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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
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Your petitioner
July not
the state of
of
intended as her last
that said
your petitioner by the will of
she should think proper. your petitioner
further
claimed &
slave that the will of
was
ought to be sold & the proceeds
among the heirs of
this purpose a Bill was filed in the
Charles
was to have your Petitioner & her mother
sold & the proceeds distrubted among
the heirs of
answered by Charles Landers who admitted the
facts as stated in
that the Instrument of writing made by
your petitioner & her mother from slavery &
subsmitted the law to the Court
were had in said court that the
costs against the complainant on the ground
that your Petitioner was free your
petitioner states by the instrument
your petitioner your petitioner was requested
to remain with Rasanna &
untill she was 18 years old to pay for her
raising your petitioner did so
while she was permitted to remain in
But your petitioner states that although said
and declared that your Petitoner was
about three years ago he remained your
petitioner to
years ago as a slave untill the
July AD 1840
1840
your petitioner as a slave in St Louis
The Record of the
as aforesaid are herewith
truth of this petition. Your petitioner prays that
she may he permitted to
to establish her freedom that counsel may be
assigned to her & such orders made in her
behalf as the
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I
Circuit of the
that the foregoing petition & the
sent
sufficient matter to authourise the commence
ment of a
as her
and I do further order that said
have reasonable
& the Court when
and that the petitioner shall not be taken or
removed out of the
application for freedom
hand at chambers this
Petition of
for
freedom
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Clerk gamble's fee $ 2.58
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vs
plea
not quilty
and the said defendant
by
force and injury when &
he is not guilty of the said supposed trespasses
in said delaration mentioned in
the same are charged in that declaration and
of this he puts himself upon the country & C
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vs
This a suit for Freedom
in the
by
The Clerk
issue a summons
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assault & Battery & false imprisonment for
that heretofore
of June in the year 1835
at the
arms an assault did make upon her the
plaintiff & did then & there what
& ill treat the plaintiff & did then & there
imprison her
probable cause & hath kept her imprison there
from the day last aforesaid untill this &
other wrongs then & there did against the
And the plaintiff
time of the committing the said several
said defendant held & detained & still
hold &
plaintiff says
she
&
&
I am
said
I Luke & Lawless Judge of the third Judicial circuit of
the state of
record of the suit referred to
to authorize the commencement of a suit an order that said petitioner
freedom.
cute said suit & I do further order that said
-able liberty of attending her counsel & the Court when occasion
may require - and that the petitioner shall not be taken or removed
out of the Jurisdiction of the Court nor be subject to any severity because
of her application for freedom. Given under my hand at
this
We command you to
be and appear before the Judge of our
next term thereof to be held at the
the
then and there to answer unto
by
Battery & false imprisonment to the damage of the said
plaintiff of one Hundred dollars and have you then there
this writ
Executed this writ by heading it and the declaration
and petition and also the order-made by the honorable
Judge to
1835
Service $1.00
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of John
vs
We command you to attach
John Muchale
by
the Judge of our
and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy, now pending in our said
defendant wherein the said
has heretofore been summoned on the part of the said