Patty v. Charles Ratcliffe. Summons of Charles Ratcliffe 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 Charles Ratcliffe May 14, 1823 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Box 299, Folder 175 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom October 1823 Brent, William, 1774-1848 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Davis, Benjamin R. Ringgold, Tench Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Patty Ratcliffe, Charles Caldwell, Elias Boudinot, 1776-1825 Smith, Fleet United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Washington (D.C.) added xml:ids reviewed; edited transcribed, 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 Charles Ratcliffe Administrator &c of Benjamin R Davis & the Heirs & Representatives of Benjn. R Davis if they shall be found in the county of Washington, that (all excuses set aside) they 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 October next, to testify on the part of answer the Petition of Freedom of Negro Patty filed in Court here agst them

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

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

Issued the 14th day of May 1823

W Brent Clk

(Caldwell Smith)

175

Negro Patty vs Charles Ratcliffe Admr. of Benjn. R Davis & The Heirs & Representatives of Benjn. R. Davis

Subpa

3 Bre

(Petn. for Freedom)

Non Est Sunt T Ringgold Marshal