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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, [disposed] of my property, or any just thereof, with intent [NOTE: can not interpret word following "intent"] so to diminish it as to bring myself within the Provisions of an Act of Congress [entitled] " an act to provide for certain Persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." passed the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I not, [nor] him any person in trust for me, any property or securities, [collateral] or debts due to me, nor have I have any income after [this] what is [contained] in