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The Petition of
of said
residing in the
souri, respectfully represents that,
late of Harford County in the state of
of
February
in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty
seven,
and recorded according to
the
of
slavery a
certain negro woman named "
then held as a slave
and that her freedom did by virtue
of said deed
years after the date of said Deed, and
by the further
provisions of said deed all the Children born of said
age of twenty one
years And this Petition futher shows
that
was a child born of the said
has been free ever
since she arrived at the age of
twenty one years-And the Petitioners,
said
as the age of twenty one - that
the
of the said
That the short
and have
exhibit the said deed and pray that is he
a
in order of the establish
that
their
of the
their
claimed as slaves by
in the
state of
city of
remove the Petitioners,
of the Jurisdiction of this Court and
out
of the state of
that
seize
before your
they may be
your honor, or as such other time
the
to enter into a
law to
in the
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Sally
Smith
being
the facts stated in the
are true in substance and in fact
Above Petitioners are hereby allowed to
Sue as poor persons to establish their right
to
freedom - and
Eq and
ordered that the petitioners have
to attend their
out of the Jurisdiction of the
and that they
of the
of
the
Petition of
people of
Color, for leave to
sue as poor persons for
& also order of
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cuit
the
are about to be removed out
of the
Jurisdiction of our said
Court, you are hereby
wherever
they may be found
and bring them before our
said
of Gamble &
whose posession they may
be found, or who may claim
posession of them & especially
one
before
the same
the
hand of our said Judge
as the city & county of
this
One Thousand Eight hundred
& forty two
Petition & order to sue for freedom &
Executed the within writ on the
March 1842,
having the bodies of the petitioners
named
in the petition hereto annexed, before the
and place mentioned in the order of
judge; and by offering to read this writ
and petition to James
V Fraser, the
person in whose
tioners were founed who refused to
hear
the same read--And by returning this
writ to
the said judge, at the time & the place
ordered.
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plains of James
false imprisonment, For that whereas the said defendant
on the
hundred and forty two
aforesaid made on assault upon the said plaintiff
and then
and there beat,
the
said plaintiff and then and there imprisoned
and detained him and kept
him
the said plaintiff
that time until now against the will of the said
plaintiff
and
And the said plaintiff avers that before and at
the
time of the committing of the
said he was and still is a free person, and
that the defendant
held and still holds him
the said defendant in slavery wherefore
the said plaintiff so the
five hundred
brings his suit &c.
And now at this day comes said defendant
by
his attorney
and says that he is
as said plaintiff has in his
(a person of color)
vs
Declaration in
for false imprisonment
& suit for freedom
Filed by
Gamble & Walker
Judgment of freedom
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Be it remembered that on this
the Sheriff having taken possession
of
virtue of a writ by we issued this day
under
"persons held in slavery to sue for their
"freedom." and
person in whose possession they
were formed having declined entering
into recognisance under the seventh
section of the said act, I do order
the Sheriff of St Louis County so take
possession of the said negroes and
here
from time to
suit for freedom, this day allowed
to the bought by there, and take
herein above set forth opposite to there many
conditioned that the petitioners
said negroes shall during the pendency
of attending their counsel and the
court, that they shall not be removed
out of the jurisduction
of the
&
to any severity on account of
their application for freedom
pay the hire so the sheriff &
return the petitioners at the
they shall be hired or as
as the actions shall be determined
. The Terms of
be
named by James V. Fraser.