Hi, I am glad that I am corresponding with people with an open mind & a lot of Patience. I have this book at home that I thought that I would quote from. The name of the book is: Colonial Ste. Genevieve by Carl J. Ekberg. (Second edition) I am still trying to show that their was people from Missouri who fought in the American Revolution, even if it was not name Missouri at the time. I hope this make some good sense. I have saw many of my surnames in this book & a few DAR Books that is in the library. I really am not a one track person, but I am just trying to make a point. Please let me know if it is working. LOL I am open to positive responses...please be kind with the other responses.LOL "In 1763 the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War in Europe), and diplomats in Europe parceled out the territory in the heart of North American continent to new owners: the Illinois Country east of the Mississippi River became British territory and the Illinois Country west of the river became Spanish. This juggling of the geopolitics of North America had profound consequences for the village of Ste. Genevieve. The most obvious one, that Ste. Genevieve was now under Spanish sovereignty instead of French, mattered little at first; the population remained French, and the Spanish monarchy did not assume command of its new province for years to come. More important was the fact that, as the French lost possession of the territory around Fort de Chartres and Kaskaskia, the new overlords, Englishmen, arrived in the Illinois Country....." (pp 40 & 41) "There is no way to determine how many of these casualties came from the Ste. Genevieve contingent. One man surnamed St. Jean was killed, and another with the same name taken prisoner. Given the fact that the militia muster rolls for Illinois from November 1779 list one St. Jean at St. Louis and another at Ste. Genevieve, it may be presumed that Paul St. Jean, voyageur, from Ste. Genevieve, was either killed or captured in defending St. Louis on May 26, 1780............"(p. 67) "At the same time that the Franco-Spanish garrison repelled the Anglo-Indian attack on St. Louis, Colonel John Montgomery and General George Rogers Clark fended off a secondary British thrust at Cahokia across the Mississippi. These British setbacks in the western theater of action are a little-known part of the history of the American revolution. Nonetheless, they prevented Great Britain from seizing control of the lucrative fur trade of the lower Missouri River, and even permitted a joint militia force from St. Louis and Cahokia to seize (and hold for twenty-four hours!) the British outpost at St. Joseph (Michigan) in January 1781. The Franco-American-Spanish successes in the Illinois Country did not demolish the British presence in the Mississippi Valley. They did, however, have a bearing upon the territorial settlement arrived at in Paris during the peace negotiations that concluded the American Revolution: Louisiana remained in Spanish hands, and the Northwest territory became American. (pp. 67 & 68) The violent competition for empire in North America during the 1770s and 1780s, which we call the American Revolution, resolved some of the political complexity in Louisiana: henceforth Great Britain would no longer continuously compete for sovereign control of the Mississippi Valley. In the peace treaties of 1783, Great Britain retained her rights to navigation-and therefore trade and commerce- on the entire course of the Mississippi. She also dominated the fur trade of the upper Mississippi Valley and even, contrary to the peace agreements, refused to give up her outposts there. Nonetheless, although Great Britain several times threatened to attack Spanish Louisiana, after 1783 she was no longer a persistent contender to become sovereign master of the colony...........(p. 68) The period 1783-1803 would determine which of the other contenders-Spain, France, or the United States-could impose its rule upon the uncharted vastness of western Louisiana, which included the important river town of Ste. Genevieve. When Arthur P. Whitaker, wrote that "north of New Orleans the only Spanish posts of any consideration in 1783 were Natchez, Arkansas and St. Louis,...." he neglected to mention Ste. Genevieve. But in 1783 Ste. Genevieve was as large as St. Louis and was a vital part of the trans-Mississippian West, a West that some Americans already coveted as a region for an expanding American empire. As the American Revolution ended, however, the townspeople of Ste. Genevieve could not possibly have foreseen the time when they would become citizens of the aggressive new republic, whose western frontier was now within eyeshot across the Mississippi." ...(p 68) Thank for your patience. Thank mbolive@mylink.net Janet RESEARCHING: PORTELL, POLITTE, CHAMP, OLIVIER, COLEMAN, BOYER, ROUSSIN, COURTAWAY/COURTOIS/COURTOUIS, CHABOT, BOISMENU, BIENBENUE, LACHANCE, PEPIN, LALUMONDIERE, ARCHAMBEAU, ROBINET, GOURNEAU/GOVERO, OLIVE, RULO.

----- Original Message ----- From: Michael/Janet Olive <mbolive@mylink.net> To: <MOJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 8:18 PM Subject: [MOJEFFER] More information I would like to share with everyone. > > Hi, > I am glad that I am corresponding with people with an open mind & a > lot of Patience. > > I have this book at home that I thought that I would quote from. The > name of the book is: Colonial Ste. Genevieve by Carl J. Ekberg. > (Second edition) > I am still trying to show that their was people from Missouri who > fought in the American Revolution, even if it was not name Missouri at > the time. I hope this make some good sense. > I have saw many of my surnames in this book & a few DAR Books that is > in the library. > I really am not a one track person, but I am just trying to make a > point. Please let me know if it is working. LOL I am open to positive > responses...please be kind with the other responses.LOL > Newton County Mo., named for Revolutionary War hero Sgt. John Newton, was organized in 1838. The county seat is Neosho. Missouri Daughters of the American Revolution. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/4136/ Missouri Society of the Sons of the American Revolution http://www.liming.org/sar/ Attack On St. Louis http://members.nbci.com/_XOOM/oldstlouis/attack.htm Desoto Joe/The Record Man