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 62 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI They were "Novelle Bourbon' bon and New Tennessee. or New Boui' odist cbureli. This about the year 1800. settlement was made New Bourbon was situated about two and one-half miles from the old village of Ste. Genevieve. Its site was on a hill which over- looked a strip of plain about one league in width, lying between it and the river. The settlement here was made in 1793 by order of Baron Cardondelet. Cardondelet was at this time lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana with headquarters at St. Louis. He founded this colony and made it a separate adminis- trative division in order to give a place to Pierre De Hault De Lassus De Luziere who was made the commandant of New Bourbon. It was the intention to bring to this new set- tlement the colony of French nobles who had emigrated from France during the Revolution and had formed a settlement in Ohio called Gallipolis. The scheme for bringing these French nobles was never carried into effect fully, bi;t some of them came and made their home here near Ste. Genevieve. The author- ity of the commandant at this place extended west to Mine La JMotte. At New Bourbon there was a small mill erected in 1793 on the creek now called Dodge's creek. The mill was built by Francois Valle and afterward sold to Israel Dodge. It was the first mill west of the Mississippi river. The settlement called New Tennessee was made in what is now Saline township. The first settlers here were Peter Bloom and Thomas Madden. Both of them had formerly lived at Ste. Genevieve. Others who lived in the vicinity were Nicholas Counts, Joseph Hughes, Jesse Bryant, William Painter, John and Edward "Walsh, Elder Wingate Jackson, who was a Bapitst preacher, and John Mc- Farland, who was a minister of the Meth- The following table gives the larger num- ber of the settlements in the Ste. Genevieve district made before the transfer to the United States in 1804. The dates are as accurate as can now be given : Ste. Genevieve 1735 Old JIines in Washington county 1748 ]liue a Breton near Potosi 1775 In Bois Brule Bottom 1787 On the Cinque Homme in Perry county. 1788 New Bourbon near Ste. Genevieve 1793 Ally's Mines on Big River in St. Fran- cois county 1797 On the Aux Vases in Perry county 1797 On the Brazeau in Perry county 1797 On Establishment creek in Perry county. 1797 The Fenwick Settlement on Apple creek.1797 In Belle'ne Valley 1798 Murphy Settlement now Farmington. . .1798 Herculaneum 1798 Cook's Settlement southwest of Farm- ington 1799 On Joachim creek in Jefferson county. .1799 St. jMichael now Fredericktown 1800 On the Saline in Perry county 1800 Between Joachim and the Plattin 1801 William Reed was the first settler in the Bellevue Valley in Iron county. He came in 1798, having received permission of De Lu- ziere the Spanish official in charge at New Bourbon. Solomon George came about the same time and made his home on the Little St. Francois. Elisha Baker came to the same settlement from the Bois Brule Bottom in 1798, being accompanied by his son Elijah. Joseph Reed, a nephew of William, was an- other of the early settlers. Near the vicin-