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State of Virginia
City of Petersburg Court
I, John Mann, a Notary Public in, and for the said city in the state aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Dudson whose name is signed to the foregoing writing, leaving state on the 12th day of December 1859, has acknowledged the same before me in my city, aforesaid, and I further certify that Mary Ann Dudson, the wife of the said John Dudson whose name is likewise signed to the said writing, this day personally appeared before me in my City, aforesaid. and being examined by me precisely, and apart from her said husband, and having the writing aforesaid fully explained to her she the said Navy from Dudson, acknowledged the said writing to be her act, and declared that she had willingly executed the same, and does not wish to retract it Given under my hand. This day of December A.D. One thousand eight hundred, and eighty five.
Signed John Mann
Commissioner
a true copy
Stuart Burns
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