Letter signed J.C. Calhoun, War Department, to U.S. Indian Agent, Prairie-du-Chien. Instructs Agent to be ready to proceed with certain parties recently granted government leases to the land specified within their leases – namely, one hundred and sixty acres in the State of Illinois and the land ceded by the Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomie Tribes – for the purpose of working lead mines. Persons mentioned include Messrs. Carneal & Johnson and Messrs. Luggett & Paine. Places mentioned include Kentucky and St. Louis., 1822 Feb 14

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4

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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.