Free Negro Bond for Jemima Bayless
Item
Free Negro Bond for Jemima Bayless. 1843, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 3, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/61037
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Title
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Free Negro Bond for Jemima Bayless
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Date
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1843-05-02
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Identifier
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fre0013.1843.000
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Rights
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Public Domain
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Transcription
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# Free Negro Bond for Bayless
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Know all men by these presents that we, Jimima Bayless >
and Israel W. Bartholomews of the city and county of St.
Louis and State of Missouri are held and firmly bound to
State of Missouri in teh sum of five hundred dollars
good and lawful money the payment whereof
well and truly to be made, we hereby firmly bind ourselves our
heirs executors and administrators.
The condition of the above obligation is such that
whereas the said Jimima Bayless a free person of color of the
city of Saint Louis and State of Missouri aforesaid has this
day obtained a license from the county court of Saint
Louis County + State of Missouri under and in persuance
of an act entitled "An act the more effectually to pre-
vent free persons of color from entering the state of Missouri,"
approved February twenty-third A.D. 1843, Now therefore
if the said Jimima Bayless shall continue of good moral char-
acter and behavior, and to support herself by lawful em
ployment these this obligation to be void and mull other-
wise to remain and be of full force and virtue.
As which our hands and seals this second day of May A.D. 1843_
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*Jimima her X mark Bayless*
*Israel, W, Bartholomews*
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Jimima Bayless' Bond
2nd May 1843
Free Negro Bond for Jemima Bayless. 1843, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 3, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/61037
