Mima Queen v. John Hepburn. Summons of John Hepburn Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Steph N. Camerone Kaci L. Nash Laura K. Weakly University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Maryland National Endowment for the Humanities 2014 O Say Can You See University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 Citation to John Hepburn June 29, 1810 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 20, Folder 207 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom June 1810 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Smallwood, Samuel N. Spalding, Electius Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Appealed by Petitioner Queen, Louisa Queen, Mima Hepburn, John United States. Supreme Court Washington (D.C.) added idno edited transcription added xml:ids corrected document_id reviewed converted to new TEI edited encoding and transcription added attorneys to header transcribed, encoded

District of Columbia, Washington County ss:

To John Hepburn Greeting: you are hereby cited and admonished to be and appear at a Supreme Court of the United States to be holden at the City of Washington, on the first Monday of August next, pursuant to a writ of error, filed in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Washington in a cause wherein Mina Queen & Louisa her child w are Petitioners and Appellants and you are Defendant to shew cause if any there be why the Judgment rendered against the said Petitioners should not be reversed, & why the errors complained of should not be corrected & why speedy justice should not be done to the parties in that behalf: Witness the Honorable William Cranch Chief Justice Judge of said the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia this twenty ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & ten.

Allowed. W. Cranch

District of Columbia Washington County ss.

Personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the Peace for Washington County afsd Elextius Spalding & made oath that on the 29th day of this month of June he delivered to John Hepburn's wife at the House of said Hepburn a true copy of the above citation. Sworn before me this 29th day of June A.D. 1810

Saml N Smallwood

Citation to John Hepburn.