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Law Commissioners' Court
October Term 1854, No. 108
Johnson, William, Ex parte
Habeas Corpus
Petitioner jailed on August 9, 1854, on suspicion of being a runaway; was born free of a free mother in St. Louis County; arrested by P.W. Johnstone, a Justice of the Peace
Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “William Johnson v. John Hempstead. Cover.” 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.0043.001
