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            <title>Polly Wilson vs. Jacob Baum</title>
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            <date type="term" when="1827-03">March Term, 1827</date>
            <date type="filing" when="1827-02-28">February 28, 1827</date>
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            <date type="filing" when="1827-02-28">February 28, 1827</date> 
            <party role="plaintiff">Wilson, Polly</party>
            <party role="defendant">Baum, Jacob</party>
            <causeAction type="civil">Trespass</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">Assualt</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">Battery</causeAction>
            <caseNo>19</caseNo> 
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            <court type="state">St. Louis circuit court</court>
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            <clerk>Gamble, Archibald</clerk>
            <sheriff>Simpson, R.</sheriff>
            <sheriff>Simonds, Jr.</sheriff>
            <attorney for="plaintiff">Stother</attorney>
            <attorney for="defendant">M.</attorney>
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               <author role="clerk">Gamble, Archibald</author>
               <author role="sheriff">Simpson, R.</author> 
               <author role="sheriff">Simonds, Jr.</author> 
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                     <placeName>
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                        <orig>Polly</orig>
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                        <orig>Wilson</orig>
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                        <orig>Jacob Baum</orig>
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                        <orig>Jacob</orig>
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                        <orig>Wilson</orig>
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                        <orig>St. Louis</orig>
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                        <orig>Polly</orig>
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                        <orig>Polly</orig>
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                        <orig>Wilson</orig>
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                        <orig>Polly</orig>
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                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Wilson</orig>
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                        <orig>Polly</orig>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Wilson</orig>
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                           <orig>County of St Louis</orig>
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                           <orig>State of Missouri</orig>
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                  <dateline>To the Sheriff of St Louis County</dateline>
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               <p>We Command you to summon <persName>
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                        <orig>Jacob Baum</orig>
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                           <orig>Circuit Court</orig>
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                        <orig>City of St Louis</orig>
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                        <orig>County of St Louis</orig>
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Witness <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
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                  </persName> Clerk of our said Court<lb/> at Office this <date when="1827-02-28">28th day of February Eighteen<lb/> hundred and Twenty Seven</date>
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                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
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                  <abbr>No</abbr> 19<lb/>
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                           <orig>St Louis Circuit Court</orig>
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                     <lb/> 
                     <date when="1827-03">March Term 1827</date>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Polly</orig>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Wilson</orig>
                     </choice>
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                  <abbr>vs.</abbr>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Jacob Baum</orig>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <dateline>Filed <date when="1827-02-28">28th February 1827</date>
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                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
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               <p>Executed this writ on <persName>
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                        <orig>Jacob Baum</orig>
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                  <date when="1827-03-02">March 2nd 1827</date> in the<lb/> 
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                        <orig>City of St Louis</orig>
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                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>R. Simpson</orig>
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                           <orig>Jacob Baum</orig>
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                           <orig>Polly</orig>
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                           <orig>Wilson</orig>
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                        <orig>Jacob Baum</orig>
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                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Polly</orig>
                     </choice>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Wilson</orig>
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                  <dateline>filed <date when="1827-03-30">March 30th<lb/> 1827</date>
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                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>A Gamble</orig>
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                  <dateline>County Of <placeName>
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                           <orig>St. Louis</orig>
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                           <orig>Missouri</orig>
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                  <placeName>
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                        <orig>St. Louis</orig>
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                           <orig>Polly</orig>
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                        <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
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                        <orig>Circuit Court</orig>
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                              <orig>A Gamble</orig>
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Service $-50
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                           <orig>R Simpson</orig>
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                  <abbr>vs</abbr>
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               <p>This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit
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               <legalTitle>Summons for John Bosseron</legalTitle>
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               <author role="sheriff">Simonds, Jr.</author>
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                  <dateline>County Of <placeName>
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                     </placeName>, Sct.<lb/> The <placeName>
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                           <orig>State of Missouri</orig>
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                        <orig>Circuit Court</orig>
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                     <seg rend="form-fill-in">6th</seg> day of <seg rend="form-fill-in">August</seg>,</date> at the city of <placeName>
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                        <orig>St. Louis</orig>
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