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To the Honble the Judges of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for Washington County.-
The Petition of Sylvia Lee humbly sheweth that she is a free person unlawfully held in bondage by one Elizabeth Smallwood, who claims your Petitioner as a slave. Wherefore she prays that sbpa may issue to said Elizabeth that she may appear & answer hereunto according to law.
Key & Dunlop for Petr.
282
Sylvia Lee
v
E. Smallwood
Petition for freedom
Mr Brent
File it & issue subpa & give Petr. a certe for protection.
K. & D.
Filed 26 Apl 1827.