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State of Maine Penobscot Js On this twenty sixth day of June A.D. 1823 [?] appeared in open Court being the [something stricken] Court of Common Pleas, the same being a court of Records which have [?] according to the course of the common law with unlimited discretion as to [clause inserted between lines] and holden at Bangor is and for the County aforesaid on the fourth tuesday of June A.D. 1823 [clause stricken] Amos Dole of Orrington in said County age sixty six years next September who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress at the 18th of March 1818 and the first of May 1820 and first of March 1823 [clause inserted] that the said Amos Dole enlisted for the term of three years["three years" underlined] in the Spring of the year 1777 in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Capt Sylvanus Smith in the Regiment commanded by Col Timothy Bigelow in the line of the State of Massachusetts in the Continental establishment; and he continued to serve in said Corps until the end of Said term and receive an honorable discharge - and again en-listed in the same company in the month of May or June in the year 1780 for three years ["three years" underlined] and served till May 1783, when he was discharged from Said Service at West Point in the State of New York, that his name has been placed on the Pension List, and struck there from an account of his property.