To the Honorable the in circuit court
field in and for the County of St Louis

Yourpetitionerafter units that she
was in the state of
and whom on apart about thirty years
was boughtinto the state of Illinois and sold
as a slave, that she continued to and in
the said state of Illinois with in
two in three years John in the of a
when she has for the said State
of Illinois and this lived and pop
of said Phelp as a
slave who now labels her as a slave
he the said Phelp being
a resident & of the City of St Louis
to be
to said for under
June according to the of
the in that inneed and

No 77 July Term 1826

Betsy
vs

filed July 25th 1826 A Gamble
Clk