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The
colour, represents,
in
the now
of
That your
of slavery in
about nine or ten years ago, when
she was brought to
this State,
she was sold to
held your
by
exercises authority over her as a slave, by
and
receiving the profits therefore, and by
all manner of
represents that she is
advised and believes, that being
brought up there, that she is,
the
land
has been
that She can prove and establish the
and residence in
Your
and
and that
she be permitted to
and
Personally appeared before me the
the County and
a
the
her
going
her own knowledge are
the
information
are
true and can be proved, and
knows of no
person who can prove the
her
without
opportunity of making this
of the
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Petition of
a
this
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Theotiste alias
colour, held in slavery, who is permitted by the Court
to sue,
as a poor person, who by her attorney
of
that heretofore to wit, on the
one thousand
eight hundred and twenty-seven, Anno
Christi,
the said Theotiste alias
did beat, bruise, wound and ill treat, her the
said
Theotiste alias
alias
against the will and without the consent of the said
Theotiste alias
detain; and hath ever since kept and detained her the
said Theotiste
alias
detain her in prison; and other wrongs to the said
Theotiste alias
the peace of the
alias
tained damage to the
amount of five hundred dollars,
and therefore she sues
&c
We commmand you to summon
that he be and appear
before the Judge of our
next term thereof to be
held at the
for the county of
then and there to answer unto
Theotiste alias
of trespass to the Damage of the said
Theotiste alias
of five hundred dollars and have you then share their writ
praying
that
that she may be permitted
to
Court permits
the said
and direct that an action of
onment be commenced against the said defendant
in the name of
the said
as her counsel and is it ordered by the court that the said defendant
her counsel and the
Court when
the said plaintiff shall not be taken or removed out of the
of this Court and that
she shall not be subject to any severity of
treatment on account of her
said application for freedom
A True Copy of the Order
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This is
Let a
to him the
himself
30th 1827
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And the said
by C. J. Hempstead his atty comes and
defends
the
not guilty of the said supposed trespasses above laid
to his charge & any part thereof, in manner and form
as the
said Theotiste alias
complained against him,
and of this he the said
And the said plaintiff, by
attorney doth the like.
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You are hereby commanded to summon
that, setting aside all manner of excuse
and delay, they be and appear in proper person before the Judge
of our
then and there to testify and the truth to
say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our
said Court,
wherein
and
on the part of the
for
for Plaintiff
Executed this writ on
Madame
to them the same
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You are hereby commanded to summon
that, setting aside all manner
excuse and delay,
of
our
then and there to testify and the truth to say
in a certain matter of controversy, now pending in our
said Court,
wherein
and
on the part of the
by
by a copy left at her
for
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You are hereby commanded to summon
that, setting
aside all manner of excuse and delay,
of our
then and there to testify and the truth to say in a certain
matter of controversy now pending in our
said Court, wherein
and
on the part
of the
for
for
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You are hereby commanded to summon
and
that, setting aside all manner of excuse and delay,
of our
then and there to testify and the truth to say in a certain
matter of controversy now pending in our
said Court, wherein
and
on the part
of the
for
Madam D'Loria
Mde Bazile
Mrs E Town out
Executed this writ on
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You are hereby commanded to summon
that, setting aside all manner of excuse and delay,
of our
then and there to testify and the truth to say in a certain
matter of controversy now pending in our
said court, wherein
and
on the part of the
for Mde
for defendant
November 1828
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You are hereby commanded to summon
that, setting aside all manner of
excuse and delay, he be and appear in proper person before the Judge
of
our
then and there
to testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now
pending in our
said Court, wherein
and
on the part of the
Executed this writ on Madam
Madame
Madame
Jn Baptiste
forthwith
for plaintiff
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You are hereby commanded to summon
Louis
that,
setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, he be and appear in proper
person before the Judge
of our
then and there to testify and the truth to say in a certain
matter of controversy now pending in our
said Court, wherein
and
on the part of the
Executed this writ on Louis
for
Louis
forthwith for
Pltf
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You are hereby commanded to summon
Roy
that, setting
aside all manner of excuse and delay, he be appear in proper person before
the Judge
of our
then and there to testify and the truth to say in a
certain matter of controversy now pending in our
said Court, wherein
and
on the part of the
Executed this writ on Baptiste Roy,
by reading to
them the same -
not found
in
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You are hereby commanded to summon
that, setting aside all
manner of excuse and delay,
of our
then and there to testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of
controversy now pending in our
said Court, wherein
and
on the part of the
Executed this upon Joseph Charles Sr
Hempstead
each of
them
for
Joseph
S. Hempstead Sr
Mrs
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action of assault & Battery and
false imprisonment.
The plaintiff in the above cause states that she
feels
in the
take an appeal to the
further states that the application for
an appeal is
not made for the purpose of
cause the affiant
verily believes
and plaintiff in the above case, aggrieved by the
or judgment upon which this appeal is prayed
Filed
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Defendant
being
informed and believes
it
brought for freedom from Slavery, on the ground
of
her being born in the late Northwestern Territory
at
this affiant
believes it true, that a
according to
law) of the Register of
in the
village of prairie du
testimony
for said Defendant in this cause,
as this affiant is
informed and believes true, that
the age of said plaintiff, and the
time she was
this affiant does not know of any
other testimony
by which the same facts can be proved, without
which this affiant verily believes, said defendant
cannot safely go to
trial; This affiant
states, that he is
informed and believes it
true, that in order to obtain said
testimony
said Defendant before the present term of this
Court,
obtained a
and caused due notice to be served on the
plaintiffs attorney that
depositions for said defendant
would be taken at said village of
village sometime
during the week preceding the
present term of this Court, and that the
papers
were sent in time by mail to
of
not know, he is informed no deposition has been
received
by the Clerk of this Court in this cause; this affiant
reach of the process
of this Court who can prove the
time and place of said plaintiffs
the next term of
this count, the verily said testimony can be had
he obtained the
depositions as stated
in J. B.
and
to take and how to take it, to
of
attend to taking said depositions;
a Letter to said
the said depositions were to be taken-the
depositions
have not
-affidavit-
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Be it remembered that on the trial of this cause it was proved
that the
plaintiff was born at
the late North Western Territory of the
the state of
tiff was born a slave in the family of
village of
the death
of said
after the birth of said plaintiff. That said plaintiff
was sold as
a slave at
the
her as a slave
North West Territory of the
derived form,
said
plaintiff was brought from said
North West Territory of the
a slave & by whom she
from
where she
was sold as a slave to one
derived from whom the present defendant
where said
plaintiff has been held in slavery from the time that
she was first
brought to
Suit. No other
evidence was given in the cause by either party. The counsel for the
plaintiff asked the court to give the
following instruction to the
Jury,
was born in the late North Western
Territory of the
now state of
a slave,
a slave,
they ought to
refusal
excepts. The Court then instructed the Jury, that if they
be-
lieved from the evidence
North Western Territory of the
Territory, which now formed the state of
that time, they ought to
finds for the
by the Court to the Jury, the plaintiff, by her
counsel
excepts, and prays the Judge of the Court to allow the
exceptions and sign and seal the same for a testimony
in the cause, and
that the Court
of exceptions to be filed and become part of the
in this cause,
which is
Filed