Saint Louis Deeds

Type Of Shoe Used In Early Missouri (near St. Louis)

Edwards's Great West and Her Commercial Metropolis ...

"The founder of St Louis has always been known by the name of Laclede, and it is almost universally believed that it was his family name when his full name was is Pierre Laclede Liguest."

Replica Surveyor's Office In St. Louis

"From conclusive recorded facts, we must henceforth reject the name of Laclede as the family name of the founder of St. Louis, and adopt the proper one of Liguest. We will now proceed to give some of the instruments to which Liguest has affixed his signature. There is a deed No. 9 in the armory of the French and Spanish Archives, in which there is a conveyance of a house and lot by Liguest to Madame Chouteau, for the benefit of her children. The grantor signs himself Laclede Liguest. The deed is dated May 12th, 1768. There are two more deeds among these ancient records, numbering 38 and 39, in which his name is signed in the same manner--one a conveyance to Jacques Noisé, alias Labbe, dated December 10th, 1768, and the other, No. 201, a conveyance to Ignaco Laroche, dated May 15th, 1768."

"We could give a dozen more instances in some of which he signs his name Pierre Laclede Liguest. In all of his signatures he claims Liguest as his family name."