Photocopy of plat of land belonging to John Patrick Maxwell and Hugh H. Maxwell, esq., situated in the District of Genevieve in the State of Missouri. Original is bound inside published volume: Maxwell Claim; Application of the Heirs and Legal Representatives of Hugh H. and John P. Maxwell, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, New York 1875. (MHS Library Call #: MO/336.1/M45), 1816 Apr 27

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection consists largely of the papers of John F. Darby and his wife Mary F. Darby, and relates mostly to the political, social, and business history of St. Louis. The papers also include family correspondence with relatives in North Carolina, Kentucky, and Missouri, and correspondence regarding legal and business matters. Of special note are the minute books of the Jefferson Society and the St. Louis Debating Club (1827-1828), both regional debating societies of which Darby was a member; letters of Mary F. Darby; correspondence with Montgomery Blair, William T. Sherman, and George Caleb Bingham; and fragments of a history of the Mormons by John Corrill, dated 1839.