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District of Columbia, to wit:
The United States of America,
To the Marshal of the District of Columbia, Greeting:
We command you that you take Jane W. Stevenson, late of Washington County, if she shall be found within the County of Washington in your said District, and her safely keep, so that you have her body before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be held for the County aforesaid, at the City of Washington, on the 4th Monday of March next, to answer unto Benjamin Qualls his petition for freedom &c
Hereof fail not, at your peril, and have you then and there this writ.
Witness W Cranch Esquire, Chief Judge of our said Court, at the City of Washington, the 17th day of November Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.
Issued the 19th day of November 1849.
Jno. A Smith Clk
C. S. Wallach
67
Benjamin Qualls
vs
Jane W Stevenson
Capi
10 Bre
+
Peto for Freedom
Non est
R Wallach
Marshal