Certificate by Secretary, North Carolina Historical Commission. This is to certify that there appears in Book C in my official custody under the title "For sundries furnished and cash paid the Militia of North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina as allowed by the Auditor of Hillsborough District in December, 1781, as per report No. 81) the following entry: l4OO--John Brockman 25OO.OO currency". (signed) R. I. W. Connor, Secretary Early American History, Volume II, William Everett Brockman, Compiler and Publisher, 1926, Poucher-Printers, Minneapolis, 1926