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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit Court historical records project.
The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
Petition & order of
the Judge
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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
To the Honorable the Judge of the Circuit Court
of the
a woman of color respectfully represents
That she was born a slave in the state of
of that state that she has became since the property
of
July in the year eighteen hundred and
thirty four took your petitioner to
in the state of
was held by the said
slave for same three or four weeks and
was then removed by him to
a place on the western side of the
River North of the Northern
line of
region called
held your petitioner as a slave in the performance
of the ordinary labour of a slave
from sometime in August or September
1834 until the
in consequence of your petitioner having
commanced procedings to recover her
liberty she was removed by the said
and subsequently she was brought
down the river
city of
claims her as a slave wherefore your
petitioner prays that your
her leave to
her freedom and will make the
orders to that and and your petitioner &c
This day personally
the peace within and for the
the petitioner in the foregoing petition
who being by me duly sworn upon her oath says that the facts stated
foregoing petition
On the foregoing petition is ordered
that the petitioner
her freedom and
assigned as her counsel and it is further
ordered that the petitioner milly have
reasonable liberty to attend her counsel
and the Court when occasion may
require and that she shall not be taken
or removed out of the
of the
nor he subject to any severity because
of her application for freedom.
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Whereas it has bean made to appear to
the satisfaction of the Judge of the
who has presented her petitioner to said judge for leave to due as a poor person to establish her freedoms
is about to be removed out of the Jurisdication
of the
are therefore to command you that you have
the body of the said milly before the said judge
on the
hour of ten October
to law and herein fail not at your peril
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color by
of
for that the said
day of October, in the year eighteen
hundred and thirty five
arms at the county aforesaid an as-
sault did make in and upon the said
then and there did beat and
and did then and there take and im-
prison the said
did keep and detain
avers that before and at the
committing of the said grievances she
the said
said
the said grievances held and detained
and still holds and detains her the said
dignity of the State and to the damage
of the said
lars and therefore she
On the foregoing
is ordered, that the
to
and
and it is further ordered, that the petitioner
counsel and the court when occassion may
require, and that she shall not be taken
or removed out of the
because of her application for freedom -
We command you to Summon
that he be and appear before the judge of our cir-
circuit court at the next term thereof to be held
at the city of
of
next then and there to
a free woman of color of a plea of Trespass to the
damage of the said plaintiff of five hundred dollars
and have you then there this writ
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vs
Action of Trespass
asst & batt &c to recover
freedom
Let a Summon
issue