Matilda Sewall v. Eleanor Thompson. Summons of Eleanor Thompson 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 Eleanor Thompson June 6, 1833 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 October 1833 Ashton, Henry Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Lee, Edmund J. Scott, Charles Alexandria County (Va.) Alexandria (Va.) Washington (D.C.) Sewall, Matilda Thompson, Eleanor Hooe, Bernard 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 Eleanor Thompson if she be found within the County of Alexandria, in your said District, and her safely keep, so that you have her body 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 Matilda Sewall of a plea of Trespass Vi et armis, damage fifty dollars

And have then there this writ. Witness, the honorable William Cranch, Chief Judge of the said Court, this 6th day of June 1833.

Edm: J. Lee C. C.

Matilda Sewall v Eleanor Thompson

Capias

Trespass vi et armis, for wrongfully detaining the pltff in slavery

Hooe

Executed C. Scott, DM for H. Ashton Marshal

Sewell (a pauper) v. Thompson

1833. Oct. T. Verd. & Judt. for deft.