Thank you for some of the social history of early Missouri (Anglo-American settlement, that is.) Although my Madison Co. and Garrard Co., KY folks ca 1836 or so migrated to Texas (probably using the Mississippi River as their highway), some of their siblings went to Missouri: Oldham, Kemper et al. I merely scratch the surface in Missouri research, but I am learning, and your explanations of the motivating reasons help. Question: I have an ancestor from Madison Co., Ky who received (or whose widow received) a bounty land warrant from service rendered in the Revolutionary War. Was that land in Missouri? Reason I ask: the widow ended up in Platte Co., MO, and her children in surrounding counties. E.W.Wallace