Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-08-27
THEODORE STARK, J. P.
Mississippi Tsrriiory,} - ,,s,.
Adams County, -

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The Mississippi Territory Of the U. S.
TO The Sheriff Of adams County, Greeting:
+ Whereas on the twenty second day Of
March. 1918, Gen. Andrew Jackson was
duly summoned as garnishee in the action
then pending, wherein n. Blennerhasset
was plaintiff and a. Burr, by the sheriff of
he county aforesaid, to appear al Supe-
< rior court 10 be holden al the Court House
in and for the county Of Adams, on the Sc
cond Monday in April, in the year one
s thousand eight hundred and twenty, 10
& 10 shew cause, if any he could, why the
goods and chattes and effects in his hands
Of the said Aaron Burr should not be sub.
ject to the debts Of the said Aaron Burr,
and the said General Andrew Jackson
hath failed to appear at the Court afore-
said,
You are hereby commanded that by good and
lawful men Of your county to make known TO
the said General Andrew Jackson, that he be
and appear before the Judges Of The Territory
aforesaid at Superior Court to be holden at
the Court house IN and for the county of Adams
oil the second Monday Of October next, to shew
cause, it any he can, why judgment should not
be rendered against him for five thousand dol
lars. And further, TO do and receive what The
court shall then and t:ere consider concerning
them in this behalf, and have there this writ.
Witness the hon. Waller Leake, Esq. first
Judge of the Territory aforesaid at the Court
House Of said couly, second Monday in the
year one thousandeight hundred and thirteen,
and in the thirty -setenth year Of the sovereign
ty and independence of the United States of A
merca.
Issued July 26, l,l3.
To the Judges of the Superior Court of the Mississippi
Territory, sitting in Adams County.
The representation Of Andrew Jackson, who
was summoned as girniahee a. the suit Of -
Blennerhasset a,ains. Aaron Burr, depending
in said Court.
Your respondent stttes that while at Camp
Jackson, near Washington, in the Territory a.
foresaid, in the monlho March last, as com
mahding officer of detachment OF Volunteers
from the State Of Tennessee, ordered by the
President of the Uniee States, for the protec-
ton Of the lower counl,: and few days before
! the troops started on thir return to Tennessee,
he was summoned as srnishee in the suit a.
lore said, tina, his duy iiperiot sly required his
accompanying the volunteers 10 Tennessee, con.
sequently he could not appear at the time to
! which he was sumnonek but he made state
menl on oath, and lett tth his attorney, 10 b,
presented 10 The cou:l, id did hope that state
ment would have dschrged him, as it wa,
thereby shown 10 the burt that he owed the
defendant Aaron Burr S,hing
| Your respondent now ew 10 your hands BY
the annexed affidavit ofWiliam Eastan, that
the said Aaron Burr isIndeb,ed to him the a.
mount'of five hundred lars and upwards, and
which your espondentposltively states is the
fact
But at least these tatnents should mol BE ss.
tsfaclory 10 the COURT our respondent is will.
llngto answer, On PATHFINDER an order Of court,
ine:rogaiores; 10 be fed5by the court or ths
plainlif; and this he bays may ie ordered BY
your honors, as it wi be out of the power Of
| YOUR respondent 10 apfar at tie ensuing term
of said court, in conse hence Of his being now
under orders to comuhd an expedition against
the Greek Indians, art will march in five or six
days.
Your respondent fuaher states to your hands,
that 1: Is not In contept Ut the horily of the
court tina, he does ri appear, but the reason
before stated. kDREW JACKSON.
, Personally appeal before me, Gideon Poy~
zee, Notary Public Nashville, Tennessee, du. |
ly commissioned an authorised by law, An
drew Jackson, and q. in my presence, sign his
name to the above epos,ion, and bring duly
sworn, did, on oathiepose lha, the facts con-
tanned herein ATE and true.
IN testimony wteof, have hereunto set
my hand and afkf my sea! Notarlal a, Nash.
vile this 25th dHof Sept. 1918, and i'll the
year of the Commonwealth the seventeenth, and
in the year OF Q independence The ,hrty-se-
| venth.
In testimon,m Verita,es
IS. GEO POYZEE, N. P.
do certify q, some time about the 10th
oil November, %, ! purchased a bill Of Ex.