Danbury, Sept. 16, 1799.
We, the subscribers, selectmen of the town of Danbury, in the State of Connecticut, certify that we have always been the inhabitants of said town, and are from forty-five to fifty-seven years of age, and have never known an inhabitant of this town by the name of Jonathan or Nathan Robbins, and that there has not been, nor now is any family known by the name of Robbins within the limits of said town.
Certified, per
ELI MYGOT.
EBEN BENEDICT.
JUSTUS BARNUM.
BEN. HICHCOK.
Danbury, Sept 10, 1799.
The subscriber, late town clerk for the town of Danbury, in the State of Connecticut, certifies that he kept the town records twenty-five years, viz: from the year 1771 until the year 1796; that he is now fifty-six years of age, and that he never knew any person by the name of Robbins, born or residing in the said town of Danbury, during that term of twenty-five years, before or since.
MAJOR TAYLOR.