To the Honorable the circuit court
held in and for the County of St Louis
Yourpetitionerrepresents that she
was born in the state of Pennsylvania
and when thirty years
was broughtinto the state of Illinois and sold
as a slave, that she continued to and in
the said state of Illinois until with in
two or three years John in the of a slave
when she was removed from the said State
of Illinois and this lived and pop
of said Philip Rocheblave as a
slave who now labels her as a slave
he the said Philip Rocheblave being
a resident & of the City of St Louis
Your petitioner prays to be
to said for under
June according to the of
the in that inneed and
Betsy my X mark Hagan
No 77 July Term 1826
Betsy Hagan
vs Rocheblave
filed July 25th 1826 A Gamble
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