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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Thompson 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1844-03-29

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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="2012-07-26">GAL performed initial transcription and encoding</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f15i0155_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that we<persName>Lucinda<lb/> Thompson</persName> as principal and <persName>Jerry Thompson</persName> <add place="above">+ <persName>William Littleton</persName> </add>as security<lb/> are held and firmly bound unto the State of <lb/> Missouri in the just and full sum of Two<lb/> Hundred dollars each for the true payment of which<lb/> sum of money we bind ourselves executors administrators<lb/> and assigns jointly and severally by these presents sealed <lb/> with our seals and dated this <gap/> day of <lb/> March Eighteen hundred and forty four</p> <p>The condition of this obligation is such that <lb/> whereas <persName>Lucinda Thompson</persName> has this day obtained<lb/> from the County Court of the County of St Louis<lb/> a license to remain in the State of Missouir<lb/> as a free person of color under the provisions<lb/> "an act entitled an act to more effectually<lb/> prevent free persons of color from entering into<lb/> the State and other purposes" Now the condition<lb/> of this bond is such that if the said <persName>Lucinda<lb/> Thompson</persName> shall be of good character behavior<lb/> during the continuance of said license<lb/> then the above obligation to be null and void<lb/> Otherwise to be and remain in full force and <lb/> virtue in Law</p> <closer> Witness<lb/> <signed>Andrew HH Dawson</signed> <lb/> <signed>Jerry his X mark Thompson</signed> Seal<lb/> <signed>Lucinda her mark Thompson</signed> Seal<lb/> <signed> <abbr>Wm.</abbr> Littleton</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f15i0155_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>Lucinda Thompson</persName> <lb/> To Bond<lb/> State of Mo </p> <p> filed <date when="1844-03-29"> Mch 29. 1844</date> <lb/> <persName>J.H. Milbourne</persName> Clk </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>