Esther Humphreys v. John B. Lambert. Summons of John B. Lambert

District of Columbia, to wit:
The United States of America,
To the Marshal of the District of Columbia, Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to summon John B Lambert if he shall be found in the county of Washington, that (all excuses set aside) he be and appear before the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia, to be held for the county of Washington, in the city of Washington, on the second Monday of April next, to testify on the part of answer the petition for freedom of Easther Humphreys in said Court exhibited against him
Hereof fail not at your peril; and have you then and there this precept.
Witness Wm Cranch Esquire, chief Judge of the said Court.
Issued the 24th day of March 1823
Key & Dunlop
Wm Brent, Clk

623
Easther Humphreys
vs
John B. Lambert
Subpa
1 bre
Sum Deft
Non Est
T Ringgold
Marshal