Hester Johnson & Martha Bronson v. Priscilla & Basil E. Gant. Summons of Priscilla & Basil E. Gant Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Steph N. Camerone Kylie L. McCormick 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 Priscilla & Basil E. Gant May 17, 1848 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 728, Folder 4 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom October 1848 Brent, William, 1774-1848 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Wallace, Robert Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Bronson, Martha Bronson, Randolph Johnson, Hester Gant, Basil E. Gant, Priscilla Ratcliffe, Daniel 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 Sum: Priscilla Gantt & Basil E. Gantt late of Washington County if shall be found within the County of Washington in your said District and safely keep, so that you have to 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 3d Monday of October next, to answer unto the petition for freedom of Hester Johnson, Martha Bronson, & Randolph Bronson her child

Hereof fail not, at your peril, and 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 May Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty eight

Issued the 5th day of July 1848.

W Brent Clk

Ratcliff

55.

Hestor Johnson Martha Bronson & child vs Priscilla Gantt & Basil E. Gantt

Cap 3 Bre

+ Peto for freedom.

Non Sunt R Wallace Marshal