Letter signed Amos Wheeler to Capt. Phillips. Wheeler wants to find some title to Gibault, or some record of his title, to a claim of land lying below Cahokia on the Mississippi. The grant was originally twelve miles square and was sold in 1779 to Stephen Trigg and by him to General Clarke, who in turn sold it to Dorsey Penticost. People mentioned include P. Gibault, Missionary Priest and Vicar, or Attorney General to the Bishop of Quebec. Places mentioned include Cahokia, Mississippi River, Vincennes, and St. Louis., ca. 1819-1822

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2

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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.