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Missouri
A Capsule Genealogy of the State |
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1803 - Louisiana Purchase
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- 1804
- Louisiana Purchase divided by Congress into the territory of Orleans and the
District of Louisiana
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- 1804
- District of Louisiana placed under the jurisdiction of the Territory of Indiana,
and Court of Common Pleas established at St. Louis
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- 1805
- District of Louisiana organized as Territory of Louisiana
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- 1807
- Captain Meriwether Lewis made Governor
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- 1810-1821
- Captain William Clark, Governor
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- 1812
- Territory of Louisiana organized as the Territory of Missouri. First five
counties formed: St Charles, St Louis, Ste Genevieve, Cape Girardeau and New Madrid.
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- 1819
- Arkansas Territory created from part of the Territory of Missouri
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- 1820
- Missouri admitted into the Union
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- 1837
- Platte Purchase made effective, adding counties of Atchison, Andrews, Buchanan,
Holt, Nodaway and Platte
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