Anne v. Elisha Williams. Summons of Elisha W. Williams 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 Elisha W. Williams April 20, 1811 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 34, Folder 201 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom June 1811 Boyd, Washington Brent, William, 1774-1848 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Anne Williams, Elisha W. Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843 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 Elisha W Williams

You are hereby commanded, that, all excuses and delays set aside, you be and appear before the circuit court of the district of Columbia, to be held for the county of Washington, on the first Monday of June next, to answer the bill of complaint Petition for freedom of Negro Anne in the said court exhibited against you. Hereof you are not to fail, as you will answer the contrary at your peril.

Witness, William Cranch esquire, chief judge of the said court, the twentieth day of April 18011

Issued the twentieth day of April 18011.

Wm Brent cl

(F S Key)

201.

Negro Anne vs Eli. Williams

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Sumd. 20th Apl. 1811 W Boyd Marshal