Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1843, JULY. 56 ST. JOSEPH. July 18 - Branham & MeCausland buy Lot 6, Block 26, in Platte City, for $50. Here they built a frame store. Dudley Wells convicted of manslaughter in the fourth degree, and fined $1,000. The members of the bar recommend Allen McLane for regis- ter of the State land office at Savannah; but Nat Burrows receives the appointment. July 26 - St. Joseph was laid off in June, 1843, and named the 26th of July. The latter day is observed as Founders Day. AUGUST. Aug. 4 - Letters are granted to Philip Walker on the estate of Daniel Varble. Children: 1, Margaret Varble; 2, Henry Varble; 3, James Varble: 4, Sallie Varble; 5, Manon Varble; 6, Jasper Varble; 7, a daughter. Aug. 7 - Letters granted to G. D. Toole on the estate of Samuel Staggs. Bond, $6,000. Children: 1, Samuel Staggs (ii), md May 29. 1873. Ada M. Dooley. Aug. 13 - M. N. Owen buys land one mile west of Platte City. Aug. 19 - J. H. and R. D. Johnston buy the N. E. 1/4 of Sec. 9, T. 52. R. 34, for $800. Aug. 23 - H. D. Martin sells to Zadock and James B. Martin his interest in the water mills at Platte City, and goes to Oregon. Jerry V. Cockrill sells to R. P. Gaines his hotel on Lot 12, Block 24, Platte City, for $3.000. At a special election, held the first Monday in this month. Lycurgus Shepard was chosen county surveyor in place of S. L. Leonard. resigned. SEPTEMBER. Sept. 1 - Phinehas Skinner buys a large body of land near the Narrows and, forming a partnership with Zabina Babcock, opens a country store. Sept. 7 - Platte City incorporated with W. C. Remington. Phil. Lutes, John S. Porter, John Edwards, and W. E. Black as trustees. OCTOBER Oct. 1 - Zadock Martin conveys to Platte County 24 acres in 1lu- N. W. 1/4 of Sec. 36, T. 53, R. 35; Jesse Morin is appointed commissioner, and lays off an addition to Platte City, consisting of Blocks 35 to 41. The banks are resuming specie payments. Oct. 3 - Senator Lewis F. Linn dies at Ste. Genevieve, and Judge D. R. Atchison is appointed to the vacancy. Judge Henderson Young succeeds Atchison as circuit judge. Fielding and Clinton Cockrill buy farms two miles west of Platte City, and Felix G. Cockrill starts a store in Weston. Oct. 9 - Judge Henderson Young holds circuit court. B. F. Loan in enrolled as an attorney.