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STATE OF MAINE[header]

COUNTY OF PENOBSCOT, ss At a[handwritten] Circuity Court of Common Pleas begun and holden at Bangor within and for said County on the fourth Tuesday of June A.D.1820[handwritten]

On this twentyseventh[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, having the right of fine and imprisonment[handwritten insertion] established by a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, made and passed on the eleventh[stricken] twentyfirst[handwritten] day of June A.D. 1811, and recognized by the Constitution of the State of the Maine, Samuel Bailey[handwritten] aged fifty eight[handwritten and stricken] 64 years, resident in Sundahayes[?] Plantation, 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] viz. in the year 1777 I inlisted for three years and served during that time as a musician under Captain Benjamin Buxton and under Captain Joshua Trafton[?] in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Thornburn[?] and Colonel Henry Jackson and at the exhaustion of said time was honorably discharged. I served three other years in the Revolutionary War and not on the Continental Establishment - all which will appear by my original declaration made on the twentysecond day of April A.D. 1818 on which declaration my certificate of pension numbered 9.166[?] was granted.

I served in Bunker Hill [underlined] battle - also at [?] Island at 1778 - also in a private expedition lead by Lord Stirling at Staten Island in January 1780