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            <title>Alexander Scott, William K. Rule vs. Charles Bent</title>
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            <date type="filing" when="1835-04-28">April 28, 1835</date>
            <date type="term" when="1835-07">July Term 1835</date>
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            <caseTitle>Alexander Scott, William K. Rule vs. Charles Bent</caseTitle>
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            <party role="plaintiff">Scott, Alexander</party>
            <party role="plaintiff">Rule, William K.</party>
            <party role="defendant">Bent, Charles</party>
            <causeAction type="civil">Debt</causeAction>
            <caseNo>34</caseNo>
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            <court type="state">St. Louis Circuit Court</court>
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            <clerk>Gamble, Archibald</clerk>
            <sheriff>Brotherton, J.</sheriff>
            <attorney for="plaintiff">Spalding, Josiah</attorney>
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               <author role="plaintiff">Rule, William K.</author>
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                           <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                     <date when="1835-04-28">28th April 1835</date>
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                           <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
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               <p>500</p>
               <p>4.16 1.38</p>
               <p>200 138</p>
               <p>198.62</p>
               <p>500</p>
               <p>
                  <date when="1831-05-08">8 May 1831</date>
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                  <abbr>No</abbr> 34
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                     <date when="1835-07">July Term 1835</date>
                     <lb/> 
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                           <orig>St. Louis Circuit Court</orig>
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               <p rend="bracketed">Scott <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <abbr>vs</abbr>.<lb/> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>Chs</supplied>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> petition</p>
               <p>On <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>note</supplied>
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                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>J Spalding</orig>
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                     <lb/> atty</signed>
                  <dateline>Filed <date when="1835-04-28">28th April 1835</date>
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                  <signed>Archibated Gamble Clerk</signed>
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               <p>The Sheriff of the county of <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Saint Louis</orig>
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                  </placeName> will<lb/> require <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>bail</supplied>
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                  <signed>Archibated Gamble Clerk</signed>
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                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                     <date when="1835-04-28">28th April 1835</date>
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                     <orgName>
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                           <orig>St Louis Circuit Court</orig>
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                     <date when="1835-07">July Term 1835</date>
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               <p>Third <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>Judicial</supplied>
                  </unclear> Circuit<lb/> 
                  <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>County of St. Louis</orig>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">Sct.</unclear>, <persName>
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                        <orig>Alexander Scott</orig>
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                        <orig>William K. Rule</orig>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> partners under the name and style of Scott &amp; Rule<lb/> plantiffs state that they hold a note on the defendant<lb/> 
                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Charles Bent</orig>
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                  </persName> in substance as followeth<lb/> for 500 dolls.</p>
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                  <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>St. Louis</orig>
                     </choice>
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                  <date when="1831-07-07">July 7th. 1831</date>
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               <p>On or before the <date when="1833-11-15">fifteenth day of November eighteen hun-<lb/>dred &amp; thirty three</date>. I p romise to pay to the order of Scott &amp;<lb/> Rule five hundred dollars with interest at the rate of ten<lb/> per cent per annum from the <date when="1833-05-08">8th day of may</date> last till<lb/> paid, without defalcation for value recd</p>
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                  <signed>Chas. Bent</signed>
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               <p>yet the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>said</supplied>
                  </unclear> debt remains unpaid wherefore the plain<lb/>tiffs pray Judgement for their <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> &amp; damage for the de<lb/>tention of the same together with costs.</p>
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                           <orig>Alexander Scott</orig>
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                     </persName> &amp;<lb/> 
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                           <persName>
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                                 <orig>Wm</orig>
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                           <orig>K. Rule</orig>
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                           <persName>
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                                 <orig>J</orig>
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                                 <orig>Spalding</orig>
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                        <supplied>their</supplied>
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                           <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>William K. Rule</orig>
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                        <orig>Charles</orig>
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                        <orig>Bent</orig>
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                        <orig>Bent</orig>
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                        <orig>Missouri</orig>
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                        <placeName>
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                              <orig>Mexico</orig>
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                        <placeName>
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                              <orig>Missouri</orig>
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                     <supplied>claim</supplied>
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                  <dateline>Sworn to and subscribed before me this <date when="1835-04-28">28th day<lb/> of April 1835</date>
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                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
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                        <supplied>
                           <persName>
                              <choice>
                                 
                                 <orig>Wm K</orig>
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                     <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> 500 Dolls<lb/> 
                     <placeName>
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                           <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                     <date when="1831-07-07">July 7th 1831</date>
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               <p>On or before the <date when="1833-11-15">fifteenth day of November<lb/> Eighteen Hundred thirty three</date> I Promise to pay<lb/> to the order of Scott <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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B. R. <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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               <author role="sheriff">Brotherton, J.</author>
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               <p>Executed this writ by <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                        <orig>Charles Bent</orig>
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                              <orig>Josiah</orig>
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                           <orig>Spalding</orig>
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                  <date when="1835-05-19">May 19th<lb/> 1835</date>
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                           <persName>
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                                 <orig>J</orig>
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                        <orig>Bent</orig>
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                  <abbr>No</abbr> 34
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                           <orig>Saint Louis Circuit Court</orig>
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                     <date when="1835-07">July Term 1835</date>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>  Petition &amp; <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <persName>
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                        <orig>Charles Bent</orig>
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               <p>upon the affidavit filed in this case it is<lb/> ordered that the defendant he held to <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <lb/> in the sum of Seven Hundred and Eighty five<lb/> dollars the Sheriff of the <placeName>
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                        <orig>County of Saint Louis</orig>
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                           <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
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                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                     <date when="1835-04-28">28th April 1835</date>
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               <p>Discontinued Book <ref target="TBD">7 page 403</ref>
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                     <supplied>Fee bill</supplied>
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                           <orig>St Louis Circuit Court</orig>
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                     <lb/> For <date when="1835-07">July Term 1835</date>
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                           <orig>County of St Louis</orig>
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                        <orig>Alexander Scott</orig>
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                        <orig>William K Rule</orig>
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                        <orig>Charles Bent</orig>
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               <p>For 500 Dolls</p>
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                        <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                  <date when="1831-07-07">July 7th 1831</date>
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                     <supplied>last</supplied>
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                        <orig>Chas Bent</orig>
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               <p>Yet the said <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Alexander Scott</orig>
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                           <persName>
                              <choice>
                                 
                                 <orig>Wm K</orig>
                              </choice>
                           </persName>
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                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Rule</orig>
                        </choice>
                     </persName>.<lb/> by J Sparding their <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">atty</unclear>
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                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>County of Saint Louis</orig>
                        </choice>
                     </placeName> ss<lb/> The State of missouri</dateline>
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               <p>to the Sheriff of the county of <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Saint Louis</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </placeName> Geeting</p>
               <p>We cammand you to take <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Charles Bent</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </persName> of he be found in your<lb/> County and him safely keep so that you may have his body before the<lb/> Judge of our Circuit court for the County aforesaid on the second day of the<lb/> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>next</supplied>
                  </unclear>July term thereof to be held at the <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>City of St Louis</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </placeName> within and for the<lb/> 
                  <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>County of Saint Louis</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </placeName> on the fourth Monday of July next then and there<lb/> to answer unto the above demand of <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Alexander Scott</orig>
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                  </persName> and <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>William K Rule</orig>
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                  <lb/> heretofore partners under the name and style of Scott &amp; Rule as <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>set</supplied>
                  </unclear> forth in<lb/> their petition of which the above is a copy and have you then there this writ</p>
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                     <supplied>Witness</supplied>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </persName> Clerk of our<lb/> said <orgName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Circuit Court</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </orgName> at office this <date when="1835-04-28">Twenty<lb/> Eighty day of April in the year one thousand<lb/> Eighty Hundred and thirty five</date>
                  <signed>Archibtd Gamble Clerk</signed>
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