[Unearned5161]

I'm not too sure about that reading, I got "The following is the declaration of James Lambert a soldier of the Revolutionary War in South America." rather different

[sayrer]

oh, it is "declaration", yes, but not South America. this guy is even on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/James-Lambert-1758-1847-Elaboration-R...

[jahewson]

I got “North America”

[ripe]

Hmm, interesting: “North America” does make sense, and 4o also seems to transcribe it that way, but the handwriting looks like it says “South America” to me.