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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
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ten months,
son of
of
forty one
for
that several months after the said
by said
birth to your petitioner in the said county of
that for several months after the birth of your petitioner
the said
last named and there kept your petitioner that the said
the
in said city that said
entitled to
B
sold the said
is now in the custody of James
states that the said John &
and
in your petitioner as a slave- your petitioner states that the
said
petitioner to
to
said court - Believing that he is free and entitled to his
freedom, your petitioner
sue for his freedom as a
further
jurisdiction of said court - your petitioner states further
that his mother the said
by an Indian man and that the father of your petition
is a white man so that the proportion of African blood
your petitioner is about one eighth.
duly sworn says that the matters and things in
the foregoing petition of
true to the best of her
The
County being satisfied that the petition of
a child of color contains sufficient
the
as a poor prison to
do
Second: that the said
to attend his
of the court and that he
on account of his application for freedom.
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who sues by his next friend
H. Sparr,
For that the said defendants on the
April in the year eighteen hundred
and forty two
County aforesaid upon said plaintiffs an assault did
make and him the said plaintiff did strike bruise and
otherwise ill treat and him then and there did
imprison
time to wit from the day & year last aforesaid to this day
contrary to the statutes in such case made and provided
and against
And the said plaintiff
time of the committing of the grievances aforesaid, he
the said
person, and that the said defendants held and still
hold him in slavery.
To the plaintiffs damage
one dollar & therefore he brings suit
Petition for freedom
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We command you to
found in your County that they be and appear
before the Judge of our
held at the
of July next, then and there to answer unto
a boy of color who sues by his next friend
of a plea of trespass and false imprisonment
I acknowledge myself bound for all costs that may accrue in the above cause
order to hire out petitioner rescinded & suit dismissed Bk 13 p 227
Suit for freedom, Dam ___ $1.
It is ordered- first, That the said
his right to freedom and do assign Messrs
King & Murdoch as his counsel. Second- That
the said
liberty to attend his counsel and the court
as occasion may require, that he be not
removed out of the jurisdiction of the court
and that he be not subject to any severity on
account of his application for freedom.
Executed this writ, on the
in the
annexed declaration to
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The Judge of the Our
Eighth Judicial Circuit being satisfied that
from out of the Jurisdiction of the said court
for his freedom, This is therefore to command
you to take the said child wherever he may
be found and bring him before our said Judge
at three o'clock of the afternoon of this day
at gaol in the city & county of
and summon the persons in whose possession
he may be found, as also
child to appear before our said Judge at
the same time and place - and have you then
there this writ - to witness the hand of our said Judge
at Chancery in the city and county of
one thousand eight hundred and forty two
Thaddeus Alonzo - a
male child of color.
Executed this writ in the
Thaddeus Alonzo at the Gaol as required
by this writ, and also by summoning
and
required.
Service $5.00
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Be it remembered that on the
ninth day of April in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty two
county of
the undersigned Judge of the Eighth
Judicial
Alonzo a child of color under the writ
this day by the undersigned issued under
the 4th and 5th sections of an act entitled
“an act to enable persons
“held in slavery to sue for their freedom”
and the parties in the writ named
having declined to enter in the recognizance
required by the seventh section of
the said act, and the said child
being but a few months old and utterly
helpless, & incapable of being disposed
of under the eighth section of the
said act, therefore it is ordered that
child subject to the order of this
Court.