[Address panel: M Thomas [undecipherable]] I Thomas [undecipherable] Notary Public residing in the City of New York, do Certify, that the Certificate under my Hand and Seal dated the fifth day of September in the [undecipherable] of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Ninety [undecipherable], purporting to be a Certificate that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and that he is one of the Notaries in [undecipherable] for the State of New York, is Genuine Certificate and that there now [undecipherable] the same Certificate [undecipherable] the letter A, And I do further Certify that this Certificate Marked B dated the Sixth day of July 1796 as far as it relates to the name of M[undecipherable] N[?] Together with the Seal are of my Proper Hand Writing and my Seal of Office but that the body of the Certificate is not of my hand Writing, nor do I know any thing of the Facts therein Stated. And I am well convinced that I never Signed the same Certificate [undecipherable] to [undecipherable]. And I do further Certify that the Certificate Marked C dated the 18^th day of July [1796] as far as it relates to the name of M[undecipherable] N[?] together with the Seal are of my Proper hand Writing and my Seal of Office. And that the body of the Certificate is not of my hand Writing nor do I know any thing of the Facts therein Stated, and I am also well convinced that I never Signed the same Certificate as now [exhibited] to me. And [I do further] Certify that this Certificate Marked D dated the [undecipherable] day of July one thousand [undecipherable] hundred and ninety [undecipherable] as far as it relates to the name of M[undecipherable] N[?] together with the Seal are of my proper hand Writing and my Seal of Office but that the body of the said Certificate is not of my hand Writing, nor do I know any thing of the Facts therein Stated, and I am also [well] convinced that I never Signed the same Certificate as now [exhibited] to me. And I do also further Certify that the Certificate Marked E dated the 14^th July 1796 as far as the same relates to My Name Together with my [undecipherable] are of my proper Hand Writing and my Seal of Office, but that the body of the said Certificate is not of my hand Writing nor do I know any thing of the Facts therein Stated and I am also well convinced that I never Signed the same Certificate as now Exhibited to me. And I do further Certify, that to the best of my Recollection the Certificates to which I subscribed my Name and Affixed my Seal, were Merely, Certificates as Acknowledgments, or proofs of the due Execution of the Powers of Attorney to which they referred, and that I in general Write those Certificates myself or they are Written by a Clerk in my Office, and that said Certificates are in the hand Writing of Neither of us. [signature] New York 7^th Nov^r. 1796 — [Docket: Sullivan] [Address: William Nevile Esq^r / High Street]