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�my age & having one of my arms broken__ that family consists only of my wife ages sixty nine_ unable to work & my self & that I am wholly unable to support myself & have no other means to rely on except the Charily of my friends & the assistance of my County J M Blake [signature]

Sworn to & declared on the Eighteenth day of June A.D. 1830 Before me Nathan Weston Jun a justice of said court

I Isaac Hodsdon Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Penobscot & State of Maine do hereby certify that it appears to the Satisfaction of the Court that the said Blake did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement. I also certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule [?] annexed are truly copied from the records of said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property Exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred Dollars & [blank] cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court on the eighteenth day of June 1830

Isaac Hodsdon Clerk