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John
vs
Narr.
This is an action of tres-
pass & false imprisonment
damages $ 100. Set a sum
mons issue
We command you to summon
the Judge of our
July next then and these to answer unto John a free boy of colour of a plea
of trespass wherefore the said John say he is injured and hath sustained damages
to the
John a free boy of color who is permitted
by the court to sue by his next friend
a poor person by
by the Court Complains of John Reynold of a plea of
on the
red and twenty eight
of
the body of said John and then and there did
there imprisoned him said John and kept and
him in prison without any
whatsoever, against the will of said John, and
has
in prison and still keeps and detains him in prison
against his
whatsoever, countrary to the laws of this state,
said defendant other
him the said John against the
the stil wherefore the said John says he is
by the said defendant and
to the
for
And the said Plaintiff
the committing of the said several grievances he was and
still is a free person and that the defendant
detains him in
John, against the peace and diginty of the states
wherefore the said John says he is injured and hath
lars and therefore he sues