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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Mary and Rhoda 3 pages Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1842-01-07

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</bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <langUsage> <language ident="eng">English</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords scheme="local"> <list> <item n="Topical"/> <item n="Topical"/> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change when="2012-10-05">GAL performed initial encoding and transcription</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B62f3i0395_1.tiff"/> <head rend="bracketed">State of Missouri<lb/> Montgomery County</head> <p>In the Circuit Court<lb/> March Term 1842<lb/> <persName>Willis G. Shackleford</persName> presented<lb/> for proof a deed of Emancipation from <persName>Janus<lb/> Hays</persName> to <persName>Mary</persName> and <persName>Rhoda</persName> two negro slaves which<lb/> did by order of the Court is spread upon<lb/> the Record as follows- "Know all men by<lb/> these presents that I <persName>Janus Hays</persName> of the County<lb/> of Montgomery and the state of Missouri for and<lb/> in consideration of the services and attention<lb/> rendered me by my two slaves <persName>Mary</persName> and<lb/> <persName>Rhoda</persName> (the former aged about thirty eight <lb/> years last July and the latter aged twenty<lb/> three years last October) and the further con<lb/> =sideration of the sum of sixty dollar to<lb/> me in hand paid by the said <persName>Mary</persName> and<lb/> <persName>Rhoda</persName> the receipt of which I do hereby ac<lb/> knowledge have and by these presents do<lb/> discharge release set free + entirely acquit<lb/> the said <persName>Mary</persName> + <persName>Rhoda</persName> from all service <lb/> obedience or control of myself my heirs<lb/> +c. forever hereby surrendering all right<lb/> and title to or in the said <persName>Mary</persName> + <persName>Rhoda</persName><lb/> any law or usage to the contrary not with<lb/> =standing intending and declaring<lb/> this instrument to operate as a perfect and<lb/> of emancipation. In writing, whereof I have<lb/> hereunto subscribe my name and affix<lb/> my seal this 7th day of January A.D 1842</p> <p>Test<lb/> <signed>E.W.S. Wingford</signed><lb/> <signed>Oliver McEwen</signed><lb/> <signed>Montreville Hambleton</signed><lb/> <signed>W.G. Shackleford</signed></p> <p><signed>Janus S <note place="above">his</note><note place="below">mark</note> Hays</signed> Seal</p> <p>Whereupon the said <persName>Oliver M Ewen</persName></p></div2> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B62f3i0395_2.tiff"/> <p><del rend="overstrike">Hambleton</del> <persName>Montreville Hambleton</persName> and <persName>Willis<lb/> G. Shackleford</persName> three of subscribing Witness<lb/> to the said deed appeared in Court and being<lb/> duly sworn upon their oath say that the said<lb/> <persName>Janus Hays</persName> signed said and in their pre<lb/> =sence and acknowledge the same to be<lb/> his act and deed for the purpose therein<lb/> mentioned and that at his request they sub<lb/> scribed their names to said and as Witnesses"</p> <p rend="bracketed">State of Missouri<lb/> Montgomery County</p> <p>I <persName>Jacob L. Sharp</persName><lb/> Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the<lb/> County aforesaid certify the foregoing to b a true copy from the record of said Court at <lb/> the Term therein <unclear unit="words" quantity="1"/><lb/> In Witness whereof I have here<lb/> unto set my hand and affixed<lb/> the seal of said court at <unclear unit="words" quantity="1"/><lb/> in the Town of Danville the <lb/> <date when="1842-03-12">12th day of March in the year of our Lord 1842</date>.</p> <signed>Jacob L. Sharp Clerk</signed> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B62f3i0395_3.tiff"/> <p> <persName>Mary</persName>+<persName>Rhoda</persName><lb/> Free Negroes<lb/> Copy of Emancipation</p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>