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I do hereby certify that I have lived near to Jas. M Harris and have known him well for many years and that I have also known his former slave Jno Crittenden  That for many years probably 15 or 18 years Jno Crittenden has been living at Mr Harris's that he occupied a good house and had the use of a garden & fuel - that he raised hogs & poultry and during part of the time kept a horse for his own use and that during all this time he rendered no service to Mr. Harris
 
I know that for several years (I cant say how many) he went to the Springs every Summer and he seemed to go when & where he pleased. In fact Mr Harris's indulgence to this man was notorious in the neighborhood and was a matter of surprise to some of his neighbors who did not have as good an opinion of Jno Crittenden as he did 

Given under my hand this 3rd day of June 1867 

Jno F. Simpson