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The
as well for herself as for her
That your petationer and
held in
2 years ago by the said
held by him as a
into this
about the
territory and held your
that she
sons
in this honorable Court
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petition for freedom
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We Command you to
our
held
next
court to
hundred Dollars. And have
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This is an
Executed by leaving a copy of the within
at the house of
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1. Plantiff is his
2. His
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And the said Mathias
the
action thereof against him because he says
the said
and
this that the said
and
poses
and this the said Mathias
to verify. Wherefore he prays judgment
And for a further plea in this behalf as to
the said
in prison of the said
against him because he saith that by a
force at the time of the removal of the
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said Mathias
as
it shall and many be lawful for any person
being the owner or
years and owing service and labor as slaves in any of the united states or
the
said states or
to bring the said negroes or mulattoes into that
territory and that the the owner or possessor
of any negroes or mulattoes
bringing the same into that territory should
within thirty days after such removal go with
the same before the
the presence of the said clerk the said
owner or possessor should determine and agree
to and with his or her negro or
the term of years which the said negro or
mulatto would and should serve his
or her said owner or possessor. and the said
to make a record thereof in a book which
he should keep for
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at the time of hte removal of the said
herein after mentioned he was the owner and
of the said
fifteen years
who owed service and labor to him as a slave in
the state of
said
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
five
after his removal with the said
aforesaid he went with the said
before
Common
and in the
and his
from that date and that he the
vide the said
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sufficient
lodging according to her degree and station
and that from and after the expiration of
the said
free to all intents and purposes to wit at the
court, of
said Mathias
and year last aforesaid took the said
into his
the term
tain the said
service as such servant as it was
for him to do for the cause aforesaid using
no more force and violence than was abso-
lutely
service of his said servant to wit at the coun-
ty of SLouis
aulting,
of the said
of and no other and this he the said Mathias
he prays judgment
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To Mathias
commanded that the body of
in your custody detained (as it is said) you have under
detained by whatsoever name the said
may be called,
in for the country of st. Louis in
the town of st. Louis in said county,
& there to sumbit to do, and
the said court shall
day of August on thousand eight hundred & nineteen
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10 cents per
In
on the
his
the Seventeenth 1819
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You are hereby commanded to summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay
then there to testify and truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said
court wherein
and
part of the
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Sub for
Not executed for want of time
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And the Said
Said
not
him and that
this she is ready to
for want of a
she
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And the Said
saith that as to the
said
from
said
said
that she is
as in the Said
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Replication
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And the said
of the
by way of any
of the
the shown
dy or
and
the said
at the the when
abscond
said
and this
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Habeas
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held in
to
complains of
for that the said
to
within the
&
this
of