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[We?] John McNairy Archibald Roan &
Willie Blount [Justices?] of the superior Courts
& law of the State of Tennessee do Certify
that John Cook has been a practising Lawyer
in the superior Courts of law & Equity in
the late territory of the United States of
America south of the River this by
Virtue of a licence from William
Blount late governor thereof 20th April

John McNairy
Archibald Roane
Willie Blount