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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit Court historical records project.
The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
The petition of
humbly shows to your honor, that she was born in the
state of
in the family of John
of Francis
year eighteen hundred and brought
your petitioner to
where she
who promised your petitioner her freedom and liberty if she
would
faithfully as a slave for the
that she was brought to
three or four years in
said Rector she was again
therefore the space of about six months in the possession
of Joseph
she returned some short time before the death of said Rector
and was sold by
the time your petitioner was sold to said
petitioner that she your petitioner should be
at the
have lapsed since the said sale to said
two or three years
to the state of
Rector and sold to
petitioner as a slave, Your petitioner therefore humbly prays
this honorable Court to be permitted to bring suit as a poor
person, for the recovery of her natural freedom and liberty and
that this honorable Court would assign her Counsel and make
such other and
will
Ss. Personally appeared before the
a Justice of the
that the matters and facts stated in the foregoing
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upon reading of the within
said
person to establish her claim to freedom
her said claim And it is hereby further
ordered that said
to attend her
of the Court nor she subject to any severty
because of her application for freedom
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is by the court permitted to sue by
her next friend, as a poor person by
her counsel assigned by the Court, complains of
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty seven
of
upon the body of said
there did
without any reasonable or probable cause whatsoever
against the will of said
kept and detained her said
and still keep and detain her in prison against
her will, without any reasonable or probable cause
whatsoever,
and the said defendant other wrong then and
there did to her said
and dignity of the state. Wherefore the said
and hath
five hundred dollars and therefore she sues & c
Upon reading of the within petition it is ordered that said petitioner be permitted to institute
suit as a poor person to establish her claim to freedom agreeably to the statute in such cases
made and provided &
And it is hereby futher ordered that said
the Court when necessary and that said
of the court not be subject to any
Executed this writ on
1827
the judge
It may be wise to state that the above named
ignorance of the matter of the writ & knowledge of the Plaintiffs
vs
This is an action
assault
false imprisonment
a
We command you to summon
of our Circuit court at the next term thereof to be held at the
and for the
to answer unto
of the said