Sylvia Lee v. Elizabeth Smallwood. Summons of Elizabeth Smallwood
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 Elizabeth Smallwood if she shall be found within the county of Washington, that (all excuses set aside) she 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 the first Monday of December next, to testify on the part of answer the petition for freedom of Sylvia Lee in said court exhibited against her
Hereof fail not, at your peril; and have you then and there this Precept.
Witness William Cranch, Esquire, chief Judge of the said Court.
Issued the 9 day of July 1831
K & D
Wm Brent Clk
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Sylvia Lee
Minty Lee secy
v
Elizabeth Smallwood
Subpa
10 Bre
Peto for freedom
Non Est
H. Ashton,
Marshal
