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Document transferring Upper Louisiana to the United States and signed in St. Louis, 1804;
signed documents, 1804-1829, and correspondence, newsclippings and other papers relating to
the transfer. Also facsimile reproductions of papers relating to the Louisiana Purchase.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Louisiana Purchase Transfer Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0938
Louisiana Territory Collection, 1718-1817; 1882-1901. 1 box
Photostats and typescripts. Land titles and claims in the District of Louisiana, 1806;
Louisiana Territory Papers, U.S. Government Archives, 1807-1817, which include a variety of
material: list of licenses granted to trade with several nations of Indians, 1807-1811; hunting
licenses; list of civil officers of the Territory of Louisiana, April 1808; papers regarding the
beginning of the Louisiana Academy at Ste. Genevieve, 1808; treaty between the Osage and the
United States; petitions of inhabitants of the Territory of Louisiana for law giving them rights
and privileges of citizenship, consequent upon a second grade of territorial government entitling
them to a delegate in Congress, 1811; and material regarding the organization of the militia of
the Territory of Missouri, October 1814. Additional material in the collection includes
correspondence of governors (from the General Archive of Indies, Seville) regarding instructions
for establishment of two forts to be built at the mouth of the Missouri River, December 22, 1812.
Papers dated 1882-1901 refer to the history of the Louisiana Territory.
French.
Cite as: Louisiana Territory Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
Louisiana Territory. General Court (Saint Louis). Records.
See Missouri. Supreme Court. Records.
A0939
Louisiana Territory. Military Command (Saint Louis).
Adjutant's record, 1803-1805. 1 volume
On March 10, 1804, Major Amos Stoddard, on behalf of the United States, assumed
command of the upper Louisiana Territory at St. Louis, and became the first American civil and
military commandant of the newly acquired region. He was succeeded by Major James Bruff on
July 1, 1804.
This volume is the adjutant's record of the garrison at St. Louis in Upper Louisiana under the
command of Amos Stoddard and later James Bruff. It includes a list of commissioned officers at
the garrison who were appointed between 1798 and 1805, a list of Stoddard's artillerists, a list of
soldiers transferred to Stoddard's command, various inventories, a list of officers retained the
“Peace Establishment,” and copies of ordinances from 1796 to 1804, and courts martials from
1804 and 1805.
Cite as: Louisiana Territory Military Command Adjutant's Record, Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A0940
Love, James Edwin (1830-1905).
Papers, 1859-1865. 2 boxes
James Edwin Love was born September 27, 1830, in County Antrim, Ireland. He emigrated
to the United States in 1849, settling first in Cincinnati and then in St. Louis. He traveled to