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�State of Maine Hancock ss

On this 21st day of June 1820 personally appeared before me Wm Crosby one of the Judges of the third eastern circuit court of Common Pleas including the counties of Hancock Washington and Penobscot being a court of record with power of fine and imprisonment the laws of said state Ignatius Jordan aged 67 years resident in Belmont in said county of Hancock who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath declare that h e served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit as a private 12 months in 1776 in Cap'n William Bents Comd in in Col [?] [?] Regiment in the Massachusetts troops of which I made declaration before the said Judge on the fifth day of May 1818 and have received my pension certificate therefor No 12601 - and [typed] I [stricken] so solemnly swear, that I was a resident of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand 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 part thereof, with intent thereby 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 on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me: nor have I any income, other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. Egnatious Jordan[signature] Sworn to and declared on the 21 day of June 1820 before me Wm Crosby one of the Justices of said Court.