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To the Honourable the Judges of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia and County of Washington
The petition of Henry Thomas Edmonson, a coloured boy about eleven years old represents to your Honors that although entitled to his freedom, being descended from a free woman by the name of Nancy Edmondson, when the said Petitioner will respectfully until the right be properly determined by this Court and that the marshall may take into custody the petitioner and have him brought into court.
J Hellen for Petitioner
371
Henry Edmonson
vs
Joseph Neal
Petition for freedom
Col Brent file this petition
J Hellen
filed 22d May 1832
Issue sums retble Jany