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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 Robert Rowley if He shall be found in 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 May next, to testify on the part of answer the Petition of Freedom of Christopher Harris filed in Court here apt herein
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 4th day of February 1828
Wallach
Wm Brent, Clk
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Christopher Harris
vs
Robert Rowley
Subpa
Summd
T Ringgold
Marshal