Margaret Norah Atkins & Alfred Atkins Francis Bowling & Clarissa Gardiner Summons of Francis Bowling & Clarissa B. Gardner
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 Francis Bowling & Clarissa B. Gardner administrators of Richard B. Gardner 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 be and appear have bod before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be held for the County aforesaid, at the City of Washington, on the fourth Monday of November next, to answer unto the Petition of Margaret Norah Atkins and Alfred Atkins by David Atkins their next friend for their 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 4th day of Septr Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty three
Issued the 7th day of Septr 1843.
Wm Brent Clk
Bradley.
