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we whose names named are hereto in [illegible] do certify that we were well acquainted with the negroe man Ben belonging to John Dixon [esqr?] who was the [illegible] gardener and coach man for the sd Dixon and have no hesitation in saying that we believed him to be worth five hundred dolers before he met with the unfortunate accident of having his leg broken in April last John Lewis Richd Jones [Henrico?] County to wit Sworn to before me Thos H [Proper?] Decr 17th 1813