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The petition of
(as she has always been informed and believes to be
true, and is ready to
held in slavery by one Baptiste
in the Town of
of
was held and claimed as a slave by said
from her birth until about four or
five years ago, where your petitioner was pur
chased by Colonel Menard now a
of the said Town of
and his wife, the latter of whom is the
daughter of said
in the County & city of
state of
do now hold your petitioner in a state of absolute slavery, deprived of all her
defiance of the ordinance of the Congress of
the
Territory Northwest of the river
the year of our Lord 1787
Territory
your petitioner claims her freedom, being born
in said Territory Since the passage of said ordinance
Your petitioner therefore prays that she
may be permitted to
County, according to the form of the
that behalf made and provided, and that she
may be permitted to make the said
called, and all other person claiming your
petitioner as a slave parties in said suit —. And your
Personally appeared before
me
Justice of the peace within and for the
county of
color, the person in the foregoing petition
mentioned, who being sworn, upon her corporal
oath saith, that the
contained in the foregoing petition, Stated on
her own knowledge are true, and, and
those are the information of others she believes
to be true
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poor person by
of June in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred
and Twenty six
at the county of
in and upon the body of the said
then
the said
and detained
without any reasonable or probable cause, for a long
period of
This is an action of
Executed this writ on
On
and
her
the
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We command you to summon
and appear before the judge of our circuit court at the
thereof to
of
to the damage of the said
and have you then there this writ
And her the said
of this state, and
of the state of
says she is
the said
dollars, wherefore she
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Personally appeared before
me
and for the county of
truth of the foregoing Petition, and upon her corporal oath, by
informed by
& the said
out of the state of
to do so, but that not finding his affiant at
the time, She had
she has understood and
find design & intention of the said
and wife to
boat
few hours and convey this affiant down the
of the boundaries & this state for the express purpose
of preventing this affiant from constituting suit for &
that to require her to
white person to
be the certain means of defeating the ends of justice
& the institution of any suit for the freedom of this
affiant, and that she is certain, that of she is
from her right to
that her right will be completely defeated by delay
On reading the within petition &
ordered that the within named
permitted to
the form of the statute in such case made &
and
assigned as her counsel. It is further ordered that the
said
counsel & the court when occasion may require it,
and that the said
removed out of the jurisdiction of the
the
because of her application for freedom.
Filed
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And the said
comes and defends the force and injury when
& c. and says that he is not guilty of the said supposed
laid to his charge or any past thereof in
And for a further plea in this behalf said defendant
says that said plaintiff
action thereof against him because he
plaintiff was at the time when said several supposed
were committed and during
was & now is,
is ready to
plaintiff
And the said
And for
the said several
has in his plea
pleas
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The above named defendant
will
the
of the afternoon of that day, and then and
the trial of the above
post of the plaintiff
Notice to take
A copy of the
16. 1827
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You are hereby commanded to summon
that, setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, he be and appear in proper person before the Judge
of our
then and there to testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our
said Court, wherein
and
on the part of the
and
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year 1827
four in the afternoon of said any by
of
as
Saith
at
of her
same place has understood
to
came to the
said
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the clerk of the
Filed