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United States v. Milly. Order

 

Territory of Missouri County of St Louis } ss

The United States of America to the Sheriff of said County Greeting

We command you to take Milly a slave of one T Stoth if she may be found within your County and her safely so that you have her body before the Judge of our Circuit Court at the next term to be held at the town of St Louis within and for the County of St Louis on the second Monday of February next then and there to answer unto the United States of America on a charge of Larceny with force and arms against the peace and dignity of the said United States. And have you[?] then there this writ

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Witness Archibald Gamble Clerk at our said Court at Office this Fourth day of December Eighteen hundred and eighteen and of our Independence the forty third

A Gamble Clerk

No 78

St Louis Circuit Court

Febry Term 1819

United States vs Milly a Slave

Larceny Capias

The defendant not found in this St. Louis County 22nd March 1819

John K Walker

D Shff

Nov Est. 50 cts

68

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “United States v. Milly. Order.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 30, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.mo.0030.002

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