Contemporary copy of the deliberation for the Common at St. Charles, signed Dehault Delassus and James Mackay. Record of meeting. At the request of Louis Barrada, Syndic, and Charles Tayon, Captain, posted on the church door that all the inhabitants of this place would assemble today to decide whether the Common should be enlarged. The question having been presented for deliberation, the inhabitants unanimously voted that for the interest of the parish the closure begin at the side of property of Ant. Lamarche and continue down to a landmark in the woods near the house of Louis Buneau which has access to the Missouri. It was decided that the Syndic should determine the number of arpents comprised in this enlargement and report to the inhabitants about their rights in the Common. Since the inhabitants do not want to proceed without the approval of the Lieutenant Governor, they ask that he be notified. (4 pages, in French), 1804 Aug 1

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This collection consists of materials related to the history of St. Charles, Missouri, and spans the lives of three generations of the Benjamin Emmons family. Persons involved in the early transactions include Edward Bates, Frederick Bates, Charles Dehault Delassus, John C. Edwards, Archibald Gamble, Hamilton Gamble, J. Mackay, William G. Pettus, Amos Stoddard, and Zenon Trudeau. Manuscripts include St. Charles land documents from the French and Spanish periods, including Zenon Trudeau's decree to the inhabitants of St. Charles (1796), materials relating to the Louisiana Purchase, and documents relating to the St. Charles Commons. Also includes a diary of a trip from Virginia to Missouri, and from Dardenne Prairie to Jefferson City by William M. Campbell (1830); correspondence and legal documents of Benjamin L. Emmons, attorney; tax assessments in St. Charles County for 1843; lists of lands and town lots and taxes thereon for 1842 (filed May 3, 1844); list of citizenship papers (1859); a muster roll of the St. Charles Home Guards (filed 1862); emancipation certificates for slaves released by Radical Emancipationist owners in St. Charles (filed September 29, 1863); an annual report of the St. Charles Library Catholic Association (January 7, 1868); and a scrapbook. Some typescript translations.