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� of my age + having one of my arms broken - that family I have only of my wife aged sixty nine - unable to work - + myself _ that I am wholly unable to support myself + have no other means to rely on except the charity of my friends & the assistance of my Country. J.M. Blake

Sworn to & declared on the Eighteenth day of June A.D. 1830 Before me Nathan Weston Jr a Justice of said court

I Isaac Hodsdon Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Penobscot and State of Maine [?] [?] that is appears to the Satisfaction of the Court that the said Blake did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy, for the term of nine months and one Engagement - I also certify that the foregoing oath & the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said Court - and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Said Court that the total amount in value of the property Exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is one hundred Dollars

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand + affirxed the Seal of Said Court on this eighteenth day of June 1830.

Isaac Hodsdon Clerk