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            <title>William Clark v. Joseph Richard</title>
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            <date type="filing" when="1809-07-24">July 24, 1809</date>
            <date type="term" when="1809-11">November Term, 1809</date>
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                <caseTitle>William Clark v. Joseph Richard</caseTitle>
                <date type="filing" when="1809-07-24">July 24, 1809</date>
                <date type="term" when="1809-11">November Term, 1809</date>
                <party role="plaintiff">Clark, William</party>
                <party role="defendant">Richard, Joseph</party>
                <causeAction type="civil">Trespass</causeAction>
                <caseNo>8</caseNo>
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                <court type="federal">St. Louis District Court of Common Pleas</court>
                <judge type="presiding">Bent, Silas</judge>
                <clerk>Riddick, Thomas</clerk>
                <sheriff>Connor, Jeremiah</sheriff>
                <attorney for="plaintiff">Hempstead, E.</attorney>
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                    <author role="attorney">Hempstead, E.</author>  
                    <author role="sheriff">Connor, Jeremiah</author>
                    <author role="judge">Bent, Silas</author>
                    <author role="clerk">Riddick, Thomas F.</author>
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                           <orig>District of Saint Louis</orig>
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                        <orig>William Clark</orig>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Joseph Richard</orig>
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                  </persName>. for this that the said
                        <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Joseph</orig>
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                            nine,</date> by his certain<lb/>
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                        <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>others</supplied>
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                        <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> made <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
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                     <supplied>promise</supplied>
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                        <orig>Clark</orig>
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                        <orgName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Missouri</orig>
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                        <orgName>
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                              <orig>Company</orig>
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                     <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>St. Louis</orig>
                        </choice>
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                     <date when="1809-07-13">July 13 1809</date>
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                     <supplied>
                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Joseph Richard</orig>
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                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Sam Solomon</orig>
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                  <lb/>
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                        &amp; shall doth<lb/> refuse to this <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> for he use of the<lb/> 
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                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Missouri</orig>
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                        <signed>E. Hampstread plffs <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
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                    <p>Cepe Corpus &amp; bail bond</p>
                    <p>by <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Jer. Connor</orig>
                     </choice>
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                    <p>writ $1.00</p>
                    <p>Bond 50</p>
                    <p>Mileage 10</p>
                    <p>$1.60</p>
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                    <head rend="bracketed">8<lb/> 
                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>William Clark</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </persName>, use of<lb/> 
                  <orgName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Missouri Fur
                        Company</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </orgName>
                  <lb/> 
                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Joseph Richard</orig>
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                    <p>
                  <date when="1809-11">November Term<lb/> 1809</date>
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                     <supplied>Let</supplied>
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                     <supplied>
                        <persName>
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                              <orig>Capias</orig>
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                  <supplied>ad</supplied>
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                  <supplied>respondendum</supplied>
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                  <supplied>issue,</supplied>
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                        <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <lb/> $ 150, bail required
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                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Hempstead</orig>
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                        <dateline>Territory of <placeName>
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                           <orig>Louisiana</orig>
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                     <lb/>
                            <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>District of Saint Louis</orig>
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                     <lb/> Greeting</dateline>
                        <salute>The <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>United States</orig>
                        </choice>
                     </placeName> of <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>America</orig>
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                           <orig>District
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                        <orig>Joseph Richard</orig>
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                        him safely keep so<lb/> that you may have his body before the judges of our
                        Court of Common<lb/> Pleas to be holden at the town of <placeName>
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                        <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                        <orig>District</orig>
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                  <placeName>
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                        <orig>of Saint Louis</orig>
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                        the first Monday of November next then<lb/> here to answer unto <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>William
                        Clark</orig>
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                        <orig>Missouri</orig>
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                     <supplied>
                        <orgName>
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                              <orig>Fur</orig>
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                     <supplied>
                        <orgName>
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                              <orig>Company</orig>
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                        <orig>William
                        Clark</orig>
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                        this writ</p>
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                    <closer> Witness the honorable <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Silas</orig>
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                     <supplied>
                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Bent</orig>
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                     <supplied>presiding</supplied>
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                  <lb/> Judge of our said Court at the
                        town of <placeName>
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                        <orig>Saint</orig>
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                  <lb/>
                  <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Louis</orig>
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                            fourth day of<lb/>July in the year of our Lord One thousand<lb/> eight
                            hundred and nine</date>
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                              <orig>Thos F</orig>
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                     <supplied>
                        <persName>
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                              <orig>Riddick</orig>
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                              <orig>Thos</orig>
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                        <supplied>
                           <persName>
                              <choice>
                                 
                                 <orig>F. Riddick</orig>
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                    <author role="guarantor">Morin, Pelagie Peletian Vive</author> 
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                    <p>Know all Men by these presents that we <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Joseph Richard</orig>
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                        <orig>District of Saint Louis</orig>
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                        <orig>United States</orig>
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                  </placeName>, to
                        which payment<lb/> well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and each
                        of<lb/> us by himself, our and each of our heirs executors
                        administrators<lb/> and assigns, firmly by these presents, sealed with our
                        seals<lb/> and dated this <date when="1809-07-24">Twenty fourth Day of July
                            in the year of our Lord<lb/> One Thousand eight hundred and
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                        <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Joseph Richard</orig>
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                  <placeName>
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                        <orig>Saint Louis</orig>
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                        to answer unto <persName>
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                        <orig>William Clark</orig>
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                        <orig>Missouri Fur Company</orig>
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                  <supplied>against</supplied> them at that or
                        any said<lb/>
                        <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>segment</supplied>
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                        <orig>Joseph</orig>
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                     <supplied>
                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Richard</orig>
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                        <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <lb/>
                        <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>Morin</supplied>
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                        <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Joseph Richard</orig>
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                  <lb/>
                  <signed> Mark<lb/>
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                     <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
                     <supplied>Peletian &amp;</supplied>
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                     <supplied>Morin</supplied>
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                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Joseph Richard</orig>
                        </choice>
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                    <author role="guarantor">Boinguion, Charles</author> 
                    <author role="guarantor">Labeau, Francois</author>   
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                    <p>Know all me by these presents, That we <seg rend="form-fill-in">Charles
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                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Jeremiah</orig>
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                  </persName> Conner sheff of the <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>District of Saint Louis</orig>
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                        <orig>United States</orig>
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                  <supplied>each</supplied> of our heirs,
                        executors, administrators and assigns, firmly by<lb/> these presents. Sealed
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                            <seg rend="form-fill-in">September</seg> in the year of our Lord, one
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                        <supplied>Bouquion</supplied>
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                  <lb/> shall appear at the <seg rend="form-fill-in">Court of
                            Common Pleas</seg> to be held at the<lb/> town of <placeName>
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                        <orig>Saint Louis</orig>
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                  <lb/> next to
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                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>William Clark</orig>
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                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Missouri</orig>
                        </choice>
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                        <supplied>
                           <orgName>
                              <choice>
                                 
                                 <orig>Fur</orig>
                              </choice>
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                           <orig>Company</orig>
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                        <supplied>Trespass</supplied>
                     </unclear> on the
                                <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
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                  <lb/> to <seg rend="form-fill-in">their</seg> damage as it is said <seg rend="form-fill-in">Three<lb/> Hundred Dollars</seg> and if judgment be
                        given against him<lb/> at that or any <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>subsequent</supplied>
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                        term of <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>said</supplied>
                  </unclear> court, that the said <seg rend="form-fill-in">
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                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Charles</orig>
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                        <supplied>Bounquion</supplied>
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                            <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
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                        the above<lb/> obligation to be void, <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
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                    <p>Signed sealed and delivered<lb/> in the presence of</p>
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                        <lb/>
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                              <orig>James</orig>
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                        <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
                        <supplied>
                           <persName>
                              <choice>
                                 
                                 <orig>Anderson</orig>
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                        <persName>
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                              <orig>Charles</orig>
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                        <supplied>Boinquion</supplied>
                        <lb/>
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                        <supplied>Francois</supplied> his mark <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
                        <supplied>Labeau</supplied>
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                  </unclear> Dam. $ 300<lb/> Charles
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                     <supplied>Pltfs</supplied>
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                                 <orig>Fur</orig>
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