Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,599, George Gordon, Conn. Continental
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SERVICE NUMBER
Conn. Gordon, George          S 39.599
Continental
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12.162
R

Virginia

Connecticut

George Gordon

of Norwich in the state of Cont who was a corporal in the regiment commanded by Colonel Huntington of the Connect, for the term of one year.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 9th of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 23d June 181[?] and sent to Calvin Goddard Esq
Norwich Cont.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819 3 mo 23/71/4  $78.96
Semi-Anl. All'ce ending ~ 48.00
________
$30.00
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$126.96

d Sept 1, 1823

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

Connecticut: made out dated 23d June 1819 and sent to Calvin Goddard Esq 20th Oct 1819
(old cert destroyed)

Continue
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[illegible] sent to Wm Chapline Jr Esq 8 Oct 1821
Wheeling Virginia
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A

George Gordon transfer from Connecticut to Virginia 8th Oct 182[?] from 4 March 1820.

See Schedule

Sep 19
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.

County of Ohio ss.
On this 23 day of November 1820, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Ohio personally appeared George Gordon who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Trobridge in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jedediah Huntington in the service of the United States; that this name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Connecticut from when he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state of Virginia Ohio County where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.
Wm. Chapline

Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid.}

NOTE. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
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George Gordon
private
Col. Huntington
Dec 75. 10 = 76

Admitted

George Gordon
May 9 1818

Submitted to the War Department
WHC
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State of Connecticut

On this 9th day of May AD 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Superior Court in the State of Connecticut & Mayor of Norwich City personally appeared George Gordon resident in Norwich in said state and being by me first duly sworn on oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States during the revolutionary war. 
That at the commencement of the revolutionary War in the year AD 1775 he joined in at Roxbury in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in a company at that time commanded by Col. Jedediah Huntington or Col John Douglass that he continued in said service till the month of December 1775 when he enlisted as a corporal into the regiment commanded by Col afterwards Genl Jedediah Huntington in a company commanded by Capt Trowbridge.
That he entered to serve in said company and regiment until the battle on Long Island when on the 27th day of August AD 1776 he was made prisoner on that battle & carried on board the prison ship Monitor with his hands tied behind him where he remained a prisoner he believes several months. Cannot tell the precise time when he was transferred to the City of New York from which place he was offered to return home on parole
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& as he understood was afterwards exchanged.
He enlisted for one year in December 1775 & got home from captivity nearly the last of the year 1776.
That he is in reduced circumstances very poor & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support.
Sworn to before me
Calvin Goddard Judge of Superior Court & Mayor Norwich City

The above applicant is very poor & in indigent circumstances.
Calvin Goddard
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I Calvin Goddard Mayor of the City of Norwich & presiding Judge of City Court do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within & before named George Gordon did serve more than nine months in the revolutionary war against the Common Enemy on the continental establishment as stated in the preceding declaration & I hereby transmit the testimony & proceedings taken & had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to the aforementioned act of Congress.
Calvin Goddard Mayor &c.
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[stamped]
FREE

The Secretary of War
Washington City

[stamped]
WHEEL. VA
JUL 17

[sideways]
452
Recd 24 July 1821
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Commonwealth of Virginia Ss
At a court held for Ohio County on the 7th day of May 1821, George Gordon comes into court (being a court of record) and makes oath that he was born in Voluntown in the state of Connecticut, that he now resides in the state of Virginia, that he is seventy two years old  or thereabout, that he served in the American army from the commencement of the Revolution in the regiment commanded by Col. Jedediah Huntington and in the company commanded by Captain Trobridge in the line of the State of Connecticut until he was taken prisoner on Long Island in August 1776.
That he has received three pension certificates, that on the 18th March 1818 he was a resident citizen of the United States, and that he has not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself within the benefit 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 March 18th 1818, and that he has not, nor has any other person in trust for him, any property or securities, contracts or debts due him, and that he has
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no income other than what is contained in the schedule annexed hereto and by him subscribed.

Schedule, Real and personal property none except necessary wearing apparel.

I reside at this time with William Hamilton in Ohio County Virginia and am unable to support myself, my occupation is farming but I am unable to work.
Geo Gordon

Virginia Ohio County Ss
I William Chapline Jr Clerk of the Courts of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court. I further certify that William Chapline Esq before whom the annexed affidavit was made and who has certified the same, was on the 23d day of November 1820 and now 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 all his official acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the public seal of my office this 13th day of July 1821 and in the 46th year of the Commonwealth.
Wm. Chapline Jr. C. O. C
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Rev & 1812
Wars Section
ILL

September 13, 1930.

Virginia Morton
Roseville, Indiana

Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 39599, that George Gordon was born in Voluntown, Connecticut.

He enlisted at the beginning of the Revolutionary War as a private in Captain John Douglass's Company and marched in August, 175, to Roxbury, Massachusetts; in December 1775, he was made corporal in Captain Trowbridge's Company, Colonel Zedediah Huntington's Connecticut Regiment, was in the battle of Long Island, was taken prisoner, bound and placed on the prison ship, Monitor, was taken to New York City, returned home on parole about the end of the year, 1776, and was later exhanged.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 9, 1818, while a resident of Norwich, Connecticut.

In 1820, soldier had moved to Ohio County, Virginia, and stated the following year that he was about seventy-two years of age.

He died September 1, 1823.

There are no family data on file.

This is the history of the only George Gordon found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

Very truly yours,
E. W. Morgan,
Acting Commissioner.
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I Squier Cady of Plainfield in County of Windham State of Connecticut being of lawful age depose & say, that I knew that Mr. George Gordon enlisted in Col Douglas Company in the year 1775 and marched to Roxbury about the 1st day of August in the same year and continued in the service there until April the succeeding year, and then he was marched to New York, and was in the service until he was taken a prisoner on Long Island, on the 27th day of August 1776.
And I know that he enlisted in the month of December 1775 in the company of Capt Trowbridge in Col Huntington regiment for the campaign 1776 and that he served in said company & regiment until he was taken prisoner as aforesaid.
Squier Cady

Windham County Ss Plainfield April 12th 1819
Personally appeared Squier Cady the above Deponent and made oath that the above deposition contains the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Before Joseph Eaton Justice of the Peace
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I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the within Deponent Mr Squier Cady, and that his testimony is entitled to full faith and credit.
Joseph Eaton Justice of the Peace
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I Anthony Bradford of Plainfield in Windham County of lawful age testify & say that Mr. George Gordon enlisted in Capt Douglas's company, I belonging to the same company & we marched to Roxbury about the 1st of August 1776 where we continued until the new arrangement took place when I was appointed an Ensign in Capt Trowbridges company Col Huntington Regt and sometime in the month of December the same year I enlisted the said George, a corporal in the said company for the term of one year. Still continuing there until he evacuation of Boston, when we marched for N. York, were made prisoner at the battle on Long Island the 27th of August 1776.
I was knowing to the said George being confined on board the ship Monitor for a number of months from whence he was removed to New York. How long he continued there before his release am not able to testify we being there separated and I can further testify that the said George is now in needy circumstances not being worth one cent. And the deponent further saith not.
Anthony Bradford

Plainfield 12th April 1819

Windham County Ss Plainfield April 12th 1819
Personally appeared Anthony Bradford Esq and made oath that the above deposition contains the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Before Joseph Eaton Justice of the Peace

I do hereby certify, that I am acquainted with the above deponent Anthony Bradford Esq and that his testimony is entitled to full faith and credit.
Joseph Eaton Justice of the Peace
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I David C. Bolles, Clerk of the County Court in & for the county of Windham in the State of Connecticut do certify that Joseph Eaton & Henry Sabin Esq before whom the affidavits have been made concerning Mr. George Gordon an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of March 18 AD 1818, are duly enrolled as Justices of the Peace in & for said Windham County and full faith & credit ought to be given to their acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name & affixed the Public Seal of Court at Windham in said county this 4th day of May Anno Domini 1819.
David C. Bolles
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The deposition of John Wylie of Sterling in the County of Windham of lawful age testifies and says Mr.. George Gordon was a near neighbor to me in the time of the Revolutionary War and went into the service at or near Boston in the year AD 1775 in a regiment raised by the state, then Colony, of Connecticut. I understood by common report that in the fall of said year he enlisted for one year according to the best of my remembrance. And that he was gone til the latter part of the year 1776 and by what I understood by common report and by what I heard frequently from him after he returned home he was taken prisoner on Long Island in August 1776. As to the time he was in the service I have not any personal knowledge and further saith not.
Dated at Sterling April 8th AD 1819.
John Wylie

Windham set at Sterling this 8th of April AD 1819 Personally appeared John Wylie Esq and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contained the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth before me.
Henry Sabin Justice of the Peace

Windham, set the day & year above I hereby certify that the above named deponent John Wylie Esq is a man I have a thorough acquaintance with and sustains a credible and unimpeachable character.
Henry Sabin Justice of the Peace
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Norwich (Con.) Oct 13, 1819

J. L. Edwards Esq

Sir
Your favor of 5th Inst has been recd & agreeable to ay suggestion I now enclose George Gordon's certificate for correction from May 9th 1819 to May 9 1818.
I am respectfully your obt svt.
Calvin Goddard
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3-525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.

S. F. 39.599

Washington, D. C., ................., 19.......

In reply to your request of ....................., received .................... for a statement of the military history of George Gordon a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

[column titles]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
STATE.
1775 Captain John Douglas Conn

Dec 1775 Aug 22 1776 Corpl Captain Trowbridge Colonel Jedediah Huntington
[arrow from Aug 22 1776]
when he was taken prisoner in battle of Long Island, confined on prison ship Monitor, then taken to NY city, returned home on parole about the end of 1776 and was afterwards exchanged.

Battles engaged in, see above.

Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated

Date of application for pension, May 9m 1818. His cl was al.

Residence at date of application, Norwich Connecticut

Age at date of application born in 1749 at Voluntown Conn died Sept 1 1823  (form A. B.)

Remarks:
In 1821 he was living in Ohio Co VA. There is no data on file as to his family.

Respectfully
Commissioner.
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Roseville, Indiana
August 21, 1930.

Pension Bureau
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:
Do you have on file a record that George Gordon, appointed corporal January 26, 1776 of company 4, William Rippy, Captain, received a pension? He died in the year 1826.
If such a record is on file, the writer would like an official outline of his war services.

Yours truly,
Virginia Morton
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Rev Sec

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Please send complete data mentioning heirs & all, of one Geo. Gordon, Corp Conn Line - Pensioner _ Act 1818 _ d Ohio Co VA 1823.
Yours Respectfully,
Mrs. Jas. J. Quinn
Apl 23, #557 N 124th St
New York, N.Y.
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39599

INVALID
revy

File No 39599
George Gordon
Corp Rev War

Act 18 March 18
Index: - Vol. G, Page 207

(Arrangement of 1870.)

1917 Sept 6 Hist to Mrs Jas Quinn

1930 Sept 13 Hist to Virginia Morton ILL.