Cyrus Slater v. Enoch Bell. Summons of George Hill et al. 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 2016 O Say Can You See University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 Summons of George Hill et al. November 15, 1818 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 November 1818 Cranch, William, 1769-1855 Evans, Robert F. Hill, George Leap, Jacob Lee, Edmund J. Parker, Mary Rock, Richard Alexandria County (Va.) Alexandria (Va.) Washington (D.C.) Slater, Cyrus Bell, Enoch United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Alexandria (Washington, D.C.) added xml:ids reviewed, 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 summon George Hill, Jacob Leap Richard Rock, Mary Parker, and Robert F. Evans to appear before the Honorable the Judges of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for the County of Alexandria, at the Court-House in the town of Alexandria, on the Eleventh day of the next Court, which commences on the fourth Monday in November to testify, and the truth to say, on behalf of Negro Cyrus in a certain matter of controversy in our said Court depending and undetermined, between the said Cyrus Plaintiff and Even Bell Deft. and this they shall in no wise omit, under the penalty of $333 33 cts. And have then there this Writ.

Witness—William Cranch, Esq. Chief Judge of our said Court, this 15th day of November in the year of our Lord, 1818

Edm: J. Lee C.C.

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Negro Cyrus vs. Even Bell

Spa:

Gorge Hill Jacob Leap sd Richard Rock sd Mary Parker sd Robert T. Evans sd

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