Document signed J.A. Wherry, St. Louis. Concerns a resolution passed in the Board of Alderman to the effect that the Mayor is authorized and directed to employ some person to subdivide the blocks within the city into lots of not exceeding thirty feet each in front upon a street and to number the lots as thus divided and the streets of the city, which numbering shall be done in the following manner: Market Street shall be considered as the base and the lots on either side thereof shall be numbered in regular numerical order, by commencing at Market Street with Number One. The streets running north and west are to be numbered each way in like manner and the streets running east and west shall be numbered likewise and the numbers thereof commenced at Front Street. Persons mentioned include William Carr Lane and Benito Vasquez. Places mentioned include Front Street, Missouri, and Spruce Street., 1836 May 3

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3

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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.