On the twenty seventh day of April 1818 before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas for said County, personally appeared Prince Duplax [sic] aged sixty four years two months, resident in the said County, who being first by me duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled and set to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War,

That he the said Prince Duplax [sic] enlisted in Southington, State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain Nehemiah Rice of the third regiment commanded by a Col Chandler, and afterward Col Sherman of the Connecticut line on the eighteenth day of May 1777, for three years, that he continued to serve in the said corps until the eighteenth day of May 1780 when he was discharged at Morristown, State of New Jersey,

That he again enlisted at Horse Neck State of Connecticut for one year on the first day of April in 1782 in? the Company commanded by a Capt Granger in the Regiment commanded by a Colo. Canfield of the Connecticut Line, that he continued to serve in the said corps until the first day of April 1783 when he was discharged at Stratford? Connecticut, that he was in the battles of Germantown, Mud Island & Monmouth, and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his favor of his said service.

Prince Duplex (signed)

Sworn to me and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Stephen Beers

I Stephen Beers one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Tioga aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Prince Duplex did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary of the department of war pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned Act of Congress.

April 27th 1818
Stephen Beers Tioga County Clerks Office

I certify that the above name Stephen Beers Esquire has been duly Commissioned and qualified and now is an acting judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said County to be hereunto affixed at Spencer in said County this 9th day of June AD 1818.

Matthew Carpenter Clerk

On this 8th day of September 1820 personally appeared in open court being about a Court of Common Pleas holden in & for the said county in said state with power to hear, try and determine, all actions real, personal & mixed arising in the said county and also transitory actions, although the same may not have arisen in the said county, and with other powers

Prince Duplex aged sixty five years, resident in the town of Danby in the said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: that he enlisted in Hartford County in the state of Connecticut on the eighteenth day of May 1777 in Colonel Sherman's Regiment and Captain Rice's Company that he was in the battle of Germantown, Mudfort, (or Fort Mifflin), Monmouth and that he was discharged in Morristown in the state of New Jersey on the sixteenth day of May one thousand seven hundred eighty and that I am the same Prince Duplex late a Private in the Army of the Revolution and who is inscribed on the Pension List both of the New York agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the twenty seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, as per certificate from the Department of War that his certificate is not numbered.

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 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 Land and Naval Services of the United State in the Revolutionary War" passed on the eighteenth 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 me, nor have I any other income, than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed

That by occupation he is a basket maker and of ordinary health, he has a wife aged 56 years and has been afflicted with a fever sore for 17 years and has been at much expense in Doctoring.

Prince Duplex (signed)

Sworn & declared in open court the
8th day of September 1820 before me
Gamaliel H. Barstow, First Judge

I Thomas Maxwell Clerk of the Court of Common pleas above mentioned do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath & Schedule are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the foregoing Schedule is Five Dollars forty four cents.

Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 9th Sept. 1820.
Tho. Maxwell Clerk

I Daniel Johnson of the Town of Guilford in said County do hereby certify and swear and declare that I served my country in the War of the Revolution and am now receiving pension, that the last service which I rendered was in the spring of the year one thousand and seven hundred and eight two when I was a private in the Company of Captain Abner Granger in Colonel Canfield's Regiment then in the service of the State of Connecticut;

That I was stationed near Horseneck in the State, that I was well acquainted with Prince Duplex a free man of color who also belonged to and served in the same company and duty with me, that I was discharged on the first of March in the year, that said Prince Duplex had been in the said service the whole time that I was there and remained after my discharge. I had been acquainted with said Prince Duplex for several years previous and I knew the service which he was in as above stated in Capt Grangers Company in Col Canfield Regiment subsequent to his marriage.

I was acquainted with his wife also long before & also after his marriage. The service in which he was then engaged was the last service in this war, about one month after my discharge the peace or cessation was announced, and said Duplex then retired and labored for me, the home of his wife and himself was then about one mile from my home, the name of his wife, a free woman of color was occasionally called "Ment" which I understood to be an abridgement of Lament.

Daniel Johnson (signed)

Subscribed & sworn the 12th day of July 1838 before me
Erastus Dickinson Justice of the Peace

I Percy Randall Clerk of the County of Chenango and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do Certify that Erastus S. Dickinson Esq. was on the 12th day of July 1838 a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned & sworn. And that full faith and credit are to be given to his official acts as such. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice. And verily believe that the signature of the foregoing instrument is the proper handwriting of the said Erastus S. Dickinson. In testimony hereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 12th day of July 1838.

P. Randall Clerk
Dr. Benj. E. Randall Dep Clerk