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Rebecca A. Moore v. John Hempstead. Statement

 

State of Missouri County of St Louis } ss

Personally appeared before me Louis Du Breuil a Justice of the Peace within and for the County & State aforesaid Louis St Ange who being duly sworn upon his oath says that he did apprehend ^in the City of St Louis a negro woman calling herself Rebecca Moore about 40 years of age of a black color, & about 5 feet high, which said negro woman having no free papers or any thing to establish that she is free he has good reason and does believe she is a runaway slave and from papers found in her possession that she belongs to one Amos Webb heirs residing in Opelousas in the State of Louisiana

Louis St Ange

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 20d day of September 1854

Louis Du Breuil Justice

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Rebecca A. Moore v. John Hempstead. Statement.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed December 4, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.mo.0050.004

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