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$1,500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

REPRESENTATION AND PETITION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES ELECTED BY THE FREEMEN OF THE TERRITORY OF LOUISIANA. A most important petition relative to the eventual establishment of the territory of Missouri. "In 1805 Congress had divided the Louisiana Purchase into two parts, the trans-Mississippi portion south of 33 degrees being the District of Orleans; that north of 33 degrees, including the St. Louis region, was made an adjunct of the Territory of Indiana and called the District of Louisiana. This division was violently protested in this petition to Congress, signed by sixteen deputies of the Territorial assembly of the District convened at St. Louis. Augustus Chouteau and Eligius Fromentin were appointed to present the petition to Congress, which, in 1804, granted the petition and set up the region as a separate territory, which after 1812 was called Missouri Territory" - Streeter.The Streeter copy sold for $150 to parties unknown in 1968.

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