Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20375, Alexander Gorden, S.C.
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( 3-1776 ) SERVICE S.C. Gorden , Alexander or Gordon  NUMBER R. 20375
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Gorden , Alexander  S.C. R 20375
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This is to certify that Alexander   Gordon  .. ( illegible ) soldier in my company in the first South Carolina  Regiment is entitled to  a warrant  &  grant for two hundred acres of land within this State. .. ( illegible ) to a resolution of Congress  & an act  & ordinance of the said State  Witness my hand  this third day of May  1784  and in the eighth year of the Independence of  America   Felix Earley  Major So. Ca. Line  To all singular  the Commissioners of Location in the State of So. Carolina
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Revolutionary Claim Hon Richard Rush  , Secretary of the Treasury  Washington   Treasury Department   Springfield Te. Nov 12th  Free
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Rec'd Nov 1828  ( vertical 1368 )  Revolutionary Claim  viz for the purpose of obtaining the amount  of pay  accruing  to me for the half year ending on  the second day of September eighteen hundred and twenty eight  under the act entitled  for the relief of certain  surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution approved the fifteenth  May  eighteen hundred  and twenty eight  I, Alexander Gordon of the County of  Robertson  and in the  State of Tennessee do hereby  declare that I was a soldier  enlisted for three years served in the first Regiment of South Carolina   under Felix Warley  Cap. & Pinckney  General , being an  Army of the Revolution  in the continental line as is more fully  set fourth  in my application  for the benefit of said  Act and that I have  been found entitled by  Secretary of the  Treasury  under that Act to the pay of a soldier in said  line  . Witness my hand  this the twenty fifth day  October in the year of one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.  Alexander Gordon ( his mark X ) NB a Draft on the Branch Bank at Nashville Tennessee  ( Davidson County  .. ( illegible )  to receive  Letters Directed  Springfield  Robertson  County  Tennessee.  Alexander Gorden  ( his mark ) R. Rush ( signed )
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Came before me Joel Moore a Justice of the peace for the County of Robertson  in the  State of Tennessee  personally appeared this day  James  Doss  and Andrew Washington  of the said County  who did severally make oath that  Alexander Gordon  by whom the above declaration was made   and subscribe is well known  to them  to  be the person  therein described and that he is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the army of the revolution in the  manner as therein stated and that the said  Alexander Gordon in their presence on the day and date thereof    so mention ed in sad Declaration  . Witness my hand   this the twenty fifth day of October in the year of one thousand and eight hundred and twenty eight.  Test Joel Moore ( signed ) Justice of the peace James Doss (  signed ) Andw. Washington  ( signed )    I , Wiliam Seal clerk of the County Court  of Pleas and Quarter Sessions  for the County of Robertson  in the  State of Tennessee do hereby  certify that   Joel Moore before whom  the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time  a Justice of the peace  for the said County  and duly  empowered to administer oaths . IN  testimony whereof I have  hereunto set my hand and affixed  the seal of said Court at office this 10th day of November  1828  and  53rd year of American Independence. Wm. Seal ( signed / sealed ) Clerk of Robertson County  Court
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Rejected OLD WAR File No. 20.375 Alexander Gordon  Pri Capt. Warley  S.C. line  Revy War ( vertical notes ) ( Act  1828 Not allowed )
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( 3- 2237 ) No. 20.345 OLD WAR INVALID   Alexander Gordon Service : Private Capt. Warley's Co. South Carolina line  Revolutionary  War Alleges :  New Jacket  ( vertical note REJECTED )
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Revolutionary Claims FREE  Hon Richard Rush Sr.  Washington  Cit Treasury  Department Springfield Te. Feb 28  Free
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A. Gorden  1368 Rec'd  16 March  1829  2183
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Sir, I received your advices dated  December  22nd 1828  which informed me that my declaration  was not fully specific  enough to draw  my pay under the act of May the 15th  1828   . Sir, I hereby  agreeable to your advice make this part of my declaration to be annexed to my former . I first declare I was enlisted by Captain Martin  , and  it was for  and during the war and served  under  Captain Felix  Warley  until his termination in the first South Carolina Regiment  commanded by General  Pinkney in the Continental line at which time I was honorably discharged and  by said Warley  , my discharge is lost or mislaid so that I cannot  send you the same , but I have a certificate for the land I was to draw  which  I have never drawn  as yet which  I will send to you for further proof  unto which you will enclose the same  & send to me again . I also declare to the best of my knowledge that I did receive certificate for the reward of eighty  dollars under the resolve of Congress passed the  15 of May  1778 , and I further declare  that I was not on the pension  list of the   United States on the 15th of May eighteen hundred  & twenty  eight as  witness my hand  this twenty fourth of February  eighteen hundred & twenty nine.  Signed and acknowledged before me - whose oaths is to the former declaration  . James Doss ( signed ) Andw. Washington  ( signed ) Alexander Gorden ( signed )
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Honorable Sir, I find me entitled to the pay of a soldier in the Continental line agreeable  to the within   and former declaration  agreeable to the Act and records at Washington  . you will remit or send my pay to Springfield  Robertson County , State of Tennessee . In my former declaration  was to be sent to  Nashville Tennessee, but will be  convenient to Springfield at which place my  attorney will be duly authorized to receive the same agreeable to law  as I can scarcely discern day from night by  affliction . Sir, if you should requisite anything  more in regard to proof be pleased to give me that information  that is requested to obtaining my  pay  as I believe I am entitled as much as any on Earth . I am Sir, your Very Obedient servant . Alexander Gorden  ( signed ) Mr. Richard Rush
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Revolutionary Claims.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
1 May 1829.

Alexander Gordon of in the county     of. in the County of
Robertson in the State of Tennessee has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled " An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain
Warley 's company, in the first regiment of the S Carolina
line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve 
of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, [nothing]

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the
records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary.
F.A. Dickins.

It Further appears that Alexander Gordon is not now on the pension
list of any       agency, and has not been so since the 3rd March
1826

The name of Alexander Gordon
cannot be found among those of the  South Ca=
=rolina line, to whom Certificate  for the gra=
=tuity of Eighty Dollars, were issued - 
Pelm Hagner Aud
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3rd  Auditor War Department  Bounty Land Office  7 May  1829 The records of this office, do not show that Alexander Gordon of the So. Carolina line ever received or is entitled to  bounty land of the  U. States.  Robert Taylor ( signed )
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Revolutionary Claim Mr. Asbury Pickens  Acting Secretary  Treasury Department  Washington  City  Free Springfield ,, Te. July 27
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Alexander Gorden 1366, 2183, 3170. Rec'd 10 Aug  1829  263
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Honorable  Sir, I received your instructions  of May the  26  which finding me  in a calamity  situation by an  eating cancer  have lost my sight entirely . I know not day from  night  and do not  expect to  survive but a short time longer. Therefore  find it impossible for me to make  out  any more satisfactory proof  of my  being a soldier  and performing the duty set forth in my declaration , which I solemnly testified on oath , and has  believed it was all the act of law required. Therefore  you will lay the same before a proper committee and if they find me  entitled to a pension . The same will be  remitted agreeable to my former instructions or if otherwise  let me know . It and I will lay all expectations aside & die with out being  benefited by said act therefore I remain your respective servant this the  25 of July  1828 . Alexander Gorden  by my clerk                     Mr. Asbury  Pickens  Actg Secretary  S.C.
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OW Rej. # 20,375
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Alexander Gordon - Pvt. So. Car. line  No Record Tenn.  L.D.S.  Nov 5' .. ( illegible ) Ex
d - Act  Inv. Wid.  Ref & Old Books  4137  This case dont fit  draws ct service want  S.C.  No Records ( check mark )  Not allowed LDS , act 1828  Not on  S.C. & Tenn.  Register