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 April Term, 1821 April 9, 1819

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 Hannah, a free girl vs. Phebe Whitesides April Term, 1821 April 9, 1819 Hannah, a free girl Whitesides, Phebe Trespass, Assault and Battery, False Imprisonment 197 Superior Court, Northern Circuit, County of St. Louis Bent, Silas Walker, J.K. Barton, J. Geyer, Henry Pettibone Spalding Verdict for Plaintiff, freedom granted 190,196,198 ED performed final review of legal encoding EC added legal information MF deciphered vendor's unclear tags through line 29 MF proofread and corrected transcription errore through line 93 MF deciphered vendor's unclear tags through line 93 MF proofread and corrected transcription errors through line 93 MF deciphered vendor's unclear tags through line 29 MF proofread and corrected transcription errors through line 29 EC deciphered vendor's unclear tags through line 29. Summons

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 Summons illegible Walker, J.K. Barton, J. Superior Court, Northern Circuit Territory of Missouri Northern Circuit St. The United States of America to the Sheriff of the County of St Louis Greeting

You are Commanded that Your Summon Phebe Whitesides , also Pruitt that She be and appear before the judges of our superior Court ofour Territory of Missouri , at our said superior arrest to be held in and for the further Circuit of the said Territory at the Town of the St. Louis , on the fourth monday in March meeting than and there in our said Court, before the Judge of our said court, to answer unto Hannah a free girl held in slavery, in a plea of trespass , assault & Battery and false imprisonment to her damage five hundred dollars - and have you then and there this writ and certify to our fair court how you the same

Service this writ 9th February by reading it to the defendt at the house of Mrs Musick Bonhimme Tow-nship.

J. K. Walker Diff

Service $.80

Travel 36 ms 1.80

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 No. 197 April 1821 Superior Court March Term 1819

Hannah a free girl vs Phebe Whitesides alias Pruit

Summary narr. in imprisionment

This is an action trespass & false imprisonment. Dam age 500

Let a summons issue J. Barton & Geyer

filed April 9th 1819 Bill of Exceptions

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 Bill of Exceptions Tucker St. Louis Circuit Court St Louis Circuit Court Febry Term 1822 Hannah a free girl vs Phebe Whitesides

In the trial of this cause it was proved on the part of the plaintiff that one Winne mother of the said plaintiff was carried into the now state of Illinois between twenty and thirty years since by the said defendant and her husband when and where the said Winne was by them held in slave-ry during the space of three or four years: that at the end of said time of three or four years the said Phebe with her said husband removed to the now state of Missouri carrying the said Winne with them in which last mentioned place the said Winne has been held in slavery ever since such re-moval: and that said plaintiff was born after such residence in Illinois of said Winne as aforesaid The counsel for the defendant then required the court to instruct the jury that a residence in the then north west territory ( now Illinois ) as above mentioned did not render the said Winne free under and in virtue of the ordinance of Congress of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven for the government of the territory of the united states north west of the river shio which instruction the court refused hub changed the jury that said ordi-nance did in law set the said Winne free if it should appear to the satisfaction of the jury that the said defendant and her then husband resided there (in Illinois ) with intent to make that territory the home of themselves and of the said Winne and that the said plaintiff wasentitled To this opinion of the court delivered to the jury the counsel for the defendant excepted and prayed the court to sign and seal a bill of exceptions taken thereto which is done ac-cordingly in open court this tenth day of March in the year one thousand eight hun-dred and twenty two

N. B. Tucker St Louis Circuit Court Hannah free girl vs. Phebe whitesides

Bill of exception

Petitione and spalding Plaintiff's Complaint

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 Plaintiff's Complaint Barton, J. Geyer, Henry Superior Court, Northern Circuit In the Superior Court . Northern Circuit March Term 1819

County of S Louis , Hannah a free girl held in slavery and who is permitted by the Court to sue as a poor person by J Barton and Henry S. Geyer her assigned as counsel by the said Court complains of Phebe Whitesides alias Pruitt of a place of her trespass. For that the said Phebe heretofore traveled in the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen with force and arms at the County aforesaid unlawfully an assault did make in and upon her the said Hannah and then and there did beat wound and ill treat her the said Hannah and then and there imprisoned her the said Hannah and kept and detained her in prison without any lawful cause whatsoever and has ever since kept and detain and still doth keep and detain her in prison against the will of the said Hannah and contrary to the cause of this Territory. And other wrongs to her then and there did against the peace of the United States of America , and to the damage of the said Hannah five hundred dollars, and therefore she sues

Barton & Geyer for plff