Hannah Stewart v. Allison Nailor. Summons of Nobody Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Kaci L. Nash Steph N. Camerone 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 Nobody June 2, 1842 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 663, Folder 48 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom March 1843 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Sampson Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Stewart, Hannah Nailor, Allison United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Washington (D.C.) added xml:ids reviewed; edited encoded

District of Columbia, Washington County, sct. To the Marshal of the District of Columbia, greeting:

You are hereby commanded to attach the body of Nobody and him immediately have before the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, now sitting at the City of Washington, for the County of Washington, to answer unto the United States of America, touching a certain contempt by him committed in not attending this Court as a witness in the matter between A and B after being thereto legally summoned. Hereof fail not at your peril.

Witness the Honourable William Cranch, Chief Judge of the said Court.

Issued the 2nd day of June 1842.

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