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�State of Maine.

KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.

ON this fourteenth day of July, 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston Jr one of the Justices of the Supreme Justice[struck through] of[struck through] the[struck through] Circuit[struck through] Judicial Court of[struck through] Common[struck through] Pleas[struck through], for[struck through] the[struck through] Counties[struck through] of[struck through] Lincoln[struck through], Kennebec[struck through] and[struck through] Somerset[struck through], being a Court of Record for[struck through] said[struck through] Counties[struck through], proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Benjamin Curtis aged Sixty three years, resident in Monroe in the County of Hancock within said Circuit[struck through] State, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in[struck through] the[struck through] Company[struck through] commanded[struck through] by[struck through] Captain[struck through] and[struck through] Regiment[struck through] commanded[struck through] by[struck through] Colonel[struck through] of[struck through] the[struck through] line[struck through] of[struck through] the[struck through] State[struck through] of[struck through] upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of nearly fifteen months, on board the Dean Frigate commanded by Cap. Samuel Nichols