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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit Court historical records project.
The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
Petition of
It is reduced by the Court that said
to sue as a poor person to establish his
right to freedom: and
is assigned him
ordered that the said petitioner have reasonable
liberty to attend his counsel, and
the court as occasion may require: that he
be not removed out of the jurisdiction of the court and that he be not subject to
any
for freedom
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Respectfully presents and complains your
petitioner,
the following circumstances.
In the spring of the year
taken to
worked for his master in the
about said period. That he has remained in said place
for a space
of about eight years, by and with the
consent and direction of the said
That said Territory is a portion of the
in which slavery is not allowed by the laws of the
fully entitled to his
freedom.
Wherefore he prays the Honorable Court, that
an order may be granted, allowing the
petitioner to sue in
the
establish his right to freedom; that counsel may be assigned
him; that he have reasonable liberty to attend his counsel
and the
court, as occassion may require; that he be not removed
out of the
jurisdiction of the Court; and that he be not
subjected to any
for freedom.
This day personally appeared before
me Philip.S.
County of
within named and made oath that the facts
in the within petition are true
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imprisonment
suit, by his Attorneys, complains of
defendant of a plea of
For that the defendant heretofore, to wit, on the
eight hundred and thirty
three
Territory of
and
assault on said plaintiff and then and there beat,
him and kept him in prison without any reasonable
or probable cause whatever for a long space of time, to
wit for
the space of one year these next following, countrary
to the laws of
the
will of the plaintiff, and other
plaintiff then
and there did against the peace
of the
plaintiff in the sum of One Thousand Dollars.
And the said plaintiff covers that before
and at the time of the committing of the greivances
aforesaid by the said defendant, the said plaintiff
was and still is a free person, and that the defendant
held and still holds him in slavery
Suit for freedom
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We command you to
found
in your County, that he be and appear
before the judge of our
held at
the city of
of
colord man, of a
dollars: And have you then there this writ.
I acknowledge myself bound for all costs that may accure in the above cause.
Witness my
hand and seal, at
It is ordered by the Court that said
and
and it is further ordered that the said petition have
resonable liberty to attend his counsel and the
not
of the court and
his application for freedom.