Jacques Clamorgan legal papers
Scope and Contents
Eight handwritten and signed legal documents. Included are complaints, judgments, summonses, bonds, declarations, and financial notes from various court cases in which Clamorgan was involved. Most of these cases involved disputes over land ownership and payments of money.
Dates
- Creation: 1809-1823
Creator
- Clamorgan, Jacques, -1814 (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Jacques Clamorgan legal papers must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical / Historical
Creole slave dealer, fur trader, merchant, financier, land spectaculator, statesman, explorer, and colonial promoter of the northern border of Spain in the New World. He is best known for his activities in connection with the Mississippi Company and was the first to make a successful trading venture between Santa Fe and Missouri.
Extent
8 items (12 p.)
Custodial History
Donated.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated.
Appraisal
19th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Register of Jacques Clamorgan legal papers
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Elisa Visick
- Date
- 2010 August 5
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States