Nathaniel Oak, pension declaration of 21 August 1832 (lower part: signature, certificates and court's opinion)

Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).

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no documentary evidence to prove his services and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except what he has procured —

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever, to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State. to my knowledge

Nathl Oak

Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.

attest [initials unclear] Laughton Clerk

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We [Collins Hyde, clergyman?] residing in Chelsea in said County of Orange and [Josiah Dana?] residing in the said Chelsea hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathl Oak who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; and that we believe him to be 81 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.

[Signatures] Collins [Hyde?]

Josiah Dana

[Faint clerk attestation]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that [Collins Hyde?] who has signed the preceding certificate is a [clergyman?] resident in Chelsea in said County; and that [Josiah Dana?] who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same place, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

[Faint court/clerk attestation]

I [initials unclear] Laughton Clerk of the Court of Orange County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Oak for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this 21st day of August A.D. 1832.

[initials unclear] Laughton CLERK.