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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 Washington Wallace & Jesse Dallerhite if they shall be found in the county of Washington, that (all excuses set aside) they 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 for freedom of Rebecca Rawlings filed in said court against them
Hereof fail not at your peril; and have you then and there this precept.
Witness Wm Cranch Esquire, Chief Judge of the said Court.
Issued the 13th day of August 1828.
Wm Brent Clk
Redin
161.
Rebecca Rawlings
vs
Washington Wallace & Jesse Dallerhite
Subpa
1 Bre
sum: Defends
Summond Dollerhide
Non Est Wallace
T Ringgold
Marshal