Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8,225, for James Jordan, New Jersey
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SERVICE

New Jersey

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Jordan, James
or
Jordon
_____________Margaret

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NUMBER

W. 8,225.
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CONTENTS

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Reported

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4802   Pitt.
Pennsylvania
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Margaret Jordon
widow of James Jordon
Penn
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
30 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the
14 day of May, 49
and sent to
Hon. R.L. Rose
Allen's Hill
N.J.
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 239. Vol. 2
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Margaret Jordan
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widow of James
Jordan, decd

Acts of 17th June 1844
& 2d Feb. 1848
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No 673

Margaret Jordon
ww of James
Pa
Act 17 June 44 &
2nd Feby 48
Married 1788
husband died 15 March 44

Adnu $30.00 pr ann
/Nn 15 March 1844

Hon RS Roll
Allens Hill
NJ
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny   fs

On this 17th day of April 1849 personally appeared before me Samuel Sous a Judge in and for said County Margaret Jordon resident of Plumb Township in said county aged 93 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act 17th June 1844 & the act of 2d February, 1848.

This declarant states that she is the widow of James Jordon deceased who was a soldier of the revolution and who drew a pension from the United States at the rate of 30$ per annum, and who died in said County of Allegheny on the fifteenth (15th) day of March in the year eighteen hundred and forty four (1844)--

This declarant further states that her maiden name was Margaret Armstrong and that she  was married to the said James Jordon in the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight (1788) by a Presbyterian clergyman named William McKennan that said marriage took place at the house of the said McKennan in the County of New Castle and State of Delaware, near by the line of Chester County State of Pennsylvania.  This declarant states that from the time of his aforesaid marriage to the period of her husband's death she lived with him in lawful wedlock and had children born--three of whom were born prior to the 1st January 1794--whose names are John, Ephraim, & Margaret Jordon.

This declarant further states thata there was a fmily record of her marriage and births of her children, at one time in existence, but that it has been lost or destroyed, and she has now no record either of her marriage with the said James Jordon or of the birth of children she had by him.
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This declarant further states that there were several witnefses present at the ceremony of her marriage with the said James Jordon, all of whom as this declarant supposes are now dead.

This declarant further states that after her aforesaid marriage she resided near to the New London Crofsroads in the County of Chester & State of Pennsylvania for a period of ten years and about the year 1798 she with her said husband removed from the said County of Chester to the County where she now resides.

This declarant further states that since the death of her said husband she has not again married but remains his widow.
Margaret X her mark Jordon

Sworn and subscribed the day        )
and year first above written            )
Before me                                       )
S Jones

State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny fs.

I hereby certify that by reason of old age & bodily infirmity the above named Margaret Jordon is unable to appear in open Court.  And I further certify that satisfactory evidence was adduced before me that the said James Jordon died on the fifteenth day of March in the year eighteen hundred & forty four (1844), and that since that time the above named Margaret Jordon has not again married.
S. Jones

I Hiram Hultz Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny and Commonwealth of Penna do certify that S Jones, before whom the above Declaration and Certificate and following affidavit were acknowledged and at the time thereof and now is one of the Associate Judges of the said Court and duly duly [word stricken out] authorized by law to take such acknowledgment and believe the above to be his signature.  Witness my hand and the Seal of the said Court this 17th day of April [illegible]
Hiram Hultz   Pro
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny fs--

On this 17 day of April 1849 personally appeared before me Samuel Jones a Judge in and for said County, John Irwin resident of Plumb Township in said County aged 83 years and made oath in due form of law that he was personally acquainted with James Jordon late of Plumb Township and county aforesaid a revolutionary soldier and pensioner of the United States that he was acquainted with him for several years prior to his marriage with Margaret Jordon who is now the widow of the said James Jordon and who resides in the said Township of Plumb in said County.  And further states that he has known them both from the time of their marriage up to the time of the death of the said James Jordon--and that they lived in lawful wedlock (as this deponent believes) from the time of their marriage up to the period where the said James Jordon died; and that the said widow has not again married--

This deponent further states that he is knowing to the fact of the marriage of the said James and Margaret Jordon occuring on the twenty third (23rd) day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight, although not present at the solemnization of said marriage.  that he was made acquainted with the fact on the day when said marriage occured.  that he was at the time not a half mile distant from the house where the said James & Margaret were married, that the ceremony of their marriage took place at the house of a Presbyterian Clergyman by the name of William McKennan in the County of New Castle & State of Delaware.

This deponent further states that he cannot be istaken as to the time when the marriage of the
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said James & Margaret Jordon took place, from the fact that his own marriage took place on that same day, theirs in the morning & his in the evening--and likewise from the fact of the aforesaid clergyman officiating at both marriages.

This deponent further states that the annexed record of his own marriage & births of children is his original family record; that the entries thereon recorded are in the handwriting of this deponent, that said record of his marriage was made shortly after it took place & since it was made has remained in his own possession & that he believes it is correct.

This deponent further states that the said James & Margaret Jordon had 2 {number underlined] or more children born to them prior to 1st January 1794.  that he believes their two oldest children viz John & Ephraim Jordon were born before the time stated & while the said James & Margaret were living in Chester County--

This deponent further states that the circumstances connected with the two marriages aforesaid had often been a subject of conversation between this deponent & the said James Jordon & but a few years prior to the death of the said Jordon--

And further saith not.
John Irwin

Sworn & subscribed the day         )
and year first above written          )
S. Jones

I Certify that the deponent John Irwin above named has been known to me for Thirty years--that he is a respectable citizen--and of sound mind and understanding--
S. Jones
April 17, 1849
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Westmoreland  fs

Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, nancy Armstrong a citizen & resident of Franklin Township in said county & aged seventy seven years.  & made oath in due form of law that she was knowing to the fact of James Jordon & Margaret Jordon's living together in the relation of husband & wife in the County of Chester in said State & had children born to them prior to the 1st January of the year seventeen hundred & ninety four--

This deponent further states that she made it her home in the family of the said James & Margaret jordon for a space of about two years & sometime between the year seventeen hundred & ninety & the year seventeen hundred & ninety four & that they had at that period (before the year seventeen hundred & ninety four) two or more children born, that the names of their first three children wer viz. John, Ephraim & Margaret Jordon & she is confident that these three children were born prior to the birth of her first child which birth took place in May of the year seventeen hundred & ninety four as this deponent believes & about thirteen months after she was married to John Armstrong now deceased--that she is pretty confident that her own marriage with John Armstrong took place in the month of April in the year seventeen hundred & ninety three, from the fact of her said husband being called out to aid in suppressing the Whiskey Inserection in the year seventeen hundred & ninety four, & at the time when her first child was a babe--that the record of her own marriage & births of her children is lost or destroyed--

This deponent further states that it was currently reported & believed in the neighborhood
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where the said James & Margaret Jordon lived that they had been lawfully married & this deponent is of the same belief although she was not present at the solemnization of their marriage.  & she further states that the said James Jordon is the same person who died a few years ago in Plumb Township Allegheny County in said State & whose widow Margaret is still living in said Township, & further deponent saith not.
Nancy X her mark Armstrong [word "seal" appears with a circle drawn around it]

Sworn & subscribed before            )
me this 6th day of March               )
1849--                                            )
John Laird JP [word "seal" appears with a circle drawn around it]

I certify that I have been personally acquainted with Nancy Armstrong the above named depont that she is now and since my first recollection of her a member in good standing in the Presbyterian Church--that her character for truth & veracity is beyond suspicion and her statement entitled to full credit & belief.
J.M. Laird J.P.

State of Pennsylvania                  )
Westmoreland County                ) fs

I James McCallister Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Westmoreland in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do hereby certify that John M Laird Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition was made and whose name in his own proper handwriting is to the above certificate appended was then and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Westmoreland duly elected and commissioned and to all whose official acts and deeds full faith and credit are of right due.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Greensburgh the 9th day of March AD 1849
James McCallister Prot
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Stanton Del   Sept 4th 1848

Dear Sir

I recd your of August 16 Asking information About James Gourdon and Margaret Armstrong' Mariege

all the information I Can give is I have inquired of All the oldist and Most Likely Persons in Mill Creek church and ther Never Was at Record keep Mariages or Baptisam Mr McKennon was Pastor of that church at that time  I do not know When you could get the information except at the County Court House Where the Mariage Licences is Recorded

Yours Respfully
Levi Workman
Poll Stanton
Del

To L M Drung
Conandaigua
New York
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FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
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PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS,
ON THE
NEW TESTAMENT
OF OUR
LORD AND SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST.

[following written vertically on right side of original]

Burke Comment
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February 17, 1927

Mrs. G. D. Thornton
75 North Audubon Rd.,
Indianapolis, Ind.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War Pension claim W.8225, it appears that the pensioner James Jordan stated that he had no record of his age, but had been informed by his mother, his father having died before the Revolutionary War, their names not given, and that while he was still a child his parents moved to Morristown, Morris County, East New Jersey where he was raised and lived until he entered the army of the United States, after his service, came back to Morristown in East New Jersey, his mother then resided in Chester County, Pennsylvania, who came for him and he went with her and resided in Chester County until the year 1811 when he removed in Allegheny County, Plum Township"

Respectfully,

Winfield Scott
Commissioner.