Free Negro Bond for Hanner
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Free Negro Bond for Hanner. 1844, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 8, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/61170
- Title
- Free Negro Bond for Hanner
- Date
- December 16, 1844
- Identifier
- fre0164.1844.000
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- Rights
- Public Domain
- Transcription
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# Free Negro Bond for Hanner
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Know all men by these presents that we
Pauline Hanner as principal and Charles G
Chesley as security are held and firmly bound unto
the State of Missouri as follows the said Pauline
Hanner in the sum of two hundred dollars &
the said Charles G. Chesley in the sum of two
hundred dollars for the payment thereof
well & truly to be made we bind ourselves
our heirs, executors & administrators
firmly by these presents. Sealed with our
seals & dated at St Louis this sixteenth day
of December A.D. 1844_
The above obligation is such that whereas
on the sixteenth day of December eighteen
hundred & forty four the County Court of
St Louis County hath granted a license to the said Pauline Hanner a free negro
woman to remain in the State of Missouri
in accordance with an act entitled "An
act more effectually to prevent free persons
of color from entering into the State & for other
purposes" Approved Feb 23d 1843
Now if the above bounden Pauline Hanner shall well demean & conduct her-
-self & be of good behaviour during the
continuance of the said license in the
State of Missouri then this obligation to be
void else to remain in full force and
virtue
*AM Gardner*
*Pauline her x mark Hanner*
*C.G Chesley*
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Pauline Hanner
free negro
Filed 16 Dec 1844
SD Barlow Clk
Free Negro Bond for Hanner. 1844, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 8, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/61170