Nancy Lee v. Augustus Preuss. Summons of Augustus Preuss Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Steph N. Camerone Kaci L. Nash 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 Augustus Preuss November 18, 1826 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 377, Folder 390 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom December 1826 Brent, William, 1774-1848 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Lee, Lizette Ringgold, Tench Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Lee, Nancy Preuss, Augustus Beale, Robert United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Washington (D.C.) reviewed relationship encoding corrected xml:id of Nancy to point to right person 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 Augustus Preuss if he shall be found within the county of Washington, that (all excuses set aside) he 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 December next, to testify on the part of Answer the Petition of Freedom of Nancy Lee by Lizette Lee her Mother & next friend, filed in Court here against him

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 18th day of November 1826

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(Beall)

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Nancy Lee by Lizett Lee her next friend vs Augustus Preuss

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Petition for Freedom

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