Jane v. Edmund E. Richards. Summons of Edmund E. Richards 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 Edmund E. Richards July 15, 1847 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 725, Folder 305 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom October 1848 Brent, William, 1774-1848 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Hunter, Alexander Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Jane Richards, Edmund E. Williams 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:

You are hereby commanded to summon Edmund E. Richards if he shall be found in the County of Washington, that he be and appear in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, at rules to be held for the County of Washington, at the City of Washington, on the first third Monday of October next, to answer the bill of complaint of Petition of negress Jane for her freedom filed in Court here against him and others.

Hereof fail not at your peril; and have you then and there this precept.

Witness the Hon. Wm Cranch, Chief Judge of the said Court.

Issued the 15th day of July 1847.

Wm Brent clk

Williams

Memorandum: The defendant to enter appearance in the suit, on or before the day on which the above subpoena is returnable, otherwise the bill may be taken pro confesso

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Negress Jane vs. Edmund E. Richards

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Petition for freedom.

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