Typewritten letter (copy) from Ben L. Emmons to M.L. Comann, St. Charles. History of conveyances and donations for construction and operation of two buildings for Methodist Episcopal Church, beginning in 1831 through 1911. Gives legal descriptions of various properties. Emmons notes that he obtained this information from the records of the Emmons Abstract Company. Individuals mentioned: Hon. David Barton, Charles Collier, Catherine Collier, Robert Spencer, Mackey Wherry, Dennis McDonald, Edward C. Cunningham, Danl. A. Griffith, James T. Sandford, John Orrick, Norman Lackland, Benj. A. Alderson, Charles H. Broadwater, Thomas W. Cunningham, H.B. Evans, O.M. Gray, S.H. Wright, O.P. Reinhart, R.H. Dunlap, Edward Jefferson, Elick Vaughn, and Louis Jackson. (3 pages), 1939 Feb 21

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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.