Helm two hundred dollars.

He also left a notice, forbidding all persons to take or destroy any property in my possession; and then impudently inquired how I expected to gain my freedom; if I thought of applying for a writ of _habaeus corpus_; and many other questions; to which I replied that I should pay no money on the order of Capt.

Helm; apply for no writ; but should continue to maintain my personal rights and enjoy the freedom which was already mine, and which I designed to keep, assuring him that the Captain had forfeited his claim, if he had any, to me or my services, when he hired me to Mr.Tower.
He hung about me for a day or two, and then left me to pursue my business -- I saw no more of him.

Some time afterward Mr.H.E.Rochester informed me that he had a _subpoena_ for me, which I found was issued by the direction of Capt.Helm.By Mr.Rochester's counsel, I took it to Mr.A.
Sampson, who assured me that my old master had commenced a suit against me in the Court of Equity, and the case would be tried before Wm.

B.
Rochester, Esq., who was one of the circuit judges.Capt.Helm claimed every particle of property I possessed; a claim that occasioned me great anxiety and some cost.
Mr.Sampson encouraged me to hope, however, that the case would be dismissed as two other cases of that kind had been.
I labored to the best of my ability to prepare myself for the trial, which was to decide whether I had a right to possess myself and command my own services and earnings, or whether all belonged to Capt.Helm.As I looked forward with anxious forebodings to the day appointed for the suit to commence, I was startled by the announcement of my old master's _death_! Yes, Capt.