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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 they shall be found within the County of Washington in your said District, and safely keep, so that you have to 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 third Monday of October next, to answer unto The Petition for freedom of Hester Johnson, Martha Bronson & Randolph Bronson &c
Hereof fail not, at your peril, and have you then and there this writ.
Witness W Cranch Esquire, Chief Judge of our said Court, at the City of Washington, the 7th day of June Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty 9.
Issued the 7th day of Aug 1849.
Jms A. Smith clk
Ratcliff
74
Hester Johnson, Martha Bronson & Randolph Bronson
v
Priscilla Gantt & Basil E. Gantt
Sub.
5 Br
x
Pet for Freedom
non sunt & Dismissed by atty: see writ.
R Wallach
Marshal
Dismiss this
D Ratcliff
aty