Hester Johnson & Martha Bronson v. Priscilla & Basil E. Gant. Summons of Priscilla & Basil E. Gant
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 Priscilla Gant & Basil E. Gant if they shall be found in the County of Washington, that they be and appear in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, at rules to be held for the County of Washington, at the City of Washington, on the first 4th Monday of March next, to answer to bill of complaint of the Petition for freedom of Hester Johnson Martha Bronson & Randolph Bronson filed in Court here against them and others.
Hereof fail not at your peril; and have you then and there this precept.
witness the Hon. w. Cranch, Chief Judge of the said Court.
Issued the 21st day of Nov 1846.
W Brent Clk
Ratcliffe
Memorandum: The defendant to enter appearance in the suit, on or before the day on which the above subpoena is returnable, otherwise the bill may be taken pro confesso.
36.
Hester Johnson, Martha Bronson & Randolph Bronson her child
vs
Priscilla Gant & Basil E. Gantt
Sub.
1 Bre
+
Sum. Defts.
Non Sunt
A Hunter
Marshal
