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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
aged about nineteen years respectfully represents
that she is now held in slavery in the County
aforesaid by John Pitcher that the verily believes
that she is entitled to freedom, and she prays
the said Court for leave to
a poor person, in order to establish her right to freedome.
Your petitioner states, as the ground on which her
claim to freedome is founded, that about eight years
ago, then being the slave of Danel D. Page, of
in the state of
from
Page as a waiter and servant in attendance upon the
wife of said Page, who accompained
husband to
in the said state of
there in attendance upon the wife of said Page
sometime in the fall of the same year,
of
bought back again to
who then returned home - The petitioner cannot remember
with
to
certainty, she states, that it was in the year, that the
Catholic
in said Past named state, by a
being there in
Page sold her to
her in slavery - Petitioner states that slavery is not
allowed to exist in the state of
was not permitted when she was so taken there &
kept as aforesaid and that such a holding her
in slavery
petitioner to freedom.
being duly sworn before the
the Peace for said County, says that the facts set
forth in the forgoing petitions are true.
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The Court being satisified that the petition of
to authorize the Commencement of a suit, makes
the following orders:
as a poor person to establish her right to freedom
and the Court
Second. That the said
occasion may require that she be not removed
out of the jurisdiction of the Court, and that
she be not subject to any
of her application for freedom
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friend
Pitcher of a plea of trespass, for that the
said defendant on the
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty four
made an assault upon the said plaintiff
to wit at the County aforesaid and then and
there beat
said plaintiff, and then and there imprisoned her
the said plaintiff, and kept and detained her
in prison there, without any reasonable
or probable
time, to wit, for the space of
then next following: And the said plaintiff
committing of the grievances aforesaid, she
was and still is a free person and that the
defendant held, and still holds, her in slavery
contrary to the laws of said state and againt
the will of the said plaintiff - to the damage
of the said plaintiff one dollar and therefore she
brings suit &c -
vs
John
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We command you to
found in your County, that he be and ap-
pear
be held at the
third Monday of
nah (a person of color) who sues by her next friend
to the damage of said plaintiff
I acknowledge myself bound for all costs that may accrue in the above cause.
Witness my hand and seal, at
Dismissed
nobody's costs plea filed 15p311
friend
vs
John Pitcher
Summons
Trespass Damages $1.00.
Dismissed & another
suit instituted - sec ``No.28.
Executed this writ in the
to read it and the declaration to John
Pitcher which he refused to hear- also by
reading to the said John Pitcher the orders
of the Judge
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The
hereby commanded that you seize the body
of
John Pitcher in Trespass in false Imprisonment
in a suit for
on Tuesday the
eighteen hundred & forty four
house in
said John Pitcher, the defendant, then and
there to appear, and abide such orders
as our said Court, may make in the premises
Warrant to Seize
and
Executed this writ in the county of
the body of
and by summoning John Pitcher as
herein commanded
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And now comes
she defendant by his attorneys, and
defends the force and injury, when, &c
and says, that he is not guilty of
the said suffered grievances, or either
of them, in manner and form as the
paid plaintiff hath thereof above
complained.
And of this he the said defendant
puts himself afore the County &c
vs.
John Pitcher.
plea
gen: issue
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the said defendant by his attorneys, and
defends she force and injury, when, &c,
and says, that he is not guilty of the
said suffered grievances, or either of
them, in manner and form as the said
plaintiff hath thereof above alleged.
And of this he the said defendant
puts himself afore she county &c.
vs. John Pitcher
plea,
gen: issue.