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            <title>Francois Leclerc v. Antoine Sitoliur</title>
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            <date type="filing" when="1818-02">February, 1818</date>
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            <party role="plaintiff">Leclerc, Francois</party>
            <party role="defendant">Sitoliur, Antoine</party>
            <causeAction type="civil">Trepass upon the Case</causeAction>
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            <court type="territorial">St. Louis Circuit Court</court>
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            <clerk>Gamble, Archibald</clerk>
            <witness>Truteau, John Bte, Jr.</witness>
            <witness>Ladonier, John Bte</witness>
            <witness>Chouteau, Auguste Pierre</witness>
            <sheriff>Thompson, John W.</sheriff>
            <sheriff>Brown, Joseph C.</sheriff>
            <sheriff type="deputy">Walker, John K.</sheriff>
            <sheriff type="deputy">M'Girk, J.G.</sheriff>
            <attorney for="plaintiff">Benton</attorney>
            <attorney for="defendant">Wash, R.</attorney>
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               <title>Summons of Antoine Cebleau</title>
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                           <orig>County of S Louis</orig>
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                  <lb/>
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                           <orig>United States</orig>
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                           <orig>America</orig>
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                     <lb/>
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                        <supplied> To the,</supplied>
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                        <persName>
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                              <orig>Antoine Cebleau</orig>
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                        <orig>S Louis</orig>
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                        <orig>S Louis</orig>
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                  <lb/>of <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied> a plea,</supplied>
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                           <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
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                           <orig>S Louis</orig>
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                     <lb/>this <date when="1818-07-02">Second day of July in the year <lb/>eighteen hundred &amp; eighteen</date> and of <lb/>our Independence the fourty second</dateline> 
                  <lb/>
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                     <date when="1818-06">June terms <lb/>1818</date>
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                  <abbr>No</abbr> 14</opener>
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                     <supplied> affidavit,</supplied>
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                     <supplied> copius,</supplied>
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                  <signed>Bentan</signed>
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               <p>Filed this <date when="1818-07-02">2nd July 1818</date> 
                  <lb/>The Sheriff is required <lb/>to take <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied> bail,</supplied>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied> sum,</supplied>
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                           <orig>A Gamble</orig>
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                        <orig>Antoine</orig>
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                  <date when="1818-07-14">14th day of July 1818</date> in <placeName>
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                        <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                     <supplied> Leclere,</supplied>
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                        <orig>Antoine</orig>
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                        <orig>Antoine</orig>
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                  <lb/>on the <date when="1818-07-01">first day of day of July in the year <lb/>one thousand eight hundred and eighteen</date> at the <lb/>county of <placeName>
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                        <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                        <orig>United States</orig>
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                        <orig>Francis</orig>
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                        <orig>Antoine</orig>
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                        <orig>Francis</orig>
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               <p>thereto afterwards requested</p>
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                        <orig>Francois</orig>
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               <p>when he should be <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> afterwards <lb/>requested.</p> 
               <lb/>
               <p>never<unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                     <supplied> hundred,</supplied>
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                  <lb/>Sworn and subscribed <lb/>this <date when="1818-07-02">second day of July <lb/>1818</date>.<lb/>
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                        <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
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                        <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                  <date when="1819-08-02">August the 2nd 1819</date> 
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                        <orig>United States</orig>
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