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STATE OF MAINE At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Castine within and for the County of Hancock on the second Tuesday of July A.D. 1820 Hancock 88

On this twentieth day of July the second Tuesday 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 Ephraim Dyer, aged sixty one years, resident in Sullivan in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he searched in the revolutionary war as follows, to wit:as a Private in Capt Thomas Mabry Company in Col Tupper's Regiment in General Patterson Brigade in the Massachusetts Line

of all which I made declaration before the Honorable James Campbell on the seventh day of April 1818, and have received my pension certificate therefor, No. 

And I do solemnly swear that I was resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of May 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with the 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 services of the United States, the the Revolutionary War," passed o f the 18 the day of March 1818: 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; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and truth as is particular in described on the back thereof, also subscribed by me.