Amelia Marshal v. John Gant & William Henry Gant. Summons of John Gant & William Henry Gant Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Steph N. Camerone 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 John Gant & William Henry Gant June 10, 1833 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 494, Folder 48 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom November 1833 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Brent, William, 1774-1848 Ashton, Henry Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Marshall, Amelia Gant, John Gant, William Henry Giberson, Gilbert L. United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Washington (D.C.) added xml:ids reviewed; edited 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 John Gant & William Henry Gant 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 fourth Monday of November next, to testify on the part of answer the Petition of Amelia Marshall alias Milly Marshall, for her freedom filed in said Court against them.

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 10th day of June 1833

W. Brent Clk

Giberson

48.

Amelia Marshall, alias Milly Marshall vs John Gant & William Henry Gant

Subpa

Peto for freedom

Summd John Non Est William Henry H Ashton Marshal