Free Negro Bond for Eliza Bond
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Free Negro Bond for Eliza Bond. 1846, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 9, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/61261
- Title
- Free Negro Bond for Eliza Bond
- Date
- December 24, 1846
- Identifier
- fre0003.1846.000
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- Transcription
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# Free Negro Bond for Eliza Bond
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Know all Men by These Presents, that we,
Eliza Bond as principal, and Daniel
Loyd + John Collins as securities are
held and firmly bound unto the State of
Missouri in the just and full sum of
four hundred dollars that is to say the
said Eliza Bond in the sum of two hundred
dollars and the said Loyd & Collins in
the sum of two hundred dollars, for
the true jugment of which said sum
of many we but ourselves our and
each of our heirs executioners, and administrators
and assigns jointly and severally
firmly by these presents. In interest whereof
we have hereunto set our hands and
seals this the first day of May in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty three.
The condition of the
above obligation is such, that wherever the said
Eliza Bond has this day obtained from the
County Court of St. Louis County a License
to remain in the state as a free person
of color under the provissions of an act of
the General Assembly of the State of Missouri
approved the twenty third day of February
AD 1843. Entitled "an act more effectually
to prevent free persons of color from entering into
this state and for other purposes" Now if the
said Eliza Bond shall be of good behavior during
the continuance of said leave then the above obligation
to be void else to remain in full force
*Eliza her X mark Bond* [seal]
*Daniel Loyd* [seal]
*John Collins* [seal]
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Eliza Bond
Fr Bond
Hab of Missouri
Sight Mulatto complexion 5 feet 9 inches
Filed May 1st 1843
Julius De Mun Clerk
By Henry J. Wise Depty.
Free Negro Bond for Eliza Bond. 1846, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 9, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/61261