Fanny v. Isaac Kell. Summons of Isaac Kell 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 2016 O Say Can You See University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 Summons of Isaac Kell July 28, 1817 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 2 Case Papers Summons Civil Petition for Freedom May 1824 Boyd, Washington Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Deneale, George, 1766-1818 Dulin, William S. Alexandria County (Va.) Alexandria (Va.) Washington (D.C.) Fanny Kell, Isaac United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Alexandria (Washington, D.C.) added xml:ids reviewed 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 Isaac Kell if he be found within the county of Alexandria, in your said District, and him safely keep, so that you have his body 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 Fanny who sues in forma pauperis for her 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 Cl.

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Negroe Fanny "a pauper" vs Isaac Kell

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For the recovery of the plaintiffs freedom +

Executed 1st August 1817 Wm S. Dulin DM for W. Boyd

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