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� STATE OF MAINE[Header] COUNTY OF PENOBSCOT, ss. Circuit Court of Common Pleas, June Term 1820 [clause handwritten] ON this twentyseventh[handwritten] day of June[handwritten] in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record within and for said County and State of Maine, established by a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, made and passed on the eleventh[stricken] twentyfirst[handwritten] day of June, A.D. 1811, and recognized by the Constitution of the State of Maine Amos Dole[name handwritten] aged sixty two[handwritten] years, resident in Orrington[handwritten] in said County of Penobscot, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:

[what follows is handwritten] That he enlisted under Capt Sylvanus Smith in the 12th Mass. Regt commanded by Col. Timothy Bigelow [?] Brigade, for the first three years service, in the Continental Establishment. The whole of which term he served out and got an honorable discharge. Enlisted again for the second three years service and served a part of said time under Capt. Smith and a part of the time under Capt. Gordan in the fifth Mass. Regiment, as an ordinary Sergeant, after the Peace was transferred to the first Company + first Massachusetts Regiment, and was honorably discharged in May after the Peace of 1783. Was in the service of the of the Surrender of Gen. Burgoyne and in the Battle of Monmouth. Has [?] from the War Department. Pension Certificate No. 9.167 and of [?] I made declaration before the Hon Martin [?last name?] [?] on the [something stricken] first[inserted] [?] of [?] 1818 then [?] of the Judges of Maine Courts