Charles Cross v. Joseph W. Neale & Oliver Simpson. Summons of Joseph W. Neale & Oliver Simpson 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 Joseph W. Neale & Oliver Simpson March 22, 1836 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 550, Folder 370 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom March 1836 Brent, William, 1774-1848 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Hunter, Alexander Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Cross, Charles Neale, Joseph W. Simpson, Oliver Hoban, James 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:

We command you that you take summon John Joseph W. Neale & Oliver Simpson late of Washington County, if they shall be found within the County of Washington, in your said District, and safely keep, so that you have they be & bod appear before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be held for the County aforesaid, at the City of Washington, on the fourth Monday of March next, to answer unto Charles Cross on his petition for freedom filed in the said Court against them.

Hereof fail not, at your peril, and have you then and there this writ.

Witness Wm Cranch Esquire, Chief Judge of our said Court, at the City of Washington, the 23d day of Jany Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and 36.

Issued the 22d day of March 1836

Wm Brent Clk

Hoban

370.

Charles Cross. vs. Joseph W. Neale & Oliver Simpson

Subpa. 1 Bre

Petition for freedom.

Non Sunt A Hunter Marshal