Samuel Smith v. Jesse Conn. Summons of Jesse Conn
District of Columbia, to wit:
The United States of America,
To the Marshal of the District of Columbia -- Greeting:
We command you that you take summon Jesse Conn late of Washington County, if he shall be found within the County of Washington in your said District, and safely keep, so that you have his bod he be & appear before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be held for the County aforesaid, at the City of Washington, on the fourth Monday of November next, to answer unto the Petition of Samuel Smith filed in the said Court for his freedom.
Hereof fail not, at your peril, and have you then and there this writ:
Witness Wm Cranch Esquire, Chief Judge of our said Court, at the City of Washington, the 28th day of June Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and 38.
Issued the 21st day of July 1838.
Wm Brent Clk
Key
200
Samuel Smith
vs.
Jesse Conn
Subpa
7 Bre
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Petition for freedom
Non Est
A Hunter
Marshal
