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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 in 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 of freedom of Sylvia Lee filed in court here against here
Hereof fail not at your peril; and have you then and there his precept.
Witness W. Cranch Esquire, Chief Judge of the said Court.
Issued the 17th day February 1832.
W. Brent Clk
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Sylvia Lee
vs
Elizabeth Smallwood
Subpa
11 Bre
Petn. for freedom
N.E.
H. Ashton,
Marshal