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STATE OF MAINE

Hancock ss At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Third Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Castine within and for the County of Hancock on the second Tuesday being the eleventh day of said month and by adjournment from day to day on the thirteenth day of said month in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty before the Honorable William Crosby & James Campbell Sr Judges of said Court.

On this thirteenth day of July in the year 1820, in open Court personally appeared the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, Theodore Boden ages fifty six years, resident in Penobscot in said Circuit who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz as a Private in the company commanded by Capt. Burbank in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Crane in the line of artillery on the Continental Establishment as is more particularly mentioned and declared in his original declaration, made on the first day of May A.D. 1818 and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension numbered 13.717 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.

Witness to the signature of Theodore Boden Moses I. Judkins

Theodore Boden

Sworn to and declared on the 13 day of July A.D. 1820

Before William Crosby & James Campbell Sr. One of the Judges of the said Court

Attest Mason Shaw Clerk