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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 William M Offutt & Zadock Offutt Late of Washington County 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 third Monday of December next, to testify on the part of answer the petition for freedom of Milly Bowie in said Court exhibited against them
Hereof fail not at your peril; and have you then and there is precept.
Witness Wm Cranch Esquire, chief Judge of the said Court.
Issued the 24th day of June 1824
Wm. Brent, Clk
C. Cox
59.
Milly Bowie
Jack Neale sec'y
vs
William M Offutt & Zadock Offutt
Subpa
1 Bre
Non Sunt
T. Ringgold
Marshal