Box 2
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter signed John Wentworth, Chicago, to [Ben Emmons]. We are locating a monument to mark the location of old Fort Dearborn where Capt. Wm. Wayne Wells was massacred and Capt. Nathan Heald and his wife severely injured in 1812. It is reported that Mrs. Heald was a daughter and Captain Wells was brother of Samuel Wells of your place and that Capt. Heald moved to your place in 1815. I am to deliver the address on the occasion. Could you refer this letter to some of the old families? Can it be found out when and where Capt. Heald and wife died, did Capt. Heald have descendants, and was Capt. Wells brother of Samuel Wells? Capt. Heald was born in 1775 and was brother of a judge on the Alabama Supreme Court., 1881 May 8
Item — Box: 2
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:
1881 May 8