Samuel Smith v. Jesse Conn. Summons of Jesse Conn

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 Jesse Conn Late of Washington County if he shall be found in the County of Washington, that (all excuses set aside) he be and appear before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be held for the County of Washington, in the City of Washington, on Frist Monday of December next, to testify on the part of answer the petition for freedom of Samuel Smith filed in said court against him
Hereof fail not at your peril; and have you then and there this Precept.
Witness W. Cranch Esquire, Chief Judge of the said Court.
Issued the 19th day of October 1831.
W. Brent, Clk
Giberson

239.
Samuel Smith
vs
Jess Conn
Subpa
1 Bre
Peto for freedom
Non Est
H. Ashton
Marshal