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Amy Moor a resident of said County complains to your
Hons respectfully states to your Hon that she is
at the
By one Robert N Moore That she your petitioner
has firm
to freedom which are as follows that on or about
the year
petitioner was hired out as a slave in
in the
last mentioned time her your petitioners master
and owner and that her then owner and master whose
name is not now known to your petitioner hired out
your petitioner to work for and
according to his own will but against the will and
aforesaid to wit in the year
the said
years from the date last aforesaid all of which
times, to wit, two years she your petitioner was
then and there kept in labour and service as
a slave
of the said two years she was
and sold as a slave to Robert N. Moor of
your petitioner therefore prays your Hon to grant
her leave to sue as a poor person to establish her
right to Freedom and as is duty bound she will
ever pray-
Amy Moor the above named petitioner
Maketh oath and saith that the matter and
set
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of a plea of
the said
eighteen hundred and forty four
and arms at the County aforesaid
then and there
and kept and detained her in prison there
a long
there following contrary to the laws of the said
state and against the will of the said
plaintiff And the
before and at the time of the said
was and still is a free person and
that the said defendant held and still
other wrongs to the said plaintiff did the
said defendant then and there do,
the State And to the
said plaintiff of five hundred dollars
and therefore the said
brings said & C.
Now at this day comes
the said
her attorney, and files a
petition, which being seen heard and fully
understood, it is ordered that said petitioner
have leave to sue as a poor person, and the Court
doth assign as her Counsel E
and it is further ordered that said petitioner
have reasonable liberty at attend her Counsel
and the Court as occasion may require, during
the pending of said suit, that she be not
removed without the jurisdiction of the State, and
that she be not subjected to any
account of her application for freedom.
A true copy
vs
Robt
warrant
Petition filed Stated my order made Bk 15 p 248
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We command you to
he be found in your County, that he be
and appear
before the Judge of our
be held at the
third Monday of
to the damage of said plaintiff
dollars: And have you then there this writ.
I acknowledge myself bound for all costs that may accrue in the above cause.
Witness my hand and seal, at
43
62
15
12
25
50
207
Plea filed 15 p
agreed case court find for defendant-
vs
Summons
Damages $ 500.
"It is ordered that said petitioner
have leave to sue as a poor
person & the Court assigns E
and it is further ordered that
said petitioner have reasonable liberty
to attend her counsel & the Court as occasion may require, that she
be not removed without the jurisdiction
not be
account of her application for
freedom'.
Executed this writ in the
offering to read it and the declaration to
he refused to hear- also by reading to the
said
Judge endorsed upon this writ.
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And the said
Robert N Moore
force &
he is not guilty of the said supposed
above said to his
thereof in
against him & of this he puts himself
upon the county
Roger
vs
Robert W Moore
Plea
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We agree to continue this case
by
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vs
R. N. Moore
admission
of
Agreed case
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Trespass. For. Freedom
It is admitted by the plaintiff
and defendant in the above
above named plaintiff as a slave for life by
title
former
years ago the
was travelling with his slaves through the
man was detained by
the said state for about six months and
that time the said
then
title to the said plaintiff
six months in the said state of
was after the expiration of such time to
about six months brought to the state of
all of which is respectfully submitted on the part
of the
admitted that
and there was no