Bond executed by Charles Edmund and Louis Tarteron LeBeaume [Harriet Scott]

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“Bond Executed by Charles Edmund and Louis Tarteron LeBeaume [Harriet Scott]”. Hiring Out of Dred and Harriet Scott During Litigation, 1852, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 3, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/108466

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Filing Name: Bond executed by Charles Edmund and Louis Tarteron LeBeaume [Harriet Scott]
Description: Bond executed by Charles Edmund and Louis Tarteron LeBeaume (brothers-in-law of Peter E. Blow) for Harriet Scott; hire paid up until April 26, 1853
Date: 1852-04-22
Is Part Of: Hiring Out of Dred and Harriet Scott During Litigation
Identifier: dre1852.0091.093
Case ID: ccr1848.0000.014
Source: Missouri State Archives - St. Louis
Rights: Public Domain
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Transcription: > Legal Function: notice

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> Document: Bond executed by Charles Edmund and Louis Tarteron LeBeaume

Know all men by these presents that, We, C. Edmund LaBeaume as principal and Louis T. LaBeaume as security are firmly held and bound unto the state of Missouri in the sum of six hundred dollars, to the payment whereof well and truly to be made we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators jointly and severally firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated at St Louis the 26th day of April 1852.

The condition of the above obligation in such that whereas a suit for freedom is pending in the St. Louis Circuit Court, so herein Harriette (of Color) is plaintiff and Irene Emerson is Defendant, and whereof on the 17th day of March 1848 an order was made by the said St. Louis Circuit Court ordering the Sheriff of St Louis County to hire out the said plaintiff to the best advantage from time to time during the pendency of said suit at the price and sum of four dollars per month.
Now, therefore, if the said C. Edmund LaBeaume Shall pay the hire of the said Harriette at the rate of four dollars per month to the said Sheriff to be paid monthly from the 26th day of April 1852 and shall not remove the said Harriette out of the jurisdiction of the said St. Louis Circuit Court and shall return the said Harriette at the expiration of twelve months from said 26th — day of April 1852 or at the termination of said suit, — then this obligation to be null and void, else in full force and effect

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C. Edmund LaBeaume {Seal}

Louis T Labeaume {Seal}

> Legal Function: file record

C. Edmund LaBeaume

and

Louis T. LaBeaume

To } Bond

The State of Missouri

Filed Mch 20. 1857.

S Rice clk

Item sets: Dred Scott Collection; Hiring Out of Dred and Harriet Scott During Litigation