Father Louis Meurin. a dispensation with which to marry unbaptized Roman Catholics. Likewise. the Spanish rulers appointed local men to administrative positions and offered large grants of land to the settlers. Soon. a steady stream of immigrants began to cross the Mississippi. looking for the Creole way of living that was surviving undisturbed in Ste. Genevieve. And in the years that followed. this immigration came to Include not only those from the east bank of the river. but also many from Canada and lower Louisiana. and eventually came to include substantial numbers of French royalist refugees. Americans. and Germans. Thus. by 1772. the population of Ste.
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