Jacob v. Stephen Cooke. Summons of Stephen Cooke
The Commonwealth of Virginia,
To the Sergeant of the Court of Hustings, in the Town of Alexandria, Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to take Stephen Cooke if he be found in your bailiwick, and him safely keep, so that you have his body before the Justices of the said Court of Hustings, in the town of Alexandria, on the first Monday in July next to answer Negro Jacob of a plea of Trespass Assault Battery and false Imprisonment Damage Fifty Dollars and have then there this writ.
Witness, George Deneale, Clerk of the said Court, this 23rd day of April 1800.
G Deneale CC
Negro Jacob
vs
Cooke
Caps
For illegally holding the plff in Bondage
1800
July C. O
Executed
Wm Turner DM
T Botts
