Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Derivatives must be credited to O Say Can You See, made available non-commercially, and distributed under the same terms. Requests for permission for commercial publication or other use should be emailed to the project team.
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 George Miller Jr Late of Washington County 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 Negro Ann Williams and children exhibited against him
Hereof fail not, at your peril; and have you then and there this Precept.
Witness William Cranch, Esquire, chief Judge of the said Court.
Issued the 9th day of July 1831
Wm Brent Clk
K & D
97
Negro Ann Williams & children
vs
George Miller Jr
Subpa 7 Bre
Peto. for freedom
Non Est
H. Ashton,
Marshal