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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC00184.30
From Archive Folder	Autographs of signers of the Declaration
Title	Writ of habeas corpus for Thomas Huling
Date	31 March 1797
Author	McKean, Thomas (1734-1817)
Document Type	Legal document
Content Description	Partially printed document on blue paper. Counter-signed by Edward Burd on recto. Signed by judges Sam Laird and John Jordan on verso.
Subjects	Law Habeas Corpus
People	Huling, Thomas (fl. 1797)
Place written	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Theme	Law
Sub-collection	The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
Transcript	Show/hide Pennsylvania, ff. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, To the judges of the County Court of Common Pleas, for the county of Cumberland ____________ and to every of them, Greeting: We command you, that the body of Thomas Huling Executor of the last well and testament of Marcus Huling deceased in our prison, under your custody, as it is said, detained by whatsoever name to said Thoman Huling his beinf taken and detained, you have before the justices of the Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania, at a Suprene and received whatsoever our fame judtice shall consider in that behalf. And have you then there this writ. WITNESS the honorable THOMAS McKean, Esquire, Doctors of Laws, Chief Justice of the said Supreme Court, at Philadelphia, the thirty fisrt day of March on the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven Allowed per Tho McKean Edw Burd

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