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STATE OF MAINE COUNTY OF PENOBSCOT, ss. As a Circuit Court of Common Pleas, began and holden at Bangor on the fourth Tuesday of June 1820 within & for said County ON this 21 day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundered and twenty, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record within and for said County and State of Maine, established by a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, made and passed on the [eleventh crossed out] twenty first day of June, A.D. 1811, and recognized by the Constitution of the State of Maine having power of fines & imprisonment, Consider Glass aged, sixty years, resident in Guilford in said County of Penobscot, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: I [inlisted in the spring of 1780 Xd out] served in the company commanded by Captain Colburn and afterwards by Captain Phelps in the Regiments commanded by Col John Brooks in the Massachusetts line on the continental establishment in the year 1780 & served till the army was disbanded when I was discharged- My enlistment was for three years- I was in several skirmishes- All which is more particularly set forth in my original declaration made on the twenty fifth day of May A.D. 1818 & the deposition of Governor John Brooks in which declaration & deposition my certificate of pension Numbered 15.654 was granted

Schedule of family residing with me Consider Glass who am by occupation a husbandsman which I am unable to pursue by reason of Rheumatism and the impairments of age. My wife Martha aged 48 years Daughter Martha - 18 - - Nancy - 17 [?] constitution Son Lucius - 14 Consider Glass

AND I Consider Glass do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States in the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that 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 provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide 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 and eighteen, 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.

Consider Glass

Schedule of Real and Personal estate belonging to me the subscriber (necessary clothing & bedding excepted) Real Estate- None Personal- 1 Cow 1 Swine - My household furniture & cooking utensils are old not enough necessary to keep house

Consider Glass

Sworn to and declared on the twenty seventh day of June A.D. 1820, before the Court. Att[est] Thom. Cobb, Clerk

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Penobscot SS. C. C. C. Pleas at Bangor June Term A.D. 1820. And now it is the opinion of the Court [of the said Court for the County of Penobscot Xd out] that the total amounts in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is thirty six dollars. Att. Thom. Cobb, Clerk