Subject: Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 05:45:05 -0700 (PDT)
--- Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:
> Huh? There was more French spoken there, even more
> Spanish than English
> until quite late in the history of the state.
Missouri didn't become a state until 1821. It was
certainly not admitted to the Union as a bi or tri
linguel state.
>
> While doing geneology research for folks I've had
> occasion to communication
> with the folks at the Missouri History Museum. They
> even publish their
> stuff in French, Spanish and English. A lot of the
> old legal documents I've
> gotten were still being written in French until the
> early 1800s.
OF course documents were written in French until the
early 1800s, since the Louisiana purchase was 1803.