William Clark Manuel Lisa and Henry Piere Chouteau August Chouteau Labbadie William Morrison Peter Menard & Reuben Secris heretofore trading and doing business together under the name form and style of the Missouri Fur Company complain by their Attorney of Charles Satour in a plea of trespass on the case for that the said Charles heretofore to wit on the eighteenth day of september in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred & eleven at a place called Fort Ricaras on the Missouri river in the then county of saint Charles now County of Howard all the Territory aforesaid- to wit at the County of Saint Louis aforesaid and within the jurisdiction of this court made his certain writing of that duty under his ordinary mark of hand land now here to be produced, whereby he acknowledged to owe to the above named Manuel Lisa as Factor and Agent of a said missouri Fur Company for he was then & there acting and doing business as Agent and Factor for & onbehalf of said plaintiff as as for himself is their trade & business up said Missouri River- and and the said Defendant then & there promised to pay to said Manuel Lisa or his order as Agent and Factor as aforesaid, by the name and description of Mr Manuel Lisa Facteu de la comp des Fourerre du Missoury the sum of four hundred & thirty one dollars and Ninety two cents to be paid in pound, or at three dollars for the value thereof in an for the said Defendant then said Note in writing to said Agent- which said was to be of there paid and deliverd whereover to he said Defendant should be whereby an action he the to said plaintiff to have of then said Defendant the sum mentioned in said writing according to the honor of effect of the same Never the said Defendant thought open requested to pay the aforesaid of money to said plaintiffs according to the of said writing on the first day of in the year at the place aforesaid at the County of Louis aforesaid never paid the said sum mentioned in said writing in for at the rate of one dollars and half or at three dollars according to the aforesaid writing

to the aforesaid plaintiffs nor to any person or persons of or them nor any there of but so to do- hath even refused and still refuse to the damages aforesaid plaintiffs one thousands dollars-

Where fore they

Said County

We command you to take Chartes Jacobe if he may be found within your Carliwick and him safely keep so that you may have his boy before the judges of our Circuit Court , to be held at the of St Louis within and bow the County of St Louis on the second monday of next there there to answer with William clerk Mauuic Sisa Andrew Harry Peerre Chouteau August P Chauteau Silvestre Laccadu William Marrisou Peter Menard Sameul Bridge and Lewis in a plea of Trespass on the case to the damage of the said plaintiffs one thousands them there this writ.