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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Wetmore 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1843-09-20

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</bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <langUsage> <language ident="eng">English</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords scheme="local"> <list> <item n="Topical"/> <item n="Topical"/> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change when="2012-07-24">GAL performed initial transcription and encoding</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f14i0135_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that <persName>Ottowa Wetmore</persName> as<lb/> principal and <persName>George H Kennerly</persName> as security are held<lb/> and firmly bound unto the state of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> each in<lb/> the sum of two hundred Dollars for the payment of<lb/> which well & truly to be made _ we bind ourselvs_<lb/> our heirs Executors <add place="above">or</add> Administrators and each and<lb/> every them, by these presents signed by us <add place="above">&</add> sealed <lb/> with our seals and dated this <date when="1843-09-20"> twentieth day of -<lb/> September in the year of our Lorde Eighteen_<lb/> hundred and forty-three</date> </p> <p>The Condition of this Obligation is<lb/> such that whereas the County Court of St. Louis<lb/> County has granted to the said <persName>Ottowa Wetmore</persName> during<lb/> his residence in said State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> shall<lb/> be of good behaviour then this Obligation to be <lb/> void otherwise remain in full force and <lb/> virtue in Law</p> <closer> <signed>Ottowa his X mark Wetmore</signed> Seal<lb/> <signed>G.H. Kennerly</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f14i0135_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>Ottowa Wetmore</persName> <lb/> To Bond <lb/> The State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> <lb/> Filed <date when="1843-09-20">September 20th 1843</date> <lb/> <persName>Henry J. Wise</persName> Clerk </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>