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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
Your
complaining respectfully showeth unto your
honor that she is a
colored woman. What is
called a (regress) that she was
state of
belonging a the
property of one James
That said
T. Symington on the
eighteen hundred and
thirty - ix
for the sum of one hundred dollars to
the said
October eighteen hundred &
forty two
she is to be fee from slavery forever -
that this said bargain & sale aforesaid took
place in the city
of
when said
and
executed (a certified copy is
Court
prayed to be taken as a part of this
bill)
your orating here
for said
aforesaid having to
term of years -
his said
her to the city and
she your
Your
of the southern
informed and
now
and intents in a short time to
a steam boat to be slipped to her southern
market for sale as aforesaid
get relieved in the premises by the
interposition of this honorable
to the end therefore that justice may be
law writ of
and
James T. Symington who is hereby made
defendant to
upon his corporat oath to make true and
perfect answer to all and singular the
allegations herein containedfully and
- your
her
court and her child
an infant aged four months who is also
to be
and that justice may be
your
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be command to take her into his
her said child and
commanded by this
the money
until further commanded as aforesaid
until your
can be fully and
this
of and
injunction
grant to your
further relief as to equity belong or her case
pray &c-
Personally appeared before me
the undersigned an acting
in and for the body of the township of St Louis
County and state aforesaid the above named
bill and made oath that the allegations
therein contained are true so far as
from her own knowledge and so far as
stated from the information of others
No 515
vs
James Symington
Bill in
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Know all men by these prsents that We
as principal & John Radford as
security are held and firmly
bound unto
dollars lawful money to the payment of which well and
truly to be made we bind ourselves our heirs executors
administrators
and
sealed with our
this,
The condition of the above obligation is
such that whereas the said
sued out a writ of Injunction against the said
to the next July Term of the Circuit Court of the
abide the decission of said Court on a final hearing hereof
and pay all sums of money damages and costs that shall
be
in full force.
Ann Davis
vs
Injunction Bond
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Whereas it has been represented to the Honorable Judge of our
for said county fo
of complaint duly filed that she was born in the state of
the property of one James Cheston who sold her to
the year eighteen hundred and thirty six to serve until the
1842
was made in in the state of
it was contrary to the laws of said said State the said
her off in the right time and brought her to
her off to some of the southern States there to sell her & make her a slave
for
in the jail of St Louis County in a short time to be shipped to the southern
market for sale, wherefore the said complainants prays that the
said
by the said Judge that a writ of injunction issue to that end therefore
your, the said
strictly
the said Ann
of our said court, until said court shall otherwise
said Sheriff are commanded to take the said Ann and her child into your
possession, to be hired out until said court shall otherwise direct and the
money a
upon a hearing of the matters in said bill contained, may determine &
in the premises- Herein fail not at your peril.
Executed this writ by reading it to
John F Symington on the
March 1839
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We command you to
in your county that he appear
before the judge of Our
at the
of
of
dollars
Dismissed at caste of complainant
Ann Daves
vs
Read
& sub to
on
Executed this writ in the county of
1839
by reading it to John H Symington
and delivering to him & copy of the