Primos Garner v. William Mills. Summons of William Mills 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
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 Summons of William Mills May 24, 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 112 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.) Garner, Primos Mills, William Morgan, Edwin C. 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 William Mills 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 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 the petition for freedom of Primos Garner &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 13d day of May Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and 51.

Issued the 24th day of May 1851.

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