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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.
complains of
on the
and arms, made an
bruised,
and kept and detained her in prison there,
without any reasonable or probable cause,
for a long time, to wit for the
of
nevertheless the said
and at the time of committing the
that the defendant held and detained
her and still holds and detains her in
slavery, countrary to the law of the land
and against the will of the said
And other wrongs to the said
and there did to the great damage of
the said
sustained damages the amount of
five hundred dollars; and there
fore she brings her suit
Declaration
We command you to summon
appear before the Judge of our
thereof to be held at the
and there to answer unto
hath sustained damages_ the amount of five hundred dollars
and have you then there this writ.
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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
Your petitioner,
your honour that she was born in the State
of
she was sold to Moses
taken to the
ago: that she was by the said Moses
tained in the
ley
State of Mossouri, when she is advised and be_
lieves she is entitled to her freedom. Therefore
your petitioner prays that she may be permitted
to sue as a poor person to
thereto, and that such other and further orders
may be made in the premises as the law di_
rects
and as may seem meet and proper to
your honour.
personally appeared before me
Justice of the Peace for the County and State
aforesaid,
duly sworn, says that the fact set out in the fore_
giving
and twenty nine
The within named
as poor person on the within petition to establish
her freedom & the clerk of the
of St. Louis County is
the
-pose -and John C.
is hereby asigned as her
moreover ordered that the petitionee have
reasonable
and the court when occures may require
and that the petitioner shall not be taken
or removed out of the jurisdiction of the
court nor be subject to any
of her application for freedom.
Petition to sue in forma
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We command you to summon
appear before the Judge of our
to
on the fourth Monday of November next then and there to answer
unto
is injured
Hundred
We Command you as we have often heretofore commanded
you to summon
the Judge of our
held at the
on the fourth Monday of March next then and there to answer
unto
she is injured and hath sustained damages to the amount of
Five Hundred dollars and have you then there this writ.
Willy Williams not found in my County
and