Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials related to the history of St. Charles, Missouri, and spans the lives of three generations of the Benjamin Emmons family. Persons involved in the early transactions include Edward Bates, Frederick Bates, Charles Dehault Delassus, John C. Edwards, Archibald Gamble, Hamilton Gamble, J. Mackay, William G. Pettus, Amos Stoddard, and Zenon Trudeau. Manuscripts include St. Charles land documents from the French and Spanish periods, including Zenon Trudeau's...

Scope and Contents The Louisiana Purchase Transfer Collection is an artificial collection of original documents gathered from a variety of sources that have been filed together because of their connection, or the connection of the documents’ authors, to the transfer of Upper Louisiana from Spain to France and then from France to the United States in 1804 (popularly known as the Louisiana Purchase). The bulk of the collection contains original documents dating from 1783 to 1829. The only...

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The Amos Stoddard Papers consist primarily of correspondence and documents dated 1796-1809. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1804 and relates to the transfer of Upper Louisiana to the United States. The papers also include Stoddard's manuscript autobiography written circa 1812 covering events of his life up to 1792.