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�State of Maine Penobscot ss. At a circuit of Common Pleas [begun and holden] at Bangor [in and for] the county of Penobscot [NOTE: can interpret word following Penobscot] on the first Monday of January in [this] year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and twenty two. On the fourth day of this [writing] of said court, personally appeared in open court being a court of record, Jacob Hart aged Sixty One years, resides in the Town of Brewer in the County [confirmed], who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his [oath] declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows - that in the year 1780 he enlisted and served in the company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Hayword, as a private soldier, in the Regiment [Commanded] by Lieutenant Col. Smith in the Massachusetts line on the continental establishment and [now] [afterwards] transferred into the company commanded by Capt. [Adam Bailey] in the Regiment under command of Col. [Sherman] Grant and was honorably discharged at the Close of the year 1783 - All which will appear original declaration made on the [seventh] Day of [April] 1818. and the depositions of [Sherman Fisher] + [Issac Crowley] on which Declaration and Deposition to obtain a pension Certificate No. 13521. The same Declaration also made to the [documentary] of War on the twenty seventh day of June AD. 1820 - in compliance with the [lot] of May 1820. and [NOTE: can not interpret word following "and"] of which [his was stricken] from the pension dist. Jacob Hart AND I Jacob Hart do solemnly swear that I was a [NOTE: can not interpret the 2 words following "a"] of the [NOTE: can not interpret word following 'the"] on the eighteenth day of March one thous-and eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever