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I have known Starke from my infancy and have had dealings with him to some amount, and have always found him to be honest an industrious sober & faithfull citizen and a man of the [illegible] integrity Octo 3d 1812 A M Wilson Richard [Comer?] Isaac Dicks [Crastus?] [Huster?]

Starks petition Decr 2d 1812 refd to Cts of J.