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0135

State of Virginia
City of Norfolk to wit: I Chas K Mallery of the county of Elizabeth City in the State of Virginia do make the following certificate on oath

That have been for upward of twenty years a practicing lawyer located at the county aforesaid. That I was well acquainted with the late Mrs Sarah A Twine of said county and had generally acted as her counsel and legal adviser. That upon her death her estate was committed to the hands of the sheriff of said county for administration. It was managed by Geo May deputy sheriff of the said county now dec'd, and it was a well established fact, that the said Mrs Twine died intestate leaving as her heirs at law her two nephews, Jos. and Thomas Herbert of the said county The former is dead leaving a widow and two infant children. That the said deputy sheriff always recognized them as heirs at law and [[?]] of Mrs Sarah A Twine, and they have been so recognized in judicial

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