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Tuesday 16th. September 1806
we Set out early this morning and proceded on tolerably
well the Day proved excessively worm and disagreeable, so
much so that the men rowed but little, at 10 A. M. we met
a large tradeing perogue bound for the Panias we continued
but a Short time with them. at 11 A. M we met young
Mr. Bobidoux[18]
with a large boat of six ores and 2 canoes, the
licenes of this young man was to trade with the Panias Mahars
and ottoes reather an extroardanary a license for [so] young a
man and without the Seal of the teritory anexed, as Genl. Wilkinsons
Signeture was not to this instrement we were somewhat
doubtfull of it. Mr. Browns Signiture we were not
acquainted with without the Teritorial Seal. We made Some
enquireys of this young man and cautioned him against prosueing
the Steps of his brother in attempting to degrade the
American Charector in the eyes of the Indians. we proceeded
on to an Island a little above our encampment of the 16th. &
17th. of June 1804 haveing came 52 miles only to day.
The Robidoux were a well-known family of French Canadians, whose father,
Joseph, came early from Montreal to Kaskaskia and acquired a competence by fur
trading. At his house in St. Louis the first territorial legislature of Missouri was held
(1812). Joseph, Jr., born in St. Louis, 1783, had already erected a post (1800) upon
the site of the present city of St. Joseph, Mo., and later was its first permanent settler,
maintaining a store and trading-post for the American Fur Company (1826–30). He
died in the city which he founded, in 1868. Another brother, Antoine, was a
famous scout and trader on the Santa Fé trail, accompanying General Kearny to
California.—Ed.
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