Margaret Norah Atkins & Alfred Atkins Francis Bowling & Clarissa Gardiner Summons of Francis Bowling & Clarissa B. Gardner
We command you that you take summon Francis Bowling & Clarissa Gardner, admers of Richard B. Gardner 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 their bodies before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be held for the County aforesaid, at the City of Washington, on the 3d Monday of October next, to answer unto the Petition for freedom Margaret Norah Atkins & Alfred Atkins by David Atkins their next friend
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 5th day of June Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty six
Issued the 16th day of July 1846.
W Brent Clk
Bradly
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Margt. Norah Atkins & Alfred Atkins by David Atkins their next friend
vs
Francis Bowling & Clarissa Gardner adrs of Richard B. Gardner
Subpoena
10 Bre
+
Peto for freedom
Non Sunt
A Hunter
Marshal