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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 Benjamin F. Lewis 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 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 Daniel of a plea of Trespass & false imprisonment Damage five hundred dollars
And have then and there this writ. Witness, the honorable William Cranch, Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, this 15th day of decr. 1823.
Edm: J. Lee. C. C.
Henry Pittman, printer
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Danl. Wells
vs
Benjn. F. Lewis
Capias
1823
+
Trespass & F. Impt. & Battery
Not found and no Inhabatant
C Scott DM
for T. Ringgold Marshal
Fend.