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At a circuit court of the District of Columbia, begun and held in and for the county of Washington, at the city of Washington, on the first Monday of May, being the fifth day of the same month, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and the independence of the United States the eighty-sixth.
Were present: The hon' ble James Dunlop, chief judge; James S.
Morsell and Wm. M. Merrick, assistant judges; Ward H. Lamon, esq.,
marshal.
JNO. A. SMITH, Clerk.
In the record of proceedings of the said court, among others, are the following, to wit:
Parties.
Epauunp Law Rocers, adm'r d. b. non }
of Eliza P. Custis, ag' st i
JAMES ADAMS, ex'or of Thomas Law.
Be it remembered, that on the 3d day of May, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, the said appellant,
Edmund Law Rogers, administrator de bonis non of Eliza Park Custis, by J. Mason Campbell, esq., his attorney, appeared in court here, and at the same time the said James Adams, executor of Thomas
Law, appears in court here by Robert J. Brent, esquire, his attorney, and the said parties, by their said attorneys, file in court here the
following record of appeal from the orphans' court for the.
6 county of Washington, in the District of Columbia:
Record from orphans' court.
At an orphans' court, held on the 28t…