Rose v. James Kennedy Jr. Summons of James Kennedy Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Christy Hyman Kaci L. Nash Laura K. Weakly University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Maryland National Endowment for the Humanities 2016 O Say Can You See University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
319 Love Library University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 cdrh@unl.edu
oscys.case.0359.008 oscys.caseid.0383 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Derivatives must be credited to O Say Can You See, made available non-commercially, and distributed under the same terms. Requests for permission for commercial publication or other use should be emailed to the project team.

 Summons of James Kennedy August 25, 1799 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia Local Government Records Collection, Arlington County Court Records Arlington County (Va.) Judgments (Freedom Suits), 1795-1858, Box 1 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom July 1801 Deneale, George, 1766-1818 Alexandria (Va.) Harry Joe Rose Kennedy, James, Jr. United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Alexandria (Washington, D.C.) fixed idno/xml:id added xml:ids reviewed; edited transcribed and encoded.

The Commonwealth of Virginia;

To the Sergeant of the Court of Hustings, in the town of Alexandria, Greeting—

You are hereby commanded to take James Keneday if he be found in your bailiwick, and him safely keep, so that you have his body before the Justices of the said Court of Hustings, in the town of Alexandria, on the first Monday in next month to answer Negro Rose (a pauper) of a plea of Trespass Assault & Battery damage Five Hundred dollars and have then and there this writ. Witness George Deneale, clerk of the said court, this 25 day of August 1799.

G. Deneale

Executed Chs

Negro Rose v Keneday

Caps.

For Assault, Battery & False Imprisonment of the plf. Illegally held in bondage

1799. Septr. C.O

Jones