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 July 19, 1837 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 578, Folder 120 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom November 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.) fixed idno/xml:id 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 Olivia Kean & Silas Burke Executors of James Kean Jr. late of Washington County, if they shall be found within the County of Washington, in your said District, and safely keep, so that you they have bod be and 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 November next, to answer unto the Petition of George Kean filed in the said Court aft 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 13th day of July Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and 37.

Issued the 19th day of July 1837.

Wm Brent Clk

Dermott

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George Kean vs Olivia Kean & Silas Burke Exors of James Kean Jr.

+ Petition for freedom.

Non Est Sunt A. Hunter Marshal

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