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Virginia: York County, to wit:
I, Bolivar Sheild, Clerk of the County of York, in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify, and make known, that from all the evidence which can be gathered from the records of the said County, and from the fact of John R. Sheild's having lived on the Farm in York County called Hayes' containing 268 acres, which he purchased of the Executor of Colo. Robert Sheild dec'd under a Decree of York County Court, several years before the late war, (at least five years) that he the said John R. Sheild is the legal owner of said Farm. 

Given under my hand and the seal of the county this 6th day of November A.D. 1865.
Bolivar Sheild
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