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You are hereby commanded, that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, you appear
before the Judge of our
the
testify, and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said Court,
wherein
plaintiff and
defendant on the part of
and herein you are in no wise to fail.
Executed this writ in the county of
on the
into John
med witness.
-
writ:
the morning-
John
5th:
N.E.
& Talor.
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The undersigned petitioner,
represents to your Honor, that she is now held
in close
the County aforesaid and claimed as the
erty of one James
of the estate of
in
ministrator aforesaid_ that she is entitled to
her freedom and is of right
of the Land and
for
person, under the statute in such case made and provided.
And the undersigned here states to your
honor the facts and circumstances on which
she so claims her right to freedom, which if
she is permitted to
can he forthcoming when and where your
your petitioner is about twenty-four years of
age, born in the City and County of
andria
her mother at the time of her wish, and
for a long period before, was and still
is
mother found her by
in the said
period of ten years, to one
he by her the said
the
that after she was so
and after the said
the Labour
the period of two years, she the said
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That the said Luis
of your
has and
toward
and that
her free
she may
to
into
shall not
tion of your honorable
therein the
be
made
relief
and
submitted.
Sworn to & Subscribed
this
before
On reading
=going
her
as
has
her Counsel & the
may
of the said Court
to
her application
to
for her freedom.
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tiff,
had and obtained, by her
of
defendants, of a
prisonment.
dred and forty four
tiff, and her then and there took and
prisoned
County aforesaid, and held her in
now
said, until
and
plaintiff, and still
and freedom as
of
plaintiff, and
dants, then and there at the times aforesaid,
did to the said plaintiff,
law of the
of the said plaintiff, and to the damage
of the plaintiff of
therefore she
prisonment.
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We command you to
before the Judge of our
held at the
day of
Speaks of her
I acknowledge myself bound for all costs that may accrue in the above cause.
for Defn March 20 1846 17 p129.
Damages of $1000.
Filed
It is ordered that the
have
&
Taylor
=able
& the court as occasion may require,
& that she be not
=tion for freedom
Executed this writ in the county
and the
judge of
son
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And the said defendants by their attorney
come and defend the
and say that they are not; nor is either of them guilty of the
supposed
as any part thereof in manner and form as the said plaintiff hath
themselves upon the country
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You are hereby commnaded, that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, you appear
before the Judge of our
February 1846
testify, and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said Court,
wherein
plaintiff and
defendant
and herein you are in no wise to fail.
for
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agreement
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White personally appears before me a Justice of the peace for the county
aforesaid and made other that
about March 1834. Joseph B. Blunt the
husband of Susan Blount. purchased a Colored
Girl by the name of
year old from one
Slave, between to be Serve the Said Blount
then to be free. out the declaration of Said Term
and on the
Blount Sold the Said Mary Jone James Norris
of
of may 1838
May fifteen years old that she is to
Serve the said Susan Blont agreeable to the
of May 1838
eight years old and no longer at what time
She is free, Given
certify that
affidavit of George White are true
and that
the
Yurly
has been
Bill of sale
slaves
to
to my
the
& certificate in relation to the freedom of
Speaks was presented to the Court, & an motion--
Speaks was presented
ordered to freedom.
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This is a suit by the
plaintiff under the
the
in the
That the plaintiff
in
brought
at the
the
years snce
by as
filed
of
as the
was
and the planitiff held and
she
now the
shall be submitted
and the
to
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You are hereby commanded, that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, you appear
before the Judge of our
testify, and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said Court,
wherein
plaintiff and
defendant on the part of
and herein you are in no wise to fail.
Executed
the within
sixth indant
with clause of
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You are hereby commanded, that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, you appear
before the Judge of our
1846
testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said Court,
wherein
plaintiff and
defendants on the part of
and herein you are in no wise to fail.
for sixth
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You are hereby commanded, that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, you appear
before the Judge of our
1846
testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said Court, wherein
palintiff and
defendant on the part of
and herein you are in no wise to fail.
Executed this writ
by