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Hancock[handwritten] ss. At a Circuit Court of Common Please Third[handwritten] Eastern District begun and holden at Castine[handwritten] within and for the County of Hancock[handwritten] on the 2nd Tues[handwritten]day of July[handwritten] being the eleventh[handwritten] day of said month in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty before the Honorable William Crosby + James Campbell Sr[handwritten] Judge s[handwritten] of said Court.

On this twelfth[handwritten] day of July[handwritten] in the year 1820 personally appeared in open court[handwritten] the same proceeding according to the course of common law, having "the power of fine and imprisonment" and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, Solomon Barber[handwritten] aged seventy three[handwritten] years, resident of Deer Isle[handwritten] in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war, viz as a Private[handwritten] in the company commanded by Capt Walden[handwritten] in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney[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 the twentysecond[handwritten] day of April[handwritten] 1818[handwritten], and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, No.13.718 was granted.