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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Copeland 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1841-10-03

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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="2012-07-09">APJ performed initial transcription and encoding</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f13i0020_1.tiff"/> <p>I have this day <sic>imp- <lb rend="hyphen"/> loid</sic> the within <persName>David <lb/> Copeland</persName> to go with <lb/> me to Missouri & <lb/> whom I am satisfied <lb/> is free born <lb/> <name>GA Crensland</name> <lb/> <date when="1837-03-21">March 21<hi rend="superscript">st</hi> 1837</date> </p> </div2> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <head rend="bracketed">State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> County of Howard</head> <p>Set <lb/> I <persName>Gray <unclear unit="word" quantity="1" rend="written"/> </persName> Clerk of the Cir- <lb rend="hyphen"/> cuit Court & Ex- Official Recorder for said County, do hereby <lb/> certify that the foregoing attached Free Paper, or Instru- <lb rend="hyphen"/> ment of writin was received by me for record on the <lb/> <date when="1841-10-03">3<hi rend="superscript">rd</hi> day of September, 1841</date> and recorded in Book J page 19. <lb/> page<del rend="strikethrough">s</del> 19 </p> <closer> Given under my hand & seal of said <lb/> Court, at Office, in said County, on <lb/> the day & year above written <lb/> <signed>Gray <unclear unit="word" quantity="1" rend="written"/> Clk</signed> By <signed>G <unclear unit="word" quantity="1" rend="written"/> D.C.</signed> </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <head>City of Richmond, to wit:</head> <p>Registered in the Office of the Court of Hustings for the City, the <seg rend="form-fill-in">3d</seg> day <lb/> of <seg rend="form-fill-in">Jany</seg>, 18<seg rend="form-fill-in">26</seg>, No. <seg rend="form-fill-in">497</seg> <seg rend="form-fill-in"> <persName>David Copeland</persName>, a black boy</seg> <lb/> about <seg rend="form-fill-in">three</seg> feet <seg rend="form-fill-in">seven</seg> inches high, and about <seg rend="form-fill-in">seven</seg> years old, who <lb/> was <seg rend="form-fill-in">Born free, <sic>pr</sic> oath of <persName>Elizabeth Godbright</persName> </seg> <lb/> <sic>Teste</sic>, W.C. Howard Clk <lb/> Test, <seg rend="form-fill-in"> <unclear unit="word" quantity="4" rend="written"/> <lb/> Recorder</seg> of said City. </p> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f13i0020_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>David Copeland</persName> <lb/> Free Certificate </p> <p>Filed for Record <date when="1841-10-03">3<hi rend="superscript">rd</hi> <lb/> Sept. 1841</date> <lb/> G. <unclear unit="word" quantity="1" rend="written"/>, Clk. </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>