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� [handwritten] State of Maine Hancock S.S. On this 1st day of July 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

[pre-printed and handwritten] court of record by laws of said state, with power of fine and imprisonment Joseph Crary [handwritten] aged 63 [handwritten] years, resident in Prospect [handwritten] in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, to wit:

[handwritten] as a private enlisted in 1776 [stricken] and sergeant one year in 1776 in Ebenezer Brewsters comp'y in Col'l Samuel H [?] Regiment Connecticut Troops

[pre-printed and handwritten] of all which I made declaration before the Honorable Wm Crosby [handwritten] on the tenth [handwritten] day of April [handwritten] 1818, and have received my pension certificate therefore, No. 17432 [handwritten] 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 no 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 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 than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

Joseph Crary [signature]

Sworn to and declared on the first [handwritten] day of July 1820 [handwritten] before the[stricken] Wm Crosby [signature] a Judge of Said Court