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�State of Maine Penobscot ss. At a circuit of Common Pleas [begun and holden] at Bangor [in and for] the county of Penobscot [NOTE: can interpret word following Penobscot] on the first Monday of January in [this] year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and twenty two. On the fourth day of this [writing] of said court, personally appeared in open court being a court of record, Jacob Hart aged Sixty One years, resides in the Town of Brewer in the County [confirmed], who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his [oath] declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows - that in the year 1780 he enlisted and served in the company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Hayword, as a private soldier, in the Regiment [Commanded] by Lieutenant Col. Smith in the Massachusetts line on the continental establishment and [now] [afterwards] transferred into the company commanded by