Sylvia Lee v. Elizabeth Smallwood. Summons of Elizabeth Smallwood 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 Elizabeth Smallwood February 3, 1831 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 452, Folder 59 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom May 1831 Ashton, Henry Brent, William, 1774-1848 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Lee, Minty Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Lee, Sylvia Smallwood, Elizabeth Dunlop, James, 1793- 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:

You are hereby commanded to summon Elizabeth Smallwood if she shall be found within the county of Washington, that (all excuses set aside) she be and appear before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be held for the county of Washington, in the city of Washington, on the First Monday of May next, to testify on the part of answer the petition for freedom of Sylvia Lee in said court exhibited against her

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

Witness William Cranch, Esquire, chief Judge of the said Court.

Issued the 3rd day of Februay 1831.

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