Susan Davis v. Caleb Swann. Writ of Execution

 

District of Columbia....to wit:

The United States of America to the Marshal of the District of Columbia, Greeting:

Whereas at a circuit court of the district of Columbia, held for the county of Washington, at the city of Washington, on the fourth Monday of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight a certain Susan Davis & Airy her daughter by judgment of the said court recovered against a certain Caleb Swan as well the sum of thirty seven dollars and sixty two and one half cents and the quantity of one hundred and eighty six pounds of tobacco, which was adjudged by the said Court to the said Susan & Airy on their assent for their cost and charges by them about their suit (in behalf of their freedom prosecuted in the said court) laid out and expended.

which was adjudged by the said court to the said on assent for costs and charges by about suit in that behalf laid out and expended: whereof the said Caleb Swan is convict as it appeareth of record. Therefore you are hereby commanded, that of the goods, chattels, lands and tenements of the said Caleb Swan being found in the said county of Washington, you cause to be made the damages, costs, and charges aforesaid, and have the same before the circuit court of the district of Columbia, to be held for the county of Washington, at the city of Washington, on the first Monday of June next, to render unto the said Susan & Airy the damages, costs, and charges aforesaid. Hereof fail not at your peril; and have you then and there this writ.

Witness, the honorable William Cranch, esquire, chief judge of the said court, the 4th day of February in the year 1809

Wm Brent Clerk.

Issued the 28th day of February 1809

Hiort.

 

June the 15th 1809. Recd. payment of the within Judgment in full of W. Boyd Marshal.

Witness

Susan Davis
her x mark

9

Susan Davis & her Daughter Airy
against
Caleb Swan

[illegible]

Costs $37.62½ & 186 Tobo.
[illegible] .91

Paid in full this 25. April 1809.
C. Swan

Capi[?] satisfied Marshal

W. Boyd
Marshal