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Mary Vigal
vs
Robert K. Nevitt
Petition for Freedom
To the Honorable the Judges of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Your Petitioner respectfully represents unto your Honors that she is free and is unjustly detained in slavery by said defendant and prays that said defendant be summoned to appear before your Honorable Court and make answer to the allegations of above petition and she will ever pray &c.
W J Stone Junr
for Petitioner
504
Mary Vigal
vs
Robert K Nevitt
The Clerk will file this Petition and issue as prayed.
W J Stone Junr
for Petitioner
Filed 24t March 1854.