By order of Court Witness Willis Card Clerk of said court and seal of Office this 25th Decer. 1843
Done at office in Waterloo Date Above
Willis Card Clerk
Hon John W. Dawellen [Lewellen])
Judges
Henry Snively [Sniveley])
Very early on Tuesday morning your said Started for and arrived the Same evening about Sunday <Sundown> a distance of near twenty miles so crippled from the Iron bondage and hard usage of that he is hardly able to walk. To those whose assisted your said to obtain his release from bondage he tenders his greatful acknowledgements, and further your saith not.
Subscribed and Sworn to before me this 28th day of Decr. 1843