Certification of a Deed, [12 October 1781]
Certification of a Deed1
AD: American Philosophical Society
[October 12, 1781]
I the underwritten do hereby certify, that the within Writing appears to me to be a genuine Deed, being in all the Forms customary in Philadelphia, where it purports to have been executed.
At Passy, this 12th Day of October 1781.
Form of the Certificate which I wrote at the Request of M. Dautun on Shaffer’s Deed
1. Based on a certificate d’Autun himself had drafted in French for BF to use as a model. It began by asserting that the signature of John Miller, “un des Juges de paix pour la ville en Comté de Philadelphie,” was authentic (APS).