William Derrick v. David Read & Silas Read and Mary Derrick v. Alexander Moore. Thomas Turner to Edmund J. Lee
Geo. Town March 5th 1824
Mr. Edmond J. Lee
Sir,
The enclosed petitions I wish docketed in your Court & subpoena's issued. I have never qualified in your County though I have been practicing for several years in this. The mother of those petitioners is anxious & [illegible] about them for fear of them being sold out of the District. She has herself petitioned in this County for herself & three of her children, who were here, & [illegible] in the Court below, & the Deft. has appealed to the Supreme Court, where it is now pending. The claim of the petitioners to the within petitions will abide the decision in my case but [illegible] to petition to prevent them being sold out of the District so as to prevent them making claim &c.
If the cases cannot be docketted in consequence of my not having been admitted in your court I
would thank you for such information, so that I may set some one else to attend thereto.
Yours most obtly
Tho: Turner
Tho. Turner enclosing two Petitions for freedom
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Edmund J. Lee Esquire
Clerk of the Ct Court
Alexandria D.C.
