Item #60182 CONSTABLE'S / SALE. / IN VIRTUE AND BY AUTHORITY OF EIGHT ORDERS OF SALE, SIX OF WHICH / WERE ISSUED BY GEO. A. HYDE, AND TWO BY Du BOUFFAY FREMON, TWO / JUSTICES OF THE PEACE WITHIN AND FOR ST. LOUIS COUNTY, AND TO ME / DIRECTED... / AND ALL AGAINST THE STEAM BOAT / MARMION; / I WILL, ON MONDAY, THE 9TH DAY OF MAY, 1842, BETWEEN THE HOURS / OF 9 AND 5 O'CLOCK OF SAID DAY, AT THE WHARF, NEAR THE FOOT OF CHERRY STREET, IN THE CITY OF ST. / LOUIS, SELL FOR CASH, TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, THE SAID STEAM BOAT MARMION, WITH HER RIGGING, / TACKLE AND APPAREL. James. Constable St. Louis Township Gordon.

CONSTABLE'S / SALE. / IN VIRTUE AND BY AUTHORITY OF EIGHT ORDERS OF SALE, SIX OF WHICH / WERE ISSUED BY GEO. A. HYDE, AND TWO BY Du BOUFFAY FREMON, TWO / JUSTICES OF THE PEACE WITHIN AND FOR ST. LOUIS COUNTY, AND TO ME / DIRECTED... / AND ALL AGAINST THE STEAM BOAT / MARMION; / I WILL, ON MONDAY, THE 9TH DAY OF MAY, 1842, BETWEEN THE HOURS / OF 9 AND 5 O'CLOCK OF SAID DAY, AT THE WHARF, NEAR THE FOOT OF CHERRY STREET, IN THE CITY OF ST. / LOUIS, SELL FOR CASH, TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, THE SAID STEAM BOAT MARMION, WITH HER RIGGING, / TACKLE AND APPAREL....

St. Louis: April 28, 1842. Broadside, 10 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches, printed in various sizes and styles of type, including three large display types, for the two headlines and the central “MARMION.” The judgment which resulted in the sale of the Marmion was brought by Robert P. Clark, H.F. Given & Co., John R. Hammond, Jonas Newman, Sarah Mason, and the city of St. Louis, against the steamboat. The Marmion, built in 1835, plied the Mississippi River between St. Louis and New Orleans under Captain John Staley and was involved in a collision with another steamboat in 1841. Some faint old staining; splits, chips and minor loss of a few letters (archivally repaired, deacidified, lined with Japanese paper). Item #60182

Price: $2,500.00

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