Milly v. Matthew Eakin. Summons of Matthew Eakin
We command you that you take Matthew Eakin if he be found within the county of Alexandria, in your said District, and him safely keep, so that you have his body before the honorable the Judges of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, at the Court-House in the Town of Alexandria, at the next Court, to answer Negro Milly, of a plea of Trespass Assault and Battery and false Imprisonment Damage Fifty Dollars
And have then and there this Writ. Witness William Cranch, Esq. Chief Judge of our said Court, this 18[?]th day of February 1808.
G. Deneale Cc.
68
Negroe Milly
a
Mathew Eakin
Caps.
For Illegally detaining the plf in Slavery
Executed
Defendant Dead previous to Issuing
R Moss DM