Gerrard v. Zachariah Cox. Summons of Zachariah Cox
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 Zachariah Cox if he shall be found within 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 first Monday of December next, to testify on the part of answer the petition for freedom of Negro Gerrard in said Court exhibited against him
Hereof fail not, at your peril; and have you then and there this Precept.
Witness William Cranch, Esquire, chief Judge of the said Court.
Issued the 9th day of July 1831
Wm Brent Clk
(K & D)
96-
Negro Gerrard
v
Zachariah Cox
Subpa
7 Bre
Peto. for freedom
Non Est
H. Ashton
Marshal
