Free Negro Bond for Bell or Isabella Carries alias Reed

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Free Negro Bond for Bell or Isabella Carries Alias Reed. 1861, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 10, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/61948

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Title: Free Negro Bond for Bell or Isabella Carries alias Reed
Date: April 23, 1861
Identifier: fre0929.1861.000
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Source: Missouri Historical Society, Dexter P. Tiffany Collection, 1808-1902
Rights: Public Domain
Transcription: # Free Negro Bond for Bell or Isabella Carries alias Reed

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Know all Men by These Presents,
That we,
Bell or Isabella Carries alias Reed as principal
, and
William P English as security,
are held and firmly bound unto the State of Missouri, in the just and
full sum of five hundred Dollars, lawful money of the
United States, for the payment of which we bind ourselves, our heirs,
executors and administrators, firmly by these presents, sealed with
our seals, and dated this twenty third day of
April A.D. 1861

The condition of the above Obligation is such, that whereas,the said
Carries alias Reed has applied to the Board of
County Commissioners of St. Louis County for, and obtained a
license to reside in the State of Missouri, during good behavior:
Now, if the said applicant shall be of good character and behavior
during her residence in the State of Missouri, then this
obligation to be void, else of full force and virtue.

*JR Lackland*
*Isabella Carries alias Reed her X mark*
*Wm. P. English*

> *function: age, height, physical description, occupation*

5-4 3/4 -19- black color-
scar in right wrist. washer,

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Bell or Isabella Carries
alias Reed
Bond
Free Negro

Filed
April 23 1861.
S. W. Eager Jr.
Sec

Item sets: All Circuit Court Records; Freedom Bonds