Rachael Brent v. John Armfield. Summons of John Armfield Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Elizabeth Askren Kaci L. Nash Laura K. Weakly University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Maryland National Endowment for the Humanities 2014 O Say Can You See University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 Summons of John Armfield May 22, 1834 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 1835 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Hunter, Alexander Lee, Edmund J. Mandell, John C. Richards, William B. Alexandria County (Va.) Alexandria (Va.) Washington (D.C.) Brent, Rachael Armfield, John Hooe, Bernard United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Alexandria (Washington, D.C.) added xml:ids reviewed and edited Encoded and transcribed

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 John Armfield 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 Rachel Brent of a plea of Trespass vi & armis & False Imprisonment, damage ten dollars and have then there this writ. Witness, the honorable William Cranch, Chief Judge of the said Court, this 22d day of May 1834.

Edm: J. Lee C. C.

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Rachel Brent a pauper v. John Armfield

Capias

+ For Freedom.

We of the Jury find for the Plaintiff and assess the damages at one cent Wm B Richards Foreman

Executed John C Mandell DM for A Hunter Marshal

Hooe