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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 summon William Sexsmith late of Washington County, if shall be found within the County of Washington in your said District, and safely 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 third Monday of October next, to answer unto the petition for freedom of Milly Henderson
Hereof fail not at your peril, and have you then and there this writ.
Witness Jas. Dunlop Esquire, Chief Justice of our said Court, at the City of Washington, the 26t day of May Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and 57.
Issued the 27th day of May 1857.
Jno. A. Smith Clk.
Cross
192.
Milly Henderson
vs
Wm. Sexsmith
Pet. for freedom
+
Non Est
J.D. Hoover
Marshal