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Petition Of Relief On A Judgment, Initialed By Francis Scott Key. Frederick, Maryland, 1804., Francis Scott Key
Petition Of Relief On A Judgment, Initialed By Francis Scott Key. Frederick, Maryland, 1804., Francis Scott Key
Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection
This manuscript is a petition for relief from a judgement rendered by Justice of the Peace John Houston against Key's client, John Troxel, Jr., in favor of Elizabth Faris in the sum of 114 shillings and six pence, plus costs. Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer and poet who wrote the "Star Spangled Banner."