Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers also include the diary kept by Billon on his travels from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to St. Louis in 1818; notes on outstanding citizens and events of St. Louis, from a village in the early territorial days to the latter part of the nineteenth century; two memoranda books containing Billon's original notes of early marriage, baptismal, and burial records; notes on Benito Vasquez and Joseph Motard; maps, plats, and additions of the town of St. Louis; early wills and documents; and...