Samuel Smith v. Jesse Conn. Summons of Jesse Conn Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Steph N. Camerone 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 Jesse Conn February 3, 1838 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 585, Folder 100 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom March 1838 Brent, William, 1774-1848 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Hunter, Alexander Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Smith, Samuel Conn, Jess Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843 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:

We command you that you take summon Jesse Conn late of Washington County, if he shall be found within the County of Washington in your said District, and him safely keep, so that you have his body he be and appear before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be held for the County aforesaid, at the City of Washington, on the fourth Monday of March next, to answer unto the Petition of Samuel Smith filed in the said Court against him.

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

Witness Wm Cranch Esquire, Chief Judge of our said Court, at the City of Washington, the 22d day of January Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and 38

Issued the 3d day of February 1838.

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