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General commission of the Common Pleas District of St. Charles, signed Wm. 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, and Robert Spencer to be our justices of the common pleas for the district of St. Charles. Any three of them are empowered to hold court of record in that district on the first Tuesdays of July, October, January, and April. The justices are authorized to hear specified kinds of cases and all manner of civil actions. (2 pages, includes photocopy), 1804 Oct 1

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1804 Oct 1