Sylvia v. George Coryell. Summons of George Coryell 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
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 Summons of George Coryell April 23, 1800 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 Turner, William Alexandria (Va.) Sylvia Coryell, George Faw, Jonathan 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 George Coryell 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 July next to answer Negro Silvia of a plea of Trespass Assault Battery and false Imprisonment, Damage Fifty Dollars. and have then there this writ.

Witness, George Deneale, Clerk of the said Court, this 23d day of April 1800

G. Deneale Cl

Negro Silvia vs Coryell

Caps

For illegally holding the Plff in Bondage

1800. July C:O August Jud: & W Jy.

Executed Wm Turner DH

Faw