Letty Lucas v. John R. Ratcliffe. Summons of John R. Ratcliffe Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Steph N. Camerone Kaci L. Nash 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
319 Love Library University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 cdrh@unl.edu
oscys.case.0162.032 oscys.caseid.0164 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Derivatives must be credited to O Say Can You See, made available non-commercially, and distributed under the same terms. Requests for permission for commercial publication or other use should be emailed to the project team.

 Summons of John R. Ratcliffe May 22, 1860 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 931, Folder 36 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom October 1860 Dunlop, James, 1793- Selden, William Smith, John A. Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Lucas, Letty Ratcliffe, John R. United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Washington (D.C.) reviewed relationship encoding reviewed; edited encoded; transcribed

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 R. Ratcliff late of Washington County, if shall be found within the County of Washington in your said District, and safely keep, so that you have bod 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 Letty Lucas

Hereof fail not at your peril, and have you then and there this writ.

Witness, Jas. Dunlop Esquire, Chief Justice of our said Court, at the City of Washington, the 21st day of May Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and 60.

Issued the 22d day of May 1860.

Jno: A. Smith Clk.

C & M.

36.

Letty Lucas vs John R. Ratcliff

Sub 34 Bre

Pet. for Freed +

Non Est W. Selden Marshal