Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34904, Archibald Gordon, Md. Penn.
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(3-176)

SERVICE
Md.
Penn.

Gordon, Archibald

NUMBER
S.34904

CONTENTS
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Pennsylvania Line
3,944
Maryland
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Archibald Gordon
Capt. Miller &c
Private 
Maryland  Penn
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
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Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 9th of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of Octo 1818
and delivered to Lieut Green of
Dearborn at Washington City
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 38.93
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar. 1819 48.
4 mo/ 25/30 $86.93

{ Revolutionary claim, }
{ Act 18th March, 1818 . 

Six years
War
Continental

Cecil County
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Notification sent November 17. 1826 to,
James Seawall, Elkton, Maryland

1873 May 9.  Hon. W. H. West, last paid to Sept. 4 1829 then in Cecil County, Md
& had been for 35 years - aged 75 years Sept 1820
" Dec 15 Hon Wm Lawrence with copies authenticated of application
1874 Jany 23 Jeremiah Hall - with Service & of above copies
" Feby 24 Hon H S Bundy with military service (for Jeremiah Hall)
" March 30 Jeremiah Hall Sending copies of within papers of application
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Copy 240

Archibald Gordon
Oath Schedule &c
as a pensioner
under the late
Act of Congress

Con
3944
[illegible]
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2
State of Maryland Cecil County. To wit

On this eleventh day of September 1820
personally appeared in open Court being a
Court of Record for the Second Judicial
district of the State of Maryland proceeding
according to the course of the common law
with a jurisdiction unlimited in amount
& keeping a record of its proceeding Archibald
Gordon aged seventy five years resident
in Cecil County in said district 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 Captain Millers company attached
to the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment
commanded by Col. Patton in Philadelphia
in March 1777-that he was afterwards
transferred to the company commanded by
Capt. Michall Rudolph which formed
a part of the legion commanded by Genl.
Henry Lee, in which he continued until
the termination of the war when he
was discharged at Charleston in South
Carolina, and that he made a declaration
in conformity to the Act of 18th March 1818
in Cecil County Court on or about the
9th day of April 1818 and obtained a
pension under the said Act his Certificate
being numbered 3944.

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident
citizen of the United States on the 18th March
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1818.  And that I have not since that time by gift
sale or in any manner dispose 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 the land and naval service of the
United States in the Revolutionary War"
passed on the 18th 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 to me, nor have I any
income other than what is contained in
the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

Sworn to in Open Court
James Sewall Clk

Schedule

One milk cow, two pigs, two beds and bedding
2 old tables and a few small articles the
whole not exceeding in value fifty two dollars.
That he is by trade a shoemaker, but by
reason of the failure of his eye sight his
age and infirmities he is able to work but
very little at his trade.  That he has a 
wife old and infirm who resides with him
which is all the family he has.
Witness
James Sewall  Archibald X his mark Gordon

Sworn
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Sworn to and declared on the eleventh
Septr. 1820 before me the subscriber Chief
Judge of the Second Judicial District of
Maryland composed of Talbot Queen Ann
Kent and Cecil County aforesaid.
Rd F Earle

I James Sewall Clerk of Cecil County Coty.
do hereby certify that the foregoing oath
and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly
copied from the record of said Court, and
I do 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 fifty two dollars.

In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the said Court on this
11th day of Septr. 1820
James Sewall Clerk of the
Court for the County of Cecil
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1
Archibald Gordon a citizen of the United States and at this
time residing in Cecil County state of Maryland doth
declare that on the 14th day of February 1777 he marched
from Elkton for three months service under Capt. Thos.
F Henderson in the second regiment of militia command
ed by Col. Henry Hollingsworth and on returning at the
expiration of said term from the Jerseys enlisted under Capt.
John Dennis in the eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment Col.
Patten and Col. Parks and there remained until General
Gates defeat in South Carolina [word struck out] and then was
taken out of the Pennsylvania by Major John Rudolph
and put into Col. Lees regiment of horse and infantry in
Capt. Michael Rudolphs company under whose command
he remained until the end of the war and was dis
banded with the rest of the army in Charleston South
Carolina without receiving any discharge and that from
his advanced age he is unable to support himself and
family not having any property or subsistence for support
of himself and family [words struck out]
but the charity of his country
Cecil County Court, in the State of Maryland }
April [illegible] 1818 }

There appeared in open Court Archibald Gordon and made oath
on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God that the facts and
circumstances stated in the above declaration are true.
Sworn to in Open Court
James Sewall Clk
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It appears to the satisfaction of Cecil
County Court, that the within named Archi
bald Gordon served in the Revolutionary
War and the members thereof hereby certify
and transmit to the War Department
of the United States the testimony laid before
them by the said Archibald Gordon in support of
his intended application for a pension under
the late Act of Congress.
9th April 1818  Rich. F Earle
Lemual Purnell
Tho. Worrell

[Written vertically in left margin:]
Archibald Gordon
filed at Apl. 1818

& swear that he is in reduced circumstances
and stands in need of assistance of his
Country and that he [illegible] in
the service nine months.

Maryland Cecil County Sct

I hereby certify that Richard F. Earle, Lemual
Purnell and Thomas Worrell Esquire [illegible] have given
the above Certificate were at the time of making
the same and still are the Judges of the Second
Judicial District in the State of Maryland duly
commissioned and qualified and to all [illegible] acts
as such [illegible] is & ought to be given
as well in Courts of Justice as thereout. In Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the [illegible]
seal of my office the sixth day of
October eighteen hundred & eighteen
James Sewall Clk
of Cecil County Cots.
[Blurred seal of office]
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34 904
Revy
INVALID. [illegible]

File No. 34,904
Archibald Gordon
Priv Rev War

Act: 18th March 1818

Index:--Vol 2, Page 477

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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Hon. Wm Lawrence
_________________

Dec. 8, 73,
Refer letter of
[begin underline]W H West[end underline], Bellefontaine,
O., Dec. 1, 1873,

and endorses request
of West, that there
should be sent to [begin underline]M.C.[end underline]
certified copies of
pension applications 
in 1818 and in 1828
of
Archibald Gordon

Penniman

Entr
ODV
Stiles
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Careful search fails to
discover any claim for
Alexander Gordon of Md.
under Act of 1818.

As the correspondence
relative to this paper
has been endorsed on
jacket of [begin underline]Archibald[end underline] Gor
don, S.F. 34904, this paper
is placed in this claim

W.R.
[Stamp] APR 10 1912
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Evidently inadver
tently written [begin underline]Alex
ander[end underline] instead of
[begin underline]Archibald[end underline] as the
data furnished in his
(Jeremiah Hall's) letter
is the source as on Ctl
jacket of Archibald:
Oct. 26, 1818 - $96 per an.
commenced Apr. 9, 1818
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[Left side of letterhead]
W. H. WEST, }
JAMES WALKER, }
ROBT. P. KENNEDY }

[Oval Stamp:]
FINANCIAL DIVISION
MAY
[illegible]
1873
PENSION OFFICE

[Note right side of letterhead]
1818
in Court April 9
made his mark
[Note center of letterhead]
age Sept 11. 1820. 75 yrs

[begin italics]Law Office of West, Walker & Kennedy, [end italics]

[Note before address:]
trade a shoe maker 

[being italics]Bellefontaine, O.,[end italics] 2 May 1873

Hon J W Baker Comr Pensions
[Note beneath greeting:]
Witness Jas Sewall & clerk of court

Archibald Gordon
died at Glasgow Maryland or
is supposed to have done so
near Elkton Md. He was
[illegible] in Lees Legion in the
Revolutionary War.  His name
will appear on the Pension
Rolls as he drew pension 
until the time of his death
some 20 or 30 years ago.
It is important to have 
the [begin underline]date of his last pension
payment,[end underline] the [begin underline]place of his[end underline]
then residence & [begin underline]his age.[end underline]
Please [begin underline]make diligent[end underline]
search & find these
& forward to
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Hon W H West here
whom you know personally 
& well

Respectfy
W Lawrence
M.C.
8 Ohio Distr


[number 246 encircled]
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34904

The State of Ohio Pickaway County S.S.

Before me
B. H. Bostwick a notary public in and for said
County personally appeared Jeremiah Hall of the
City of Circleville in said County-an attorney
at law who being duly sworn according to law
deposes and says that he is the attorney of record
for the plaintiffs in the action of Margaret Hart
et al. against Daniel Gregg et al. pending in
the Court of Common Please within and for the
County of Logan and State of Ohio to recover
200 acres of land situate in the Virginia [illegible]
District the location of which is founded on
military land warrant issued to [begin underline]Alexander
Gordon[end underline] now decd. and who was late a pensioner
of the United States from Cecil County and State
of Maryland and entered upon the pension roll
Oct 26, 1818 was a private drew $96.00 per annum
and whose pay dates from April 9, 1818 and
who drew $1094.93 and died perhaps in 1829 in
the City of Baltimore.

This affidavit is therefore made to obtain
from the Commissioner of Pensions information of
what department of the Revolutionary army
this man belonged and what was his term
of service.

Jeremiah Hall
[note under name: of Circleville Ohio]

Sworn to before my by said Jeremiah Hall
and subscribed by him in my presence this
7th day of January 1874.  Witness my hand & notarial seal
B.H Bostwick
Notary Public