Free Negro Bond for Marshall
Item
Free Negro Bond for Marshall. 1843, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 6, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/61066
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Title
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Free Negro Bond for Marshall
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Date
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1843-05-03
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Identifier
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fre0059.1843.000
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Rights
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Public Domain
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Transcription
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# Free Negro Bond for Marshall
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Know all men by these presents that we Richard
Marshall and Saml N Allen of the county of St. Louis
State of Missouri, are held and firmly bound unto the
State of Missouri in the sum of Two hundred Dollars, to
be well and truly paid to the said State of Missouri
to which payment well and truly to be made, we do
bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators + each and every of them firmly by these presents_
Sealed with our seals and dated the second
day of May A.D. Eighteen hundred + forty-three
The condition of this obligation is such, that
whereas the County Court of St Louis County his this
day granted to the said Richard Marshall a
free colored man, a license to reside within this
state_ Now therefore_ if the said Richard Marchall
during his residence within the state of Missouri shall
well and truly deport and conduct himself in an
honest, moral, sober and upright manner, as a good
and orderly citizen of said state then this obligation
to be void otherwise to remain in full force and
effect in law
*Henry J. Wise*
*R Marshall*
*S. H. Allen*
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Richard Marshall
To Bond
The State of Missouri
dated May 3. 1843.
Free Negro Bond for Marshall. 1843, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 6, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/61066
