Annals of StLouis in its early days under the French and Spanish dominations . rnas, May 20, 1770, on Avhich day our infant vil-lage had grown to contain 100 wooden and 15 stonehouses, a total of 115, with a population of aboutfive hundred souls, in the six years since its com-mencement in the veai 17G1:. 96 ANNALS OF ST. LOUIS. This house of upright posts, 35 feet front by 25deep, built by Nicholas Beaug-enou, Sr., at the south-west corner of Almond and Main streets, in the year1765, was one of the first built in St. Louis, and mwhich the fiist marriage on record in the archives ofSt. Louis t
Annals of StLouis in its early days under the French and Spanish dominations . rnas, May 20, 1770, on Avhich day our infant vil-lage had grown to contain 100 wooden and 15 stonehouses, a total of 115, with a population of aboutfive hundred souls, in the six years since its com-mencement in the veai 17G1:. 96 ANNALS OF ST. LOUIS. This house of upright posts, 35 feet front by 25deep, built by Nicholas Beaug-enou, Sr., at the south-west corner of Almond and Main streets, in the year1765, was one of the first built in St. Louis, and mwhich the fiist marriage on record in the archives ofSt. Louis took place, on April 20, 1766, that ofBeaugenous eldest daughter, Maria Josepha, thenin her eighteenth year, to Toussaint Hunaut, a youngCanadian trader. The house was occupied by the Beaugenou familyfor some years. Subsequently by others until 1815,when it was purchased by Gen. Wm. Clark. It wasoccupied by Major Mackey Wheriy, our first TownRegister, for a number of years from about thatperiod, and was removed not many years back togive place to the present brick m t,0-
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