We the underneath Subscribers of the County of Hempstead and
Territory of Arkansas Being personly acquainted with Mr John
Woolsey John Edens Elijah Kelley and John Marshal and their
familys Belonging to them for the Space of four Years do certify
that they are good honest hard working people and there has nothing
Been laid to their Charge any way dishonest they have Been
considered good honest Citizens we further State that they never did
join the Republican army nor never was engaged in any Indian trade
wha[t]ever Given from under our hands this 17th day of September 1821
William Stevenson D. Wilburn
James M Stuart Clerk Robert Messer
D. Clark James Graham
Robert Benifield
Abreham Wagley
Thomas Helms
Tho H Talbott
Isaac Lee
Wm Reese
Reno Alexander
John Holcomb
Alexander Norris
John Wagley
William Talbott
William Reves
Rowland Huitt
John B. Dilliard J P
George Leeper