Document signed John F. Darby, Mayor City of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, to Jacob Cooper, City Constable. Gives a list of men detailed to serve as Night Watch this evening. Persons mentioned include Wm. Vangandt, Huth, J.J. McClelland, Carter (of Hull & Carter), Chapoul, Wm. Crawford [William Crawford], Adam L. Mills, John J. Anderson, Jones, James M. Corse, Louis Martin, Elihu H. Shepherd, Robert Simpson, B.L. Turnbull, John Lux, Matthew F. Lynd, William Perry, Robert A. Barnes, John Rice, Enoch Perkins, Saml. Hawkins [Samuel Hawkins], M. Bergen, Jacob Vandeventer, and Bernard Pratt., 1837 July 29

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7

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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.