Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30145, for Thomas Sylvester, Massachusetts
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I James Chadborne of Portland in the County of Cumberland aged forty Eight years on oath declare that I have been well acquainted with the [ ] named Thomas Sylvester for twenty years, that it is generally reported & believed of him in his neighborhood that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War as he has stated in his declaration, that he was in Dorchester at Ticonderoga at [Heabs hill] & at Bagaduce.
The names of these places I have often heard him speak of & as having served at each as a soldier in the Revolution
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I Robert Anderson of Lewiston in the County
of Lincoln & State of Maine aged seventy six years testify & say that I enlisted as a sergent in the year 1779 in the town of North Yarmouth in
[Comr] John Gray's company, Col. Mitchells Regt Gen Lovels Brigade 
for four months, we marched to Portland & took water passage to Baggaduce now Castine where we remained untill our defeat by the British, then returned to Portland to make out our time of inlistment. I further testify & say that Thomas Sylvester who now applys for a pension inlisted into the same company & served with me the term aforesaid-
Robert Anderson

State of Maine
Lincoln ss. Sept. 14th 1832 Personally appeared the above named Robert Anderson
& made oath to the above affadavit by him
subscribed. Before me..
Dan Read Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I have been acquainted
with the above named Robert Anderson for more than thirty years & consider him a man of truth & veracity.-
Dan Read Justice of the Peace