Manuscript "Invoice of Sundry Packages to be delivered by George Ingels Esqr. to William Linnard Esqr., Mility. agent for transportation by the way of Pittsburg to Genl. Clark at St. Louis", dated U.S. Arsenal, May 8, 1810, listing $600.26 of Indian trade and treaty goods marked "U.S. Tierce No. 1" and "Sacs Anty. 1810": blankets, pocket looking-glasses, ribbon, black silk handkerchiefs, beads, nine dozen scalping knives, fifteen pounds of vermilion, flints, red and blue strouding, calico, eight guns or fowling pieces, four casks of powder, tierces and cooperage. Below, the receipt: "Saint Louis 17th August 1810. Received the articles mentioned in the above invoice all in good order. Signed duplicates", signed "Wm Clark U.S. Agt. for Ind. Affs." with his paraph. Four years after returning from the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Clark was Brigadier General of the Louisiana Territory militia and U.S. Agent for Indian Affairs at St. Louis; the "Sacs Annuity 1810" goods were the annual payment to the Sauk under the 1804 treaty. A superb frontier document. Condition: folds, light toning and staining at the lower margin.
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