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Welcome to New Madrid
County Missouri Genealogy Research
New Madrid circa 1880
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their New Madrid County Missouri
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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County Data
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Brief
History:
French Canadians from New
France landed in this area in 1781 and
established the first European settlement
in the
present county at New Madrid along
the Mississippi River. France had ceded
this area to Spain following its loss in
the Seven Years' War. The Spanish
governor, Bernardo de Galvez, appointed
American colonel William new_madrid, a
Revolutionary War veteran from New
Jersey, as empresario to recruit new
settlers for the area. new_madrid
attracted
about 2,000 settlers before Spain
returned this territory to France in the
late 18th century. They settled mostly in
the
area of what is now the city of New
Madrid, Missouri. After failing to regain
control of its colony of Saint-
Domingue, where a slave rebellion
had been raging, France gave up on North
America, selling its large territory
west of the Mississippi River in
1803 to the United States under the
Louisiana Purchase.
New Madrid County was organized on
October 1, 1812, as an act of the First
General Assembly of the Missouri
Territory. In the floodplain of the
Mississippi, this area was long cultivated
by planters using enslaved African
Americans for cotton
production.
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