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Certificate of Discharge I hereby Certify, That Alden Newbit [name handwritten] of Belmont [handwritten] Maine, a Private [handwritten] of Captain Company of [phrases crossed out] in the Detachment commanded by Maj. Gen. Isaac Hodsdon [name is handwritten, then crossed out] Lt. James Cummings [handwritten] of the drafted Militia of Maine, was born in Hope [handwritten] in the State of Maine [handwritten] is aged 34 [handwritten] years 5 [handwritten] feet and 8 3/4 [handwritten] inches high, light [handwritten] complexion, blue [handwritten] eyes, dark [handwritten] hair, and by profession, when called into actual service by the State of Maine for the protection of its Northeastern Frontier, a Farmer. [handwritten]

He was called into actual service by order of the Governor of Maine, and rendezvoused at Bangor [handwritten] Maine, on the eleventh [handwritten] day of March [handwritten] A.D. 1839, being drafted from Captain [crossed out] Lieut [written above Captain] John E.