Subject: Washington family

A four-page stampless letter/broadside, dated March 3, 1842. The first page is a printed broadside summoning John A. Washington to appear before a Naval General Court Marshal presided over by Commander Uriah P. Levy. The court marshal was sitting in Baltimore at Barnum's Hotel. Subsequent pages include correspondence between the Judge Advocate and Washington regarding Levy's request for Washington's testimony. Addressed to J. A. Washington at Mount Vernon, near Alexandria, Virginia. A note by J.C.W. is also present on the outside page.