A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . ed to live in towns, they were our firstcity builders. The Americans liked to live in the country, theywere our first country fanners. The French had alreadyfounded a chain of settlements along the Mississippi fromsoutheast Missouri to St. Charles; the Americans now began tosettle along the streams inland from these French by the famous Boone family of Kentucky, of whichDaniel Boone was the head, they settled in the St. Charlescountry to the north
A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . ed to live in towns, they were our firstcity builders. The Americans liked to live in the country, theywere our first country fanners. The French had alreadyfounded a chain of settlements along the Mississippi fromsoutheast Missouri to St. Charles; the Americans now began tosettle along the streams inland from these French by the famous Boone family of Kentucky, of whichDaniel Boone was the head, they settled in the St. Charlescountry to the north and west. Others settled west of along the streams. Back of Ste. Genevieve anotherfamous family, the Austins, of which Moses Austin was thehead, settled around Potosi to mine lead; and the Murphyfamily from Tennessee with many followers formed Murphys The First Century of Settlement, 1700-1804 45 Settlement, now Farmington. South of Murphys Settlementwas St. Michaels Settlement, Fredericktown, but St. Michaelswas founded by the French. The Cape Girardeau and NewMadrid country districts were also settled bv emigration of DANIEL BOUNE. BV BINGHAM Missouri was growing rapidly in population. By 1804 her fivedistricts (the Spanish government divided Missouri into dis-tricts instead of counties), St. Charles, St. Louis, Ste Gene-vieve, Cape Girardeau, and New Madrid, had 10,350 peisons,of which were slaves. So from a population of 1,000 in1769, Missouri grew to 5,000 in 1795, and to 10,350 in these 10,350 persons, more than half were Americans, theothers being French. Although ruled by the Spanish, Missouriwas peopled by French and Americans. She had towns andfamis, mines and forests, salt springs and fur-bearing animals. 46 History of Missouri and Missourians Missouri by 1804 had both the people and the resources to be-gin the building of a great American territory and state. Just as Laclede and the Chouteaus stand out as French-men in early Misso
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