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To the
unto
and
his life time,
Duty at
represent that
held your petitioner as his slave, long before
he removed from said State
that
the
Last
and
and
together with a
by
following year the said Duty
this life
made no
Your
will
and
Court
of
said Duty in the
County
thereof granted
as your
and
and
of said
your honour
to
a
from her
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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
in and
said.
therein contained
true to the best
belief. Given under my hand this
signed a white person of
duly sworn deposes and says that he is
well acquainted with
the foregoing petition: and
that the
said petition are true, as he is informed
and verily
22nd day of July 1845.
before me the undersigned
who
says that he is acquainted
forth
is in talked
is
for freedom
Vidi
freedom on
attend her Counsel the said
she be not removed
& that she be not subject
of her
hereby appointed to prosecute
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Declaration In
Trespass & False
prisonment
This is an action of
The clerk will
the
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a plea of trespass and false imprisonment
for this
defendant on the
May in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty five
the County and Circuit aforesaid and
within the Jurisdiction of this Court
with
plaintiff and there and then
ill treated her and there and then imprisoned
and
long space of time to wit for the
of six months
and
and the
said plaintiff
time of the
by the said defendant
was and still is a
defendant
and
and other
and
to the damage of the said plaintiff one
thousand dollars and therefore
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to
the
Witness our
of
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We command you to
of the estate of
in your county, that he be and appear
before the Judge of our
held at the
day of
woman of color, of a plea of
prisonment
to the damage of said plaintiff
On reading & considering the within &
said
on giving
& the said Court as
removed out of the
not
& exa 18p 315.
Suit for freedom
Executed this writ in the
November 1845
and the decleration to
to hear and by reading to the said
case
freedom, & that Col A. P.
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And
not
against
in
J B Walker
atty