[undecipherable] [undecipherable] is at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Jany [undecipherable] [undecipherable] f [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] &c [undecipherable] + [undecipherable] ( [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] ) Neighbouring [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Information [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] We the Subscribers do Hereby Solemnly Declare, that Gedeon Diesdermien and Mary his Wife have resided in our Neighbourhood ever since the year 1785, a Period of 15 years. the Industrious have been under very Indigent Circumstances owing to their Great Age and Infirmities, The said Gedeon, being Periodically attacked with Fits of Insanity which has had a Great Influence in diminishing his Strength of Body Vigor of Mind and Means. Chiefly to be attributed to their Great Misfortunes Losses & Consequent Troubles formerly — That Their Principle Dependence for Support is and has been on their Son Lewis [undecipherable] Diesdermien. That in Consequence of Their Present Situation they Could Not attend at- Mechias to Make and Certify their Declarations before the Chief Justice of the County — to Substantiate Their Claims to the Bounty of Congress — as Refugees from Nova-Scotia it being — Thirty Miles by a Road almost impassable — Bⁿ Reynolds W^m Ramsdell [seal] Washington ss — Commonwealth of Massachusetts Eastport. February 19^th 1800. Then appeared the aforementioned. Bⁿ Reynolds & W^m Ramsdell & acknowledged in my presence, to the truth of the above declaration [signature, undecipherable] J.P.