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1808 — District of Arkansas organized. 



1809 — Death of Lewis; Frederick Bates Secretary and acting Governor. 



1810 — Benjamin Howard, Governor of Upper Louisiana. 



1812 — Frederick Bates Secretary and acting Governor. 



181 2, Dec. 7 — Territory of Missouri organized, including the districts or 

 counties of St. Charles, St. Louis, St. Genevieve, Cape Girardeau, New Madrid 

 and Arkansas, the latter still attached to New Madrid county. 



1808 Nov. 10 — Grand council with Indians at Ft. Clarke (Ft. Osage, after- 

 ward called Sibley) by which the Osages relinquished title to all territory east of 

 a south line from Ft. Clarke to the Arkansas River. 



1813 — First territorial legislature, Wm. Clarke, Governor. 



1 81 8 — County of Washington organized. 



1814 — County of Lawrence (in Arkansas) organized, from western part of 

 New Madrid. 



1816 — County of Howard organized, including all west of a line due north 

 of the mouth of Osage River ; also all that portion between the Osage and Mis- 

 souri. 



1818 — County of Cooper organized, including all of Howard south of Mis- 

 souri River. 



1815 — Gabriel Rupe settled near Lexington. 



1818 — Counties of Jefferson, Franklin, Wayne, Lincoln, Madison, Pike and 

 Cooper organized. 



1819 — Territory of Arkansas organized. 



1815 — Indiana relinquished title to territory north of Missouri Rivery. 



1820 — Lillard county organized from Cooper, with Mt. Vernon as county 

 seat. This place is about where Berlin on the Missouri River is. 



1821, March 2 — Missouri admitted into the Union. 



1820 — Jackson County taken off Lillard, and included what is now Cass and 

 Bates. 



1834 — Name of Lillard changed to Layfayette. 



1834 — Johnson County taken off Lafayette. 



1835 — ^3j\ Buren County taken off Jackson, included the present county of 

 Cass and as far south as line between townships 39 and 40. 



1849 — Name of Van Buren County changed to Cass. 



1833 — Bates County was established, but not organized until 1841. 



1854 — Bates County reduced to its present limits. The line of Cass and 

 Bates is now Grand River and on line between townships 42 and 43. 



1837 — That portion known as Platte Purchase added to Missouri, included 

 all west of a line due north of mouth of Kansas River. 



Signor C. Desimoni, of Genoa, has just published a monograph upon John 

 Cabot (father of Sebastian Cabot), the discoverer of Labrador and Cape Breton 

 Island prior to Columbus. He examines carefully all the authorities relating to 



