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from to
freedom
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honor that
state of virginia and has
of
county in that
given the said
state to
for
with the said
that the said
the state of
and for
he
on
ing his
for three dollars for month and himself
for ten dollars for
of
The said
would
was his
that your petitioner and
should be
said
days
state of
ing
as
with
and her
the
is
being
for and in
prays
The above
sworn
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This is an action of
assualt & Battery &
Executed this writ on
by
by her attorney
by the court, complains of
nine
aforesaid, an assault did make upon the body of the
said
her the said
said
against her will and without any reasonable or probable
cause whatsoever, and has ever since kept & detained
her in prison against her will, without any reasonable
or probable cause, countrary to the laws of this state. And the
said
committing the grievances aforesaid, she was, and still is,
a free person, and that the said
her and still holds and detains her in slavery - And the said
land and has sustained damage to the amount
of five hundred dollars and thereore she sues
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We command you to summon garland Rucker that he be and
appear before the Judge of our
thereof to be held at the city of St. Lois within and for the
there to answer unto
plea of Trespass wherefore the said
the amount of Five Hundred dollars and have you then these this writ -
praying that she may be permitted to institute suit against
to establish her right to freedom and that she may be permitted to sue
as a poor person thereupon the Court permits the said
sue as aforesaid and directs that an action of assault and battery and
false imprisonment be commenced against the said Garland Ruckner
in the name of the said
as her counsel and it is ordered by the court that the said defendant
permit the said
her counsel and the Court when occassion may require it and that
the said
Jurisdiction of this Court and that she shall not be subject to any
severity of treatment on account of her said application for freedom
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You are hereby commanded to have the bodies of
and (her child)
said under a safe and secure conduct together with the day
and cause of their being taken and detained by whatsoever
name they shall be called in the same before our
at the
writ to do and receive all and
our said Court shall then and there consider Concerning
them
Executed this writ on
21. 1829
F
them to the
11th of the present month and had them
in
they
under the protection and authority
as your in
I have not seen them
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And the said
and injury when
of the said supposed
mentioned in manner and
iff hath above thereof complained aganist him
and of this he puts himself upon the country
And for further plea in this behalf the
said Defendant says the said plantiff ought
not to have and maintain her aforesaid action
against him because he says that the said
plaintiff at the said time of committing the
said supposed trespass in declaration men
-tioned was and still is a slave without this
that the said plaintiff at the said time was
free and this he is ready to
he prays Judgement
Two pleas -
Slavery of plaintiff
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And the said
by him first above pleaded and whereof he hath
like.
And the said
of the said
pleaded saith that she the said
reason of any thing by the said
plea
having
action thereof against him the said
because she says, that before and at the
time of committing the
in the said Plaintiff declaration mentioned
she there was & now is a free person. And
this she the said
required of by the country
Replication
Replications to the
pleas-
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Action of
and for freedom In the
To
named Defendant.
Sir
the law office of
of Gallitin and
of March next between the hours of Eight of the
clock in the forenoon and five of the clock in the
afternoon of that day then and there to take the
of witness to be Read at the trial of the above cause
on the part of the plaintiff when & whereof an
may attened if you think proper.
18th 1830
Notice
A true copy delivered to
1830
I acknowledge that a copy of the within notice was
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We, reposing special trust and confidence in your integrity and circumspection, do require and command you, that you
cause to come before you such person, or persons, as shall be named to you by
their
their knowledge of any thing that may relate to a certain matter of controversy, now pending in our
for the county of
is defendant, on the part of the said
deposition so taken by you as aforesaid, into writing, you are required to send the same, together with this commission,
enclosed under your seal, to our said
On motion of the attorney for the said plaintiff it is Ruled
that a
Evidence on the trial of the above cause on the part of the said
plaintiff
I
in and for the county of
so certify, that in pursuence of the within Com
=mission and annexed notice, came before me
there
at Equality in the county and State last aforesaid
and such examination
and
=tively and then said depositions are now
herewith returned
Given at Equality in the county of
of March 1830
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examined at the Law office of
and
for the County and State aforesaid in a certain
cause now depending in the
plaintiff and
the part of the plaintiff
of the plaintiff
Did your know one
a
Answer I
came to the state Answer he came here with.
Abraham
he had
whom the said
When
only two horses the same night he came he sold
me horse and same time afterwards sold the other
one; and he said Whiten told me his object in
g this horses was that when he started he intended
Crenshaws and
sick and died in or
arrival in this place during which time
at work for Abraham Crenshaw on the hire of
Master
he had hired her for and further this oponents saith
not
I
and for the county of
so herely certify that Giles Y.Taylor the deponent was
he me sworn to testify the whole truth of his knowle
edge touching the matter in entering in the cause
aforesaid; that deponent was examined and his ex
amination
in the year eighteen hundred and thirty
hours of eight of the clock of the forenoon and five
of the clock of the
and state of
sworn and examined on th part of the
and
and
he come here, state what you know about them
I told him his
in this state Whitton state that he could not help
it for he was out on money and could go no
further and that he
must work for same & he hired
her child to my
known how long but think
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my Brother if he would pay him up for what
time she had been with him he would
or part, my brother refused on the
addition to the living
or a conditional his of sale to
as Whitton security for his apppearance at court
on a
came he sold one of the only two horses he had & some time afterwards sold the other a little
time before he was taken sick which was about six weeks after his arrival here and further
this deponent sayeth not.
I
in and for the county of
do herely certify that John Crenshaw the deponent
was by me sworn to testify the whole truth of
his knowledge touching the matter in
in the cause aforesaid that deponent was exam
=ined, and his examination reduced to writing
& subscribed in my presence
and five of the afternoon at the Law office of
Williams
and
It is hereby certified
That
eighteen hundred and thirty
Justice of the peace within and for the
that full
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We, reposing special truth and confidence in your integrity and circumspection, do require and command you, that you
cause to come before you such person, or persons, as shall be named to you by
attorney or agent, and him, her or them examine upon his, her or their corporal oath, (to be by you administered,) touching
their knowledge of any thing that may relate to a certain matter of controversy, now pending in our
for the county of
is defendant, on the part of the said
depositions so taken by you as aforesaid, into writing, you are required to send the same, together with this commission,
enclosed under your seal, to our said
An application of the attorney for the defendant it is Ruled that
a
the above cause on the part of the defendant.
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To the above named
Take notice that I shall attend at the house
of
and
twenty fourth, twenty sixth and thirtieth days
of
in the forenoon and six Oclock in the afternoon
of the said days respectively then and there to
take the
evidence on the Trial of the above cause when
and where you many attend.
The within notice was read to
done in the city of
Justic to take
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The deposition of
and of state of
of a commissioner of
peace of the
now depending in the said circuit court of the said county of
state of
is defendant and
That in the month of
away from the
the county of
-chased by the said
before the front door of the court house of said county on
1828
the day after the said
above stated, the
and requested him to go with him in
deponent went with
under an
in
universally believed that
that he was the father of her child.
all knowledge of the said slaves, and
for them, and
that if he could fined the said slaves he
that said whitten
and shortly afterwards and
the said slaves disappeared from this county & said deponent has
not heard of them
him by the deponents aganist further saith that the said slave
was a bright
he thinks under 2 years old and further the deponent
The above named
to the foregoing depostions at the time and pleace mentioned in the
caption and it was &
in
Filed (open)
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The deposition
June 1830
to be cause in evidence on the trial of a case now
in the said circuit court of the said county of
state of
The
tell the whole
That a negro woman
of Abel B. Nichols in the town of
in the state of
shortly thereafter
as said deponent is informed to the state Illinios.
Where he died. The deponent is the father of the said
intended to
he was
-latto the deponent thinks she was between 25 and
& 30 years old but is not certain, the child named
two years old but
further this deponent saith not.
The above named
for said county that the foregoing deposition contains the
whats
and which was also
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I
the County Court of
certificates attended & the deponent of
is and was at the time
for the said County duly appoinment commissioned
and qualified according to said that his
certificates are in
faith and
to be given
of the peace as
as