Territory of Missouri ,
County of St Louis
Sct.The United States of America , to the sheriff of the county of St. Louis , Greeting,

We command you to attackBaptiste Morin, Nathaniel Prior &
Ellen Thomas if they may be found within your bailwick and them immediately safely keep so that you may have
their bodies before the judge of our circuit court now setting at the town of St. Louis , within and
for the county of St. Louis , then there
to answer unto the United States touching a certain contempt by them
committed in not attending the court as witnesses in a certain matter
now pending in our said court between the United States and summon
a slave of Anthony Soulard a free being thereto legally summoned

and have you then
there this writ.

Witness Merry Philippe Ledue Clerk
of our said court at the town of St. Louis aforesaid, this
sixth day of August in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixteen and of the Independence
of the United States of America the forty first
Clk. St. L . C.C.C.P

U.States

B. Morris

E. Thomas
Nathl Byor

Executed
on E. Thomas
and Nathl