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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. Ann French late of Washington County, if she shall be found within the County of Washington in your said district, and her safely keep, so that you have her body before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be held for the County aforesaid, at the City of Washington, on the 4th Monday of March next, to answer unto the petition for freedom of Mimy Calvert &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 8th day of January Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty 9
Issued the 19th day of January 1849.
Jno. A. Smith clk
Ratcliff
92.
Minny Calvert
vs
Ann French
Capi
5 Bre
+
Peto for freedom
Non Est
R Wallace
Marshal