County of St. Louis
The State of Missouri
To Francis Hickman Greeting
You are hereby commanded to have the bodies Sarah and Hannah free girls of colour detained in your custody as it is said together with the day and cause of their being taken and detained before our circuit Court within and for the County of St Louis now in Session at the City of St Louis immediately after the receipt of this writ to do and receive all and singular those things which our said Court shall consider concerning them in their behald and have you then there this writ
Witness Archibald Gamble Clerk of our said Court at Office this 13th day of April 1825
Archibald Gamble Clerk
