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Your
honor that he belongs to and is under the control
of
of the state, and by whom authority and direction
he was
remained &
the special direction and
said Rector,
his plantation situated in the said state of
and your Petitioner
frequent residence in the state aforesaid under the
direction and authority aforesaid, he became
entitled to his freedom under the laws of that
state, and your petitioner prays that if your
honor should be of opinion that this petition
contains sufficient matter to authorize the comment
of a suit by him the said
his freedom, that you make an order that he
be permitted to
his freedom aforesaid, and assign him the said
petitioner counsel for that
Petiton of
to sue for his Freedom
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The Petition of
and attained leave of your honor to
suit as a poor person for the purpose of obtaining
his freedom, he further
of John H. Walker the
from
said sheriff against a certain
set up a pretended
your honour to have him
he will be
lasting and
justice and the law of the Land, and that your
honor may be better advised of the
aforsaid and make such order therein as you
may
that you cause his body to be
by a Harlem
Copan
mark.
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Petition for
Habeas
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that setting aside all manner of
excuse and delay, the be and appear in proper person before the Judge of our
on the
say in a
certain matter of controversy, now pending
for
M
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who is permitted by the court to sue by
his next friend as a poor person by his Attorney
assigned as
heretofore towit, on the
year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
twenty five
am assault did make upon the body of the said
him the said
him the said plaintiff, and kept and
detained
him in
reasonable as probable cause whatever, and has
even since kept
and detained him in
trary to the
overs that before and at the time of the
the
person, and that the said Rector held and
detained
him and still holds and detains in
the said
Rector other
to the said plaintiff against the peace of the
state. Wherefore the
said plaintiff says he
is injured and has
am amount of eight hundred dollers, and therefore
he sues
&
The within named
has he a Place of abode in my County known to me at which I could have
a copy of this writ and Declaration
This is an action of her trespass
Assault & Battery. false
imprisonment
$800. The cleark will issue
a
Shother.
We command you to Summon
that he be and appear before the Judge of Our
City of
on the fourth Monday in March
there to answer unto
is slavery who is permitted by the court to sue by Au
gustus
a plea of
tiff of Eight hundred dollars. And have you then there
this writ
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And the said
him made a party, &
by the said
wrong & injury when &
the plantiffs declaration above alledged, and for plea
in this
the
iffs sale, same term in the year Eighteen hundred &
twenty five, in the
Sheriff of said county of
of Execution, against the
of the said Rector; that in
said
as the
which said
that said
free man
said, by
the state of
he hath taken some trouble to
& legality of the claim of said
as set forth in his said declaration, and an full
cannot deny hat that the said
man
set forth; and whether he the said
of the trespases in said declaration mentioned,
puts himself upon the county, &c.
G. A.
adg
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by who is
by Augustus
honor by his
court Complains of Isaac. A
to
of our
the county of
further body of the said
and there
said
out any
it then
Color
vs
&
implecaded
Supplemental or
amended declaration
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And the said
the said
ed dutoration, by his
they wrong &
he is not guilty of the said
tion, his cause he saith, that
the
teen hundred and twenty six
saac became the
as a slave, the property of the said
of
by the sheriff of said County, under & by
of a writ of Execution,
office of the
and that said
said
the said sale, and has
him the said
the
present day; and the said
that
the said
informed him the said
said
that the said
y into the said Clain of said
freedom, saith that he
the said
in his said declaration alledged, but stays &
remains with the said
own accord & consent, without any constrant
or
said several trespasses in said declaration, in
manner and form
, his puts himself upon
the country -
Isaar A.
ads
Plea to
declration
Not
atto for
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, he be and appear in proper person before the Judge of our
tesify and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy, now pending in our said court, wherein
is
impleaded is
have you then there this writ.
vs.
for
James
& John 18th
for
Plaintiff
Augt 1826.
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, he be and appear in proper person before the Judge of our
to testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy, now pending in our said court, wherein
A
Executed this writ on Thos W.
vs
Isaac
for
Thomas Thruston
for Plaintiff
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And the
of
vs
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay,
to testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy, now pending in our said court, wherein
is
vs
J A
for
John
John Thruston
for Plaintiff
Served this writ on