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To the honorable the Judges of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia.
The Petition of Charles Cross shews to your honors that he is a free man held unjustly in bondage by Gabriel Moore Esq from whom he prays to be released by your honors and as in duty bound will ever pray &c
James Hoban for Petitioner
April 5, 1836
189. 197. 173. 128. 93.
Charles Cross
vs
Gabriel Moore
Petition of freedom
Filed 5 April 1836