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Subscribed and published by the testator as his last will and testament in our presence who in his presence and at his request have hereto subscribed our names in attestation thereof.
B. Stool
B. King
R. C. Mason

District of Columbia, To wit:
Be it remembered that at a session of the Orphans Court for the County of Alexandria in the district of Columbia the Fourth Day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight-hundred and thirty-nine, there came Bernard Stool, Benjamin King and Richard C. Mason, the three subscribing witnesses to this last will and testament of Thompson F. Mason decd. and made oath on the Holy evangelists of Almighty God, that they did see the testator sign and seal the same and that they heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last will and testament; that at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their