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� I James Dunham of Carmel in the County of Penobscot, a yeoman, do humbly testify & say that on or about the first of March 1778 according to the best of my recollection I shipped on board the public armed Brigg called the Hope (I think) Cap't John Brown of Boston Commander: I shipped to go to Charleston S.C. and from there to [?] in France: We took in a cargo of Rice & Indigo at Charleston: on our passages we were taken by a British Brigg of 14 guns and carried into [?] in Scotland; from which I was imprisoned on board the British seventy four called Defiance[underlined]: from her I made my escape after a [?] of nine months; I then went to Bristol, from there to the West Indies & from there to Boston; I was on board our[underlined] Brigg between two & three months; & was absent about eighteen months; We were bound to France for military stores for the use of our Army: -- I inlisted into the Continental Service in the Spring of 1777. In Cap't Sparrow's Company & joined General Spencer's Bridgade, near Bristol. In Rhode Island: I was in the six months service and was regularly discharged in Providence. -- I have lost my discharge If I had one: I am now under reduced circumstances & need some assistance of my Country for support. I humbly [?] with all claims to any Pension on account Pursuant. James Dunham (signature)