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�STATE OF MAINE Hancock ss...AT a Term of the Supreme Judicial Court and holden at Castine within the said County of Hancock on the fourth Tuesday being the Twenty Second day of June and by adjournment thereof from day to day, on the twenty third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, four before the Honorable Nathan Weston home of the the Judges of said Court.

ON this twenty third day of June in the year 1824 personally appeared in open Court aforesaid

the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said, County William Grout aged Seventy years, resident in Frankfort in said county who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on this oath declare that he served in the Revolu-tionary War as follows, viz. as a Private in the company commanded by Capt. Wheeler in the Regiment commanded by Colonel James Reed in the line of troops of the State of New Hampshire on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original decleration, made on the Eleventh day of April A.D 1818 + subsequently before the Hon Judge Weston on the fifth of March 1822 And do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 ; and I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner 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 18th day of March, 1818: 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 con-tained in the schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed ; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number an dother particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is herein particularly described, also subscribed by me. William Grout

Sworn to and declared, on the twenty third day of June A.D. 1824 Before Nathan Weston [Jus] One of the Judges of the said Court.