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�STATE OF MAINE COUNTY OF PENOBSCOT, ss.at a common court of pleas. [began] [and] [NOTE: Can not interpret next word after '[and]'] in at Bangor within and for said county on the fourth Tuesday of June 1820 On this 27 day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record within and for said said County and State of Maine, established by a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, made and passed made and passed [NOTE: can not interpret hand written word following "passed" twenty[can not interpret] day of June A.D. 1811, and recognized by the Constitution of the State of Maine having herein of [fine] [NOTE: can not interpret word after "fine"] Jacob Hart aged, 57 fifty nine years, resident in Brewer in said county of Penebscot, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: In 1780 I entered and served [NOTE: "In the Revolutionary war" line through the four words] in the company commanded by Capt Benjamin Hayword as a private soldier in the Regiment commanded by [Lieut] Col [Smith] in the Massachusetts line of the continental establishment, and was afterwards transferred into the company commanded by capt Adam Bailey in the Regiment under the command of [Ebenezer Sproat] and was discharged at the close of the year 1783 - all which is more particularly [set] forth in my original declaration made on the seventh day of April 1818 and the [depositions] of Ebenezer Fisher + [Issac NOTE: can not interpret [Issac's] last name ] on which declaration [of] [depositions] my certificate of [NOTE: can not interpret word following "of"] Numbered 13521 was granted [Line underneath paragraphs] Schedule of family residing with me Jacob Hart [NOTE: can not interpret rest of paragraph] My wife [Jennifer] age 57 years [NOTE: can not interpret word after 'years'] [contributions] Jacob Hart AND I Jacob Hart do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and 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 provision of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to pro-vide 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 eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or se-curities, contracts or debts, due to me : nor have I any income, other than what is con-tained hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. Jacob Hart Schedule or Real and Personal Property belonging to me [NOTE: can not interpret the remainder of sentence] Real Estate 1/2 small [house] Personal - 1 desk - 6 chairs - 1 chest- 1 trunk and all my furniture [NOTE: can not interpret rest of words in "personal section"] Jacob Hart Sworn to and declaration on the twenty seventh day of June A.D 1820 before the county ATT. Thomas Cobb Penobscot [NOTE: can not interpret writing for next four letters] Pleas at Bangor June [from] A.D 1820 [NOTE: can not interpret rest of paragraph] ATT: Thomas Cobb