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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 Rachel Hoskins late of Washington County 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 First Monday of October next, to testify on the part of answer the petition for freedom of Joseph Burke, filed in court here
Hereof fail not at your peril; and have you then and there this precept.
Witness Wm Cranch Esquire, chief Judge of the said Court. 28th Apl 1823
Issued the 29 day of April 1823
Wm Brent Clk
(Coxe)
21
Joseph Burke
v
Rachel Hoskins
Subp
1 Bre
Summon Defendant
Non Est
T Ringgold
Marshal
Betsey Oden Scy