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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.
The petition of Aspian a woman of color respectfully
represants that she is the daughter of
born in the state of
whom about
kept him for a short time as a slave and then
sold him to a certain
of the Town of
That the said
to the town of
the year
and containued to his held as a slave by the said
That after your petitioner mother had been held and
Territory aforesaid for the
above she was suit to
Territory and same
to a certain
where she has remained in slavery
two years ago in the town of
Your petition further represents that she is non
illegally held in slavery by a certain
of an ordinence
for prays that she may be permitted to sue
as a poor person in order to
to freedom, that counsel he assigned her for that
purpose and finally that your hour may
the
This day
of color personally apper and before the
and made oath that the matters and things in the
foregoing petitioner contained so far as they depend upon her own
knowledge
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from the information of others she beleive
to her
Sworn to & subscribed
before me this
1st It is hereby ordered that
to sue as a poor person for the recovery of her
her as counsel for that purpose.
2nd That the said
liberty to
court as occasion may require, that
she he not removed out of the
of the court, and that she be not
subject to any
of her application for freedom.
Petition to
sue in form
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her attorney complains of
For that whereas the said
day of January 1837
and
said
& there but,
said
prison then, without any reasonable
or probable came whatsoever for a
long time to wit for the share of
then
laws of the
said
that
of the said
is a for person and that the said
in slavery, to the damage of the said
therefore she brings suit
This is an action
for
in form a
for the recovery
of find and. Damage
$ 300. The clerk will
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We command you to summon
county, that he be and appear before the Honorable Judge of our
city of
of march
a plea of trespass for false imprisonment, wherefore the said
saith she hath sustained damage to the amount of three hundred dollars
-and have you then there this writ.
1st It is hereby ordered that
be assigned her as counsel for that perpose.
That the said
occasion may require,- that she be not removed out of the jurisdiction of the court, and
that she be not subject to any severity on account of her application for freedom.
Filed
Executed this writ by reading it and the declaration
petition order and affidavit to
Defendant in the
day of January 1836