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�State of Maine County of Hancock On this twenty [first] day of June 1823 personally appeared in open court, being a [court of record] [NOTE: can not interpret word following "[record]"] the highest court of [record] in said [state], [NOTE: can not interpret words following "[state]" and before "Castine"] Castine within and foresaid Couty, Joseph Gordon of Belfast in said County, ages sixty [four] years, he being first sworn according to law [doth] on his oath [make] the following declaration [in order to obtain] the pension [made] by the [NOTE: can not interpret words following "the" and before "1818"] 1818, the [1st] of [May] 1820 [+] 1st of March [1823] [that he the said] [Joseph] served in the revolutionary war, as follows to wit, as a private [before] months in 1775 in Capt. [Yerich] Gilmans Company in Col. [Nixon] Reg[t] in the Massachusetts line + from March 1777 during the war - under this enlistment I was fort [NOTE: can not interpret "the name of the fort"] in [budd Robinson's] Company in the [second] REg New Hampshire line. Line I was [personally] [NOTE: I can not interpret line of words added between original lines of words] [NOTE: I can not interpret words below added line between the original line of words] That I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1825, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner dispose 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 + naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War, [past] on the 18 of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or [securities], [NOTE: can not interpret word following "[securities]", or debts due to me. nor have I any income other than what is [contained] in the schedule hereto annexed and by me not - [subscribed to wit] [NOTE: can not interpret words following "wit" and prior to signature] Joseph Gordon

that since the [declaration] of my first [Schedule] the following changes [form] [ her name in my proprety] Schedule - 50 acres of land 1 Horse 1 Cow 1 [Can not interpret word under "cow"] 1 [plough] [House old House furniture] [our] farming [NOTE: can not determine word following "farming"] [16 Sheep] [2] Hogs

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[NOTE: can not interpret the pargraph written below the item/description section prior to his signature] Joseph Gordon