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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 Isaac Buckingham late of Washington County, if shall be found within the County of Washington in your said District, and safely keep, so that you have to be & bod appear before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be held for the County aforesaid, at the City of Washington, on the third Monday of October next, to answer unto The Petition for freedom of William H. McKinny &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 7th day of June Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty 9.
Issued the 7th day of Augt 1849.
Jno. A. Smith clk
S & S
75
Wm H. McKinney
vs
Isaac Buckingham
Sub
6 Bre
+
Peto for Freedom
Non Est
R Wallach
Marshal