Jenny Brown represents that she "has good and firm grounds on which she claims her right to freedom." She informs the court that she "is at the present time held in slavery ... by F. Steigers." Brown reveals that she was brought into Virginia in 1813 "for the purpose of sale" and that afterwards she was sent to Missouri "and there hired out as a slave contrary to the laws." Claiming that "in fact and in truth from the violation of the laws of the state of Virginia" she has been free the past 22 years, Brown "prays your Honor to allow her to sue as a poor person to establish her freedom so wrongfully taken from her."
Result: Petition granted; plea of trespass filed.
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Repository: Civil Courts Building, St. Louis, Missouri
