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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, as we have done heretofore 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 Judges of the United States' Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Alexandria, at the Court-house in the town of Alexandria, at the next Court, to answer Negro Billy an Infant (by Thomas Braddock his next friend) who sues in forma pauperis for his freedom of a Plea of Trespass, Assault & Battery & false Imprisonment Damage Two Hundred Dollars
And have then there this Writ.—Witness, the Honorable William Cranch, Chief Judge of our said Court, this 31st day of December 1817
G. Deneale CC
128
Negro Billy an Infant by Thomas Braddock
vs
Jonathan Davis and James Kincaid
Ats Capi
For the recovery of the Plaintiff's freedom
Not found
D Minor DM
for T Ringgold Marshal
E. J. Lee)