State of Kentucky
Christian Circuit
I Benjamin Shakelford sole judge of the Christian Circuit
Court — do hereby certify that I have known David Tally a
citizen [of] the aforesaid circuit for several years, and that he
has demeaned himself as a peaceable, honest, man ever since I have
known him
l[n] testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and caused
the seal of the aforesaid court to be affixed this 1st February 1822
Benj. Shakelford