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�State of Maine County of Hancock On this twenty [first] day of June 1823 personally appeared in open court, being a [court of record] [NOTE: can not interpret word following "[record]"] the highest court of [record] in said [state], [NOTE: can not interpret words following "[state]" and before "Castine"] Castine within and foresaid Couty, Joseph Gordon of Belfast in said County, ages sixty [four] years, he being first sworn according to law [doth] on his oath [make] the following declaration [in order to obtain] the pension [made] by the [NOTE: can not interpret words following "the" and before "1818"] 1818, the [1st] of [May] 1820 [+] 1st of March [1823] [that he the said] [Joseph] served in the revolutionary war, as follows to wit, as a private [before] months in 1775 in Capt. [Yerich] Gilmans Company in Col. [Nixon] Reg[t] in the Massachusetts line + from March 1777 during the war - under this enlistment I was fort [NOTE: can not interpret "the name of the fort"] in [budd Robinson's] Company in the [second] REg New Hampshire line. Line I was [personally] [NOTE: I can not interpret line of words added between original lines of words] [NOTE: I can not interpret words below added line between the original line of words] That I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1825, and that I have not since that