Richard Johnson v. Janet Lingan. Summons of Janet Lingan Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Samantha M. Bryant Steph N. Camerone Michael Dick 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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 Summons of Janet Lingan November 11, 1823 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 315, Folder 81 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom April 1824 Brent, William, 1774-1848 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Ringgold, Tench Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Johnson, Richard Lingan, Janet Taney, Augustus United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Washington (D.C.) reviewed document added idno; edited term added xml:ids converted to new TEI added attorneys to header reviewed, edited transcribed, encoded

District of Columbia, to wit:

The United States of America,

To the Marshal of the District of Columbia, Greeting:

You are hereby commanded to summon Janet Lingan if she shall be found in the county of Washington, that (all excuses set aside) she 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 of Freedom of Richard Johnson

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 11th day of November 1823

W Brent Clk

(Taney)

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Petition of Freedom

Non est T Ringgold Marshal