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Anson v. Henry Mitchell and Henry Russel. Order of the Court

Petition Date

May 26, 1832

Earliest Record Date

May 26, 1832

Record Type

Case

Place(s)

  • St. Louis (Mo.)

People

  • Anson (Petitioner)
  • Mitchell, Henry (Defendant)
  • Russel, Henry (Defendant)
  • Carr, William C. (Judge)
 

"By the Habeas Corpus Writ"

The state of Missouri -

To George Hammand Esq Greeting

You are hereby commanded that the body of Anson a person of color who has been permitted to sue as a free person for his freedom, in your custody (as is said) detained, under safe and secure conduct together with the day & cause of his capturer and detainer by whatsoever name he may be called, you have before the Circuit Court for the County of St. Louis on the 30th day of May 1832 at the Court house in the county of St. Louis then & there to do submit to & receive whatsoever shall be considered on that behalf

Witness William C Carr Judge of the 3rd Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri this 26 May 1832

Will C. Carr

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Anson v. Henry Mitchell and Henry Russel. Order of the Court.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 21, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.mo.0014.007

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