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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 Jonathan Davis and James Kincaid if they be found within the county of Alexandria, in your said District, and them safely keep, so that you have their bodies before the Honorable the Judge of the United States' Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, at the Court-house in the Town of Alexandria, at the next Court, to answer Negroe Billy an Infant (by Thomas Braddock his next friend), who sues in forma pauperis for his Freedom of a plea of Trespass, Assault and Battery and False Imprisonment Damage Two hundred Dollars
And have then there this Writ.
Witness, the Honorable William Cranch, Chief Judge of our said Court, this 28th day of July 1817
G. Deneale CC
128
Negroe Billy an Infant by Thomas Braddock
vs
Jonathan Davis and James Kincaid
Caps
For the recovery of the pltffs freedom
Not found
D Minor DM
for W Boyd Marshal
1817
Decr. Als Caps
1818. Jany.
Feby
March
April Continued
May
June Continued
July Pls. Caps:
Augt. Continued
Sept
Oct
Novr Continued
1818
Decem: Continued
1819
January Als. Pls. Caps.
Feby: Continued
March Continued
Apl. Discontinued
E Lee