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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
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The Honorable
Judge of the
Judicial Circuit in Said State
Your Petitioner represents to your
she is
Your petitioner says that she is
to her freedom. Your petitioner says that some
time about the year 1817 said
moved from the
Farm
to employ your Petitioner in said state of
farm for
your petitioner further says that in April 1826
said
the court of
writ was directed &
as
"child
Court
"under the constitution & laws of the
"& I think have a right to claim & hold them
"as Slaves & am now about to take said
"child to
your petitioner says that on the
Your Petitioner & said
said Court by their attained & the said court
after hearing all the
discharged her & her Said
said
& providing an said
in
to produce to your
in defiance of Said Judgement & discharge Said
your Petitioner
that she & her children who are free
removed aut of the Jurisdiction of Said Court
to Said
Petitioner & her children
providing shall he had thereon as the
prays that she may be permitted to sue as
a
counsel may be
made & such providing had in the
as her personal safety & the
The above named
that the
believes to be true & most of them she knows to
be true.
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I
for the Third Judicial Circuit &
do hereby order that the above named Petitioner
to establish her freedom I do hereby assign
do
reasonable liberty to attend her counsel & the Court when occasion may require
and that the Petitioner shall not be removed
out of the Jurisdiction of the
of her application for freedom. Given under
my hand this
Petition of
To sue for freedom
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by
& false imprisonment for that heretofore
to
the year of
the said
did make upon her the said
said
ill treat & then & there did imprison the Said
from the day last aforesaid until this time
& has thereby
a large sum of money for her self which she
should otherwise have
the sum of
to the said
the
said
the commiting said
is a free person & the Said defendant held
& detained & still
in Slavery Wherefore Said
greatly injured & hath sustained damage
to eight hundred dollars therefore she
Copy of the order of the Judge of the
I
hereby order that the above named petitioner
freedom. I do hereby assign
have reasonable liberty to attend her counsel & the Court when occasion may require and that the
Petitioner shall not be removed out of the Jurisdiction of the
We command you to summon
the Judge of our
November next then and there to answer unto
plea of trespass
dollars and have you then there this writ
& order of the Judge of the
of his being hard of hearing & read it him
self & acknowledged the
in the city of
vs
This is an
imprisonment & for
Freedom Damages $800
the Clerk
issue a Summons to
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We the undersigned
to the
dollars to be
&
nevertheless, that whereas
permitted to sue for freedom now if the said
times during the
suit have Reasonable liberty of attending
her or their counsel and that said
Archibald & Burnette
shall not be removed out of the
Jurisdiction of the circuit
not be subjected to any
of their application for freedom
during the
this recognizance to be void -
vs
Recognizance
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And the said
his attorney comes & defends the force and
injury when &
of the said supposed
laid to his charge or any part thereof
in manner and form as the said Plaintiff
hath above therefore complained against
him. And of this he the said
puts him
vs
Plea
Not
Discontinued Book 3 page 427
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You are hereby commanded to summon
James
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, they be and appear in proper person before the
Judge of our
at the
now pending in our said Court, wherein
plaintiff, and
defendant, on the part of the
and have you then there this writ.
vs
for plaintiff
Executed this writ on Robert King & Betsey Johnson
wife of James Johnson the 19th July 1833 in the