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Sylvestre Labbadie agreement

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 335
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed agreement, dated 1 Sept. 1817, and registered in St. Louis, Missouri. Labbadie stated he will transfer title of four lots in St. Louis, Missouri, to Obadiah Osborn when $1,000 was paid to him. Osborn had three years to make the payment. In the meantime, the debt would accrue 8% interest per year.

Dates: 1817 September 1

Elias Rector agreement

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 336
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed agreement, dated 25 June 1816, and regisered in St. Louis, Missouri. Recotor agrees to sell Thomas H. Benton land for $1,900. Benton was a St. Louis writer who later served as a U.S. Senator.

Dates: 1816 June 25

Charles Dehault Delassus agreement

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 340
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed agreement, dated 23 Feb. 1801, and registered in St. Louis, Missouri. Delassus and Auguste Chouteau agree to make sure that the children of Gabriel S. Cerre receive his property in the event of their father's death.

Dates: 1801 February 23

Juan Lephicha agreement

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 343
Scope and Contents

Handwritten statement in Spanish dated 24 March 1835 in which Lephicha verifies that Juan L. Mason owes him a debt. The item is on official stationary with the heading: Sello Sercero para el bienio de dos reales 1834 y 1835.

Dates: 1835 March 24

Pierre Bissonette agreement

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 338
Scope and Contents

Handwritten agreement in French, dated 30 April 1808, and recorded in the Saint Charles Parish of Louisiana. Bissonette agrees to sell Louis Tayon land in Saint Louis. This area may have been in Missouri. The item was signed and verified by Guy Duquette. Bissonette signed the item with a mark.

Dates: 1808 April 30

Christopher Carpenter agreement

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 324
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed agreement stating that Christopher Carpenter will purchase land from James Richardson. The item is dated December 28, 1804 and the place is given as "Seline." This location has not been identified. It may have been in Missouri, perhaps near St. Louis.

Dates: 1804 December 28

Christopher Carpenter agreement

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 337
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed agreement stating that Christopher Carpenter will deed land to Gabriel Cerre. The item is in Spanish, dated November 1803, and registered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dates: 1803 November

A. V. Carr agreement

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 327
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed promissory note made out to Samuel Solomon. The item is dated 2 Nov. 1818 and was created in St. Louis, Missouri. Carr promises to give Solomon money.

Dates: 1818 November 2

Collection of land indentures

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1779
Scope and Contents Collection includes 1,449 handwritten land indentures, mostly on parchment and some on paper. The materials relate to the sale and ownership of land in England over nearly three centuries, including deeds, leases, manorial records and mortgages. Also included are prenuptial and loan agreements, wills and probate records. Original provenance of the collection is unknown. Several documents were apparently mailed to George Minns, a Salt Lake City genealogist, but how the whole collection was...
Dates: 1405-1919

Samuel M. Grant agreement to sell slaves

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 352
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed agreement dated 20 April 1852 (3 pages). Grant agrees to sell three negro slaves to Thomas P. Shrock with the stipulation for their emancipation and a prohibition from further sale. Two of the three would be emancipated when they came of age, and one of the boys would be trained as a brick layer.

Dates: 1852 April 20

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Carpenter, Christopher, active 1803-1817 2
Cerre, Gabriel S. 2
Shrock, Thomas P. (Thomas Prather), 1816-1884 2
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 1
Bissonette, Pierre 1