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represents, to your honor, that She was born in the Village
of
of Mrs.Susan Lacount, alias Lacompt, in the year
of our Lord
since, when she was delivered over by said
alias Lacompt, to
Slave, where she has generally
capacity of his slave: and that your petitioner is now
by said
Rocheblave in whose
Your petitioner is informed, and so believed the fact to
be, that being born in the Territory, (now
state) of
Slavery Contrary to the law of the
Your petitioner, therefore prays your honor,
she is confident she can establish the above facts, to
make an order that she be permitted to institute a suit
for her freedom, in the
that your petitioner be permitted to sue said
for the establisment of her right to freedom as aforesaid:
and that your Honor make an order also, that your
petitioner have reasonable liberty of attending such counsel
as your honor may be pleased to appoint her, and to
attend the Court, when occasion may require: and that your
petitoner shall not be taken or removed out of the jurisdiction
of the said Court, nor be subject to any
and as is duty bound your petitioner will ever pray
Be it remembered that on this
eight hundred and twenty eight,
the within named petitioner, before me,
Justice of the pleace within and for the County aforesaid,
who being duly sworm, saith, that the facts contained
in the foregoing petition as far as stated on her own knowledge
are correct and true and that stated upon the information of
others, she belives to be so
No 38
The
therefore ordered that the petitioner be
person that she have reasonable liberty of
Counsel
any
out of the jurisdiction of this Court-
hand this
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is permitted by the Judge to sue as
complains of
of a plea of
to wit, on the
one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
and
did make in and upon the said
there did beat,
then and there
in prison, without any reasonable or probable cause what soever,
and have ever since kept and detained her in prison against
her will contrary to the Laws of the land and other
then and there did to the said
plaintiff owers, that before and at the time of the committing
the
and that the defendants held and detained her, and still
hold and detain her in slavery, against the peace of the
state: wherefore the said
and has sustained damage to the amount of five hundred
dollars and therefore she
that they be and appear before the Judge of our
thereof to be held at the
on the Fourth monday
of November and stand then and there to answer unto
says
Hundred dollars and
The prayer of the petitioner is granted - It is therefore ordered
that the petitioner be permitted to
liberty of attending her counsel
to any severity on account of this application nor be removed out of the
of this Court - given
We command you to
that he be and appear before the Judge of our
term thereof to be held at the
says she is injured and has sustained damage to the amount of
Hundred Dollars and have you their there this writ.
vs
This is an action of assault
& Battery and false imprisonment
Let a Summons
Excuted this writ on mary
by
not found.
Excuted this writ on
to him the
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and the said
by
force & injury where
she is not guilty of the previous
manner and form as the plaintiff
hath above thereof alleged and
of this she puts herself upon the
country & C.
vs
Plea N G -
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You are hereby commanded to summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, They be and appear in proper person before the Judge
of our
our said Court, wherein
and
on the part of the
Executed this writ on
&
the sam to them
Matlda
vs
&
for
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You are hereby commanded to summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, They be and appear in proper person before the Judge
of our
our said Court, wherein
and
on the part of the
vs
for the plaintiff
Executed on
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The said
court to set aside the judgment by default
is the case
1 No
2
the
on the trial
3 The alias
to law
And the said
&c. and says he is not guilty of the previous
in manner and form as the plaintiff
about thereof complained against him, and
of this
&c.
vs
Judge by default
Judgement by default against
Book 5 page 342 -
5 pages 393 special
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You are hereby commanded to summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, they be and appear in proper person before the
Judge of our
in our said Court, wherein
and
on the part of
vs
P & M.L
for plaintiff
Madame Jn.B Perran
Executed the within
Jn. B Perran
service
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the above cause at was formed an behalf of the
plaintiff.
girl and was born in the village of
state of
Court, alias La campt, in the year eighteen hun
dred and seven or Eight; that the Plaintiff, mother
was a negro woman, held in slavery in said vil
lage of Praerie Du
ter the birth of said matilda; that said Susan
La count was a French Inhabitant of the the
village of
the conquest of that county by virginia, and
continued to reside in and inhabit said village of
Prarie Durocher, until the Present times that said
Susan La Count (the
in said village, from the time of her birth, till
same in the year
or twenty when said Susan La count transfered
and delivered the plaintiff to Philip Rochéblave,
one of the defendants, as his slave, by way of gift
said
san La count; that said
same true in the year
tiff with him from said village of prarie Durocher
in
she has resided ever
sion of the defendants, as the slave of said philip.
That on the day and before and after the commence
ment of this suit, as well as at the present time,
the said defendants did and still do hold the
said plaintiff, in the county of
&
said
the cause an Either side; and the case being tried
by the court, sitting as a jury, by Correct of Par
ties, the defendants thereupon moved the court
to decide.
to woman and was legally held in slavery, be
fore and at and after the
the year 1787
late north west Territory, now state of
their subsequent to the passage of an ordinance
passed by the Congress of the united states, on
the
ance for the Government of the Territory of the
tiff is not
suit, which
or give to which refusal the defendants by
their counsel except.
The defendants, by their counsel, also moved
the court to decide.
2nd that that if the court (sitting as a jury in the
cause) finds from the Evidence, that the mother
of the plaintiff was a negro or mulatto wom
an, legally held in slavery before and at and
after the passage of the ordinance entitled, “an
ordinance for the Government of the Territory
of the united states, west of the river
passed the
united states by a french inhabitant of the
village of Prarie Durocher in the late north
western Territory who was a citizen of the
same before and ofter the conquest of that
country by virginia, and that the plaintiff
was born at the village of Prarie Durocher
of such mother which so held in slavery by
such French inhabitant, though subsequent
to the passage of said ordinance, then the
plaintiff is not entitled to her freedom: which
decision the court refused to make or give, to
which refusal the Defendants by their coun
sel except, and pray the Judge to allow this
them bill of exceptions, and to sign &
the same for a Testimony.
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but whether upon the whole matter was
aforesaid found the said defendants are
guilty or not guilty of the previous in manner
and form as the plaintiff hath above there
of in her declaration alleged the court
aforesaid
The facts aforesaid inform aforesaid found
an to the court have submitted, and if according
to the law of the land the said
aforesaid joint
then the same
the damages of the plaintiff assigned
at
said of was shall be with the defendant
then the finding and judgement to be
accordingly-
vs
Rocheblave
Bill of Exceptions by
Special Verdict.