Contents
- Descriptive Summary
- Conditions for Access
- Conditions Governing Use
- Preferred Citation
- Acquisition Information
- Scope and Content
- Other Descriptive Data
- Related Material
- Indexed Terms
Collection Access
Pierre Chouteau papers
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Pierre Chouteau papers
- Dates
- 1807-1819
- Creator
- Chouteau, Pierre
- Creator
- Beauvais, Genevieve
- Creator
- Chouteau, Pelagie
- Creator
- Labbadie, Sylvestre
- Creator
- Leduc, M. P.
- Creator
- Menard, Pierre, 1766-1844, recipient
- Creator
- Sarpy
- Creator
- Vallé, Baptiste
- Size
-
3 items :
Autograph letter signed; Document signed
- Language
- Material is in French.
Conditions for Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright may be retained by the creators of items, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law, unless otherwise noted.
Preferred Citation
Please cite this collection as Pierre Chouteau papers (Chicago History Museum) plus a detailed description, date, and box/folder number of a specific item.
Acquisition Information
From Vol. 60 Autograph Letters, 1807 and 1809 documents
Scope and Content
Various items of Chouteau mainly regarding financial matters. Includes: Letter written in St. Louis to Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Menard, Kaskaskia; personal matters; also mentions the sale of land near Fort Chartres (1807 September 26, Autograph letter signed, 2 pages); St. Louis. Document of sale of a racially mixed woman by Pelagie Chouteau to Pierre Chouteau, document signed by S. Labbadie, witnessed by M. P. Leduc and Sarpy, on March 11, 1819, Pierre Chouteau recorded on the same document, the sale of the same woman to Genevieve Beauvais, witnessed by Leduc (1809 June 13 and 1819 March 11, Document signed, 2 pages); St. Louis. Receipt for $400 to Baptiste Vallé and Pierre Menard, paying for lead removed from Chouteau's land; signed by Chouteau (1816 May 16, Document signed, 1 page).
Other Descriptive Data
The Pierre Chouteau papers are part of Chicago History Museum's alphabetically arranged Small Manuscripts collections.