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Case No. 10,007.
    NAN et al. v. MOXLEY et al.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 523.) 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1808.
    Slavery — Petition for Freedom — Affidavit to Support — By whom Made.:
    The affidavit of a manumitted negro is sufficient ground for an order to issue a summons-returnable immediately upon a petition for .freedom.
    Petition for freedom [by the negress .'Nan and children against D. Moxley and others]. Affidavit of the negro Charles, a manumitted negro, that his wife Nan (the petitioner), was about to be removed out of the District. '•
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   THE COURT

(PITZHUGH, Circuit Judge, absent,)

allowed a subpoena, returnable immediately, to answer the petition just filed by Mr. F. S. Key.