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,

and the said contract also made provision, that in case there
should be no child of the said marriage the survivor of said
couple should have and enjoy the whole, of the property, of the
other.

Your petitioner further represents that she with the
said Francois Jourdain until the, day of eighteen hundred &

she applied for and obtained a divorce from the said bonds, of matrimony,from the said
Francois , that the said Francois was at that him possessed, in his
own right and that of your petitioner, of a house, and lot situate,
on church street in the town of the St Louis and county aforesaid
bounded, on the east, by said church street south, by the
lot of Alexander Billisms,, North by the lot of Oliver, & Smith &
West, by.

The said lot fronts, on church street
about fifty eight feet, french measure, and sums, back about
one, hundred feet,; that subsequent to the last mentioned time
the aforesaid to wit on the day of August 1819 the aforesaid
lot (before your petition aforesaid of the )
under execution to satisfy a dabt of the said Francois above,
and was to John Mullanphy; that the said Mullanphy ,
afterwards to wit on the day of eighteen hundred
and twenty conveyed, the same house, & lot to William Louis
. Bishop of Louisianna Auguste , Choteau , David,
& Walker, William Clark & Alexander M. Main, to be
held by them for certain purposes in the mentioned, mentioned. Your
petitioner further states that the aforesaid Gubourg Choteau Walker,, Clark & Mc, Main now in possession, of said house
and lot have, refused & do refuse, your petitioner being endowed
and possessed, of said house, & lot according to the aforesaid marriage
contract. Therefore your petitioner hopes that your honor,
will have right, & justice, done unto her according to the effect
of the aforesaid contract, to wit that the said Choteau
Walker Clark & Mc. be decreed, to convey, the interest, &
right of half the aforesaid house & lot to your petitioner & that the remaining half,

be sold, to pay your petitioner the said eight hundred and five,
dollars & five cents, mentioned in the aforesaid contract, & your
petitioner will ever, pray

signed
& for Petitioner

County of St. Louis
The State of Missouri To the Sheriff of Said County
Greeting

We command you to summon Louis, William Dubourg, Bishop
of Louisiana Auguste , Chouteau David Walker Alexander, M Main, and
William Clark that they be and appear before the Judge of our Circuit
court at the next term, thereof to be held at the Town of St Louis
within and for the county of St. Louis on, the third monday of
august then and there to answer the petition, Sally Jourdain ,
alias Labross, and why the right and interest, of half
of the house and lot in the said petition mentioned should not be con,
veyed, to the said petitioner and that the remaining half be sold
to pay the petitioner the said Eight hundred five dollars & five cents,
in the contract in the said petition mentioned and have you
then there this writ

Witness Archibald Gamble , Clerk of
our, said Court at office the 2nd day of
august 1821 Archibald Gamble , Clerk

No. 177

Petition

filed,august 2nd 1821 A Gamble ,
Clerk

this writ on William
Clark & Alexander McMain,
as will, appear from their
- judgement, on the of august
on Louis, William Dubourg, by
a copy of the same,
with of the
- this
and
him the
on august
- the same to
on Walker
of the
to the
on
- of St. Louis

$ $ 1.50

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

Marriage, with the said, Francois Jourdain , alias
Labrosse, and it does not appear nor, is it allowed,
in, the said petitioners bill of petition of complaint,
that Francois Jourdain , alias Labrosse, is saw
when the saw bill of petition
was filed and if this was contained, in
the said bill of petition of complaint,, it
of the own showing, in the said,
bill of petition of complaint that the she claims, a
portion, under marriage, contract which is a
with & law. on the of
this writ wherefore, & for as much as the petitioners,
was bill of petition of complaint has, not an
as these, defendants an any matter,
sufficient, to establish, any right or demand
against the defendants in other of them to draw,
them into court by petition under an in the year 1814 upon the at of

and for further of
defendants county and say that it
by the said petitioners bill of petition of complaint,
that the is indebted, against them the defendants.

for several distinct, matters and causes, that
so related, to or dependence upon each other, by
of which matters the complainants, bill of
petition is out to a and
defendants to make, a copy of the
whole and together in one,
bill of petition in the process, of the suit,
the pleadings, orders,, and proceedings will be a
& and then, defendants put to
all & is
which and other and
in the said petitioners, bill of petition,
of complaint and, approving these defendants do
deliver, to the said, petition of complaint, and
humbly delivered, the judgement, of this court
whether they shall be to any
further, or other answer thereunto, and humbly,
with them —

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filed February 26 1822
A Gamble Clerk