General commission of the Common Pleas District of St. Charles, signed William Henry Harrison, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Indiana and of the District of Louisiana. We have appointed Francois Saucier, Arnaud Rutgers, Daniel Morgan Boon, Timothy Kibby, Francois Duquette, Robert Spencer, Christopher Wood, and David Bryant as justices to keep the peace of the United States in the district of Saint Charles. They are to enforce the statutes and ordinances in the district and impose punishments for violations. Any three of them are empowered to hold court of record in that district on the first Tuesdays of July, October, January, and April, and other times. They may oversee activities of sheriffs, constables, and jailers. (2 pages, includes photocopy), 1804 Oct 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.