisiana......1770 Francisco Crozat succeeds Piernas......1775 Don Ferdinando Leyba appointed governor to succeed Crozat......1778 Massacre of whiCrozat......1778 Massacre of whites near St. Louis by Indians who, led by British, intended a general attack on the settlement, but were repulsed......May 26, 1780 Leyba removed and Francisco Crozat reinstated. Under his government St. Louis was regularly fortified......1780 Francisco Crozat reinstated. Under his government St. Louis was regularly fortified......1780 Old St. Genevieve, which tradition says was founded by settlers from Kaskaskia in 1735, 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 extee 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 succeeds Perez...
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Western Company, the (search)
Western Company, the John Law was the successor of Crozat in a commercial scheme in Louisiana (see Louisiana). He formed a company under the sanction of the regent of France (August, 1717), and it was called the Western Company. The grants made to it were for twenty-five years, and the sovereignty of all Louisiana —an undefined region—was given to the company. The sole conditions were homage to the French monarch and a gold crown at the beginning of every reign. With a capital of 40,000,000 livres, Law and his associates entered upon a great scheme of commerce and colonization. Armed vessels bearing troops and colonists were soon seen upon the ocean. Law appointed Bienville governor of the domain, and he selected the site of New Orleans for its capital, where, in February, 1718, he left fifty persons to clear the ground and to build. Great prosperity was promised. The shares of the company rose in value, and in May, 1719, Law obtained from the regent power to join with it