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Your petitioner
John by his
to your honour that his
in the state of
and was then taken to the
years since and during her residence there your peti
tioner was born between twelve and thirteen years ago
that he
time after his birth were taken to the State of Miss
ouri where they remained about one year and
taken again to
where your petitioner was sold and has ever since
remained until brought to the
days
years past and does now hold and
petitioner as a slave your petitioner further
to that said
with your petitioner to
has reason to fear he may be
New
he may be permitted to sue as a poor person that
he may establish his right to his freedom and tho
such other
sum
This day personally appeared before
me Partrick
for the
a woman of lawful age who being duly sworn upon
his oath days that the facts stated in the above
are true
It is hereby ordered that the
petitioner John be permitted to sue as a poor person
by
right to freedom and
as his counsel. It is moreover ordered, that the
said John have reasonable liberty
his counsel when occasion may require, and
that he be not subjected to any
account of his application for freedom, nor
removed out of the jurisdiction of this court
pending the suit
John a minor of Color by his
Marganett
a plea of
Compbell on the seventeenth day of November in the
year Eighteen hundred thirty one with
arms made an assault upon the said John at the
beat
and there kept an him the said John
out any reasonable or probable cause for a
time to wit for the space of twenty four hour there
next following; and nevertheless the said John
that before and at the time of committing the
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aforesaid greveances he was and now is a free
person and that the said
him and
trary to the laws of the land and
of the plaintiff and other
pbell then and there did to the said
damage wherefore the said John
dred dollars and therefore he sues &C
We command you to summon
appear before the Judge of our
thereof to be held at the
answer unto John a minor of color by his next friend Margaret
of a plea of trespass wherefore the said John
hath sustained damage to the amount of Five hundred dollars and
have you then there this writ
Served this writ on
the defendant by reading it & the
declaration to him on
November 1831
I also read to him the petition &
the
at the
It is hereby ordered that the within
named petitioner John be permitted to sue as a poor person by Margaritte
his next friend to establish his right to freedom and
as his counsel- It is moreover ordered that the said John have reasonable liberty to
attend his counsel when occasion may require and that he be not subjected to any
severity on account of his application for freedom nor removed out of the Jurisdiction
of this court pending the
John
vs
The Clerk well
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We
the peace within and for the
boy, in the
detained, under
day and the Cause of his being taken and detained by whatsoever
Same, you have before us at the office of
in the
day of November
and receive, whats
Witness
A.D. 1831
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writ
The within named John a Colored
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And the said defendant by
his attorney
injury when &.C. & says he is not guilty of the
ances above in said declaration laid to his charge &
in manner & from as the said plaintiff hath above
alleged & of this he puts himself upon the county
&.C.
And the plaintiff
John
vs
plea
not
Submission & Judgment for plaintiff Book 6 page 477
25
578
25
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You Are Hereby Commanded To Summon
that setting aide all manner of excuse and delay, they be and appear in proper person
before the Judge of our
at the
controversy now pending in our said Court, wherein
plaintiff, and
is
and have you then there this writ.
John
vs
Executed this writ on
of July 1832
of
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attorney
I will on Saturday the fourteenth Instant between
the hours of Eight O. clock in the
six o clock
office of John
of
take the deposition of witness to be read in
evidance we the above case on the part of the
plaintiff
John
vs
Notice
to take
a true copy of this
notice was delivered
to
in the city of
on the
1832
not found
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We, reposing special trust and confidence in your intergrity and circumpection, do require and command you that you cause
to come before you such person or persons as shall be named to you by
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
plaintiff and
defendant on the part of the
you as aforesaid into writing, you are required to send the same, together with this commission, enclosed under your seal, to our
said
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Depositions of witness produced sworn and
office in the town of
and
acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County
in a
of St. Louis County &
(a boy of Color) is plaintiff &
is defendant on the part of the plaintiff
and examined on the part of the plaintiff deposeth and
sayeth as follow to writ
question By plaintiff
a boy of
Anwer yes she was born in St.
Question
Answer yes she was brought to this state by my
Nicholas
my Grandmother
and never was thaut to be a slave any longer than until
he was twenty one year
farthers sale in
Question did you see this boy John the sun of
of
Anwer - I saw John in the posesian of
at galina
him John and asked me if John was a slave for life
I told him that he was not
Question What time was it that you saw John the
of
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Answer I saw John in Campbells posesion in Jodavis
County in the
and further this deponant sayeth
Town of
I John C.
St. Clair County
that
to testify the whole truth of his knowledge
hing The
said that deponent was examined and his examination
reduced to writing and subscribed by
said deponant in my presence on the 14th day
of July in the year eighteen hundred and
thirty two between the hours of 10 o clock in the
forenoon and six of the afternoon at the
of
I John Hay, Clerk of the County Commisioners' Court of the
said county of St. Clair, (and ex officio recorder of civil Commisions,)
do hereby certify, that
whose name
acting Justice of the Peace of said county, duly commisioned and qualified, and to all such
acts, full faith and credit are and ought to be given.
Jn.
vs
John a boy of
vs
Deposition
for plaintiff
Filed & opened
1832
John
vs
Wm. Campbell
Francis Jarot
Deposition for plff
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You Are Hereby Commanded To Summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, they be and appear in proper person
before the Judge of our
at the
controversy now pending in our said Court, wherein
plaintiff, and
is
and have you then there this writ.
John
vs
Executed this writ on
on the
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You are hereby commanded to summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, they be and appear in proper person before the
Judge of our
at the
now pending in our said Court, wherein
plaintiff, and
defendant, on the part of the
and have you then there this writ.
John
vs
Executed this writ on
the
S.W.
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We command you to attach
by
the Judge of our
certain matter of controversy, now pending in our said
plaintiff and
defendant, wherein the said
heretofore been summoned on the part of the said
Executed this
writ &
by of
Court
April 1833
Jno
vs