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Jefferson County State Tennessee

December y^e 10,^th 1797 ~

We the subscribers Do hereby Certify that we have
for some years past been Acquainted with David
Sutherland also some of his Relations who have
Allways [sic] During Our Acquaintance Conducted
themselves as verry [sic] Honest and Industrous Persons
Good Citizens and subject to the laws of their
Country Given under Our hands the Day
and Year first Above writing

Hanes~
[Clud.?] Hanes
L Harman
Arthur Williams
Benjamin Longacre
Tho^s Horton
W^m Braselton
Aaron Woodward
Abraham Woodward
[William?] Braselton
John Mills
Samuel Mills
John Mills Junor
Ja^s M^cDowell

To John Savers
I have Known W^m Sutherland
from a small Lad and Never
New [sic] any thing but that
he was a honest man
this from thy friend

W^m Braselton