Joshua Cryer v. Elizabeth Cocke & Peter E. Hoffman. Summons of Elizabeth Cocke & Peter E. Hoffman

 

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

We command you that you take summon Elizabeth Cocke & Peter E. Hoffman late of Washington County, if they shall be found within the County of Washington in your said District, and safely keep, so that you they have be & bod appear before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be held for the County aforesaid, at the City of Washington, on the third Monday of October next, to answer unto the Petition of Joshua Cryer by her next friend Winney Cryer in for his freedom.

Hereof fail not, at your peril, and have you then and there this writ.

Witness Wm Cranch Esquire, Chief Judge of our said Court, at the City of Washington, the 7th day of June Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty 7.

Issued the 22d day of June 1847.

Wm Brent Clk

May.

 

149.

Joshua Cryer by his next friend Winny Cryer
vs.
Elizabeth Cocke & Peter E. Hoffman

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Petition for freedom

Non Sunt A Hunter Marshal