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 July Term 1826 July 25, 1826

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 Betsy Hagan vs. Philip Rocheblave July Term 1826 July 25, 1826 Hagan, Betsy Rocheblave, Philip Petition for Freedom 77 St. Louis Circuit Court Gamble, Archibald ED performed final review of legal encoding MM deciphered vendor's unclear tags through line 48 EC added legal information Petition for Freedom

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.

 Petition for Freedom Hagan, Betsy St. Louis Circuit Court To the Honorable the circuit court held in and for the County of St Louis

Your petitioner represents that she was born in the state of Pennsylvania and when thirty years was brought into the state of Illinois and sold as a slave , that she continued to and in the said state of Illinois until with in two or three years John in the of a slave when she was removed from the said State of Illinois and this lived and pop of said Philip Rocheblave as a slave who now labels her as a slave he the said Philip Rocheblave being a resident & of the City of St Louis Your petitioner prays to be to said for under June according to the of the in that in need and

Betsy my X mark Hagan No 77 July Term 1826

Betsy Hagan vs Rocheblave

filed July 25th 1826 A Gamble Clk