Territory of Missouri, County of St. Louis, sct.
The United States of America, To the Sheriff of St Louis county, Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to summon Lewis Rose Elsy Rose Mrs Hickman that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay they be and appear in proper person before the Judge of our curcuit court on the seventh day of December at the town of St. Louis, then there to testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said court, wherein United States plaintiff and Mathias Rose is defendant on the part of the plaintiff and have you then and there this writ.
Witness, Archibald Gamble, Clerk of our said circuit court, at the Town of St. Louis, this third day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen and of the Independence of the United States the forty fourth.
A Gamble Clerk, St. L. C.C.
