Mary Ann Williams v. Mary Massey. Summons of Mary Massey Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Elizabeth Askren 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
319 Love Library University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 cdrh@unl.edu
oscys.case.0236.003 oscys.caseid.0241 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Derivatives must be credited to O Say Can You See, made available non-commercially, and distributed under the same terms. Requests for permission for commercial publication or other use should be emailed to the project team.

 Summons of Mary Massey May 23, 1851 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 753, Folder 50 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom October 1851 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Smith, John A. Wallach, Richard, 1816-1881 Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Williams, Mary Ann Massey, Mary Carlisle, James M. United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Washington (D.C.) added xml:ids reviewed; edited Encoded and transcribed.

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. Mary Massey late of Washington County, if shall be found within the County of Washington in your said District, and sefely keep, so that you have bod before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be held for the County aforesaid, at the City of Washington, on the 3d Monday of October next, to answer unto Mary Ann Williams her petition for freedom &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 15th day of May Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and 51.

Issued the 23rd day of Mary 1851.

Jno A. Smith clk

Carlisle

50.

Mary Ann Williams vs Mary Massey

Sub 3 Bre

Pet. for freedom +

Non est R Wallach Marshal