Writ of Attachment for Failure to Appear
Item
Writ of Attachment for Failure to Appear. 1815, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 4, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/60580
- Case Title
- Writ of Attachment for Failure to Appear
- Series
- Lewis and Clark
- Defendant
- Morin, Baptiste
- Pryor, Nathaniel
- Thomas, Ellen
- Date Filed
- 1816
- Filing Date
- 1816
- Court Name
- St. Louis Circuit Court, Territory of Missouri
- Clerk
- Leduc, Marie Philip
- Case Notes
- Failure to appear as witness; attachment only; corresponding case May term 1816 U.S. v. Simon, a slave of Antoine Soulard.
- Identifier
- ccr1816.05879.002
- Source
- Missouri State Archives - St. Louis
- Rights
- Public Domain
- PDF Download
- Download PDF of all images
- Transcription
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**Page 1** (5879_001.jpg)
> *Legal Function: Writ and Summons for Baptiste Morin, Nathaniel Prior, and Ellen Thomas to Answer unto the United States*
Territory of Missouri ,
County of St Louis
Sct. The United States of America , to the sheriff of the county of St. Louis , Greeting,
We command you to attack Baptiste Morin, Nathaniel Prior &
Ellen Thomas if they may be found within your bailwick and them immediately safely keep so that you may have
their bodies before the judge of our circuit court now setting at the town of St. Louis , within and
for the county of St. Louis ,[illegible] then there
to answer unto the United States touching a certain contempt by them
committed in not attending the court as witnesses in a certain matter
now pending in our said court between the United States and [illegible] summon
a slave of Anthony Soulard[?] a free being thereto legally summoned
[illegible]
[illegible] and have you then
there this writ.
*Witness [illegible] Merry Philippe Ledue Clerk[?] [illegible]
of our said court at the town of St. Louis aforesaid, this
sixth day of August in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixteen and of the Independence
of the United States of America the forty first
[illegible] Clk. St. L . C. C. C. P*
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**Page 2** (5879_002.jpg)
> *Legal Function: Certificate of Execution*
U.States
B. Morris
*E. Thomas Nathl Byor[?]*
> *Legal Function: Certificate of Execution, part 2*
Executed
on E. Thomas
and Nathl[?]
*[illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible]*
Writ of Attachment for Failure to Appear. 1815, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 4, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/60580