Box 1
Container
Contains 232 Results:
Letter of recommendation signed James Wood, President; Henry I. Brown; Jonathan Ogden; Silas Condist; Abm. C. Canfield [Abraham C. Canfield]; Edward Conant [or Edward Condist]; Joseph Cutter; Sylvestry D. Russell; S. Hatheway; and William Brittin, State Bank at Morris. Recommends Wm. M. O’Hara [William M. O’Hara] as a satisfactory bank clerk, honest and honorable, sober and industrious, qualified to fill any place in a banking institution. Places mentioned include Bank at Morristown, New Jersey., 1817 Dec 15
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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...
Dates:
1817 Dec 15
Tax receipt of Sally Adams, signed Ch. Stewart [Charles Stewart], St. Louis County. Persons mentioned J.W. Thompson., 1817 Dec 23
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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...
Dates:
1817 Dec 23
Receipt for five dollars and sixty-two cents from J. Darby, signed Will Prince., 1818 Feb 6
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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...
Dates:
1818 Feb 6
Letter signed S. Hammond, Presdt. B. St. Louis [President of the Bank of St. Louis], to Wm. M. O’Hara [William M. O’Hara], Bonhomme, Notifies O’Hara that he has been appointed First Teller of the Bank of St. Louis., 1818 Feb 11
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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...
Dates:
1818 Feb 11
Bill for goods and receipt for payment, signed Thos. F. Riddick [Thomas F. Riddick]. Persons mentioned include Wm. O’Hara [William O’Hara]., 1818 Apr 2
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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...
Dates:
1818 Apr 2
Agreement that James McBride will give up the two negro women he is hiring from John Darby on presentation of the agreement or that he may purchase them himself for forty dollars each and ten dollars’ worth of clothes, signed James McBride. Persons mentioned include Lady and Sillar (the two enslaved women)., 1818 June 8
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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...
Dates:
1818 June 8
Receipt for listed goods which have been received from Amos Wheeler and which are to be transported from Cromwell and Dobbin, Pittsburg, for fifteen dollars, thirty-five dollars having already been paid on their transportation, signed Jacob Newman, Shippingsburg., 1818 June 13
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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...
Dates:
1818 June 13
Bill of goods bought by Wm. M. O’Hara [William M. O’Hara] from Saml. R. Ober [Samuel R. Ober]., 1818 Oct 4
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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...
Dates:
1818 Oct 4
Letter signed Amos Wheeler to Capt. Phillips. Wheeler wants to find some title to Gibault, or some record of his title, to a claim of land lying below Cahokia on the Mississippi. The grant was originally twelve miles square and was sold in 1779 to Stephen Trigg and by him to General Clarke, who in turn sold it to Dorsey Penticost. People mentioned include P. Gibault, Missionary Priest and Vicar, or Attorney General to the Bishop of Quebec. Places mentioned include Cahokia, Mississippi River, Vincennes, and St. Louis., ca. 1819-1822
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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...
Dates:
ca. 1819-1822
Bill of Wm. M. O’Hara [William M. O’Hara] to Wm. Easdale [William Easdale]., 1819
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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...
Dates:
1819