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Group of 5 documents, ca early 1820s, including affidavits and depositions related to the theft of an Osage Indian horse by the man calling himself John Ramey, with testimony offered by Indian Agent Richard Graham and Paul Baillie Indian Trader. Several documents are signed by Judge James H. Peck (1790-1836), a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Missouri, including a writ ordering John Ramey into the custody of the keeper of the jail in the County of St. Louis.

Born in Dumfries, VA, Richard Graham was an army officer and an aide to General William Henry Harrison. He served as Indian Agent from 1815-1829, being first appointed 14 July 1815 as agent of the Illinois Territory, then in the 1820s served as agent for Osages, Delawares, in Missouri, and then again for the Delawares after they removed to present-day Kansas in 1828. Graham worked at times under the direction of William Clark (1770-1838), Superintendent of Indian Affairs. He made his home in St. Louis, and married into the Mullanphy family, which was headed by the first millionaire in St. Louis.

[With:] Document signed by George Shannon, Attorney of the United States for the Missouri District, submitted on behalf of grand jurors in the Missouri District, indicating that Robert Allison did in 1833 knowingly pass a "forged and counterfeited bill or note." Docketed "February 1834." -- Writ presented to the Marshal of Missouri District for the summon of Spencer Pettis, 8 March 1826. -- With a group of legal documents involving a case of Jesse Bledsoe of Kentucky against Richard Graham related to Bledsoe's accusations that Graham trespassed and damaged his property, 1824.