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0475

State of Virginia. City of Portsmouth to wit:

I Dempsey Nash Clerk of the court of Hustings for the City of Portsmouth in the state of Virginia aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears by the records of the said Court that John K Cooke is the owner of a House and lot of land in that part of the city of Portsmouth called Gosport or new town which was allotted to him in the division of his father Mordicai Cooke deed: estate and I further certify that the estate of the said John K. Cooke was assessed for the year of 186[[illegible]] at less than twenty thousand dollars.

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In testimony thereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this first day of December 1865 in the 90th year of the Commonwealth. 

Dempsey Nash C.C.