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COUNTY OF PENOBSCOT, SS. | COUNTY OF PENOBSCOT, SS. | ||
["Circuit Court of Common Pleas," is crossed out] | ["Circuit Court of Common Pleas," is crossed out] | ||
| − | at a Circuit Court of Common Pleas, | + | at a Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden in Bangor within and for said county on the fourth Tuesday of June A.D. 1820. |
| − | On this twenty seventh day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record within and for said County and State of Maine, established by a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, made and passed on the twenty first day of June, A.D. 1811, and recognized by the Constitution of the State of Maine William Davis aged, fifty seven years, resident in Eddington in said County of Penobscot, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: That in the year 1781 he enlisted into the | + | On this twenty seventh[handwritten] day of June[handwritten] in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record within and for said County and State of Maine, established by a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, made and passed on the twenty first[handwritten] day of June, A.D. 1811, and recognized by the Constitution of the State of Maine William Davis[handwritten] aged, fifty seven years, resident in Eddington[handwritten] in said County of Penobscot, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: |
| − | I never was in any regular battle, but in several schurmishes - I am by occupation an | + | [handwritten statement below] |
| − | The No. of my certificate from the war department is | + | That in the year 1781 he enlisted into the United States service as a private soldier in the month of January, and joined the ninth Massachusetts Regiment at Westpoint in the State of New York, commanded by Col Jackson in Capt Robert Walkers company. I served in that Regiment until it was disbanded in 1782 - and being a three year man, was transferred into the second Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Lieut. Bullard - In this regiment I served untill September 1783 and was then discharged, my discharge was signed by General Knox. |
| + | I never was in any regular battle, but in several schurmishes - I am by occupation an husbandsman, and owing to advanced age and poor health renders me unable to support myself without assistance from the United States to which I have made Declaration before the Hon'ble Martin Kinsley Esq'r on this fourth day of April 1818. | ||
| + | The No. of my certificate from the war department is 14-420- | ||
Wm Davis | Wm Davis | ||
Revision as of 14:41, 21 September 2018
STATE OF MAINE
COUNTY OF PENOBSCOT, SS. ["Circuit Court of Common Pleas," is crossed out] at a Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden in Bangor within and for said county on the fourth Tuesday of June A.D. 1820.
On this twenty seventh[handwritten] day of June[handwritten] in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record within and for said County and State of Maine, established by a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, made and passed on the twenty first[handwritten] day of June, A.D. 1811, and recognized by the Constitution of the State of Maine William Davis[handwritten] aged, fifty seven years, resident in Eddington[handwritten] in said County of Penobscot, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:
[handwritten statement below] That in the year 1781 he enlisted into the United States service as a private soldier in the month of January, and joined the ninth Massachusetts Regiment at Westpoint in the State of New York, commanded by Col Jackson in Capt Robert Walkers company. I served in that Regiment until it was disbanded in 1782 - and being a three year man, was transferred into the second Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Lieut. Bullard - In this regiment I served untill September 1783 and was then discharged, my discharge was signed by General Knox.
I never was in any regular battle, but in several schurmishes - I am by occupation an husbandsman, and owing to advanced age and poor health renders me unable to support myself without assistance from the United States to which I have made Declaration before the Hon'ble Martin Kinsley Esq'r on this fourth day of April 1818.
The No. of my certificate from the war department is 14-420- Wm Davis