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