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STATE OF MAINE Hancock[handwritten] SS At A Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Third Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Castine[handwritten] within and for the County of Hancock[handwritten] on the 2nd Thursday[handwritten] being the eleventh[handwritten] day of July[handwritten] and by adjournment [blank] from day to day, on the thirteenth[handwritten] day of July[handwritten] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable James Campbell[handwritten] Judge of said Court.

On this thirteenth[handwritten] day of July[handwritten] in the year 1820, personally appeared [handwritten] in open Court aforesaid Moses I. Judkins the agent of Moses Black and produced exhibit and filed in 1st Court the following Schedule and oath of said Moses Black [pre-printed form with insertions] 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, Moses Black[handwritten] aged sixty nine[handwritten] years, resident in Sedgwick[handwritten] 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[handwritten] in the company commanded by Capt Porter[handwritten] + in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Tupper etc[handwritten] in the line of the State of Massachusetts[handwritten] on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the sixteenth[handwritten] day of April[handwritten] A.D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 9.170 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. his[handwritten] Moses x[mark] Black[handwritten] mark[handwritten] Witness Moses I. Judkins Elisabeth Black

Sworn to and declared on the 12th[handwritten] day of July[handwritten] A.D. 1820 } By the said Moses Black out of court[handwritten] Before Mr. James Campbell[handwritten] } one of the Judges of the said Court