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�State Of Maine County of Penobscot, ss. At a circuit court of common pleas [illegible] On this 27 day of June in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court being a court of record within in and for said county and State of Maine [illegible], established by a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, made and passed on the eleventh [crossed out] Twenty seventh day of June, A.D 1811, and recognized by the Constitution of the State of Maine Ebenezer Fisher aged, sixty one years, resident in Brewer 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: As a private soldier in the company commanded by Capt Oliver Pond in the regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Reed during the whole of the year 1776 in the Massachusetts [illegible] when the continental establishment was [there] regularly discharged at White Plains - in 1778 I served nine months saw the continental establishment in this company commanded by Capt Daniels & Col. Nixon's regiment [Illegible] I also served nine months now but the years in regiment I have forgotten_Jan 1782 I again enlisted and served in the company commanded by Capt. Othniel Taylor in this regiment commanded by Col Tupper I was transferred to the sixth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Nixon and [again] [from] that regiment to the second Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Sprout I was regularly discharged at Philadelphia in August 1783 - all which appears by original declaration made on the seventeenth day of April 1818 on which declaration my certificate of pension Numbered 9075 was granted

Schedule of family residing with me Ebenezer Fisher who by occupation am an husbandman which I am unable to pursue but to a small degree on account of the infirmities of age and had contributions

[Handwritten Chart, Categories include the following:] Name, Age, Capacity of each to contribute to their support My Wife, 61 years, [Infirm] Ebenezer Fisher Sophane Pe[illegible], 8 years

And I Ebenezer Fisher do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "as 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 eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any properties or securities, contracts or debts, due to me: nor I have any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. Ebenezer Fisher Schedule of property belonging to me the subscriber bedding and clothing excepted - Viz Real Estate - 156 1/4 acres of land in Brewer with 1/2 [illegible] and 1/2 [illegible] Personal Estate - 1 pair of oxen _ 1 horse _ 3 Cows _ 3 heifers _ 1 yearling steer _ 13 Sheep & 3 swine Debts due to me - One note for $25 Debts owning by me - I am firstly indebted in the sum of $250 Ebenezer Fisher

Sworn to and declared on the twenty seventh day of June A.D 1820 before the court ATT. Thomas Cobb [illegible]