Free Negro Bond for Ned Padfield
Item
Free Negro Bond for Ned Padfield. 1846, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 9, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/61267
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Title
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Free Negro Bond for Ned Padfield
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Licensee
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Padfield, Ned
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Date
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December 24, 1846
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Identifier
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fre0031.1846.000
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Rights
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Public Domain
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Transcription
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# Free Negro Bond for Ned Padfield
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Know all men by these presents that we
Ned Padfield a free negro as principal and Charles Boswell
as security - both of St. Louis Missouri
are held and firmly bound unto the said
State of Missouri in the sum of four
hundred dollars- said principal in two-
hundred himself and said security in
the sum of two hundred dollars_is the
payment of which sum well and truly
to be made, we bind ourselves our
heirs- executors, and administrators firmly
by these presents -
The condition of the above obligation is
such, what whereas_I and Ned Ned Padfield
has applied to the St. Louis County Court
for a License under an act of the State
of Missouri approved February 23 1843
entitled an act more efectually to pre
-vent free persons of color from entering
into the state, and for other purposes
Now No if said Ned shall be of good" behavior during the [ ?]tinuance of
said License_ then this obligation
shall be void_otherwise shall be
in full force and virtue
*Henry P. Wise*
*Ned her X mark Padfield*
*Charles Boswell*
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Ned Padfield
Bond to State
May 2nd 1843
Free Negro Bond for Ned Padfield. 1846, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 9, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/61267
