TO WHOM THIS MAY COME. 



We the undersigned, citizens of the State of New -York, 

 do hereby certify that we have been personally acquaint- 

 ed with John Form an, Esqr. of Onondaga Hollow, West 

 New- York, for the last thirty years, and that we know 

 him to have been a most, ingenious and critically exact. 

 Farmer, — the first detector of the cause of the Horse Slob- 

 ber, &c. and a greatly successful Fruit Grower : — having, 

 some forty years since, first introduced into these parts, many 

 of the most choice and valuable kinds of fruit in the country, 

 and subsequently supplied our northern and western inhabit- 

 ants with nearly all of their present stock of trees. 



New- York, November 20, 1842. 



O* 



J. L. Richardson, 



Willet Ray nor, 



Elam Lynds, 



C. A. Baker, 



A. Northam, 



R. Woolworth, 



H. F. Fellows, 



Thomas B. Fitch, 



William Downs, 



John Lave, 



John Dunford, (20 years) 



A. J. Butler, (13 years) 



William Barker, (30 years) 



Henry Van Keeser, (20 years) 



L. O. Phinney, 



Joseph Knight, (15 years) 



John Leslie, 



Ezra Town, (17 years) 



Stephen Porter, (12 years) 



Z. W. Cagswell, (good) 



R. Raynor, (20 years) 



A. Phillips, 



S. House, 



B. D. Nexen, 

 L. H. Redfield, 

 M. D. Burnet, 

 J. Fleming, 



E. Phillips, 



F. Benson, (Sheriff,) 

 J. J. Hopper, 

 Hiram Putnam, 



M. Williams, M. D. 

 H. W. Dunford, 

 D. C. Lansing, D. D. 

 Samuel Eager, 

 John C. Brown, 

 John P. King, 

 Samuel Lamed, 

 H. A. Perkins, 

 George N. Germell, 

 Daniel Dana, 

 Isaac Rawn. 

 P. N. Rust, 

 William Malcolm, 

 William B. Kirk, 

 Luther Marsh. 



