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Hancock s.s. At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Castine[handwritten] within and for the County of Hancock[handwritten] on the 2nd Tues[handwritten] day of July[handwritten] A.D. 1820

[handwritten] I Solomon Bolton on oath say and declare that I have no real nor personal estate nor any income whatever (my necessary bedding and wearing apparel excepted) except

one cow one swine six sheep

I am a Laborer. I am unable to work having one useless hand, my wife is sick all the time. I have no children that live with me. Without a pension I am unable to support my family. For these five years last past I have been [?] by the town.

Solomon Bolton[signature]

[printed] Sworn and declared on the twelfth[handwritten] day of July[handwritten] before the Court[handwritten]

Attest Mason Shaw Clerk