Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4462, for Dempsy Jordan, Georgia
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Georgia Taliaferro County

I Quinea ONeal Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of said County, to whom by the laws of this State the granting and issuing of marriage licence [license] is given and confided - do hereby state and certify Sarah Jordan, widow of Dempsey Jordan late of said County deceased, since the death of said Dempsey, has remained unmarried - and that no licence  from my office has issued for her marriage to any person -
Given under my hand and seal of office this 21- day of November 1836 
Quinea O'Neal Clk 

Georgia Taliaferro County
And.[illegible]
Jordans well acquainted with Sarah Jordan of said County, widow of Dempsey Jordan late of said County deceased, do hereby state and certify that she has, since the death of said Dempsey remains widow and unmarried - Given under our hand this 21 Nov. 1836

Chesley Bristow Clk S.C.
Matthew Stewart
Quinea O'Neal
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Georgia Wilkes County 
I John H Dyson Clerk of the Court of Ordinary in & for the County of Wilkes do hereby Certify that I find by the Record in my office no entry of marraige [sic] License having issued prior to 19th July 1785. I also find the Record of the first License Returned and Recorded 15th February 1806 ~ untill [sic] this time I can find no Record of marraiges, [sic] Only the issuing of Licenses
[seal]
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at my office in Washington 14 January 1837~
[seal]
S/J ohn H Dyson
CCO
WC.
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D Jordan 787
Recd 28 March 1829.



and affixed the seal of said Court. this [blank] day in the year of our Lord 1829.
Signed
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2029 Let  78
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit. of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution approved on the 15th of May 1828. I Demsey Jordan. of 607 district in the county of Taliaferro in the State of Georgia. do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war. and continued in service until its termination at which period I was a private in Captain [John] McIntosh Company. in the 1st Regiment of the continental line, and I also declare. that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of Eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th May 1778. And I further declare that I was not on the pension list of the United States. the 15th day of March 1828.   
Signed     Dempsey [X his mark] Jordan
Before me James Diamond a justice of the peace in the county of Taliaferro in the state of Georgia personally appeared this day Samuel Jordan of said county who did make oath that Demsey Jourdan by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed was a private in the Army of the Revolution in manner herein stated. sworn to and subscribed before me 

Witness my hand this 12th day of March in the year 1829.
Signed James Diamond J.P.
Samuel [X his mark] Jordan
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Recd 8 Jany 1830.                 1256.
State of Georgia Taliaferro County
Personally appeared before me Dempsey Jordan, a revolutionary Soldier, who says upon oath, that, to the best of his knowledge & remembrance he enlisted in the regular army of the U.S. in the State aforesaid, and was discharged at Savannah in said State, (the time not recollected) and received his certificate from either Col. [Samuel] Elbert or Habbersham [John Habersham] under the command of Gen'l [Lachlan] McIntosh.

Sworn to & Subscribed before me this 28th day Decr. 1829
S/ Edward James JIC. of Taliaferro County
Demsey [X his mark] Jordins

I Marcus Andrews Clerk of the Superior Court of Taliaferro County certify that Edward James is Justice of the Inferior Court of said County & that I saw Dempsey Jordan qualified to & assign the above affidavit Decr 28th 1829
S/ Marcus Andrews clk S.C.T.C.
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787
Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th MAy, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
21 Nov 1828
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Demsey Jordan under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution.
S/ R. Ruch.

The Hon. SECRETARY OF WAR.

War Department.
Bounty land office
The Records of this office do not show that Demsey Jordan as a private of the Georgia line was received or is entitled to receive bounty land of the United States.
S/ Robert Taylor
25 Nov 1828
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778.


D. Jordan.
recd. 11 Apl 1828
ackd. 25.