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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
The
an infant under the age of twenty one years by Trace
sents that his grand mother who was named
was a slave the property of one
in the state of
while he so owned the said
day of March in the year seventeen hundred and
eighty seven
he
of thirteen years from the date of said deed with
the provision in said deed that all the children or
childrens children that might
said deed should be free at twenty three years of age
Your
was the daughter of said
about the year seventeen hundred and ninety two
and that your
teen hundred and eighteen and after his mother the
said Grace had
your
Grace is in the enjoyment of her
is held as a
of
reason of his marriage with a daughter
that he may be permitted to institute a
the said
he may be permitted to
This day personally appeared
before the
county of
duly
on the
to
that the
his counsel and the court when occasion may
require and that he be not removed out of the
of the
be subject to any severity
for freedom
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color by
complains of
in the year eighteen hundred and thirty
four
aforesaid did make an
upon the
plaintiff then and there did beat
imprison the said plaintiff and hath
ever
said plaintiff in
in slavery he the said plaintiff
said
person and other
tiff
then and then did to the great
of the
the
fore
the said plaintiff
and hath
of
We command you to common
Judge of
and for the county of
the said plaintiff saith he is injured and hath sustained damage to the amount of
Five hundred dollars have you then here this writ
on the foregoing
to establish his freedom and
not removed out of the
his aplication for freedom -
and
which he
I read
Service ' 1.00
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and
& form as the
And for a
behalf the said
action aforesaid against this
was a
the declaration is above supposed and
this
1.
2
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this
ing
to
or the
ment“, made at a
the acts of
the
so read in
it being agreed by the
that the
had & effect
on
the plff: then offered to read in
thereon endorsed a paper writing pur
porting to be an authenticated copy from one of the
land record books of Harford county in the state of
are in the
counsel objected but the
permitted the same to be read, to which the
his
liberation in said paper
years of age
was
years and that
.
entitled to freedom,
&
counseld excepts & prays the court to
these his
Bill of Exception.