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� State of Maine Penobscot Ss.

On the Fifth day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twentyfour personally appeared in open court to wit the Supreme Judicial Court holden at Bangor within and for said County the same being a Court of Record which proceeding according to the Course of common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount Ezekiel Chase now resident at a place called Seboeis of said County by late of Sebec in the same County aged sixty three years being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of the 18th of March A.D. 1818 of the first of May A.D. 1820 and the first of March A.D. 1823 -- that he the said Ezekiel Chase enlisted in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1778 for the term of three years and served as a private soldier in the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Burton in Col. Henry Sherbourne's Regiment in the Rhode Island Line and in the company commanded by Captain Hastings in Colonel Henry Jacksons Regiment in the Massachusetts Line and in Captain William Scotts Light Infantry company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Henry Ogden -- all of the Continental Establishment -- and that he was a prisoner on board the Jersey prison ship at the close of the revolutionary war -- All my said service was in the continental establishment And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March A.D. 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 annexed by me subscribed.

Schedule of the estate now in my possession Real Estate viz. Forty acres of unimproved land in Sebec being part of the burnt land so called Personal Estate - Five Sheep

An account of property exhibited in my first schedule and not now owned by the applicant Real Estate - 100 acres of land in Sebec together with a house and barn } Sold to John Currier by deed dated Feby 13, 1821 in which deed is inscribed 95 more acres of land which I acquired an incipient title after the times of giving in my first schedule } Payment to my Executors and noted against me to the amount $400. Nominal consideration expected in the deed $800

Right in equity to redeem 100 acres of land in Sebec} Forfeited to Olive Crosby Esquire by reason of my inability to redeem it

Personal Estate - Three Cows March 1821 which I gave to discharge in part an Execution against me in favor of Moses and Amos Patten Twelve Sheep - Killed and eaten by myself + family Three Swine - Killed and eaten by myself + family

My family residing with me consists of my wife Eleanor aged 61 years very feeble " son Charles " 18 good health " " Owen " 10 " now is and always has been a feeble child ["a feeble child" underlined] I am a farmer in part and a hunter in part by occupation, my health and constitution are worn out & I am now unable to work more than a few hours in a day

Ezekiel Chase

State of Maine Penobscot ss } At the Supreme Judicial Court begun and holden at Bangor within and for the County of Penobscot on the third Tuesday of June A.D. 1824 on the first day of the term personally appeared Ezekiel Chase and in open Court and made solemn oath that the above written schedules by him subscribed is true and just and also made oath to the above statement Before me Prentiss Mellen Chief Justice S. Courts