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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit Court historical records project.
The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
Aguis alias
represents to your honour that
twenty two or three years
was as she is informed an
or servant at her birth; but that
alias
and believes either
of
the laws of that country that about four
years service he left
to the
resided for the last four years
untill within a
past, when our
her as his slave for life; (
who has taken her and
her of her liberty & freedom;
this affiant is
about
to new for out of this state and otherwise
remove and dispose of her
suchamanner that she will
evidence of her freedom and means
of establishing her freedom: she
will order that she may be permitted to
prosecute her suit for freedom
out of the Jurisdiction of your
court
in such cases made
so in duty found
Peronally appears before me a Justice of the
peace within and for the County aforesaid,
and makes each that the fact set forch in the foregoing
petition are true.
Sworn to & subscribed before me
this
It is hereby ordered that the above petitioner by permited
to
and that said petition shall have reasonable
to attend
may
or removed out of the
court of the county of
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Agnis alias
complains of
trespass assault, & battery and false imprison-
ment, for that heretofore to wit on this the
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty five
aforesaid the said
force and arms
upon her the said plaintiff, and her the
said plaintiff did then and there
and there imprison her the said plaintiff
in prison there untill this
any legal or probable cause whatever and
other
there did against the peace and
of the state aforesaid, and said plaintiff
says, before and at the time of committing
the grievance aforesaid she the said plaintiff
was and still is a free person and that the
defendant held and detained her the
hold and detain her the said plaintiff in slavery, wherefore
the said plaintiff says she has sustained damage
to five hundred dollars, wherefore she
Aquisalias
vs
This is an action of
& false imprisonment
for freedom
damages $ 500.
The clerk will
It is hereby
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We command you to Summon
appear before the Judge of our circuit court at the next term thereof
to be held at the city of
on the
unto Agnis alias
assault & Battery and false imprisonment to the Damage of the said
planitiff of five Hundred dollars and have you then there this
writ
copy of the order of the judge
It is hereby ordered that the above peitioner be permitted to
a poor person to establish her freedom and that
reasonable liberty to attend her counsel and the court when occasion
may require and that she shall not be taken or removed out of the
Jurisdiction of the circuit court of the county of St Loui nor subject to any
severity because of her application for freedom — in
Executed this writ by
declaration and petition and also the order made
by the honorable judge to
Petition to
fee bill 210
Agnis alias
This is an action of
Damges $500
The Clerk will please
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The petition of
the
he is sued in this Court by one
some times called, who claims to the a citizen of
the
the sum of five hundred dollars exclusive of
into the next
the
case made
2880
100.80
6.24
.27
107.31
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Know all men by these presents that I Be
hundred dollars, for the payment thereof
The condition of this
that whereas one
petitioned the Circuit court of the county of
in same court
the
now if the said
said cause be removed or petitions for
him
to be