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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
Petition for freedom
& orders
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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
Your petitioner seytan
of
entittled to her freedom, but yet he is held in
slavery by
your petitioner state that the grounds of her
right to freedom are as follows she
that said
your Petitioner as his
State of
in the state of
three years after which a daughter of said
your petitioner as his
states that about
by
as a
her to the state of missouri & has
said by
unable to
she therefore prays that she may be permitted
to
that
that such orders may be made & such
legal
safety
petitioner on her oath says that the parts in
the
Being of a
contains sufficient matter to are therefor the
named petitioners
a
to freedom and I do
and
petitioner have reasonable liberty of
of
as
removed but of the
and that she be not
on account of her application for freedom
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suit for freedom
under the statute
The Clerk
of
little law of a plea of
false imprisonment for that on
the
of grace eighteen hundred & thirty nine
at
defendant with four &arms
make upon the said plaintiff
did then & there
imprisoner her & hath kept &
her
last aforesaid to this day
to the law of the sand & against
the pleace & degnity of this State
and the plaintiff
& before the committing of the said
a free person & that
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We command you to
formed in your County that he be and appear
before judge of our
at the
of
Seyton a woman of color of a plead of
imprisonment
I acknowledge myself bound for all const that may accrue in the above cause.
Witness my hand and seal, at
Being of opinion that the within petition contains sufficient
matter to authorize the announcement of a suit I Luke &
Lawless Judge of
within named petitioner
to establish her right to freedom & I do assign to her as
Counsel
petitioner have reasonable liberty of of attending the court
& her counsel as occasion may requiere that she be not
removed out of the jurisdiction of said Court and that she be not subjected to any
account of her application for
Suit for Freedom
Executed this writ in the
by offering to read it and the declarations &
Petition and order of Court to
on the
he refused to hear.
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You are hereby requested to take the
& who is said to be hold as a slave of
before
at nine o clock in the forenoon of that day and Summon suit
at the
6th day of November A
D 1839
Executed this warrant
by having the body of the
within named petitioner before
the
for
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Be it remembered that on
this
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine
before the undersigned Judge of the Circuit Court
of the County aforesaid, principal and
Littletonas security and acknowledge
to owe to the state of
hundred dollars to be lived of then repective
goods and
condition nevertheless that whereas one Sidney
otherwise called seyton, a woman of color has
instituted a suit for the recovery of her freedom
against said
Sidney alais Seyton shall, during the
of said suit, have reasonable liberty of
her counsel and the court, and if she shall
not be removed out of the Jurisdiction of said
Court, and if she shall not besubjected to
any severity on account of her application for
freedom, then this recognization shall be
and
force and
Taken and certified the day and your aforesaid.