Free Negro Bond for Green Creation of digital images: Digital Library Services, Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries St. Louis, Missouri mhs_A1643_B61f13i0009 fnb

There are no known copyright restrictions on this item. You are free to use this item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. Washington University Libraries does not assert copyright in reproduction scans of public domain materials made openly available on its websites. For more information on policies and procedures governing the use of materials, contact digital@wumail.wustl.edu.

 2010 Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries
One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1061, St. Louis, MO 63130
Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Green 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1843-05-01

Prepared for the Washington University Digital Gateway.

</bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <langUsage> <language ident="eng">English</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords scheme="local"> <list> <item n="Topical"/> <item n="Topical"/> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change when="2012-07-09">GAL performed initial encodiing and transcription</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f13i0009_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that <persName>J Edward <lb/> Green</persName> as principal a free man of color +<lb/> <persName>Thomas B Harden</persName> as his security on hold<lb/> and firmly bound unto the state of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> <lb/> in the just and full sum of two hundred<lb/> dollars for the true payment of which said<lb/> sum of money we bind ourselvs our and<lb/> each of our heirs executors administrators and<lb/> <choice> <orig>afsigns</orig> </choice> jointly and severally firmly by these pres-<lb/> ents sealed with our seals and dated this the <lb/> <date when="1843-05-01">first-day of May in the year of our Lord one thou_<lb/> sand eight hundred + forty three.</date> </p> <p>The condition of the above obliga<lb/> tion is such, that wherever the said <persName>Edward<lb/> Green</persName> has this day obtained from the County<lb/> Court of St. Louis County a License to remain<lb/> in the state as a free man of color<lb/> under the provisions of "an act of the General <choice> <orig>Afsem</orig> </choice> <lb/> bly of the State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice>approved Entitled "An Act <lb/> to prevent free persons of color from entering<lb/> into this state and for other purposes" Now<lb/> if the said <persName>Edward Green</persName> shall be of good<lb/> behavior during the Continuance of said <lb/> <unclear unit="chars" quantity="8"/> then the above obligation to be void <lb/> else the same to be and remaining in full force<lb/> and virtue</p> <closer> <signed>Edward her X mark Green</signed> Seal<lb/> <signed> <abbr>Ths</abbr>B Harden</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f13i0009_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>Edward Green</persName> <lb/> To Bond<lb/> State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> </p> <p> <date when="1843-05-01">May 1. 1843.</date> </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>