Pension Application of Prince McLellan

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       United States of America. 
District of Maine, ss.

At a special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the third Tuesday being the fifteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one before the Honorable Albion K. Parris, Judge of said Court,
On this fifteenth day of March in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Records for said Maine District, Prince McLellan aged eighty one years, resident in Gorham in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820. That he the said Prince McLellan  served as a Seaman on board the Frigate Deane on a cruise to the West Indies under Captain Nickson, on which cruise we captured several prizes, and then returned to Boston. Said Frigate was then called the Hague Frigate, and I served on board of her for another cruise, under Commodore Manley of fourteen or fifteen months. We was at Martinique when we first heard of the Peace. We then returned to Boston in the fall of 1783, where I was honorably discharged. I lost my discharge in the hospital where I was sick some time after I left the service.

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And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby 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 contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
[signed] Witness Jos. Pope           [signed] his mark Prince x McLellan

Sworn to and declared, on the fifteenth day of March A.D. 1821
Before [signed ] Albion K. Parris {U.S District Judge for the District of Maine

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Schedule of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, via: 
Real Estate- I have not any of any description-
Personal estate- a few mean articles to keep house with
I have no income, and I have been assisted by the charity and kindness of friends, otherwise must have been a town pauper

[signed] witness Jos. Pope         [signed] his mark Prince McLellan

Sworn to March 15, 1821 before Albion K Parris U.S Dist; Judge