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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 Summon John McCutchen & John H.G. McCutchen 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 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 3d Monday of October next, to answer unto Letha Ducket, Mary Duckett, Thomas Duckett, Barbara Duckett, Julia Duckett & Lewis Ducket Infants by their said Letha & next friend & mother
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 8th day of April Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty eight
Issued the 10 day of April 1848.
W. Brent Clk
Hall
8
Letha Duckett for herself & children
vs
John McCutchen & John H.G. McCutchen
Caps
Peto for freedom
Sumd John H.G. McCutchen
A Hunter
Marshal
11 Apl 1848