Betsy Burke v. William Allen & Ann Allen. Summons of William Allen & Ann Allen 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 William & Ann Allen February 20, 1861 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 950, Folder 202 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom May 1861 Dunlop, James, 1793- Selden, William Smith, John A. Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Burke, Betsy Allen, Ann Allen, William Ratcliffe, Daniel 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:

We command you that you take Summon Wm. Allen & Ann Allen 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 1st Monday of May next, to answer unto The petition for freedom of Betsy Burke.

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 19t day of Feb'y Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred 61

Issued the 20t day of Feb'y 1861.

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Betsy Burke v Wm Allen & Ann Allen (his wife)

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