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�State of Maine

Hancock [NOTE: can not interpret word/abbreviation following "Hancock"]

On this fourth day of [March 1820] Personally [appearing] Before me William Crosby on of the judges of the [this] [Eastern] circuit court of Common pleas [including] the county of Hancock Washington and Penobscot being a court of record by the laws of said state, with power of fine and imprisonment Ben Ladd aged 64 years, resident in Belmont in said county, [Local] of Hancock who being first duly sworn according to law doth on this oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, to wit: one year as a private in Capt [Issac Shermans] [NOTE: can not interpret word following Captain's name] in Col [NOTE: can not interpret Col. name] [Badduding] Regiment in the Massachusetts [Looks]

of all which I made declaration before the Honorable Judge Crosby on the fourth day of April, 1818, and have [NOTE: can not interpret word following "have" and before "my"] my Pension Certificate and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen in the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that 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 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 this eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any properly or securities, contracts or debts, due to me ; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the scheduled hererto annexed, and by me subscribed. Benia Ladd

Sworn to and declared on the fourth day of [nov/March] before me [William] Crosby a judge of said court

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