O Say Can You See

Humbly complaining the Petitioner negro woman Rebecca for herself & infant children William, Ann & Margaret, represents to your Honors that she & her children above named are entitled to their freedom. That nonetheless [torn page] in slavery & bondage by a certain Lloyd Pumphrey who refuses them that liberty & freedom, which of right is theirs. She therefore in behalf of herself & children above named prays that a subpoena may issue directed to the said Lloyd commanding him to be & appear before your Honble Court at the coming term, there to answer this petition & to be made defendant thereto. She also having want to apprehend a sale & removal immediately from the jurisdiction of your Honble Court prays a writ of injunction, injoining & forbidding the said Lloyd & his agents from removing the petitioner & her children as aforesaid. Hoping such other relief as may be meet in the premises, she thus ever prays &c

Tho: Turner solr for Petrs

On this 24th day of Novr. 1824 personally appears before me justice of peace in & for the County aforesaid Thomas Turner & makes oath that on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he believes that Lloyd Pumphrey [?] the sale & removal, from the District, of the within named petitioner & children [torn page] in the Petition.

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Let an injunction issue as prayed
B. Thruston

Wm. Brent esqr Clerk [illegible]
25th Novr. 1824

Injunction issued No. 326 Chancery Docket Rule Docket No. 1