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DS dated 14 March 1822. Summoning Purser Thomas J. Chew to give testimony at Boston on 20 March 1822 at general court martial of Captain John Shaw, USN.

To Purser Thomas J. Chew, of the Navy
of the United States
Greeting:
You are hereby summoned to attend a general Naval Court
Martial, to be held at Boston, in the District of Massachusetts, on the twentieth day
of March current - then and there to give your evidence on the trial of Captain
John Shaw, of the Navy of the United States.
Dated at Boston, this fourteenth day of March, A.D. eighteen hundred
and twenty-two.
William C. Aylwin, Judge Advocate

Summon to attend
Court Martial at Boston
14 Mar 1822

Thomas J Chew Esquire
Purser U.S. Navy
New York