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State of Newhampshire County of Strafford ss } 

On this 23rd day of April 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas for said county personally appears Caesar Wallace a man of colour aged about eighty years he believes, he was born in Africa and does not certainly know his age resident in the Town of Meredith County and State aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war: That he the said Caesar Wallace sometime in the year 1777 enlisted and entered the aforesaid service in Newbury State of Massachusetts for during the war in the company commanded by Captain Caleb Robinson and regiment commanded by Colo [Colonel] George Reed Newhampshire line that he continued to serve in said service of the United States in the war aforesaid on the continental establishment from the year 1777 until June the 7th 1783 when he was discharged at New Windsor in the State of New York That he was in the battle of Monmouth and at horseneck and at Newtown and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support 

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid William Badger