George Kean v. Oliver Kean & Silas Burke. Summons of Olivia Kean & Silas Burke 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 Olivia Kean & Silas Burke January 25, 1837 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 568, Folder 75 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom March 1837 Brent, William, 1774-1848 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Hunter, Alexander Kean, James, Jr. Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Kean, George Burke, Silas Kean, Oliver Dermott, John J. 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 Olivia Kean & Silas Burke Exors of James Kean Jr. 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 March next, to testify on the part of answer the Petition of George Kean filed in said Court here 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 25th day of January 1837

W. Brent Clk

(Dermott)

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