Thomas
of
by him - to

Circuit Court Co.1839

St. Chambers
Petition of - - -
Polly - -

Sue on a poor person
to

St Louis County
State of Missouri

I the undersigned
Judge of the circuit court for County of St
Louis in State of Missouri to make the following
in the matter of petition by Polly Wash to case
to sue as a poor person to her literty- to ,. that the said Polly wsh be allowed to sue as as poor person
to establish her right to freedom; sue as a poor personand assign Harris as her counsel
as the - - - 2nd That the said Polly Wash here
reasonable liberty to attend her counsel and the court as
may require, that the he not that of the jurisdiction
of this Court that he not subject to any servity on account
of her application for freedom - Witness my hand & seal this
9th day of October 1839

To the Honorable Luke E Judge
of the Circuit Cout for County of Missouri are
the State of Missouri

The petition of Polly Wash respectfully the following statement for the purpose
of attaining lease to the as a poor person in
the prosecution of a suit to her freedom
your petitioner that some time in the
year of 1820. on 21. She was residing in Wayne
County. Kentucky in the custody of the
slave of one Joseph - that sometime
in the same the exact month not now
recollected, when she was fourteen years of age
she was removed by said her &
home as aforesaid to the state of Illinois & resided under his charge & immediate control
at a place about four miles from the town
of Edwardsville in said state for several weeks
during which time out by her master
aforesaid to different persons to spin &
perform the usual & duties incumbent
upon a house servant at the State of two
dollars a week- That her said master regularly this amount of as the remuneration
for her services
That-
afterwords your petitioner was taken up
the missouri river & detained for about
five years- That after different & trespass
she was at last treated in the family of
the Taylor Berry) and these remained twelve
or thirteen years. during which time after
the decade of said Berry one Judge Wash
of this County who married the widow of said
Berry as agent in the out of year
petitioner- and about four years ago was hired by said Wash , to one
of the , as and in that capacity of chamber
made several trips up the Illinois as
for as , for wages at the rate of fifteen
dollars a month & or one time within
the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois has
detained for atleast five weeks. That she has
hired by by said Wash for the purpose
of running up of said of Illinois
and judge Wash the wages
the rate of fifteen dollars a month for the
as aforesaid -
Your petitioner that she is restrained of then liberty by one who holds her
by of a sale to him by a of this County, that she is poor & her so porperty of her own on the strength of which to
pay costs of suit in presenting her claim
to freedom- She therefore prays, in as
much as the above facts can he fully establiched. That she may be permitted
to sue as a poor person in order to obtain
her freedom- her in duty found
she will

her
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mark

State of Missouri
County of St. Louis ss.

But remembered that on this
third day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty nine
before the .F.M.Kenny! a Justice
of the plea certain and for the county aforesaid, came
Wash , and made oath that the facts continued
in the foregoing petition, so far as stated from her
knowledge, are true, and so far as stated from the information she belives to be true

to and subscribed
October third A.D. 1839
Benj. F.M.Kenny Justice
her
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mark

St. Louis Circuit Court
November Term 1839

Suit of for
freedom - - -
$300.00
allowed to
sue on poor person
Clerk will
on which under the
circumstances

for

Circuit Court November Term
A.D. 1849
County of St. Louis
State of Missouri

polly wash of
Color by attorney complains of
Joseph M Mage of a plea of the for
false impresent. In that to unit on
the thirteenth day of september one thousand eight
hundred and thirty nine at the county aforesaid
the said deft with force and arms an assault made
on the said plaintiff and three and these and
illtreated her the said plff and there and there unlawfully
imprisoned the said plaintiff and these
hath kept and detained her in prison from the day last
aforesaid to this day contrary to the form of the statute
in such case made and provided and the
peace and dignity of the state. And the plaintiff arms
that before and at the time of committing the said several
grievances she most and still is person that
the deft held and still hold her (the said plff) in
slavery wherefore the said plff says that she
is greatly injured damage to the
amount of five hundre dollars the

November term 1839

And the said by his attorney
the
that the plaintiff ought not to have or
her aforesaid a action thereof against him because
he says that before the said term of the
said several approved the said Polly
work was still is a scan without their that before detained
she she was still is a free person
suit at the county aforesaid and this he
the said after he
prays judgement

Jn. Ruland

March Term 1834.

And the said plff by her
that before at the time of
the said supposed as
of said the plff
was not she still a slave at county
aforesaid this plff puts herself upon she

for plff

County of St. Louis , ss.
The State Of Missouri ,To the sheriff of St. Louis County-Greeting:

We command you to Summon Joseph M Magehan
if he be found in your County, that he be
and appear
before the judge of our Circuit court, on the first day of the next term thereof, to be held
at the City of St. Louis , within and for the County of St. Louis , on the third Monday
of November next, then and there to answer unto Polly
wash of a plea if trespass for false imprisonment
to the damage of said plaintiff of five hundred
And have you then there this writ.

Witness, John Ruland . Clerk of our said Court,
with the seal thereof hereto affixed, at office, in the
City of St. Louis , this ninth day of
October in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine.
Jn. Ruland Clerk.

I acknowledge myself bound for all costs that may accure in the above cause.

Witness my hand and seal, at St. Louis , this day of 18

Petitioner ordered to be by Sheriff Book 10 page 87 12 p 249
of 13 p 8514 p 67

no 167 St louis circuit court
november term 1839

suit for $ 500

Filed 9th 1839

Executed this writ in the County of Saint Louis
by offering to read it and the declarations petition
and the order of the honorable Judge Lawless to Joseph Mclaughan on the
14th October 1839 all of which he refused to have

Marshall Brotherton
Sheriff

1.00

County of St. Louis , ss.
The State Of Missouri ,
To Robert Wash
Greeting:-

You are hereby commanded, that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, you appear
before the Judge of our Circuit Court , on the eight day of april
1841 at the city of St. Louis , then and there to
testify, and the truth to say, in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said Court,
wherein Polly Wash is
plantiff and Joseph M Magehan is
defendant on the part of
and herein you are in no wise to fail.

Witness, John Ruland , Clerk of our said court, with the
seal thereof hereto affixed, at office, in the City of St .
Louis ,
this seventh day of april in
the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
forty one
John Ruland Clerk, C.C.

for 8th apl
for deft.

Robt Wash

Executed

M Brotherton Shff
50 cts

In the Circuit Court , for the County
of St.Louis , State of Missouri .
T0Joseph.M.Magehan

You Are Hereby Notified, That Depositions of Witness to be read in
evidence in the above cause, on the part of the Plaintiff, will be taken at
the house of Samuel Wood, near Troy
in the County of Madison and State of Illinois , on the Sixth
day of April. AD. 1840, between the hours 8 o'clock in the
froenoon, and 6 o'clock in the afternoon: and that the taking of said depositions, if not completed on that day, will be continued from day to day at the same place and between
the same hours, till completed.

March 31st AD 1840
Polly Wash
H.L.

noticed to

J.M.
of taking
Depositions

Served the within notice in the county of St. Louis on the
31st day of March 1840 by delevering to Joseph M Megahan
a true copy of the same

Marshall Brotherton Sheriff
by
fee 50

County Of St. Louis , Sct.
The State Of Missouri ,
To any Judge or Justice of the peace or other Judicial officer Of the
state of Illinois
Greeting.

We, reposing special trust and confidence in your integrity and circumspection, do authorize
and require you, that you cause to come before you, such person or persons as
shall be named to you by polly wash or Harris L Sprout
Attorney or Agent, and him or them examine upon his, her or their corporal oath, (to be
by you admministered, ) touching their knowledge of any thing that may relate to a certain
matter of controversy, now pending in our Circuit Court , for the County of St. Louis ,
wherein said polly wash is
plaintiff and one Joseph M Magehan is
defendant on the part of the plaintiff and having
so reduced the said depositions so taken by you as aforesaid in writing, you are required
to send the same, together with this commission, enclosed under your seal, to our said
Circuit Court , with all convenient speed.

Witness, John Ruland , Clerk of our said Circuit
Court at the City of St. Louis , this Thirty first
day of March in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred andthirtyforty.
Ruland Clerk C.C.

Deposition of witness sworn and examined at the Louse
of samuel word near troy in the county of Madison
and state of Illinois before me samuel by a
justice of the peace within and for the county aforesaid
in a certain cause now in the Court for the County of St. Louis state of
Missouri between Polly Wash wash plff and
joseph a the
of the place this 6th day of april A.D. 1840 at 8 o clock in the morning between the
of lawful age being produceed
sworn and examined on the part of the plaintiff
saith that the has know the plaintiff
for a longtime the Deponent know plff in Kentucky
in the of justice token the
in their county the know her to her the same Deponent

hour long she recollects the plff was alomost ever since she plff
was born she plffbelonged to the of Kentucky
the cage of Kentucky and
was about sworn a years of age or
she was about seven or eight years of age to
armed man thier about the one
of the of plff the was living in Wayne county
in the state of Kentucky somewhere near ten
miles from the peace of the birth of plff
deponent had a sister living within a mile and
ahalf miles of the birth place of plff
and was frequently there deponent for frequently
saw the mother than plff carry the child (now
plff I about. Deponent known Polly the plaintiff
as property about these four years a
Deponent as to the number
of years about there
may have a six years or more
for one
man came on to this country the of the present County
of said her that
the self has from a fifteen
years of age. Deponent knew said
as well as she knew any neighbour said
that is James Wood & the in of Deponent
that is and with
men to be than together
- say that she saw them together
a thousand times, they new so in time -
Deponent know that it has been twenty three
years, last fall, she the husband same
came to the present County of Madison
& , - the said checklist came
the fall after, about the last of October on
the first of . Deponent would say that
was the last of October or the first of
November for to the last of her knowledge & belief -
Deponent says that said & Polly remained
here in the County of Madison state of Illinois
from the last of October or first of member until

the last of March or the last of April
following - - - -

Nothing able to complete the taking
of said Depositionis by that the hour
( to 1 is at the moment of
& the time is not sufficient to go further
into the negotiation of matter with
the suit aforesaid I adjourn the further taking
of the same till to then to
at the same place & between the same
hours, mentioned in the annexed notice

Samuel I. .

april seventh day, year aforesaid eigth october
in the to adjournment
sand being further unarmed say
plaintiff left illinois at the time aforesaid
it was generally reported that Polly was
untitled to his freedom - & the said man
to has came
& take away the plaintiff, and has David from of his sans William
brother came away the plaintiff as
they said to, Missouri plaintiff was hered
out to Law
& to - was in the
of saying that he intended to
plaintiff for at the death of him &
his life that she should serve bady sent
him & his cause old man that
arrived in Illinois they and they ever
for Misouri - that they stuppid here because
they thought the was too cold for them
to pursue then journey they were bath
getting and - his family here of himself
his wife for & plaintiff he said a & battle the its about a
month thin he got a house at & stood
there -
by counsel for
you have said me bracket while he was in
Illinois as aforesaid hered plaintiff to work
for your son Law & for
your to state have you know she
was hired - how long she was hired in what & what images she & what
to whom her images were paid
Answer - old man & told me plaintiff wa
Ring at my son in Laws to pay for land
they gate for plaintiff
at there - not have
plaintiff stand there or what images
she at as I understand from
& to pay for a track
the plaintiff - question. find the norms of
self, our in
and convey to any other person or his children
answer his propertyno. when I say he was

failing I mean that failing in
constitution as any other drinking man does
&
plenty & property - question - how many
in his term had our
here in Madison Co.. answer
answer. Deponent does not know,
a five - said brought with him to the
of Deponent knowledge a small
him, He had about a dozen for
sincerely, said
had so or any other
cattle twagger. his team, was not in
very good but plenty good enough to enable
him to go along any where question by
- was his wife, or the at any time in Illinois while they were here -
answer - plff was a little , but not so, to present her going along if
had wished plff was a in this
spring but very little so - question by Depts
During the time aforesaid, any losses tray away any
of answered or answer our
pours in the spring as any , but no accident

happened him question twenty two years ago
has the present Madison county, thirty or densely
settled I mean where can stopped
and please state the names of persons who lived
near at the time.

Answer It was pretty well settled
me
my husband

a man by
the name of Leonard lived at Greggs me
me and of
same name James those
more the three miles

by how far was at from where me
this county by the
loads usually travelled to the

Answer about seventeen miles to the at St. Louis
It was about 20 miles miles to Twenty two years ago the roads are
bad from here to St. Louis or from here to
has your I don't know far I had these
river travelled within but I have same
to St. Louis I was there about twenty years ago
the roads were these

by Did your hear of any bridges being
broken at that time an those roads

Answer I do not know that they were nor did I
hear that they were

Do can you till me whether the
of 1819 twenty two years age was a mile
secure one

Answer It was a very one that that
was hire

by Do you recalled whether the
the set or command sworn after
arrival here or not

Answer Before his arrival there had been frost that
but the I think the was
laterally mild for a month after his arrival
It there became very cold and continued
through the

by Do where stapped here was
generally understood the neighbourhood
far as your know that he was bound
far missouri that he only intended to
stop here temporarily This question is to
by plaintiff

Answer I hered have say he was bound for
messouri and this is all that I know about
I dont know what he said to
folks dont care far I am tried this
answer abjected to by plaintiff

by left here
to what place do you understand they
inteaded to

Answer I did not here them say and do not know
of wood postponed by contact of parties for the purpose
taking the of of lawful age produced
sworn the part of the plaintiff
saith That he did not know
Polly the plff untill she with joseph
in the present county of madison
the plff here in the face of 1817 or
1818deposit came here about the year 1810 he said
to by that he was
to settle in missouri

that polly the plff was hired not to his
wife for about three
nor paid for her services deponent
thinks that he services were paid for
in a the winter was a one staid here in madison county
for what reason he knows form
fall untill the last of April on the first of
May in a long cabin belonging
to kept third says that
polly the plff was treated as a slage was
talked as touch by generally
as deponent
but it thinks him that he has lead the
old man say that he intended freeing
the plff when plff first came here she
was a slip of a girl apparantly between 14 or
16 years of age The place hese the county
was at the time of plaff was quite
thickly settled of dept does not pretend merely think they paid for in a
paid for her services
in matters plantiff has had
not to Deponents wife cannot say
exactly in what way he paid for the
of the plff so much time has elasped
but know that he did pay to satisfy
for the same Deponent know that his thought
was born about the time that plaintiff came to live with him his The plff
had been living with same wood before
that

by dependent not know whether old man his at me or not
he did at my place at
the brought me has hold
such things as mourns gernally
take what things he had me I cant
say Joseph were both advanced
in years he had but one hand one of his arms
was off above the his family consisted of
the girl spoken of
I have lived in Illinois there has been more
or less the other in the month of november
The roads be between here and the are
generally had in the mississppi
the months of march and april

was in spring of 1818 I can not say

by Deft
You have spoken of the hiring of plaintiff
to your wife pay for his hire as I think
your as arthur down does not
convey the idea intended by your I wish your
again to state all your know about this
hiring and the payment of her wagesmy wife says so

Answer of the to by plaintiff I know
she worked at my house my wife says
the paid for his in a for the
plaintiff and I have heard the plaintiff
say I may have paid him in
or other things I do not recalled but I know
was paid for her he
paid me no rent for the house I do
not recalled that I charged
for any thing or kept any amount with
him or that he even paid me any thing
the handled together and generally and
his team after said left this
settlemant say two three four or five
years he called an me at my house
this county-

Joseph I am informed and belive is
dead my understanding is that he did in
missouri thought I do not nut know this
to be a before plaintiff life illinois
I hered a report that she was intelled to
her freedom The that that was
here was a secure one and the spring was
a backward spring & the
by
you state that had
furniture in his
was this statements put down by atty
without authority or if not how do you know
the such wasn't the contents

Answer Dept merely says that he brought with Luis
a waggon the waggon when
deponent frquently used the waggon
to had some furniture
in his that sented of dept
he bought and
the only two
in the neighbourdhood of the
now know prety and
fruther deponent siath not

hisx mark
to before
one on this 7th day of April 1840
between the hours aforesaid

Samuel

The examination word can by
consuit of parties could have travelled
on of he had chosen he bought some
with him that not which he save
us Mr.Comkett was well could have to
polly away if he had chosen those was
nothing to him from so doing or
travilling brought the potatoes or the age of
all the way from Kentucky or the edge of that time
they considered quite an
they of an upon that quantity the were not
frogen he gave same to my husband the rest
he by the side of the so that
he could take them when he crushed
to go away the had no are accommodations
for him he did not calculate to
stay there long while that was here
there was for a man the and
almost
daily to which was the
common route

I know the plaintiff I have not
the plaintiff since she was here that untill samething like a forthnight
age whom she come to my house I know
these I had sum her before her face was
familiar to me after talking about old times
& facts & persons I became fully convinced that
she was the same person that was here
with same twenty two years ago
she said she had came to hunt us and after talking
some time she about the Batteys & Brackets
& other neighbour & things asked Pal
where she had been al this time & why
she had come here - She said she had
come here to sue of they could say have some
she had said here & said she had an idea
of under to get her freedom I these stated to her I recollected such facts as I have
stated. & I told her I was the thing to testify to
such facts as I known here at at St. Louis
I do not know of any persons who have
made up a to and plaintiff in her
just for freedom. Deponent never heard
a things in his life-

her
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Sworn to subscribed before me
before me this 7th day of April 1840 between the hours aforesaid
Samuel Laybold
( )

Samuel Word of lawful age being produced
sworn examined on the part of plaintiff deposeth
& saith I first know Joseph one armed man thirty nine years age last
fall he then & in by man the time of
the afterwards moved unto the border of Kentucky where he had a
& & she had the
character of an honest & truth
was a little addicted to drink when
I last knew him in he had a
girl I never knew him to
have lent our own I moved here me the fall
of 1816 - The night fall Joseph
arrived at the place where I was there
in this County she came with a waggon
& horses he brought with him house hold
furniture bedding Sam Iresh of a
& he brought with home the
negro girl mow called Pally & present
I am confident she is the same she
was there as man as I can judy about
years old - She assumed here I think the last of autumn or the first of
November AD 1817 - she said he had sold
his plan in the appeared to he in
search of a name myself and had
been old argument - he stapped - me
for a time, the particular reasons why he did
so I do not recollect - I have no doubt
I invited him to stap and rest a while hile she could
not be well accommodated with me and therefore stop with me was only untill he could
find same more suitable place - The fall
of his arrival but in early but after this
time there were pleasant spills of weather
the winter was him he arrived here
he had came about three hundred and eighty miles from
his former residence same time after his
aarivalhe appeared to be dissatisfied that he
had sold his property
he had sold his property if he had not sold
It was my understanding that
intended to settle me but how
I got this improper I do not know
The old mans residence here was temporary
he purchased no name here nor -
remember hearing him manifest any such
intruction the brought with the him a five
battle which at

I frequently hered old man say that
it was his intention to see the plaintiff for
at the death of himself and
me when here was between fifty and sixty years old I recollect some of the plaintiff while
here with at moons
kept his cattle - It was then in
there and funding the battle were up, the
man or not for want of food
far they had - I heard bracket say that
he did not intended to remove his stack
untill they had grown that they
could be recruited when travelling
me mr.bracket is dead us I am informed and believed
and has been dead for several years report says
he lived up the missouri about franklin when he did
the plaintiff stayed here in in Illinois to near the
last of april 1818 - when she was taken away
as I understand to Missouri The old man here I think untill after the middle
of may I recollect the had grown
us to he sufficant to recounil battle and the
spring was quite late and backward
states further that after
here in now Madison County he remained
number of persons with waggons were to missouri These was nothing to from
where he chase to my
remained at my
I his waggon was not he took and such things as he wanted
by my house I this.
at the requst of ) I
had where assined removed from my
house & established a where I to
remove my house the came
an said had not term to remove my house
& I lived in the camp untill spring
Mr.bracket while here was treated as any other
neighbour that is with
here & &
where was here I talked upon him
as unsettled I heard mr.bracket say ans same
accounts he liked Illinois will an same accounts
he had objections on amount of told names &
& sudden changes I much heardhim of
his trying to buy an home here I have now no
distance recollection of hearing have say where
he intended to settle while plaintiff was
here she was claimed by me as his
slave & treated as such of that in a reasonable
& indulgent way

Samuel Wood Senior
Sworn to subscribed before me
this 7th day of April . 1840
between the aforesaid
Samuel ()

Mary of lawful age being produced
sworn & as a for the plaintiff
and says - some I can remember any
thing I have known me bracket be then
out the age the first that
I recalled of the plaintff who as now
present she belonged to old mr.bracket who
was then living at I came here
with my father & mother mr. & mrs. Samuel
& my husband in the fall of 1816
I have heard the of my father
& mother as above unthen read my recollections of the fails
stated by them in the general. corresponds
with thus - Mr bracket & family with the
plaintiff around here as I think the last
of october as the false of nowhere
I dont know when plaintiff left here but
I know she was here at a meeting which
I beleive took plan the last of
April - my husband moon
hered the plaintiff of mr.bracket for
a Dollar a & paid him in provision
for his stack & himself such as earn fodder I heard them matter the
she was hered first for two weeks this
was while bracket at my father after
mr.bracket moved to me she was
again hered to my husband on the some
times but how long she worked I can not
recollect - soon after mr.bracket arrived here he made a bargain
with my husband to his cattle I think
in number at this Dollars for
heard - he gat my husband also to
same of his houses - Mr. bracket
to be my any one to persuade his father
to to immediately for
he had no way of gang to misouri of park houses for some reasons unknown
to the and man declined giving
of the until spring & then
off on park houses with his wife
old man bracket brought with him to illinois four or five hours - this waggon was loaded
when he arrived in illinois household
furniture & as if it contained
such as mourns generally take with
them at was reloaded as
I believe I saw the waggan afterwards & empty and used in - I
bracket the old man living me Pasys -
house my husband from a
on me July 1818 - & then
me bracket moved in there my husband
left at this place barn &
to me - before
me which I
wa in may 1818 he & my husband had a
settlement in my and he paid
my husband has started into
eight Dollars & for this sum he gave
his note which has some him paid

I understand - old me bracket then regretted
lutterly that he life - he was
then as he said about to to missouri
when I first saw him in illinois I dont
know where he intended to settle - the old man
a to at a great lap what to do
but said if he had not sold his place
he would return to I heard my
husband old mr.bracket & his son talking
about the of plaintiff
in illinois the said she would be five
according to the Laws of Illinois if this
father kept the plaintiff there until spring
my husband advised old me mr.bracket to
the plaintiff found to him by
the old man said he would not have
her in dentured & he would keep her there
until spring of the did get fun he said
he wanted plaintiff with him for she
was kinder to him than his own children
and he intended where him & his
dead that she should be from

they spoke to the old man of another plan
to prevent her from becoming for it was
to send her to Missouri for a time
& then her that she
should not be in illinois for more than
60 days at a time - the old man refused
to adapt this plan I know of
one reason or cause which preventedor could prevent old man mr.bracket from
going on to Missouri or elsewhere where
he first arrived in illinois I know that
many praple were daily traveling to
me missouri which the old man remained
here -

not being able to complete the taking of said
depositions by reason of the of the house
the further taking of the same till to
then to be continued at the same place
to same hours mentioned

Samuel

to adjournment as above stated on
this eighth day of in the your one thousand
hundred and forty between the hours of of eight in
the said six the afternoon or
the house of some the
of said as follows

on this of christ, between the Loui aforesaid
to the above port many Moone
of her testimony my says further that
appeared healthy, his wife also was also in good health &
with or either of their night have or gone whether
they thought proper I rely the plff has in the
cost of April, form the of
a meeting about the time. The plff
away by a ton of &

left himself further Deponent saith now

Mary Moort
this 8th day of April 1840

Samuel I

The past is to the above that
and he made to the manner of certifying depositions by and in
us to the justice

G A Bind for
H. . speak.
plffs

I. samuel a justice of the peace within for the
County of madison in the state of illinois to certify that
in of the
of word in the county state
word. ,
word Mary
and examination reduced to
& by then in the the the aforesaid in
this said depositions war

at the house of samuel word in the county of
of illinois this eigth any
A.D. 1840
Samuel

This hereby certified that on the
sixth & eigth day of April in the year of
thousand hundred fourty is a Justice of the peace within the county of
Madison in the state of Illinois duly
and acting as such and that face faith
and credit are due to his acts as such

In testimony whereof
brown Clerk of Madison County have subscribed my name offered the seal of office this
10th day of April in the year of
the one thousand eight hundred
and forty
Brown
Clerk

April 13 1840.

Jn. Ruland Clerk

for plff

Suit for freedom
in the Circuit
Court of St. Louis
County Missouri

I Polly Wash the defendant
in the above suit having recoverd
my freedom there by he come untitle
to recieve the money of said
suit hereby acknowledge to have
received the same in full from
the shiff hereby releasing the shriff
and also releasing Mr. Hayden
who hered me at the hiring
made under the order of court
from all to me or to any
person for me

St. Louis Sept 22nd 1843
Polly hisx Wash mark

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