Rose v. James Kennedy Jr. Summons of James Kennedy
The Commonwealth of Virginia;
To the Sergeant of the Court of Hustings, in the town of Alexandria, Greeting—
You are hereby commanded to take James Keneday if he be found in your bailiwick, and him safely keep, so that you have his body before the Justices of the said Court of Hustings, in the town of Alexandria, on the first Monday in next month to answer Negro Rose (a pauper) of a plea of Trespass Assault & Battery damage Five Hundred dollars and have then and there this writ. Witness George Deneale, clerk of the said court, this 25 day of August 1799.
G. Deneale
Executed
Chs [illegible]
Negro Rose
v
Keneday
Caps.
For Assault, Battery & False Imprisonment of the plf. Illegally held in bondage
1799. Septr. C.O
Jones
