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District of St. Louis

Falconer & John G. Comegys, late merchants trading under the style of their said part-
nerships, to wit Falconer & Comegys by Carr their attorney
complain of Edward Hempstead administrator of all and singular the goods rights of Meriwether Lewis deceased in a plea of trespass on the case for that
whereas the said Meriwether Lewis on the twentysecond
day of august eighteen hundred & nine, at the district
aforesaid made & delivered the following
promisory note $331.45 1/2 Saint Louis Aug 22 1809 there
“after date I promise to pay to Falconer " Comegys
under the sum of three hundred & thirty one dollars
“ forty five & a half cents, waived. Meriwether
“ Lewis ” and also this other promisory note to wit “
“ & twenty three dollars, thirty seven a half
“cents. Meriwether Lewis "August 24. 1809”— by reason of
the making & delivering of which said notes , the said
Meriwether Lewis & in his lifetime after the expiration
of the aforesaid term of three months became able to pay
to the plaintiff the aforesaid several sums of money agree
to the of said notes - the said
Meriwether in his life, and the said Edward Hemp
stead his administrator as aforesaid, since his decease
hath not paid the aforesaid several sums of money
nor any part thereof the said Meriwether in his lifetime & the said Edward Hempstead adm-
inistrator as aforesaid since his decease have been freq-
uently requested, but the same to pay hath hitherto wholy & state to the damage of the
plaintiffs the sum of five hundred dollars
therefore they sue by

Carr atty plf

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Falconer, John G. Comegys vs. Edward Hempstead (Text)

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