12 June 2019

Record Book A Of Kaskaskia


Source [Canadian Archives]

"There is in Record A of the Recorder's office in Belleville a copy of a receipt given by the first territorial recorder of St. Clair County, William St. Clair, to Francois Charbonneaux of the Virginia Court of Kaskaskia for documents deposited by the latter in the archives of the recorder of the newly founded territory. The receipt is dated at Kaskaskia, June 12, 1790. In it St. Clair describes six record books all of them more or less mutilated and four bundles of papers entitled Papier Terrier and 1,308 bills of sale."




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