Box 1
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Contains 1 Result:
General commission of the Common Pleas District of St. Charles, signed William Henry 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, Robert Spencer, Christopher Wood, and David Bryant as justices to keep the peace of the United States in the district of Saint Charles. They are to enforce the statutes and ordinances in the district and impose punishments for violations. Any three of them are empowered to hold court of record in that district on the first Tuesdays of July, October, January, and April, and other times. They may oversee activities of sheriffs, constables, and jailers. (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