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Hancock

State of Maine

On this 4th day of July 1820 personally appeared before me Wm Crosby [William Crosby] one of the Judges of the Third Eastern Circuit Court of Common Pleas including the counties of Hancock Washington and Penobscot being a court of record by the laws of said state with power of fine and imprisonment Eben'r Allen a transient man aged 57 years now in Belfast said county of Hancock who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath declares that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, to wit: as a private from 1780 til 1783 in Capt Wests comm'd in Col Joseph Lyttles[?] Regt in the New Hampshire Line of which he made declaration before the Hon William Crosby one of the Judges of said court in the eleventh day of April 1818 and which I have received a pension Certificate No 9066 and

I Eben' Allen[underlined, handwritten] aforesaid[crossed out] do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on 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 and 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, not has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me: not have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

Eben' Allen his mark +

SUBSCRIBED and sworn to before me [crossed out]

one of the Justices of said Court. [crossed out]