Handwritten and signed statement dated 14 July 1817 (1 page). The item was presented in the circuit court meeting in Saint Clair County, Illinois. Chouteau states he needs to secure Auguste Chouteau as a witness to affirm that a Black man was delivered as claimed.

Philadelphia - Hillary Baker: Indentures between John Evans of Virginia and Daniel Russell of Massachusetts is witnessed and signed by Baker, 3/10/1797.

Miscellaneous: An affidavit by Uriah Forrest, the clerk of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, concerning William Crauch, esq.

Material of Arch Carroll, Jacque Clamorgan, Meriweather Lewis Clarke, the Chouteau family, Wilson Price Hunt, Simon Kent, Manuel Lisa, James McKay, William Elias Rector, Moses Tenant, and Israel Thompson (correspondence, legal documents, receipts and bills of sale, indentures, account inventories, trade licenses, wills, bonds, pamphlets, etc).

George Bancroft: Historian and diplomat. A letter to his nephew.

Affidavits and depositions, intelligence, bills of sale, monetary transactions and receipts, bonds, court summons, indentures, deeds, land transactions and mortgages, letters of complaint, petitions and plans for the construction of public roads and buildings, promissory notes, public appointments, elections, and minutes of legislature, and miscellaneous papers, holographs and printed material.

Miscellaneous(4 items): Arnaud Beauvis grants Nathan Taylor power of attorney. 4/12/1829. Three summons issued by Thomas H. Brown, justice of the peace, in Spencer County. 2/26/1839, 3/2/1839, 3/20/1839.

Agreements, bonds, letters of complaint, promisory letter, depositions and other legal papers, etc.

Grant of power of attorney, land transfer, protest note, curator's bond, legal bill, and authorization to remove merchandise.

Miscellaneous(1 item): John Baily acknowledges recipt of $772.58. Same used as evidence in the George Graft vs. Lawson Luckett case. 10/9/1811.