Deposition of John W. Boone in case of Zachariah Moore, administrator Anthony C. Parmer use of George W. Atchison. Zachariah Moore was bail for Elisha Moore in a suit on a note given by them and assigned to George Atchison. In the summer of 1819, Elisha Moore went to New Madrid County with some merchandise to peddle to get money to pay for the goods. In February 1820, Boone was employed by Z. Moore to go after E. Moore to surrender him in discharge of his bail, but E. Moore was confined in New Madrid County and the sheriff there would not release him. Boone believes he would have come up to St. Charles County if he had not been confined. (2 pages), 1822 Oct 29

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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.