Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,751, John Gordon, Penn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
Gordon, John
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CONTENTS
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19,576
Ohio.
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John Gordon,
of Adams Co. in the State of Ohio, -
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Tannehill, of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Broadhead in the Pennsylvania
line, for the term of three years, ---
from April 1780 to April -- 1783
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio, ---------
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 1st day of February 1826.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of Mar. 1826,
and sent to Hon. J. W. Campbell,
House of Rept [Representatives]
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Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1826              $  9 " 03
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1826   48 " 00
                                                          $57 " 03
{Revolutionary claim, }
{Acts March 18, 1818 }
{and May 1, 1820.      }

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Date of death nor on age.
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19,438
[crossed out words]

John Gordon wants
pension

On roll. -
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The State of Ohio }
Adams County      } SS

Court of Common Pleas October term 1824

Personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record having the power of fine & imprisonment John Gordon aged sixty six years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the first of May 1820 That the said John Gordon enlisted for the term of three years in the continental establishment about two years & six months before the siege at York under Capt. Adamson Tannehill, that he joined the army at Jacob Creek near Pittsburgh in the Pennsylvania line - Capt. Tannehill resigned he then went onto Fredericktown Maryland and gave himself up to Governor Smallwood then he was ordered on to the siege of York under the Command of Capt. Bill from there to South Carolina there was attached to Genl. Greene's command then while in South Carolina reinlisted for the term of three years then went to Annapolis on a furlough for six months then afterwards was attached to Capt. Lucketh's Company and ordered on to Pittsburgh to Keep Garrison [carrot inserted] while there was discharged.  He thinks he was about five years and nine months in the service of the United States & was in no engagements only one at the siege of York, he was in some skirmishes but does not recollect the time, and that he has lost his discharge - He has no children but what are of age and doing for themselves - His wife is fifty five or sixty years of age [crossed out word]   And in
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pursuance of the act of the 1st day of May 1820 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 my self within the provisions of an act of congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval [illegible] of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person [carrot inserted] in interest [end of carrot] for me any property or securities contracts ordered due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
John Gordon [signature]

Schedule of the property of John Gordon
1 two wheel cart                $  20 "
1 Table 1.00 - 3 Cows 23        24 "
1 Mare                                    25  "
7 Piggs                                      3  50
5 hogs                                       6  25
1 heifer 3.50 - 1 calf 1.50           5  "
14 sheep 15.00 1 gun 1000      25 "
5 chairs                                      1  25
2 steel traps & spoonhooks       2  "
1 Cupboard of furniture             3  "
1 Bridle 75- 1 pair [illegible]       1  50
1 old brass kettle                            50
1 Pott of Kittles                           3  50
1 churn & tubb                           1  50
                                              $122  00

Continued
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[The apparent continuation of a schedule of property]

Amot. Brot. Forward                    122  | 00
lot of Tools                                       8  | 00
1 loom 4.00 1 Mallock 1.00             5  | 00
20 acres of land                              70 | 00
has owing to him                              2 | 00
                                                      207 | 00
he is indebted about                       43 | 50
                                                     $163 | 50

John Gordon

The State of Ohio Adams County ss

I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copies from the Records of the of the said Court; and I further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is One hundred and sixty three dollars and fifty cents after deducting therefrom the debts due from and owing by the said John Gordon

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto at my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 20th day of October in the year of our Lord 1824, in the 49th year of the Independence of the United States of America and in the 22d year of this State

Joseph Darlinton
Clerk of the Court for the County of Adams Ohio
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The State of Ohio Adams County Court of Common Pleas

On this 19th day of August 1825 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record having the power of fine and imprisonment and also having a public seal John Gordon who states that he served as a private in the army of the Revolution in Cols. Gibsons & Broadhead's regiments, then stationed at Pittsburgh Penna the Company commanded by Capt Addison Tannahill

and that he has not disposed of any property since the 18th day of March 1818 other than one Cow & Cross cut saw, sold to Thomas Campbell in 1819 and 1821. together with some articles of markitting for the use of his family, the items and price or to whom said he does not recollect, but the proceeds were applied to his family

The reason why he did not apply sooner for a pension, was that he had a small tract of land which he supposed to be his son, and that he would thereby be able to gain a sustenance without the aid of Government, but the land has been wrested from him by an older claim

John Gordon

Sworn to and declared in open Court on the 19th day August 1825
Joseph Darlinton Clerk A.C.
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The State of Ohio Adams County ss

I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and Oath are truly copied from the records of the said Court In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court  

[A large, but illegible seal]

at West Union this 19th day of August in the year of our Lord 1825 and in 
the 23d year of this State

Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the
Court Com. Pleas Adams County Ohio


The State of Ohio Adams County  }  ss

personally appeared before me Joseph McClain an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County Thomas Campbell and made oath that he purchased the cow and cros cut saw mentioned in the foregoing deposition made by John Gorden and that he is a near neighbour to the said Gorden and that he verily believes he has not disposed of any other property since the 18th day of March 1818 than what is stated in the said deposition

Thomas Campbell

Sworn and Subscribed to before me this 11th day of October 1825

Joseph McClain
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The State of Ohio Adams County} SS

Personally appeared before one Joseph McClain an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County Van S Brady and made oath that he is a resident of the County and State aforesaid and has been acquainted with John Gordon who has made the foregoing Deposition in open court since the year 1818 and some years previous to that time and that he verily believes what is set forth in the said deposition is just and true

Van S. Brady

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of October 1825 Joseph McClain

The State of Ohio Adams County}SS

I Joseph D. Darlinton Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County aforesaid Do hereby certify that Joseph McClain Esq before whom the foregoing Depositions appear to have been taken and subscribed to, was at the time of taking the same and still is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due to his said certificates as well in Courts of Justice as thereout

In Testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 4th day of January 1826

Joseph D. Darlinton
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August 29, 1939

BA-J/AWF [initialed]
John Gordon
S. 43751

Edith B. Hendrix
423 West Ninth Avenue
Columbus, Ohio

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of John Gordon, who received a pension while living in Adams County, Ohio, also information in regard to Mose Hougham, Revolutionary War soldier, who died in 1835, in Illinois.

The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and no claim for pension or bounty land found based upon service of Mose (Moses) Hougham.

The data furnished herein concerning John Gordon were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S. 42751, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth of John Gordon and names of his parents are not given.

John Gordon enlisted at "Jacob Creek" near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, served as a private in Captains Adamson Tannehill's, Bell's and Luckett's companies, and in Colonel Gibson's and Brodhead's regiments; he was in the Siege of Yorktown, and "some skirmishes". He stated that he served in all, five years and nine months. There are no dates of service shown.

John Gordon applied for pension October 20,
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1824, at which time he was sixty-six years of age, and a resident of Adams County, Ohio. The pension was allowed.

The soldier, John Gordon, referred to his wife in 1824 as aged fifty-five or sixty years, and stated that all of his children were of age.  Names of his wife and children are not shown.

The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible data relative to the family of John Gordon.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following data:

John Gordon
Certificate #19578
Issued March 14, 1826
Rate $8.00 per month
Commenced February 1, 1826
Acts of March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820
Ohio Agency.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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[A trifold file cover or envelope, with overlapping horizontal and vertical writing]

James L. Edwards, Esq. 
War Dept

John Gordon 
Gen Register [illegible]
78.

R. Feby 13. 1826

J.W. Campbell 
[Illegible] 13 Feb 1826
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[A trifold file cover or envelope, with overlapping horizontal and vertical writing]

James L. Edwards, Esq. 
War Dept

John Gordon 
Gen Register [illegible]
78.

R. Feby 13. 1826

J.W. Campbell 
[Illegible] 13 Feb 1826
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Febry 13. 1826

Sir
I enclose some additional proof in the case of John Gordon. I know Mr Riggs well. He is the County Auditor and than whom no one is better
acquainted with land titles.

Respectfully
J W Campbell
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State of Ohio    }
Adams County  } SS

Personally appeared before the Subscriber a
Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid, Joseph Riggs, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he has examined a title Bond for Thirty five acres of Land executed by John Beasley to John Gordon that he is acquainted with the land titles in this County, and that [carrot inserted] the said [end of carrot] John Beasley never had any title to said land, that the said John Beasley has deceased, since the execution of the Bond given by him to said Gordon for a title to said land, and that the said Beasley's Estate is believed to be entirely insolvent- That the same land sold by the said Beasley to the said Gordon, being vacant, was, entered by Cadwalader Wallace of Chillicothe Sometime in the latter part of the year 1824, that he believes the said Gordon has not now, and never had any title or shadow of title to the said land.  This deponent further saith that he is acquainted with the said John Gordon, and that the said John Gordon is a resident of this Adams County and further this deponent saith not

Joseph Riggs

Sworn and subscribed   }
before me this 1st day   }
of Feby 1826                  }
J. Patterson
Justice of the peace A.C. Ohio
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The State of Ohio}
Adams County     } SS

I John Patterson a Justice of the peace in and for
said County, do certify that the within signed Joseph Riggs Esq. Auditor of said County is a highly & Respectable citizen and that full fair
the ought to be given to all his official and private Transactions-

Given under my hand and seal this
1st day of Feby 1826
J Patterson [seal]
Justice of the peace
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The State of Ohio Adams County} SS
 
I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the within named John Patterson Esq
before whom the within deposition of Joseph Riggs Esq Auditor of this county was taken & who has Certified and signed the said deposition was at the time of signing the said Certificate & still is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and quallified [qualified] and that full faith and credit are due to his said certificate and all other Official acts by him done as well in Courts of Justice as thereout

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at
West Union this first day of February in the
year of our Lord 1826 in the 50th year of the Independence of the United States of America
& in the 24th year of his State

Joseph Darlinton
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[Stamped]
RECEIVED AUG 1 1939
MAIL SUB-DIV
Reader No. 8
VETS ADM

423 West Ninth Ave.
Columbus, Ohio
July 30, 1939

Veterans Administration
Division of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs:
The Librarian in the Reference room here in the Ohio State Library has informed me that the Veterans Administration in Washington would look up the pension records of Revolutionary War Soldiers without cost. If this is true, I should like the record of one John Gordon who was among the Revolutionary Soldiers who received pensions in Adams County, Ohio in 1835. The record that I Have of him is as follows:

John Gordon was a Private in the Pennsylvania
Continentals. He served for three years from April 1780 to the end of the war in 1883 he was born in 1758. He applied for his pension in October 1824 in Adams County, Ohio. Reference Series 42751 Pa.

I should like the following information about him from the pension record: place of birth, names of parents if given, exact date of birth if given, name of wife, names of children if any, date of death, place of death ( county).
There was also a Mose [Moses] Hougham who served in the Revolution and received his pay at the close of the war at Pittsburg, Pa. He died in McLean County, Illinois in 1835 at the age of 101 years. Did he receive a pension from the Government? If so, I should like the same information about him that I wanted about John Gordon.

Very truly yours,
Edith B. Hendrix [signature]
Edith B. Hendrix
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1939 Aug 29 list
Editor B. Hendrix

42751
INVALID.
Revy

File No. No. 42,751
John Gordon
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18

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