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 September 10, 1817 September Term 1817

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 Sally Jourdain v. Francis Jourdain et. al. September 10, 1817 September Term 1817 Sally, Jourdain Jourdain, Francis Alexander McNain Chouteau, Dubourg Auguste Walker, David Clark, William contract 177 St. Louis Circuit Court Gamble, Archibald unknown MK deciphered vendor's unclear tags through entire documant MK proofread and corrected transcription errors through entire document MK deciphered vendor's unclear tags through line 108 MK proofread and corrected transcription errors through line 108 Mk deciphered vendor's unclear tags through line 29 MK proofread and corrected transcription errors through line 29 MP added legal description KT removed comment tags, etc. APJ checked vertical and horizontal rends Complaint

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 Complaint St. Louis Circuit Court To the Honobl Nathaniel Barrby Tucker , Judge of the Circuit court for the county of St Louis

Your Petitioner Sally Jourdain , alias Labrosse, represents, to your Honor that on or about the 24th day of May eighteen hundred and four she was, carefully married, to Francis Jourdain, alias Labrosse, that previously to their joining in matrimony to wit on the 23rd day of May eighteen, hundred & four your petitioner entered, into a certain, agreement commonly called a marriage, contract by which the said Francois Jourdain & Sally Russel ( now, Sally Jourdain , alias Labrosse, ) the future couple engaged, and promised one to the other, the faith of marriage and to have it celebrated as soon as possible, or as soon as one should required the other the contracting parties, agreed to have the their properties personal & real, acquired or that they might acquire during their joint life, , which shall be by equal share. Your Petitioner further states that she brought into her into matrimony the sum of five hundred & five dollars & five seals, ( bits, ) which sum the said Francois Jourdain recognized, in said marriage contract as a privileged sum. The said Francois Jourdain furthermore, by the aforesaid contract fixed a jointers, on dower of three hundred dollars, to & to be taken by your petitioner as soon as dowary shall takes place upon all the properties of said Francois Jourdain which property shall from now remain, affected & mortgaged The aforesaid marriage contract further stipulates, that the survivor, of the aforesaid couple should have from the common funds, the sum of one hundred dollars without prejudice, to the aforesaid five hundred & five dollars & which was brought by your petitioner,

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Bishop of Louisianna <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> <persName> <choice> <orig>Auguste</orig> </choice> </persName>,</supplied> </unclear> <persName> <choice> <orig>Choteau</orig> </choice> </persName>, <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> David,</supplied> </unclear> <lb/> & Walker, <persName> <choice> <orig>William Clark</orig> </choice> </persName> & Alexander M. <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> Main,</supplied> </unclear> to be<lb/> held by them for certain purposes in the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> mentioned,</supplied> </unclear> mentioned. Your<lb/> petitioner further states that the aforesaid <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> Gubourg Choteau Walker,</supplied> </unclear>, Clark & <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> Mc,</supplied> </unclear> Main <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> now in <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> possession,</supplied> </unclear> of said house<lb/> and lot <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> have,</supplied> </unclear> refused & <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> do refuse,</supplied> </unclear> your petitioner being endowed<lb/> and <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> possessed,</supplied> </unclear> of said <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> house,</supplied> </unclear> & lot according to the aforesaid marriage<lb/> contract. Therefore your petitioner <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> hopes that your <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> honor,</supplied> </unclear> <lb/> will have <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> right,</supplied> </unclear> & <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> justice,</supplied> </unclear> done unto her according to the effect<lb/> of the aforesaid contract, to wit that the said <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> Choteau<lb/> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> Walker</supplied> </unclear> Clark & Mc. <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> be <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> decreed,</supplied> </unclear> to <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> convey,</supplied> </unclear> the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> interest,</supplied> </unclear> &<lb/> right of half the aforesaid house & lot to your petitioner & that the remaining <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> 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<teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>Answer

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 Answer St. Louis Circuit Court Circuit february term 1822

The of William Louis Dubourg Auguste Chouteau David Walker, William Clark , & Alexander McNain, the defendants, to a petition of complaint, of Sally , Joudain alias Labrosse,

The said defendants, by parts, taken, not or all or any, of the matters or things in the complainants bill, of petition of to be as the same are then and for the and for to the said petitioners bill of petition then defendants in the and for of that it of the in petition of complaint, that she claim of the in question, in the petition as a a with Francois Jordain, alias Labrosse, and by

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nor,</supplied> </unclear> is it <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> allowed,</supplied> </unclear> <lb/> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> in,</supplied> </unclear> the said petitioners bill of petition of <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> complaint,</supplied> </unclear> <lb/> that <persName> <choice> <orig>Francois</orig> </choice> </persName> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> <persName> <choice> <orig>Jourdain</orig> </choice> </persName>,</supplied> </unclear> alias <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> Labrosse,</supplied> </unclear> is <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> saw<lb/> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> when the saw bill of petition<lb/> was filed and <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> if this <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> was <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> contained,</supplied> </unclear> in<lb/> the said bill of petition of <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> complaint,</supplied> </unclear>, it <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> <lb/> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> of the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> own <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> showing,</supplied> </unclear> in the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> said,</supplied> </unclear> <lb/> bill of petition of complaint that the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> she claims,</supplied> </unclear> a<lb/> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> portion,</supplied> </unclear> under <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> marriage,</supplied> </unclear> contract which is a<lb/> with <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> & <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> law.</supplied> </unclear> on the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> of<lb/> this writ <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> wherefore,</supplied> </unclear> & for as much as the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> petitioners,</supplied> </unclear> <lb/> was bill of petition of <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> complaint has,</supplied> </unclear> not an<lb/> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> as <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> these,</supplied> </unclear> defendants an <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> any <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> matter,</supplied> </unclear> <lb/> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> sufficient,</supplied> </unclear> to <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> establish,</supplied> </unclear> any right or demand<lb/> against the defendants in other of them to <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> draw,</supplied> </unclear> <lb/> them into court by petition under an <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> in the year 1814 upon the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> at of <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> </p> <p>and for further <unclear rend="written" 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<text> <body rend="handwritten"> <div1 legalFunction="Answer, continued" rend="horizontal"> <pb facs="0991_007.tif" n="007"/> <p>for <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> several distinct,</supplied> </unclear> matters and <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> causes,</supplied> </unclear> that <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> <lb/> so <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> related,</supplied> </unclear> to <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> or dependence upon each other,</supplied> </unclear> by<lb/> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> of which matters the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> complainants,</supplied> </unclear> bill of<lb/> petition is <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> out to a <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> and<lb/> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> defendants <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> to <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"> <supplied> make,</supplied> </unclear> a copy 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<profileDesc/> </teiHeader> <text> <body rend="handwritten"> <div1 legalFunction="Certificate of Filing" rend="vertical"> <pb facs="0991_008.tif" n="008"/> <p> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> <lb/> alf <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> <lb/> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> </p> <closer> filed <date when="1822-02-26">February 26 1822</date> <lb/> <signed> <persName> <choice> <orig>A Gamble</orig> </choice> </persName> Clerk</signed> </closer> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI> </teiCorpus>