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The petition
as for her child
That she is now about twenty one year old. That she may born in
the
years ago (fifteen or seventeen years) one
then master of your
petitioners, then being a little girl was
and remained in his
ago, when he
(your petitioner being one) into the state
of
about one year, near a place called
Waggoners Point, opposite the lower
rapids of the
petitioner for about two or three years,
within a few days past. The petition
states that a few days after she was
taken into the
had the alone
That for
occasionally
selling your petitioner, but was
by the opposition of his wife, in whose right
he at first obtained her. That not long
since Mrs
as
brought
& sold her & her child
Greer Crowder, who, as your petitioner
is informed &
trader, and follows the occupation
of buying slaves in this part of the
Country & selling them in the lower
Country. Immediately after the purchase,
Child to the
country, for safe keeping until he
should be ready to take them to the
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southern
fear that she & and the child will he hurried from jail, or board a
opportunity to assert
freedom.
She is
of her
her child are entitled to their freedom,
of which they are
to take
she
to
he her
above named petitioner
jane, who informed the
in jail for
to take them (
the
heard she said
herself
that according to the best of her knowledge & belief
the facts stated in the foregoing petition are true
and that she is informed & believes that
Crowder, within named, intends in a way that
time to take her & her child to the Lower Country
for tale, and will do so unless immedately res-
tranied by an order of the judge
in a day or two. -
On the foregoing petition
in
is hereby assigned her as Counsel - It is moreover ordered
that for
or
& her counsel whenever occasion may require
& that neither she nor said child be
any severityy on account of her
freedom & that they be not removed out of the juris
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of color, complains of
For that the said defendant on the
November in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty
with force and arms assaulted the said plaintiff,
as the County aforesaid and then and there
the said plaintiff and kept and detained her in prison
there without any reasonable or probable
for a long time, to wit, for the space of twenty four hours
against the will of the said plaintiff, and other
to the said plaintiff then and there did, against the
peace and dignity of the state of
damage of the said plaintiff of one hundred dollars,
and therefore she brings her said &c.
And the said plaintiff avers that before & as
the time of the committing the grievances aforesaid, she
was and still is a free person and that the defendant
held and detained her & still holds and detains her in
slavery.
We command you to Summon
before the Judge of our circuit court at the next March term therefoe to be
held at the
fourth Monday of March next then and there to answer unto
called
of the said plaintiff of one Hundred dollars and have you there
this
Copy of the order of judge
otherwise called
as also in that of her child
is hereby
said Thernia or
occasion may require - that neither she nor said child be subjected to any
account of her application for freedom & that they & not removed out of the
this court - given under my hand this
Thernia alias
vs
Action of
Damage $100.00
Served this writ by reading it & the
the
the city of
of the
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And the said
ney comes and defends the force and
says he is not guilty of the said
the said declaration mentioned in
as the said plaintiff hath above thereof complained
against him and of this he
And for further plea in this behalf the said
defendant says that the said plaintiff
to have and maintain her aforesaid a
thereof against him because he says that the
said plaintiff at the time when
plaintiff was a slave without this that at the time
when he was free as in her said declaration
is above supposed and this he is ready to
wherefore he
And the said pltff: as to the said plea of the said atty by
him secondly above
freedom of away their
not to be
action thereof against him the said
1 plea not guilty
2 plaintiff a slave