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Not a family I am researching. When I run across good info, I try to pass it along. Something I do when my own research bogs down. I have nothing more on this family.
Hope it helps someone.
CJ
Archival Collections at the Missouri Historical Society
St. Louis, Missouri
http://www.krausehouse.ca/krause/Archives%20Guide%20A-Z%20(WP).htm
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A0429
Easton, Rufus (1774-1834).
Papers. 1796-1897; [1949-1956]. (0.5 linear ft.); 3 volumes; 1 oversized folder.
Rufus Easton was born in Washington, Litchfield County, Conn., in 1774. He practiced law in Rome, N.Y., and emigrated to St. Louis in the winter of 1803-1804.
He was appointed judge of the Territory of Louisiana by Thomas Jefferson in 1805, and was named first postmaster for St. Louis in the same year. He had corresponded with Aaron Burr in Burr's conspiracy with Wilkinson against the government, but denied participation in the plan.
In 1814, Judge Easton was elected a delegate to Congress from the Missouri Territory and in 1821, when the state was organized, he was appointed attorney general of Missouri.
Easton owned the ground on which Alton, Ill. is situated and which was named for his son, Alton R. Easton.
Collection contains business, political, and personal correspondence and biographical material about Rufus Easton and his family, including three manuscript law books kept by Easton while he was reading for the law during the early 1790s; documentation regarding Easton's early legal career in New York; materials relating to St. Louis politics in the territorial days, including correspondence relative to the Burr conspiracy; a manuscript of religious and philosophical writings attributed to Easton in his later years; land documents; and papers relating to the estate of Rufus Easton.
Also includes correspondence of his daughter Rufus Easton's daughter, Mary Easton Sibley, and letters of Eliza Ott to his son, Alton R. Easton, about Lindenwood College and life in St. Charles, Mo.; and documentation relating to the military career of Colonel Alton R. Easton.
Correspondents represented in this collection include Moses Austin, David Barton, Aaron Burr, Daniel G. Bissell, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Alton R. Easton, Henry S. Geyer, Gideon Granger, Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Lucas, James Madison, James Monroe, William Russell, William T. Sherman, and John Smith T ("T" for Tennessee). In part photostats and typescript copies.
Photostats of Easton letters may not be reproduced.
Indexed in the archives card catalogue.
Cite as: Rufus Easton Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.
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