Agreement that James McBride will give up the two negro women he is hiring from John Darby on presentation of the agreement or that he may purchase them himself for forty dollars each and ten dollars’ worth of clothes, signed James McBride. Persons mentioned include Lady and Sillar (the two enslaved women)., 1818 June 8

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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.