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� State of Maine Penobscot Ss.

On the Fifth day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twentyfour personally appeared in open court to wit the Supreme Judicial Court holden at Bangor within and for said County the same being a Court of Record which proceeding according to the Course of common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount Ezekiel Chase now resident at a place called Seboeis of said County by late of Sebec in the same County aged sixty three years being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of the 18th of March A.D. 1818 of the first of May A.D. 1820 and the first of March A.D. 1823 -- that he the said Ezekiel Chase enlisted in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1778 for the term of three years and served as a private soldier in the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Burton