Roziers History of the Early Settlement of the Mississippi Valley
Roziers History of the Early Settlement of the Mississippi Valley
Firmin a Rozier
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) The town of New Madrid was laid out in 1787, on a very large scale to eclipse even the city of Madrid, in Spain by Colonel George Morgan, of New Jersey, formerly an American officer, who acquired a large concession of land for that purpose from the Spanish officers at New Orleans. After inducing some fifty emigrants to settle at New Madrid, charges were made against Mor- gan, by General James Wilkinson, during his intrigues with Spain, and by others, which in- duced Governor Miro to cancel th...e concessions of land to Morgan, denouncing the whole project, by his letter of May 29th, 1789, to Morgan ; and that Spain would establish a fort at New Madrid, and that a detachment of Spanish soldiers would guard there the interests of Spain. Colonel Mor- gan, stripped of his large concessions and power, returned to the United States, much disappointed at the failure of his great project. SPANISH COMMANDANTS. Soon after this, New Madrid was made a Span- ish post, and Don Fouche was made its Spanish commandant in the year 1 789.
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