Milly v. Basil Warring. Summons of Basil Warring

District of Columbia, to wit.
The United States of America,
To the Marshal of the District of Columbia, Greeting:
You are hereby cemmanded to summon Basil Warring 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 the second Monday of April next, to testify on the part of answer the petition for freedom of negro Milly in said Court exhibited 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 13 day of Nov 1822
Wm Brent Clk

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Negro Milly
vs
Basil Warring
Subpa
Sum Deft
Sumd
T. Ringgold
Marshal