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To the Honble the Judges of the Circuit Court of the District of Cola
Your Petitioner Adam Wigle Humbly Sheweth unto your Honors that he is Justly entitled to his freedom and that he is unjustly held in bondage by Thomas Grimes.
Therefore he prays your Honors to take his case into consideration and grant him such relief in the premises as to your Honors may seem just;
And your petitioner will ever pray &c
Coxe & Smith for Petr
18
Adam Wigle
v
Thomas Grimes
Peto
fd 13 May 1830