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Description: Missouri's First Settlement.

Date: May 14 1890

Newspaper published in: Knoxville, TN

Page/Column: 12/4

The first white settlement in the State of Missouri was made at Ste. Genevieve, below St. Louis, between the years of 1735 and 1763, the time not being definitely determined. The city of St. Lois was settled by Pierre Linquest LACLEDE in 1764. LACLEDE was murdered by an Indian who was bribed by an Englishman, who paid him for the horrible deed by giving him a barrel of whisky.

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