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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Reese 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1843-05-01

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</bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <langUsage> <language ident="eng">English</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords scheme="local"> <list> <item n="Topical"/> <item n="Topical"/> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change when="2012-07-09">APJ performed initial transcription and encoding</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f13i0010_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that <persName>Anthony</persName> sometimes <lb/> called <persName>Anthony Reese</persName> a free person of Colour as principal <lb/> and <persName>Charles S Rannells</persName> as security are held and firmly <add place="above">bound</add> <lb/> unto the State of Missouri in the penal sum of two hun <lb rend="hyphen"/> -dred dollars <del rend="strikethrough">which said sum</del> to the payment of which <lb/> sum well and truly to be made the said <persName>Anthony</persName> as prin <lb rend="hyphen"/> -cipal and the said <persName>Charles S Rannells</persName> as security here <lb/> by bind themselves their heirs executors and adminis <lb rend="hyphen"/> -trators firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and <lb/> dated this <date when="1843-05-01">1<hi rend="superscript">st</hi> dat of May 1843</date> </p> <p>But this Bond is made upon this condition that where- <lb rend="hyphen"/> as the County Court of St Louis County is about to grant <lb/> the said <persName>Anthony</persName> license to remain in the state of <lb/> Missouri according to the statute in such case made <lb/> and provided Now if the said <persName>Anthony</persName> shall be of good <lb/> behaviour while he remains in said state then this <lb/> Bond to be void otherwise to remain in full force </p> <closer> <choice> <orig>Witnefs</orig> </choice> <lb/> <signed>A Gamble</signed> <lb/> <signed>Anthony his x mark Reese</signed> Seal<lb/> <signed>C.S. Rannells</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f13i0010_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>Anthony Reese</persName> <lb/> To Bond <lb/> The State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> </p> <p> Filed <date when="1843-05-01">May 1<hi rend="superscript">st</hi> 1843</date> <lb/> <persName>Julius De Mun</persName> Clerk <lb/> By <persName>Henry P. Wise</persName> Depty. </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>