Betsy v. George McCandless. Summons of George McCandless 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 George McCandless April 23, 1827 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 386, Folder 258 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom May 1827 Brent, William, 1774-1848 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Ringgold, Tench Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Betsy McCandless, George Dunlop, James, 1793- Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843 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 George McCandless if he shall be found in the county of Washington, that (all excuses set aside) he 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 May next, to testify on the part of Answer the Petition of freedom of Negro Betsey filed in Court here against him

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 23d day of April 1827.

W. Brent Clk

(K. & D.)

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