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STATE OF MAINE

COUNTY OF PENOBSCOT, SS. ["Circuit Court of Common Pleas," is crossed out] at a Circuit Court of Common Pleas, [illegible] and held in [illegible] for [illegible] on this [illegible] A.D. 1820.

    On this twenty seventh day of June 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, established by a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, made and passed on the  twenty first day of June, A.D. 1811, and recognized by the Constitution of the State of Maine William Davis aged, fifty seven years, resident in Eddington 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: That in the year 1781 he enlisted into the  United States service as a private soldier in the month of January, and joined the ninth Massachusetts Regiment at West Point in the State of New York, commanded by Col Jackson in Capt Robert Walkers company. I served in that Regiment until it was disbanded in  1782 - and being a [illegible] year man, was transferred into the second Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Lieut. [Mulland?] - In this regiment I served until September 1783 and was then discharged, my discharge was signed by General Knox.
    I never was in any regular battle, but in several schurmishes - I am by occupation an [illegible], and owing to advanced age and poor health renders me unable to support myself without assistance from the United States to which I have made Declaration before the [illegible] on this fourth day of April 1818.

The No. of my certificate from the war department is 14420- Wm Davis