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 Elizth Cocke & Peter E Hoffman late of Washington County, if they shall be found within the County of Washington in your said District, and them safely keep, so that you have to 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 4th Monday of March next, to answer unto Joshua Cryer his petition for freedom &c.

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

Witness W Cranch Esquire, Chief Judge of our said Court, at the City of Washington, the seventh day of December Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty seven.

Issued the 6th day of January 1848.

W. Brent Clk

May

 

86.

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

Sub.
3 Bre

Peto for freedom.

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Non Sunt
A Hunter
Marshal