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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
St Louis County Ss:
boy permitted to sue as a
assigned to prosecute herein, complains of
of a plea of
day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty seven
assault did make upon said
& arms &,C, and did then and there beat
him said plaintiff and then and there imprisoned
him and kept
without any reasonable or probable cause whatsoever
for a long time to wit, to the present time of
this declaration,
of said plaintiff and then and there held and detained said
plaintiff in slavery and still holds and detains him in
slavery: and then and there did other wrongs to said
plaintiff to his damage of five hundred dollars & therefore he beings his suit &,C,
We command you to summon
Judge of our
within and for the
there to answer unto
his damage of five hundred dollars and have you then there this writ
and the
a defends the force & injury when
complained against him &
county & C
On reading the within petition and the
that said petition contains sufficient matter to authorize the commencement of
suits for freedom in the name of each person within named claimed as a slave it is
ordered that said
sue as poor persons to establish their freedom respectively and that
assigned as their counsel. It is further ordered that the said petitioners have reasonable
liberty to attend then said Counsel & the Court when occassion may require and that said
petitioners shall not be taken or removed out of the Jurisdiction of the
court where said suits an to be commenced, nor shall be subject to any
of their application for freedom and being satisfied that the said petitioners an about
to be removed out of the Jurisdiction of the
that the within named
times during the said suit have reasonable liberty of attending their counsel, and that said
petitioners shall not be removed out of the Jurisdiction of said
appearing that said
the Sheriff of St Louis County take possession of the petitioners and
from time to time during the
out exclusive of the infant conditions according to law- Given under my hand the day
& year above written
Executed this writ on
in the
the contents and objects thereof and his acknowledging
the
vs.