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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[signature]