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            <date type="term" when="1814-06">June Term 1814</date>
            <party role="plaintiff">Chouteau, Augustus</party>
            <party role="plaintiff">Cabanne, John P.</party>
            <party role="defendant">Bain, William E.</party>
            <party role="defendant">Arsens, Michel</party>
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            <court type="state">St. Louis Circuit Court</court>
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            <clerk>Leduc, Mary C.</clerk>
            <sheriff>Thompson, John W.</sheriff>
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                           <orig>County of St Louis</orig>
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                           <orig>United States</orig>
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                           <orig>America</orig>
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                        <orig>Augustus Chouteau</orig>
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                        <orig>Chouteau</orig>
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                        <orig>Chouteau</orig>
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                        <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                                 <orig>P Leduc</orig>
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                     <date when="1814-06">June Term 1814</date>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> 
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> all <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied> men,</supplied>
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                     <supplied> presents,</supplied>
                  </unclear> that <lb/>we <persName>
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                        <orig>August Chouteau</orig>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>John P</orig>
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                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Cabanne</orig>
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                     <supplied> 
                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Antoine</orig>
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                        </persName> Chenas,</supplied>
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                        <orig>Charles</orig>
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                  <lb/>
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                        <orig>John W</orig>
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                     <supplied> 
                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Thompson</orig>
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                        </persName> Shefiff of,</supplied>
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                  <lb/>the <placeName>
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                        <orig>County of Saint Louis</orig>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> in office, in the sum of <lb/>
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied> one,</supplied>
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                     <supplied> currency,</supplied>
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                        <placeName>
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                              <orig>United States</orig>
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                  <lb/>of <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                     <supplied> will,</supplied>
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                     <supplied> truly,</supplied>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> an <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> 
                  <lb/>administrators and <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <lb/>
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> this <date when="1814-05-28">28th day of may <lb/>one thousand eight hundred and <lb/>fourteen</date>
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               <p>The Condition of the above obligation <lb/>is <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied> such,</supplied>
                  </unclear> that of the above named <lb/>
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                        <orig>August</orig>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                        <persName>
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                              <orig>Chouteau</orig>
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                     <supplied> truly,</supplied>
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                  <lb/>
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> Suit of <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> by them <lb/>
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> against <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>William</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </persName> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied> E Bain,</supplied>
                  </unclear> and <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Michel</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </persName> Arsens, in the Court <lb/>of <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied> Common Pleas,</supplied>
                  </unclear> for the <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>County of</orig>
                     </choice>
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                  <lb/>
                  <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Saint Louis</orig>
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                  </placeName>, to final Judgement <lb/>and pay all <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied> cost,</supplied>
                  </unclear> deceasing from <lb/>
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied> said Suit,</supplied>
                  </unclear> if Judgment <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied> should,</supplied>
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                  <lb/>go against them as well as <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied> return,</supplied>
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                  <lb/>the following <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <lb/>to <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> Lourge <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>&amp; Skins one</p>
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               <author role="plaintiff">Chouteau, Augustus</author>
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               <author role="unknown">Chenas, Antoine</author>
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               <p>Small <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied> pelts,</supplied>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied> beaver,</supplied>
                  </unclear> Skins in the same goods <lb/>
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> that they <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> Recorded <lb/>then this obligations to be <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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