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            <date type="filing" when="1823-11-06">November 6, 1823</date>
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               <p>on the day and year <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> 
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                  <supplied> wholly </supplied> neglected &amp; refused and the said Defendants still do<lb/> neglect &amp; refuse to the damage of the said Plaintiff of<lb/> six thousand dollars and therefore they sue &amp; C.</p>
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                     <date when="1823-10">October Term 1823</date>
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                  <abbr>vs</abbr>
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               <author role="defendant"> Spalding </author>             
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                           <orig>William Clark</orig>
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                  <supplied> Tho </supplied> 
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                  <supplied> Thoff </supplied> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> 
                  <supplied> Reid dick</supplied> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> 
                  <supplied> Pis Prk Miss</supplied>
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               <title> Subpoena for William Hempstead </title>
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               <p>This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit
                    Court historical records project.</p>
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               <legalTitle> Subpoena for William Hempstead </legalTitle>
               <author role="clerk"> Gamble, Archibald </author>             
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                  <dateline>State Of <placeName>
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                           <orig>Missouri</orig>
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                     <placeName>
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                           <orig>County of St. Louis</orig>
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                  <salute>To the Sheriff of <seg rend="form-fill-in">St. Loius</seg> county—Greeting.</salute>
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                  <lb/> that setting asie all manner of excuse and delay <seg rend="form-fill-in">they</seg> be and appear in proper person before the Judge of our circuit<lb/> court <unclear rend="strikethrough" unit="chars">on the</unclear> 
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                  <unclear rend="strikethrough" unit="chars">day of</unclear>at the town of <placeName>
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                        <orig>St. Louis</orig>
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                           <orig>O Fallon</orig>
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                        <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
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                        <orig>St. L</orig>
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                  <abbr>C.</abbr>
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                           <orig>K Walker</orig>
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                     <date when="1826-07">July 1823</date>
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                  <supplied> C</supplied>
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                  <signed>for Wm. Hampstead<lb/> E. S. Hampstead<lb/> forthwith</signed>
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