Fort Chartres, Ill., court of inquiry proceedings, 1770.

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Fort Chartres, Ill., court of inquiry proceedings, 1770.

Contemporary copy of records of a court of inquiry in the case of richard Bacon vs. George Morgan of the Boynton, Wharton, Morgan and Company, concerning the improvement of a farm or plantation situated near Fort Chartres, including an agreement between the two parties dated 1768.

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Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

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Morgan, George, 1743-1810

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Indian agent and land speculator. From the description of George Morgan papers, 1776-1786. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981775 Born at Philadelphia, 1743. Junior partner of Baynton, Warton and Morgan and engaged in extensive trade on upper Mississippi after British conquest of Canada. 25 years later, ruined, he embarked on a project of founding a principality in Spanish Louisiana, opposite the mouth of the Ohio. Died 1810. MMQ (from Savelle. "George Morgan Colony Builder...

BACON, RICHARD N.

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Boynton, Wharton, Morgan and Company.

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