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� [following is a printed form with handwritten insertions noted below] STATE OF MAINE [header] Hancock ss. 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

On this twelfth[handwritten] day of July[handwritten] 1820 being the Second day of said term, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record by the laws of said state, with power of fine and imprisonment Solomon Bolton [handwritten] aged sixty four[handwritten] years, resident in Frankfort[handwritten] in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declared that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, to wit:

[handwritten] that on the first of January 1776 I inlisted for one year under Capt. John Bridgeham in Col. Bailey's Regiment in the Massachusetts Line, and served out the whole year

[printed text with handwritten insertions noted] of all which I made declaration before the Honorable Martin Kinsley[handwritten] the tenth[handwritten] day of April[handwritten] 1818 and have not[handwritten over insertion mark] received my pension certificate therefore, No[stricken] and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen in 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 so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain person 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 than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

Solomon Bolton[signature]

Sworn to and declared on the twelfth[handwritten] day of July[handwritten] before the Court[handwritten] attest Mason Shaw Clerk