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Title: Minutes of the Scioto Baptist Association, 1817
Date: 1817-09
Description: Held by Appointment, at Pleasant Run Meeting House, Fairfield County, (Ohio)

Title: Thomas Jefferson Handwritten Document
Date: 1819-05-30
Description: 1 document, May 30, 1819, D. S., transcribing the agreements made to widen a canal and create a reservoir by the Rivanna Company. Original minutes of the Rivanna company were taken by N. H. Lewis and transcribed by Jefferson to this document.

Title: Minutes of the Scioto Baptist Association, 1816
Date: 1816-09
Description: Held by appointment, on Salt Creek Pickaway County, Ohio

Title: Minutes of the Redstone Baptist Association, 1814
Date: 1814-09
Description: Convened at Uniontown

Title: M-002: John Jacob Astor Collection
Description: This collection contains two letters written by the New York fur trade executive John Jacob Astor to Charles Gratiot of St. Louis in July of 1811 and to Anthony Charles Cazenove in July of 1813. Both have been transcribed.

Title: A Live Buffalo Broadside
Date: 1816
Description: This early western exhibition broadside is a very early piece of St. Louis printing. The place and date of the exhibition are filled in in manuscript which states that the exhibition will be held at the stable of "Mr. Samuel Palmer in West Springfield on the 8th day of Inst. February 1816. West Springfield, Missouri, may not exist today but it was once a post-office in Shelby County, and once the site of a buffalo exhibition. The description below the buffalo reads: "This interesting animal was caught about Two Hundred miles above the Lead Mines, on the Missouri River. It is a female; is two years old, and is as large as a common sized Ox.", Possibly printed by Joseph Charless, the first printer west of the Mississippi, who set up shop in St. Louis in 1808.

Title: M-009: General Daniel Bissell Papers
Description: This collection contains 31 hand-written letters bound in a single volume. The correspondence covers the years 1800-1820. Correspondents include Gen. James Wilkinson; Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike; Gov. William Henry Harrison; Henry Dearborn; William Clark; Frederick Bates; Gov. Meriwether Lewis; and Auguste Chouteau
Immediately after the Louisiana Territory was ceded by France to the United States, Gen. Daniel Bissell (1768-1833) was appointed Commandant of the U.S. Military Department of Missouri. He built, by government order, the contanment at Bellefontaine, just north of St. Louis. As Commandant, Bissell officially welcomed the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to St. Louis. After his military career ended, Bissell retired to a large tract of land on the Bellefontaine Road near St. Louis.

Title: Fourth Report of the Directors of the American Society for Educating Pious Youth for the Gospel Ministry
Date: 1819-09-29

Title: Minutes of the Muskingum Baptist Association, 1816
Date: 1816-08
Description: Begun and held at Washington, Coshocton Co. O.

Title: An Inaugural Dissertation; Being A Conjectural Inquiry Into the Relative Influence of the Mind and Stomach
Date: 1815-05-02
Description: Submitted to the Public Examination of the Trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the State of New York, Samuel Bard, M.D., President, for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine

Title: Minutes of the Straight Creek Baptist Association
Date: 1817-08
Description: Held August 22 & 23, 2017. Together with their Circular Letter

Title: Minutes of the Scioto Baptist Association, 1814
Date: 1814-10-08
Description: Held at Pleasant Run, county of Fairfield, state of Ohio

Title: The Theatre
Date: 1819
Description: Journal of drama and literature. Vol. 1, No. 1. February 20, 1819.

Title: Third Report of the Directors of the American Society for Educating Pious Youth for the Gospel Ministry
Date: 1818-09-30

Title: Constitution of the American Bible Society
Date: 1816-05

Title: The Fatal Effects of Ardent Spirits
Date: 1811
Description: A Sermon by Ebenezer Porter, Pastor of the First Church in Washington, Con.

Title: Letter from John Jacob Astor to Anthony Charles Cazenove, July 11, 1813
Date: 1813-07-11
Description: Letter from the New York businessman John Jacob Astor to Anthony Charles Cazenove in Alexandria, Virginia in July of 1813. Astor writes to ask Cazenove to procure him 15 to 20,000lbs. of some commodity.

Title: Minutes of the Muskingum Baptist Association, 1815
Date: 1815-08
Description: Begun and held at Friendship Church, Licking County (Ohio)

Title: Minutes of the Muskingum Baptist Association, 1819
Date: 1819-08
Description: Held at the Baptist Meeting-House, Salt Creek, Muskingum County, Ohio

Title: Minutes of the Straight Creek Association
Date: 1814-08-27
Description: Held by Appointment at Soldier Run Meeting-House, in the County of Adams and State of Ohio

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