Iowa and the Centennial: The State Address (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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By right of discovery, France claimed jurisdiction over the country thus visited, until 1763, when she ceded it to Spain. Spain ceded her possession in the Valley of the Mississippi back to France in 1801.

By treaty, signed on the 30th of April, 1803, the First Consul of the French Republic ceded these possessions to the United States. At this date the greater portion of the country afterwards constituting Iowa, was in the possession of the confederated tribes of Sac and Fox In dians. The first occupation under claim of title, by a white man, of any portion of Iowa soil, was by Julian Dubuque, a native of Canada, who, in 1788, obtained from Blondeau and two other chiefs of the Fox Indians, what he asserted wasa grant of lands. He bounded his claim as seven leagues on the west bank of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Little Maquoketa river to the Tete Des Morts, and three leagues in depth. He also had a qualified confirmation of this grant from Ca rondelet the Spanish Governor at New Orleans. He took to wife an Indian squaw, and occupied the mines until the time of his death, 1810, employing about ten white men in digging mineral. He was buried on the bluff on the Mississippi at the mouth of. Catfish creek, and the city and county of Dubuque were afterwards named for him.

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