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STATE OF MAINE. (illegible paragraph- script is too tiny to read) COUNTY OF PENOBSCOT, ss. ON this twenty seventh day of June in the year our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record within and for said County and State ofMaine, established by a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, made and passed on the eleventh day of June, A.D. 1811, and recognized by the Constitution of the State of Maine Park Holland aged sixty eight years, resident in [?] 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: I entered the service of the United States in July 1776 in Capt. Benjn Gates Company C No Norman's Regt in 1777 I entered again into Capt NJ [?] Gates' Company and Col Rufus Putnams Regt and served as Sergt Major untill about Nov I then assd on [?] [?] and abou tthe year 1779 was appointed and [?] as Lieut and was Lieut and [?] of said Regt untill the close of the war - in 1783. I am a husband [?] by ocupation, am reduced in [?] and am not able to maintain myself without assistance from the United States - owing to my advanced age and decay fo health and strength to Labour - on the fourth day of April 1818 I made a [?] declaration before the Honorable Martin Kinsley Esq and my