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Battery
false
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The petition of
of colour represents, that she was born (as she
has always understood and believes to be true & is
ready to prove), of a negro woman in the Town
of
year
held in slavery in said state by one Baptiste
Gindreau, who held her till her death
that your petitioner was held and claimed as
a slave by said Baptiste Gindreau as
his slave from her birth
since, when she was sold by him to
state of
ard purchased your petitioner, he gave your
petitioner, as a slave into the
who married
petitioner as a slave in the city & county
of
years past; And your petitioner represents
that she is advised and verily believes, that
according to the laws of the land she is a
free person and always has been - that she
has been for several years and still is
held & claimed by said
contrary to law, Equity & good conscience
by said
prays “that she may be permitted to
sue as a poor person” for her freedom
in the
according to the form of the statute in
such case made and provided, and that she be permitted to make the said
will ever pray &c.
before me the undersigned
a Justice of the
who
who being by me sworn upon her
corporal oath saith, that the facts setforth
in said petition on her aver knowledge are true and those stated
on the information of others she
to institute suit against
right to freedom and that she may be permitted to sue as a poor person therefore
the Court permits the said
of assault and Battery and false imprisonment be commenced against the said
court that the said defendants permit the said
liberty of attending her counsel and the court when occasion may require it and
that the said
Jurisdiction of this Court and that she shall not be subject to any severity of
treatment on account of her said application for freedom
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person, by
of
trespass with force and arms, for that whereas
heretofore to wit, on the
the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and
twenty
to wit at the county of
assault did make in and upon the body
of the said
did beat, bruise & ill treat
and imprison her the said
and her the said
kept and detained in prison against her will
and consent contrary to the law of the land
and without any reasonable or probable
causes, for a long time, to wit, for the term
of Eighteen months & five days and her the said
they the said
and confinement contrary to the laws of
this state, and other wrongs to her the said
& dignity of the state of
the committing the
was and still is a free person, and that said
still hold & detain her in slavery,
said
damage from the said
sum of one thousand dollars, wherefore she
sues,
and affidavit, it is ordered that
the within named
to sue as a poor person according to the form
of the statute in such case made and provided
and
assigned as her counsel; It is further ordered that the
said
her counsel & the court when occasion may require it,
And that the said
removed out of the Jurisdiction of the
for the county of
severity because of her application for freedom
narr.
This is an action of
assault & Battery &
false imprisonment
before the Judge of our
for the county of
of a plea of trespass with force and arms wherefore the said
Damage from the said
sum of the Thousand Dollars and have you then there this writ
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Where as it has been represented to our
woman of color that you unlawfully detain
her the said
these are therefore to command you that without
delay you bring the body of the said
before our said
at the
at the place and time aforesaid the cause of
her Caption and
In
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The
the
of
her liberty for any
wherefore she
to the
certain to have the body of
Honourable court and thus you
and further
meet and your
are
Petition for
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and for the county of
then and there to answer unto
force and arms wherefore the said
to the sum of one thousand Dollars and have you then there this
writ
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And the said
and form to the
complained against him of this
on the county
filed
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Be it remembered that on the trial
of the above cause it was proved that
the plaintiff in their action is a mulatto and
was
entitled “an ordinance for the government
of the territory of the united states north west of the
a
the late north western, then
now state of
plaintiff was owned and held in slavery by a
and
while as held in slavery and was herself raised and held
there in slavery
the year
slavery as his property till the
returned her in consequence of the
she made to her freedom, to the said
who at the time of the commencement of
this
mother of the said plantiff has a negro woman
slave owned and held as such in the town of
aforesaid before
ordinance aforesaid and no other
given on either side and the case being tried by the court
the
1.That if they find from the testimony that the
mother of the plantiff was a
the
the territory of the united states north west of the
passage of the
2.the
by his
The
that if they find from the testimony that the
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1. That if they find from the testimony that the matter
of the plaintiff was a negro woman
Day of July 1787
government of the Territory of the
of the river
in the late northwestern territory & the plaintiff
was born of
of the ordinance aforesaid, as the village of
aforesaid she the plaintiff is not entitled
to her freedom, which instruction the court refused
to
counsel excepts.
The deft by his counsel also moved the court to
2. That if they find from the testimony that the
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Mother of the said
legally held in slavery before & at & after the
the ordinance entitled “an ordinance for the
government of the Territory of the
by a French inhabitant of the village of
in the northwestern territory & who was a citizen of
the same before the conquest of the country by
& afterwards that the
aforesaid of such mother while so held in slavery.
to the date of the ordinance aforesaid, she, the
the court refused to give to which refusal
the Deft. by his counsel excepts & prays
that these his exceptions may be signed
sealed & made of part of the record which is one accordingly.
Bill of exception