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The petition of Samuel Bias, humbly sheweth, that your petitioner is detained illegally in slavery by John Rose Thomas Brooke Bell though he is reaso entitled to his freedom, though he is as he is prepared to verify, & he therefore humbly prays that this Honorable Court will take his cause into consideration, and direct such process and steps to be taken therein as to this Honorable Court may seem proper and this Law has provided. & your petitioner will ever pray &c

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