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 June 21, 1844 April Term 1844

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 Ann, a woman of color v. John M. Jamison June 21, 1844 April Term 1844 Ann Jamison, John M. False Imprisonment 394 St. Louis Circiut Court Ruland, John Clements, Charles B. Unknown 6860 BJ deciphered all unclear tags KT finished correcting legal encoding KT removed comment tags, added caseTitle, and moved legalFunction tags CM performed final review of legal encoding APJ checked horizontal and vertical rends Plaintiff's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

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.

 Plaintiff's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus Ruland, John St. Louis Circuit Court To the Hon. the Circuit Court of St Louis County April Term 1844.

The petition of Ann , a woman of color respectfully states to your honorable Court, that she is confined and restrained of her reasonable liberty by John M . Jamison jailor of St Louis County, in the jail of said County. That said confinement is not by virtue of any warrant, order or process . That it is not pretended or alleged that petitioner is a slave. As the true cause of such imprisonment petitioner states, that she has been living at Peoria in Illinois for the last six years as the indentured servant under the Laws of Illinois to one Charles Ballance , that said Ballance about two months since hired your petitioner to one William Wilson , who brought petitioner from Peoria aforesaid to St Louis , and there kept her in his family at labor until the seventeenth June eighteen hundred forty four, when on account of some disagreement between the family of said Wilson your petitioner she was by said Wilson put into the hands of one John W . Paulding, constable , who conveyed her to the jail aforesaid under charge of said Jamison . She prays that a writ of Habeas Corpus may be issued by this Hon. Court and to be discharged from her imprisonment

Ann her mark State of Missouri St Louis County Ss.

Ann of Color being swornin open Court says, the facts set forth in forgoing petition are true

Sworn to & subscribed in open Court the 21st June 1844 John Ruland Clerk Ann her x mark Writ of Habeas Corpus

This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit Court historical records project.

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 Writ of Habeas Corpus Ruland, John Clements, Charles B. Jamison, John M. St. Louis Circuit Court State of Missouri St Louis County Ss

The state of Missouri to John Jamison , jailor of St Louis County - You are hereby commanded to have the body of Ann, a woman of Color, confined as it is said in the jail of said County, together with the time and cause of such imprisonment and detention, before the Circuit Court of St Louis County, at the hour of three oclock P.M of this day, to do and receive what shall then and there be considered concerning the said Ann , as our said Court shall , and have you then and there this writ.

Witness John Ruland Clerk of our said Court with the Seal thereof hereto affixed, at office in the city of St Louis the 21st day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty four John Ruland Clerk By Cha. B. Clements To the Honourable the Circuit Court of St Lourty.

I herewith return this writ, and have the body of Ann, the petitioner before the said Court, that state that she is not in confinement by virtue of any warrant order or process , but was committed to my custody on the 17 June 1844, by John W . Paulding for safe keeping, who informed this respondent, that said Ann was not a slave but an indented servant under the laws of Illinois , and had been at labor in St Louis for one William Wilson , under a hiring from her master by indenture

St Louis 21 June 1844 J M Jameson Jailor No. 394 St Louis Circuit Court April Term 1844

Ann , vs John M Jamison

``By the Habeas Corpus act''

Filed June 21st 1844 John Ruland Clerk

Ann dischd at custy of Wm Wilson 15 p 147