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            <date type="term" when="1812-03">March Term, 1812</date>
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            <party role="defendant">Hempstead, Edward, as Administrator of the Estate of Meriwether Lewis</party>
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                  <supplied>administrator of</supplied>
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                        <supplied> 
                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Lewis</orig>
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                        <supplied> pleas </supplied> by the Deft <ref target="TBD">page 191</ref>.<lb/> consolidated <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> 
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               <title>Summons</title>
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               <p>This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit
                    Court historical records project.</p>
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               <p>The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit
                    Court collection.</p>
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                    <legalTitle>Summons</legalTitle>
                    <author role="attorney">Allen</author>             
                    <court>St. Louis Court of Common Pleas </court>
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                  <abbr>no</abbr> 31<lb/>
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                           <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                            <date when="1812-03">March <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
                                1812</date>
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                  <persName>
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                        <orig>Peter Chouteau</orig>
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                        <supplied> vs </supplied>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Lewis</orig>
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                  <signed>allen p.q.</signed>
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                  Executed<lb/>
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                     <supplied>
                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>A McNair</orig>
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                        <dateline>Territory of <placeName>
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                           <orig>Louisiana</orig>
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                           <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                        <salute>The <placeName>
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                           <orig>United States</orig>
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                     <placeName>
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                           <orig>America</orig>
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                            District of <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>St.Louis</orig>
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                        <orig>Edward</orig>
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                        <supplied> 
                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Hempstead</orig>
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                        <orig>District of</orig>
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                        <supplied> 
                     <placeName>
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                           <orig>Saint</orig>
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                        <orig>Louis</orig>
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                        <supplied> answer unto <persName>
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                           <orig>Peter Chouteau</orig>
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                        <supplied> debt </supplied> of four <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
                        <supplied> hundred </supplied>
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                        <supplied> 
                     <persName>
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                           <orig>Chouteau</orig>
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                     <supplied>Witness</supplied> the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
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                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Samuel</orig>
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                           <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                     <supplied>January</supplied>the year of<lb/>
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                            <supplied> our Lord one thousand </supplied> eight
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