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Aexis Lebo makith oath
that he will having Pelage (a
girl of colour
) in the forgoing pe
tition named and that he also
will
in the same petition
named and
that the said
time in the year
eighteen hundred
then or eleven to the best of their
affiants
belief the said
removed from the town of
into the
state of
with him as his slave the said
pelagie
and that the said
after said removed lived at
a place called the french
village in
said State in the county
of
the said
for the space of about five years
when the said
back to the said town of
bringing the said slave with
him
and further this
saith not
Let the
filed
1821
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under the age of
cois Vallois on the
January in the
year of our Lord one
one
of
the said
Pelagie and then and there
beat bruised and
said
and there imprisoned her the said.
Pelagie and kept and detained her
in
sonable or
soever for a long time to writ from
thence
hitherto continually contrary
to the law of the land and against
the
the peace of the state and the form of the
statute
in that case made or provided to
the damage of the said
Pelagie of
of five hundred dollars and there
fore she
You are hereby commanded to summon
appear before the Judge of our circuit court
to be held at the town of
and there to answer unto
of a plea of
hundred
Dollars and have you then there this writ.
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This is an action
of trespass with
force
Let a
sue and the
proper order
the town
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You are hereby commanded to summon
Judge of our
said court, wherein
for
Gregoir
Executed their write on G. Sarpy
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her aforesaid
because he says that before
the
mencement of this
ty
een hundred and twenty
one
was the slave of him
the said
the county aforesaid and that he
the said
lois then and there by his
cetain
that date for and in
three hundred dollars to him paid by one
to the said
and
he prays Judgment if the said
of against
plea
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that setting aside all manner of
excuse and delay
our
and there to testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of
controversy now pending in our said court,
wherein
and
on the part of the
for
Louis Soloman
Angelie
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
our
and there to testify and the truth to say in a
certain matter of controversy now pending in our said court,
wherein
and
on the part of the
for
Constance
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
our
and there
to testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now
pending in our said court,
wherein
and
on the part of
the
Executed this
writ in Louis
the
not found
for
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
kenneth,
our Circuit court, on the
and there
to testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now
pending in our said court,
wherein
and
on the part of
the
for
Pierre Raie
this county
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
our
and there to testify and the truth so say
in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said court,
wherein
and
on the part of the
for
on
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
Louis
our
and there to
testify and the truth so say in a ceratain matter of controversy now pending
in our said court,
wherein
and
on the part of
the
for
the
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that setting aside all manner of
excuse and delay
our
and there to testify and the truth so say
in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said court,
wherein
and
on the part of the
Constance
this county
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that setting
aside all manner of a excuse and delay
our
and there to testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of
controversy now pending in our said court,
wherein
and
on the part of the
for
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that
setting aside all manner of excuse and delay
our
and there to testify and the truth so say in a certain matter of
controversy now pending in our said court,
wherein
and
on the part of the
Constance
for
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a woman of colour
praying that she may be permitted to
suit against
that she may be permitted to
action of
in
the name of said
that the said
defendant permit the said petitioner to have a reasonable
require it and that
the said petitioner shall not be taken or removed
out of the
of treatment on
account of her application for freedom
Executed this order on Franies
copy of
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The petition of
female of colour and
under the age of twenty one years
by
her next friend (her father being
a slave and her mother being
dead). respectfully represents to your
eighteen
was
as the property of
and that while
infant perhaps
who
petitioner
in the said
hundred and
the said
from the said
of
with him as his
slave, to a place
called the
said state,
where he continued
to reside with his family and
with your
petitioner holding
her as his
of two
years or
time of said removal
that
after which time the said
her as
of said
to the said state of
residence
prays your
and that your
such other orders as from
time to
time to your
merit
bound will ever
pray
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On
ordered
appear before the Court on Saturday
the 23rd instant to then cause why
an
against them for a contempt
in disobeying a form order of this
court by sending
applying for
her freedom and
of the
Executed this
Summons on
the Defendants
on the
1822
of residence
in the
against
Francois