Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 29726, for John Jordan, Georgia
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Ga or Va?
Jordan, John 
W. 29726
Winnifred
Newton, Mary (daughter)
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On WA
F 29726

Stamped Army & Navy Service Division Dec 15 1893
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(3-405)
(Pensioner Dropped.)

[Handwritten in margin: 29726 OWW]

U.S. Pension Agency,
Knoxville, Tenn
Oct 31 1893

To: Commissioners of Pensions
I hereby report that the name of Mary Newton, who was a pensioner on the rolls of this Agency, under Certificate No. 7759, and who was last paid at $12, to 4 Feby 1893, has been dropped because of DEATH.
Revolutionary Daughter
Very Respectfully,
Wm Rule, 
Pension Agent

Every name dropped to be thus report at once.
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(Form 3-232)
[Stamped: 29726]

Special Act  No. 7759   Old War

Mary Newton. daughter of John Jordan.

Company: Continental Line
Regiment: War of the Revolution
Rate per month $12 
Commencing March 2, 1889

Certificate dated March 22, 1889
and sent March 23, 1889
Payable at Knoxville Agency Atty-none.

Oct 20 of 93 Lamar Cobb
adr. trnxd ck. to  3" auditor
P.A. adv of dealter
Y.O.L.

Oct 25/93 Hist of Geo.F. Tennille 
5/9 N. 33St New York City, MEL

Jan.23, 1920. History to Miss Reba Jordan, all
Jan 27, 1920  History to Mrs. Walker Jordan, all
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No dup. March 18 / 89  C.E.P

[Stamped:  BOARD OF RE-REVIEW  MAR 19 1889]
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[stamped:  Board of Re-Review  Mar 19 1889]

[Handwritten:  No dup Mar 18/89 C.E.P]
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(3-125)
ORIGINAL [crossed out: INVALID] [handwritten: Old War] CLAIM
Solider, Mary Newton - only living daughter of John Jordan
P.O. Athens (C/O Dr Henry  H Carlten)
County, Clarke
State, Georgia 
[crossed out: Rank] Contintental Line
[crossed out: Company] War of the Revolution
Rates, $12 per month, commencing March 12, 1889
Special Act

[written in margin: 4759]

APPROVALS
[crossed out: approved for]  Special act fees rate at $12  per month for annum - Mch 18, 1889
S Morteve

Approved for admissin - by special act

Hickox, Legal Reviewer
Mch 19, 1889, Curtis, Re-Reviewer

IMPORTANT DATES
Enlisted, not known
Discharged Not known
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Bureau of Pensions.
Mary Newton
Application No. [left blank] Certificate No. [left blank]  [Overwritten with the word: Daughter]
Name of Soldier, John Jordan
Co. [left blank], Reg't [left blank] [Overwritten with the word: Revolution]
Information Desired
This claimant is a relation of and with lives Hon. Henry H. Carlton at Athens, Ga.  Information obtained from Mr. Grant who was clerk of Committer.  Stouffur
Mch 16/89
[stamped: O.W. & A, Mar 18 1889, RECEIVED]
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[Handwritten in top right-hand corner: 5769]

Private - No. 311
An Act for the relief of Mary Newton.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll the name of Mrs. Mary Newton, the daughter and only surviving heir of John Jordan, of the Continental Line, in the war of the Revolution, and to pay her at the rate of twelve dollars per month from and after the passage of this act.  Approved, March 2, 1889.

Department of the Interior  Mch 16 1889  
The above is a true copy of the original as certified by the Department of State.  Ger. W. Howard  Chief Clerk

[Stamped:  O. W. & N   MAR 16 1889  RECEIVED]
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[Handwritten: 7,759]
[Stamped:  Law Division, B. OCT 3 1893P.  RECEIVED]
[Stamped: Chief Finance Division, Oct 4 1, 1893 BVureau of Pensions]
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Georgia}
Clarke Co}

Personally appeared before me a Notary Public in afor said state & County Lamar Cobb to me personally known who being sworn says that Mary Newton, the person named in pension certificate # 7759 dated 22 March 1889, lived with him: that he married her daughter and attended to all her business and was the Executer on her husbands estate the late John Newton; that she died in his house at Athens Ga in the 22d day of January 1893: that there has been no administration on her Estate as all of her Children were of age and assumed and paid all demands that have been rendered: that she left three children - Edwin D. Newton, Olivia N Cobb, & Helen C. Carlton: that the check for her pension due 4 Feby 1893 was received prior to her death but her condition was such that he did not deem it prudent to present it to her for her signature & it has
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never been paid - 
Sworn to & subscribed 
before this 29 Sept 1893

Lamar Cobb

Wm Davis, Notary Public
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State of Georgia}
Washington County }

On this third day of October eighteen hundred & forty six personally appeared before the honourable [honorable] the Judge of the Superior Court held in & for the County of Washington aforesaid.  Winifred Jordan a resident of said county aged eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth upon her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress pased [passed] the seventh day of July in the year 1838 intilled [entitled] an act granting half pay & pentions [pensions] to certain widows, saith that she is the widow of John Jordan deceased, who was rather under the midle [middle] stature as to hight [height] stout or square built, fare [fair] complection [complexion] red hair eyes blue by som [some] might be caled [called] gray, would have bin [been] if he had lived to this time about eighty eight years of age, that she was married to said John at the house of George Jordan, her father's house in the state of North Carolina, Northamton [Northhampton] County, by Lauren Smith a justice of the peace about three years after the surrender of Cornwallace on the first Sunday in February and as well as she now can recollect in the year 1784 seventeen hundred & eighty four, that said John was following overseeing & the first year they lived with Isham Nemeth in Greenvill [Greenville] County State of Virginia, then with Simon Turner then with Henry Hayley, then settled of to themselves, from there Moved to Washington County State of Georgia, where she now lives & when said John died on the seventinth [seventeenth] day of August eighteen hundred and
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ttwenty eight that she is still a widow never having married since the death of said John.  
As to the inlistment [enlistment] & servises [services] of said John she only knows from rumor at the time of his inlistment [enlistment] he being a family connection it was spoken of in the connection & what he has told her of the matter, which is in part as follows.  He said he inlisted [enlistment] as a private in the Continental service, in Granvill County state of Virginia, was under Captain Frances Moore & Col Elbert She dose [does] not recolect [recollect] if this was the first officers he was under but he spoke of these as favaurite [favorite] officers, she dose [does] not recollect what was the time he inlisted [enlisted] for, whether he inlisted [enlisted] for three year or for a longer time & served three years, but as he was a regular soldier these facts will be found on the records at the War Department, & will be more satisfactory, He said he was with the army to the south in [illegible] was taken or surrendered to the British at the fall of Savannah in Georgia, that he was put on board a prison ship for three months & seventeen days, was discharged & permitted to pass through his naturality Geenvill [Greenville] Virginia on his way to join the armay [army] that he was at the taking of Cornwallace, and soon after that event was discharged & returned back to Huy Hayleys in his native state & lastly had small pox.  She says that her memory is weak from old age & she may have retoled [retold] the fact often in an irregular manner but as the records of her husbands [illegible] will show most of the [illegible] facts.  Her husband stated to her that the papers which he got from his officers when he left the service he had put in the hands of someone who she dose [does] not now recollect to obtain for him his lands and that he had not got neither the land or papers back, Her husband never applied for a pention [pension], she further sais [says] that she has no
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record of her marriage nor is there any to her knowledge and no record was kept in the county where she was married or appear by a certificate of the clerk of that county recording their application.  

Winnifred [her X mark] Jordan

Sworn to & subscribed before me
in open court this 3rd October 1866
Roger L Gamble Judge R.C.M.D
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Georgia }
Clarke Co }

Personally appeared before me a J. P. in aforesaid county Dr. Wm S. Whaley to me personally known as such who being sworn says that he was the attending physician of the late Mrs Mary Newton who at the time + for some years prior hereto resided with Lamar Cobb in the City of Athens said State that said Mary Newton died at said place on the 22nd day of February 1893 + that he attended her in her last illness - that it was not deemed prudent to allow her to talk or attend to business for some days before her death.

Sworn to & Subscribed                      William S. Whaley Dr
to before me 
This 30th Sept 1893
M Davis 
Notary Public Clarke Co. Ga.
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State of Georgia
Washington County 

I, Lewis A. Jernigan Clerk of the Superior Court of said County do certify that the following is a true extract from the family register of John Jordan deceased late of said County, (the authenticity, of said register produced in Court now being established as hereafter follows upon the affidavit of John Jordan) To wit: "John Jordan and Winnifred his wife was married the 19th day of February in the Year 1786"
 L. Augustus Jernigan C.R.S.S

State of Georgia      }
Washington County }

Personally appeared in open court before me Nathan C Sayre Judge of the Superior Court of the Northern Judicial Circuit of said state, now presiding as Judge of Washington County in Superior Court, John Jordan, who being duly sworn says that the book now presented to the court, and from which the clerk of the inferior Court of said County Lewis A Jernigan has made the foregoing extract of the marriage of "John Jordan and Winnifred his wife", deponents father and mother, the said Winnifred being the present applicant for a pension as widow of said John Jordan; is to this deponents knowledge the family register of the said John Jordan deceased.  
He further deposes, that said register has been supposed, for the last twelve months to be lost, but within the last month, and since the application of said Winnifred to the department for her pension, the said register has been recovered, the same having been in the possession of one Mrs. Mary Newton youngest daughter of said John deceased, and residing at Athens in this state some eighty miles or more from the former residence of Said John deceased, where deponent and his mother the said Winnifred now reside and have resided since the
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death of the said John Jordan deceased, The said Mary Newton within the last twenty days while on a visit to her family companions having returned said register This deponent as appears from said register was born on the sixteenth of April in the Year Eighteen Hundred 

Sworn to, and subscribed in open court before me this 4th day of December 1846
L. A. Jernigan Clk

John Jordan 

Nathan C Sayer Judge of Superior Court State Geo. presiding in Washington Co

Georgia Washington County  
Personally appeared in open court before me, Nathan C. Sayer Judge of Superior Courts of the Northern Judicial Circuit in said State, now presiding as Judge of the Superior Court of said Washington County the following named persons, of respectability and veracity to wit:  Revd. William P. Haynes, William N. Harman, Haywood Brookins, Lewis A. Jernigan and upon oath say that the above are foregoing named deponent John Jordan the son of John Jordan deceased and Winnifred Jordan is a man of respectability and truth are fully believe and so say that his depositions are entitled to high credence

Sworn to and subscribed in open court before me this 4th day of December 1846
Nathan C Sayer Judge Sup Court State Geo presiding in Washington Cty.   

L.A. Jernigan
Wm N. Harmon
Haywood Brookins
William P Haynes
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When the case comes back from Congress this paper to be filed in it 
Prcot
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Children of Burrel Jordan are as follows:

Mary Jordan born Feby 6, 1755
John Jordan born May 8, 1756
Burrel Jordan born Sept 15, 1757
John Jordan, son of Burrel Jordan and Amy his wife was born May 8, 1756
Wineford Jordan, daughter of George Jordan, and wife of John Jordan was born Sept 9, 1763
John Jordan and Wineford, his wife was married Feby 19, 1786
Their children are as follows 
Britain Jordan, born June 18, 1787
Green H Jordan, born April 26, 1789
Priscilla Jordan born August 17, 1791
Patience Jordan born Sept 22, 1793
Burwall Jordan born Sept 30, 1800 }  An exact copy of the names from the family record, & all the dates 
John Jordan born April 16, 1800     }    as in the book~
Mary Jordan born July 2, 1804


Pension Bureau  May 15, 1888
The above names and dates of birth and marriage, are a true and correct copy of a family record taken from a small manuscript book, sent to the Old war and Navy Division by the Commissioner to be copied and filed in a rejected application for a pension No 5769 which was made by Winefred Jordan widow of John Jordan for Service in Revolutionary War said rejected application was transmitted to the House committee of Pensions April 30, 1888  The memorandum against the names of Burwell + John Jordan has been made by the person who copied it is was not on the book.    J.B. Coit  Chief of Old War of Navy Division
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State of Georgia
Washington County

  We the undersigned Justices of the Inferior Court for said County do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to us that John Jordan died in August AD 1828 leaving a widow Winifred Jordan, who survived him and remained his widow up to the time of her death which occurred on the Sixth day of July 1847 and that she died leaving only five children, to wit:  Green Jordan, Burwell Jordan, John Jordan, Patience Saffold, formerly Patience Jordan and Mary Newton, formerly Mary Jordan
Given under our hands and private seals this the 25th day of March 1852

E. C. Williamson  J.J.C. [initialed LS]
John Bland J.J.C. [initialed LS]
James R Smith J.J.C [initialed LS]

State of Georgia
Washington County
   I Haywood Brookins clerk of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that E.C. Williamson John Bland and James R Smith - whose genuine signatures appear to the foregoing certificate are acting Justices of the said Inferior Court duly commissioned and qualified, and that their act and doings as such are entitled to full faith and credit.
  Given under my hand and seal of said Court this the 25 day of March A.D. 1852
   Haywood Brookins  Clk I.C.
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[Letterhead:  In Reply Refer to Rev. War Section 

3-1884
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions 
Washington ]

Jan 23, 1920

Miss Reba Jordan
1432 M. St. N. W.
Washington, D. C.

Madam:
   In reply to your letter of the 12" instant, you are advised that from the records of this Bureau it appears that John Jordan the son of Burrel and Amy Jordan was born May 8, 1756 in Greenville County, Virginia.  He married in Northampton County, North Carolina, February 19, 1786, Winifred or Wineford, born September 9, 1763, the daughter of George Jordan, of that county, (a connection whose relationship is not stated).  
 John and Winefred Jordan had the following children:  
   Britian or Brittain, born June 18, 1787.
   Green H.                 "  April 26, 1789.
   Priscilla,                  "  August 17, 1791.
   Patience,                "  September 22, 1793 (who married --- Saffold).
   Burwell,                  "  September 30, ---
   John,                      "  April 16, 1800.
   Mary,                      " July 2, 1802, who married John H. Newton and she died January or Febrary 22, 1893, leaving three children, Olivia M. who married Lamar Cobb, Helen C.
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[Letterhead:    3-1864   Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington]

who married H. H. Carlton and Edwin D. Newton. 
   John Jordan died in Washington County, Georgia August 17, 1838 and his wife Winifred survived him, the date of her death is not stated.  
  The daughter Mrs. Mary Newton was allowed pension by a special act of Contress, dated March 2, 1889, on account of her father's services as a solider of the Revolution.  
  It is stated that he enlisted in Greenville County, Virginia, served as a private, that a part of his service was under Captain Francis Moore and Colonel Elbert.  Also that he was captured at the surrender of Savannah and was exchanged after an imprisonment of three months and seventeen days and that he was at the surrender of Cornwallis.  The date of his enlistment and discharge are not stated. 

Very respectfully, 
   G. M. Satzberg
   Commisioner.

[Handwritten notes:  I only used widow's statements as to service, the claim was not really based on any service, but he probably was engaged as she stated.  Of course the state cfts. cut no figure in his case.

I did not use widow's File no. as it would only confuse an oustsider,the daughter having need the pension. ]
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Bureau of Pensions.

Certificate Division  March 20 / (18)89

Gen. Coit. Chief O.W. + V.D.W

Should not this case be on a Minor's brief - and as an "Old War" case?  

J E Smith 
Chief Division
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5769     P.O.     Winifred Jordan    [stamped:  REJECTED]

[Handwritten:  1883  Jany 3.  John H Newton that the papers filed by widow cannot be returned but personal + military history can be furnished + the small book of John Jordan family returned (See memo of letter within)

Returned from House Corn. June 2 of (18)88
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Certificate No. 7437
issued  13 Aug , 1878
sent  17 " , 1878,
to Pension Agent
Concord  N.H.
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5769   R

Winnefred Jordan widow of John, Georgia   Dec 30. 1882

Prior drawn on a Slip endorsed the guardian request the paper returned to John H. Newton  Athens Geo
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P. O. 

John H Newton

Athens Ga.

[stamped:  Pension Office U. S. Office of Clerk Dec 29 1882]
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[Entitled:  3-469  Pension Bureau]

Application  No.
Certificate No.  

Name of [crossed out: Solider]  [written in: Client]

Winifred Jordan


Information Desired:  Rev War Sol. John Jordan N. C. Mil, 

Claim for Pension filed in (18)'50 to (18)'60    
[stamped:  OLD WAR & NAVY DIVISION  Dec 30 1882]

The grandson of soldier requests that the papers in the case be returned to him.
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[Titled Bureau of Pensions]

Mrs. Johnston

The pensioner is described in the Brief the same as in the special act. 

This lady was born July 2 1804 - and John Jordan her father died in 1828 - over 60 years ago.  It would be somewhat difficult to make her a "minor" under the pension  - She is an old lady.  85 years of age and I think the brief the [illegible] to use.   

J.B.Coit  Chief War Div

 3/31/(18)89
Invalid erased from brief with consent of Ex. W.  [illegible]

[stamped:  Certificate Mar 21 1889  Received]
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No. [left blank]   [handwritten initials: M.G]

Taken, ex'r 

OLD WAR WIDOW

Mary Newton daughter of John Jordan Revy War

[stamped:  BOARD OF RE-REVIEW  Mar 19 1889]

Widow Rej. 5769  March 18, 1889  C. E. Paul Clerk

Special Act of Mch 2, 1889  [Stamped: BOARD OF REVIEW Mar 18 1889]
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State of Georgia
Clark County}

Know all men by these present that I John H. Newton Son in Law of Winifred Jordan dc'd who was the widow of John Jordan who was a private in the Revolutionary War do hereby constitute and appoint Willam M. Varnum of Dahlonega Georgia my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and stead to prosecute the claim of said Monther in Law for a Revolutionary Pension against the Government of the United States and to enable him better to understand the claim and nature of the nature of the evidence already filed in the case do hereby authorize him fully to examine in my name and stead all papers filed in the Pension Office of the United States to do all other acts and deeds necessary to the procuring of said Pension or that may be deemed [ink smudged necessary] by my said attorney to effect the same.

Signed & sealed and delivered in personal  W R Ervin} 
John H. Newton [seal]
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State of Georgia
Baldwin County }
On this the 16th day of June 1853 before the undersigned personally appeared 
Benjamin L. Jordan aged 59, according to the family record, a person whose statements are entitled to full credit and after being duly sworn according to law states that he was raised in Northampton County State of North Carolina until he was about 6 years old then removed to Greenville County State of Virginia remained in said county until the close of 1812 that he lived within a bout 4 miles of his Uncle John Jordan who lived in Greenville County [crossed out: North Caroline] State of Viriginia and who removed across the state live into Northampton County State of North Carolina where he lived until the year 1803 or 1804 and then he removed to Washington County State of Georgia where he died several years since leaving Winifred Jordan his widow who has since died deponent further state that from his first recollection that he had frequently hea[r]d his Uncle John Jordan speak
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of serving his County in the Revolutionary War that after his removal to Georgia he had frequently hea[r]d him restate the hardships that he underwent while in the service of his Country he further states that John Jordan was a man of undoubted veracity and the he has no doubt his Uncle served his Country faithfully in said war he further states that he has no interest in any way in said claim for a Pension.  
Benjamin L. Jordan

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day before written  
S. B. Brown  J.P.
I hereby certify that Col. Benjamin L. Jordan is a Gentleman of high standing and that his statements are entitled to full credit.  
Given under my hand in my official capacity the day & date above &  before written    S. B. Brown J.P.
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I am well acquainted with Benjamin L. Jordan and certify that he is a man of a high character & standing for truth & integrity as there is in the state 
16th June 1853
Nowell cobb

Executive Department Ga.
Milledgeville  June 16th 1853


This is to certify that Samuel B. Brown, whose signature appears to the foregoing Certificate, is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Baldwin and State of Georgia, and duly commissioned and qualified which appears of Record in this Department, and that his signature is genuine. 

Given under my hand and the Seal of Executive Department this 16th day of June A.D. 1853
J. M. Steele
Secy Ex. Dept.
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A Revolutionary Pension
That is Drawn by a Venerable Lady in Athens.

Athens, Ga., August 27, 1891.  (Special.)   It is not often that you find a person drawing a pension from the government for the services of a relative in the revolutionary war.  Yet such is the case in Athens.  Mrs. John H. Newton, a venerable lady of this city, now nearing her nintieth year, draws regularly from the government $12 per month, as a pension granted to her father, who served in the war of the revolution under George Washington.  
  Mrs. Newton has determined upon a pretty use for this money.  She is using part of it placing a granite wall around her father's family burying ground, and when this is finished proposes to have a medal made out of the remainder, which she will hand down to her grandchildren, the children of Congressman H. H. Carlton, and Major Lamar Cobb, of this city.

[Handwritten:  The above is a copy of a newspaper clipping attached to a letter from James H. Brin of Huntsville. Ala. relating to the letter of Mrs. Eliza P. Wharton daughter of Richard Harris died late a soldier of Rev War.  ]
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13082
Winifred Jordan 
widow of John 
Ga
A D. 7 July 1838
Married 1786

A
Jno Jordan died 1828,
Winifred "  "  July 6 1847
Green Jordan, 
Burwell Jordan, 
John Jordan, 
Patience Saffold + 
Mary Newton

Only surviving children
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State of Georgia }
Washington County }

On this 3rd day of October eighteen hundred  + forty six, personally appeared before the Superior Court held in + for the said County Richard A. Blount Minister of the Gospel + a resident of Milledgeville in the County of Baldwin, + that aforesaid, and aged seventy two years the first day of August in the present year, who being first duly sworn according to law says he saw John Jordan in Greensville County - Virginia [inserted text illegible] + heard that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war;  + when discharged after Peace return'd to his cousin Henry Hayley's in Greenville County Virginia, infected with small pox, for it soon broke out on him, and it was said he married Winnifred Jordan, sister or half-sister to Hezekiah Jordan, whom I knew well, for we married cousins - about 1802 removed to Georgia with my family, having bought land in Hancock + Washington Counties, and in a few years, John Jordan also follow'd with his family and settled near his kinsman Jesse Jordan in the county of Washington - Ga. and that his widow is now living + is the applicant for this pension - and that I have not and never had the shadow of a doubt that they  were legally married, for people of their grade of respectability never would have united only on honorable principles and I have been at the house of said John Jordan in Georgia + occasionally  met with him at Washington County during his life
And further I that I knew Jane Riddle, was Jane Hayley, daughter of Henry Hayley of Greensville County Va. where said John had the small pox, that she
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she married Jesse Jordan who remov'd to Washington County - Geo.  previous to 1799, and I was at their House in Sept + October of that year, and many times since - so that She (now Jane Riddle) has liv'd near to John Jordan the greater part of her life, and I will add that her attestation + affirmation is intitled to due credit in all cases.  
Sworn to & subscribed in Infr. Court this 3rd October 1846

R. Blount


Roger L. Gamble Judge 
[illegible]st his.
S. C.  [illegible] Geo.


State of Georgia}

 I  L. Augustus Jernigan Clerk of the Superior Court in and for the County of Washington do certify that Roger L  Gamble is Judge of the Superior Court of the Middle Destrict of Georgia duly commissioned and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his, is genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said court and subscribed my name this Eighth day of October in the year Eighteen Hundred and forty six  
L. Augustus Jernigan Clk, Supr. Court W.C.
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State of Georgia  }
Washington County  }

  Done in Washington Superior Court September Two in the Year Eighteen Hundred and Forty Six On this Third day of October in the Year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Forty-six, personally appeared before Roger L. Gamble Judge of the Inferior Court in and for said County of Washington Jincey Riddle who resides in said County of and being duly and legally sworn in open Court deposith and says that she was Seventy six years at last Christmas, according to the information derived from her parents, that she knew John Jordan the husband Winnifred Jordan who applies for a pension on account of the services of her husband as a revolutionary soldier, she being still the widow of said John Jordan, that the said John Jordan came to Henry Hayleys, the father of this deponent in Greenville County State of Virginia some time after the surrender of Savannah Georgia to the English, that when he came thru there was a great stir among the women of the settlement, among whom was deponents mother, who took an active part with the rest of the old women, to have Cousin Johnny (meaning the said John Jordan) who had just returned from confinement on board of a prison ship, some clothes made, before he must back again to join the army, Deponent was young then but these circumstances were so strongly informed upon her mind at that time that she still distinctly remembers the fact.  That long time after the fall of Cornwallis he came back from the army to the house of the Hayley's, deponents father, in the County and State last mentioned, and soon after taking the small pox, was carried to an out house on the premises, and there attended to by the family of deponents father, that he remained some time at her father's that some three or four  years afterwards, he intermarried with the said Winnifred Jordan in North Hampton County, State of North Carolina.  Deponent was not at the wedding, but at the time was staying at the house of Thomas Dupree, two
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or three miles from the place where they were married, that it was known as a fact in the neighborhood and among the connections, as such things are generally known.  This deponent knows that after said marriage said John and Winnifred went to live as man and wife at Isham Fennel's place, said John in the capacity of overseer, where they staid two [ink smeared: illegible they] went then on to Simon Turners, where they remained two or three years, the said John as overseer, Then on they came + lived in the same capacity with deponents father for several years, That while they were living there deponent was married to Jesse Jordan and moved to their house, that some time after, said John purchased a place within two miles of where deponent lived and moved to it, that they then lived near neighbors, when the said Jesse Jorden moved to Georgia and settled in Wahington County of said state, that a few years afterwards the said John and wife moved to the same state and county and the two families have resided within from two to four miles of each other until the death of Jesse Jordan, deponent than married a second time and kind, sine as their not move than seven miles from said John & wife, that from that time said John lived with Simon Turner, deponent has lived in times of strictest intimacy with said John's family, up to this time, both as friend and relations, said John and deponents father being cousins, and deponents husband and said Winnifred and cousins, That she knows said John Jordan to have been the one that was in the United States Service as aforesaid, and the said Winnifred is his widow and married to him as aforesaid, The said John was rather if any thing below the ordinary height and [illegible] built, light complexion, with reddish hair and blue or light gray eyes, he died on the Year Eighteen hundred and twenty eight in the last of Summer or the first of the fall thereof that if he was now alive he would be between Eighty and Ninety Years of age as this deponent believes. That said Winnifred has lived the widow of said John ever since his death, and still lives at the place where he died in said County of Washington Georgia.

Jincey [her X mark] Riddle

Sworn to & subscribed before me in open court this 5 day of September in the Year 1846
Roger L Gamble Judge  [illegible]
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Isham H. Saffold
Mar 25 1847
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Pension Office 
March 25, 1847

Sir,
 
  The additional evidence in the care of Winifred Jordan widow of John Jordan establishes satisfactorily the date of their marriage.  But there is no proof whatsoever before the Department to identify her husband with the service to whom a warrant for 100 acres of land was issued in 1786 as [illegible] in the certificate of the Register of the Virginia Service Office.  
  The above specific Warrant was given for service [crossed out: in the] under Capt Pendleton of Harrisons Artillery and unless claimant can show by the testimony of those who served in the regiment her husbands service under these officers she cannot obtain a pension for that service - 
 The family register having become a part of the record in this case cannot be withdrawn from the files

Isham H. Saffold  Sandersville  Ga
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Law Office 
Lamar Cobb,
220 E. Washington St.

9 Enclosures
[stamped:  Chief Finance Division, Dept of Pensions, Oct 4 1893]

Athens, Ga Sept 30 1893

Hon Hoke Smith
Secty of Interior
Washington D. C. 

Dear Sir - 

I enclose xxx papers relating to the check read by Mrs. Mary Newton prior to her death but which was not endorsed by her because of her feeble condition + I wish now to leave it referred in the proper office to obtain an 
order for its payment to her legal heirs - [illegible] E. D. Newton, Olivia N Geoff + Helen C. Carlton. The enclosed papers will give you I think all the needed facts if not please advise one what is necessary - 
This is not for any thing [inserted: due] after her death but prior to it.
I will consider it a favor if you will give it the proper due [illegible]
 Very Srvnt [illegible]
Lamar Cobb
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Safford
Dec 21 41
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Pension Office 
Decem. 4 1849

Sir, 

Ther certificate of the court respecting the family record of John and Winnifred Jordan cannot be received or ordered of their Marriage, The book containing the record, or the leaf, if it be impeachable to the [illegible] the book, must be submitted to the inspection of this office, should it bear the appearance of having been made more than 20 years ago it may /usually be admitted as proof in Mrs Jordans Case 

J. H. Saffold Esq
Sandersville Ga
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Hawkinsville Ga
Jan - 12 - 1920
[stamped:  Pension Office Jan 16 1920]

Pension Dep.
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen
  Please send me a copy of whatever records you may have concerning pension from John Jordan for services in the Revolutionary War.  He came to Georgia with the Cavalry
Page 48

"Light Horse Harry Lee."
He died, and was buried in Washington Co. Ga
I thank you for this courtesy.  I am 
Yours Truly 
Mrs. Walker Jordan
Hawkinsville Georgia
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Bureau of Pensions, Office of the Commisioner, 

May 15 1888

No.   5769   Rejected

Winnifred Jordan
widow 
John Jordan  
Revolution War 

ACTION AND ORDER:
The paper book endorsed memorandum of the money of the family James Jordan will be taken as to such of said book as relates to the important data in this claim.  After said certified copy be taken the memorandum will be brought to the Commissioner's desk.
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#7759

[stamped:  LAW DIVISION  B. Oct 8 1883 P. RECEIVED]

[Stamped:  DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR  BD. PEN [illegible]  RECEIVED OCT 1 1893

Respectfully Referred to the Com'r of Pensions.
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[Stamped: Chief Finance Division, Oct 4 1893  DEPT OF  PENSIONS ]
No 420937

United States Pension Agency, Knoxville, Tenn. Feb 15th 1893
Assistant Treasurer of the United States New York, N.Y. 

Pay to the order of Mary Newton
   Thirty Six   /100 Dollars  $36 #
  Wm Rule, = Interior = 
  U.S. Pension Agent

[Written in margin:  This check should be presented for payment within 90 days.]

By Cora Rule, Clerk

I certify that the above is a true and exact copy of the original check, as presented to me now in the possession of Lamar Cobb  Athens, Ga.  
This 29th day Sept 1893.  Wm C Davis  Notary Public Clarke Co. Georgia
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Hon. I. Hilger
Feb 12/(18)55
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Pension Office, 
February 12, 1855

Sir, 
I have received and examined the affidavit of Ann Howell, filed as additional evidence in the care of Winnefred Jordan, widow of John Jordan, deceased.  The difficulty in this case is that the person in right whose service the present claim is asserted is not satisfactorily identified as the soldier of that name who served or certified by the authorities of Virginia.  The witness whose affidavit is now filed was not born till long after the close of the war, and of course, testifies from hearsay = This species of evidence is not sufficient to justify the allowance of the claim, and I am, consequently constrained again to suspend it.  
Very respectfully, LC


Hon I. Hilger, 
House of Reps
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Sandersville
December 16 1846

Sir

  Yours of 7th instant is before me I had suposed if the services of John Jordan was not upon the files of the Army papers of the Revolution at the War department that they would be found in the records of the state of Virginia as his inlistment was suffored in that state of which he was a citizen and we have always supposed that a record of his service was to be found in the War Department .  I shall write to day to Virginia + hope you will be so kind as to have a serch at the War Department + inform me of such exspense as it may cost + I will forward them forthwith.  Please accept my thanks for the prompt attention you have been pleased to give the old ladys application.
Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt.  
Isham H. Saffold

J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
City of Washington
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Honn Ref Feb 5th 1855

To the Com Pen,

At the regiment of the Wm Varnum I have looked over the witnesses in the claim of Mrs. Winnifred Jordan the widow of John Jordan to a Pension - Three of the witnesses only are known to me to wit Benjamin Jordan Mr Isham H Saffold + Mr. John H Newton - These gentlemen are men of fortune + of as high character for truth + integrity as any in our State - I am sure their word will not be [illegible] by any who know them. 

Respectfully
Turrins Hilgens
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[Handwritten by a different hand in the margin: Not accepted as service of husband of Winifred Jordan see rejection letters ]

Council Chamber 6th, November 1783

I do certify that John Jordain is entitled to the proportion of land allowed a Private of the Continental line who has served three years
Benjamin Harrison

Thomas Meriwether
A Warrant for 100 acres issued to John Jordain 7th day of November 1783,  No. 1867

A copy from the Records of the Virginia Land Office 
[illegible] 
L. H. Parker Reg. L. Office
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additional evidence on the claim of Winnefred Jordan widow of John - 

Hon R. K. Meade
H of Reps
Page 58

State of Georgia  }
Jasper County     }

     On this the 28th day of July 1852 before the undersigned a Notary Public duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally approved Benjamin Jordan and after being duly sworn according to law states that according to the statements of his parents that he was born in Northampton County North Carolina on the 3rd day of February 1770 That from his earliest recollection he was well acquainted with John Jordan and his wife Winifred Jordan who then lived in Northampton County N. C. that the said John Jordan as he understood was rear'd in Greenville County Virginia near the line of North Carolina that he moved soon after the close of the Revolutionary War the said Winifred and removed into Northampton County N. C. there remained until he removed to Washington County Ga. which was somewhere according to his recollection in 1806 or 1807 he further states
Page 59

that from his first recollection that he understood that John Jordan enlisted into the United States artily in the State of Virginia for three or five years and served his Country faithfully in said War he has no doubt he further states that he understood that one Christopher Foster who died 35 or 40 years ago in Northampton Cty N. C. served with John Jordan and one Archibold Hood who lived in the same county N.C. served in the Revolutionary War but does not now recollect whether he served in the same Company with John Jordan or no
Sworn to and subscribed the day before written before me    John Jnr Jornan

W. F. Herander
W.M Varnum N. Public 

State of Georgia }
Lumpkins County  }

   I James Rutherford Clerk of the Inferior Court in & for said County do hereby
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Certify that W. M. Varnum whose genuine signature appears to the forgoing Declaration is + was at the time of inquiry the same a Notary Public duly commissioned and qualified as such

Given under my hand + seal of Office this the 2nd day of August 1852
James Rutherford Clk

[stamped]
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408

Pension Office 
21st Oct 1850

Sir:

The enclosed copy of my report to J. H. Safford Esq of the 25 Mch 1847, will apprise you of the condition in which the case of Winnifred Jordan, widow of John, still stands.  

J. Knox Miller Esq.
 Present
Page 62

Washington City  Dec 3rd  1851

Dear Sir
Some time last year I filed a Power of Attorney in the case of Winnifred Jordan widow John Jordan of Georgia for a Pension under the Act of 7th July 1838  I will thank you to examine said paper and inform me of what is necessary to establish said claim.  

Respectfully your
obedient Servant,
W. M. Varnum


George H. James 
Washington City D. C.
Page 63

Capt Triplett will please examine the papers of Winnifred Jordan widow of Jno of Geo - 

Geo H. James atty
Nov 15th / (18)52

Add Ev. filed more than 2 months
Page 64

G H Jones
Feby 11, 1853
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137

Pension Office 
Feby 11 1853

Sir

Agreeably to your request I have again, very carefully, examined the claim of Winefred Jordan of Ga - Act July 7 1838 - and am constrained to adhere to the opinions heretofore, expressed in relation to it.  Her husband is not identified with the service shown by either of the certificates presented.  

Geo. H. Jones Esq
 Present
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138
Pension Office, 
May 12, 1852

Sir:

The claim of Winifred Jordan cannot be allowed without some evidence to identify her husband with the soldier referred to in the certifi- of the Auditor of Va.  That service was rendered in Col Harrison's Regt of Artillery under Capt Pendleton.  Nothing is said in the declaration or by the witnesses of these officers.  If you can show that he performed this service the claim will be allowed.  

Geo H. Jones, Esq
Present.
Page 67

1853
House of Rep.  Feby 24th 

The Court of Pesinors
Washington

Sir, 
I have been called upon to state my opinion of the character of Benjamin Jordan + his wife, also of Joshua Clark of Jasper County Georgia, for truth + veracity + c- and I am likewise informed that their testimony is under consideration before the department under your direction in the application of Winifred Jordan widow of John Jordan.
The individuals manner are from the knowledge I have worthy of credit and I so enturn sturns -
Respectfully D.J. Baily
Page 68

Capt Pendleton 
Enlisted for 3 years
Dec 10 1776
[illegible] Nov 1, 1778
discharged beore July 1780 
See Roll Harrison Artillery
Page 69

A. B. 

Dear Sir, 

Inclosed you have the application of Mrs Winifred Jordan, a very respectable + reputed old lady, who is much wasted by time but free from from intangling disease in her old age, she is anxious to draw her pention if intitled, at as early a day as your convenience will allow, that she may have the pleasure of drawing the benefits of the service of her husband, + disposing of it whilst she is in life, you are no doubt teased with such applications all most [illegible] and [illegible] but all are [illegible] to assure you that your attention could not be placed upon a more werthy remnant of the revolution; the county cetr is Sandersville where there is a fort there, but Davisboraugh post office is nearest to the residence of the old lady 

Isham H Saffold
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Raleigh 26th Nov 1846

Dear Sir

At the request of a gentlemen who writes from Sandersville Georgia, I send you the enclosed certificate.  He writes badly and I do not know that I can give you his name, but it appears to be Isham H. Safford?
Yours respectfully
W Hill

James L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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Abstract of the Case of Winefred Jordan, wid of Jno

Declaration

Married in 1786. Husband died Aug 17 1828, [inserted: she died July 6 1867] enlisted as a priv in Centl service in Greenville Co Va under Capt Francis Moore + Col Elbert, taken prisoner at the battle of Savannah, Kept on board a prison ship 3 mo + 17 days.  She does not know how long he served.
__
Jas Gainer swears to reputation of service, 
__
Jincey Riddle saw him on his from the prison ship after the fall of Savannah, and also after the surrender of Cornwallis, Understood he was a soldier.
__
RBlount, a minister of the Gospel, swears to his reputation as a soldier
__
Dan'l Harriss and Jas Gainer have frequently heard Jordan speak of his Rev Service
__
 Certificate of Secry of state of N.C. show that L106 5.4. was No to Jno Jordan for service in Continental line.
__
 Certificate from Land Register of Va, then, that a warrant for 100 acres was issued to Jno Jordain Nov '83 for Continental service,
__
Another Certificate shows that Jno Jordain, evidently the men who recd 100 acres served 3 yrs in Col Harrison Regt
__
Proof of Marriage Sufficient
Page 72

The certificate of the N.C. Reg cannot refer to the soldier under consideration,
__
The last two certificates refer to the [ink faded] and he is possibly the husband of the applicant, but he is not identified with the service admitted, which he ought to be very dearly because her declaration is vague and indifinite , giving no period of service, nor dates, and giving the wrong Captain if the certificate refer to her husband she says he served under Moore,  but this man served under Pendleton
Page 73

State of Georgia }
Washington County }

Court of Ordinary March Term 1847
Present the hounors James R Smith, John R Tucker + Emanuel Brown Esqrs
Personally appeared Bridadier General Louis A. Jernigan of the viliage of Sandersville in the County + State aforesaid, who after being duly sworn according to law in open court deposeth + saith that the paper book now presented [ink blot] court as the family record of John Jordan Late of said county deceased is the same which was proven in the superior court of said county by the oath of John Jordan at the adjoined time of said court held in November + December last, + certified to the pension office by Deponant + clerk + Nathan C. Sear Judge
L. A. Jernigan 
Sworn to in open Court
Haywood Brookins Clk I. C. 

We do certify that the paper book alluded to in the foregoing deposition of Gen'l L. A. Jernigan is in the possession of the court + that we have caused Haywood Brookins Clerk of this court to invellope the same to gather with a letter from Wm of checked -son Secy Courts of Virginia to Winifred Jordan, care of Isham H. Saffold, Sandersville Georgia inclosing a
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certificate of J. H. Parker Reg L office, Virginia and the same to seal in pursuits of this court and to certify + send to the pension office of the U.S. under the seal of this court.
This the first day of March 1847
  James R Smith J. I. C
  John R. Tucker J. I. C.
  Emanuel Brown J. I. C. 


Georgia Washington County
 Clerks Office of the Inferior Court
I Haywood Brookins Clerk of the Inferior Court in and for said County do hereby Certify that James R. Smith John R. Tucker, and Emanuel Brown whose names appear to the above are Justices of the Interior Court in and for said County duly commisioned and qualified as such and that full faith and credit ought to be had and given to them attention as such,
Give under my hand and seal of office in Sandersville this first day of March one thousand Eight hundred and forty seven
Page 75

State of North Carolina }
Northampton County  }

I, John B. Odom Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Northampton and State of North Carolina, certify that I have, upon application, made diligint search in my office, (it being the place require by law for Marriage Bonds to be deposited,) and can find no marriage bond for license issued for the marriage of John Jordan to his wife Winifred Jordan.  I further certify that there are no marriage Bonds on file in my office of a date anterior to the year A. D. 1800 -  In testimony whereof I hereunto let my hand and seal of office, at office, this 21st day of August A. D. 1846 and in the 71st year of American Independence.  

Jno B. Odom C. C. C. 

State of North Carolina  }
Northampton County    }

I, William Barrow Chairman of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Northampton, State aforesaid, do certify that John B. Odom whose signature appears to the above certificate is and was at the time of signing the same, the acting Clerk of our said Court, having been duly elected, sworn and qualified as such according to Laws, that according to the laws of the state marriage bonds are required to be deposited in the County Court Clelrk's Office, that his attestations are in due form of law, and that full faith and credit should be given to all his official acts as such.  Given under my hand this 21st of August 1846 .- 
William Barrows Chrm, C. Ct
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No 13082

Winifred Jordan
Gen
[Overwritten:  All of these letters are in the Classes]
Page 77

Sandersville  December 10th 1846

Dear Sir, 

    I received yours of the 7th ult. and thank you for the instructions contained.  I am informed by the Secretary of the State of North Carolina that he has forwarded to you, the evidence of John Jordan's service.  And I now enclose to you additional evidence as to the marriage, which I hope will be satisfactory; as I believe the claim to be as honest as any ever presented to your department.  
   You will percieve a discrepancy as to the date of the marriage, which resulted in a mistake of my addition of the times which Mrs Jordan gave me with reference to the different places at which she had lived.  The register of the marriage has been recently recovered, which explains the whole matter, as you will see by the enclosed documents.  
Very Respectfully Yours
Isham H. Saffold

Mr J L Edwards officer }
of Pensions in Washington Cty}
Page 78

[written in pencil and in different hand :  Not accepted as service of husband of Winifred Jordan see rejection letters\

State of North Carolina
Office of Secretary of State
I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State of North Carolina do hereby certify that it appears from a book of settlements of the accounts of the officers and soldiers of the Continental Line of this State in the Revolutionary War, that John Jordan a private soldier in said line, was allowed by a Board Of Commissioners which sat in Warrenton in 1786, the sum of one hundred and four pounds five shillings and four pense (#104.5.40 for his services in said line.   
Given under my hand 
this 26th day of Nov 1846
Wm Hill Secry of State
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109

Pension Office
November 7 1846

Sir,
The papers in the case of Winifred Jordan widow of John Jordan have been examined and filed under the act of 7 July 1838.

The service for which the claim is made should be clearly specified and established by the record in the Office of the Secretary of State of North Carolina and the alleged date of the marriage should be proven by an old family [illegible]or some other record or documentary [illegible] if attainable.
The [testimony] now --- do not -- with the requisite certainty that relation of husband and wife existing between these parties prior to January 1794.

Isham H. Safford Esq.
Sandersville
Geo
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Pension Office, Dec 7 1845

Sir,
In the case of Winnifred Jordan, the Secy of State of N.C. has forwarded a certificate of service rendered by one John Jordan but there is nothing in it which agrees with the allegations of the claimant - the service to which she refers [inserted; having been rendered at ] it would appear in the Virgina Continental Line.  If this part be so some evidence of it can be found in the Auditor's Office at Richmond.

J. H. Saffold, Esq.
Davisborough, 
Washington Co. Geo
Page 81

Georgia}
I L. Augustus Jernigan Clerk of the Superior Court in and for the County of Washington do certify that Nathan C. Sayre is a Judge of the Superior Courts in the State of Georgia Presiding in Washington County duly commissioned  and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony where of I have here unto affixed the seal of said court and subscribed my name at office in Sandersville this Eighth day of December Eighteen hundred and forty six

L. Augustus Jernigan Clk
Supr Court W.C.
Page 82

[Written in top margin, in pencil and different hand:  not accepted as service of husband of Winifred Jordan see rejections letters]

This is to certify that John Jordan served as Bomberdier in Col. Harrison's Reft at Artillery (as one of the Virginia States quota)  Three years from the 20th of Decr: 1776
 this certificate is obtained by his asserting that he had lost his discharge, which I had a confidence in from the character he merited while a soldier.  Given under my hand this 29th Sept: 1783.
J. Pendleton
Capn Artillery.

Copy J. Pendleton Jr:

Executive Department  Richmond Va January 7th 1852
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a paper on file in this department.
Wm H. Richardson
Page 83

Executive Department
Richmond Va Feby 11, 1847

Madam - 

The accompanying certificate from the Register of the Land Office is sent in compliance with the request contained in yours of the 23rd January and is the only evidence now to be had in reference to the allowance of County land for John Jordan's services.
To obtain land bounty it must be proved that the claimant enlisted for at least 3 years, and served that tiem, or was killed or disabled - as the case may be.  
Respectfully
Yours Obt Srvt
W, H. Richardson Secy Comt.
Page 84

Sandersville 2nd March 1847

Dear Sir, 

I delayed a reply to your last untill I could here from the secretary of state of Virginia whoom I requested to forward you the proper certificate of such evidence as was in his possesion in repaid to John Jordan revolutionary since; I received the letter + certificate which you will find inclosed in a packet from the court of Ordiney, also the family record of John Jordan, (which please send back when you are satisfied)  I was not informed by the [illegible] letter that he had sent you the [illegible] certificate as such I inclose the one sent him, + which I hope will inable you to act in favour of the old lady.

Very respectfully yours ob Srvt  
Isham H. Saffold
Page 85

State of Georgia  }
Washington County  }

Washington Superior Court  September Five 1846

Personally appeared Capt James Gainer aged sixty three who resides in the county afourside and after being duly sworn in open court, Saith that he was well acquainted with John Jordan + Winifred his wife the present applicant for pension ever since the year 1804 the time they came to state that they settled at the place when the said John died + where the widow now resides as his widow never having moved, that they settled near deponents father + near where deponent has lived ever since, that it has always been understood that said John was a Revolutionary soldier from the connection of said John + and his wife Winifred, what ever they or either of them would say would have the utmost credence + would be take us true by all who know them + they were always taken as man + wife + from there conection no one here who knew them ever doubted the part Deponent saith further that he know Jincy Riddle a xxxx in this application + knows Jessy Jordan her husband ever since they came to this state about 1798 or 9 that she has lived close to Deponat & the applicant ever since she came to the state + that she is intitled to full credit for all things she would state upon oath  He further saith that he has no doubts that the statement of Winifred Jordan in her application for a pention is strictly true.

 James Gainer

Sworn to + subscribed before me 
this 2nd October 1846
Roger L Gamble Judge
I. C. M. D. Geo
Page 86

James Harris 
James Gainer affidavit
Clerk Superior Court Certificate 
Pension
Page 87

Start of Georgia   }
Washington County }

On this the twenty fourth day of March 1852 before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorised by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Daniel Harris aged about fifty five year, and James Giner aged about Sixty eight years, both them disinterested and credible persons, after being duly sworn according to law state that they were well acquanted with John Jordan in his lifetime that they frequently heard him, the said John Jordan, speak of his having served in the War of the Revolution, that they have heard him frequently speak of having served in the Army at Savannah, Georgia and that he was taken prisoner by the British at Savannah, and that they have often heard the said Jordan speak of suffering and privations that himself and his fellow soldiers underwent while in the army, and that they have no doubt but that the said John Jord did serve his country faithfully in said war, they further state that the said John Jordan died in Washington County in or about the year 1828, leaving a widow, Winifred Jordan, who survived him and remained his widow up to the time of her death, which occured sometime in the month of July 1847
 Daniel Harris
James Gainer

Sworn to and subscribed this  }
the 24th day of March 1852   }

Stles L.
John : Bland
William Z. Warthen A Justice of the Peace
Page 88

State of Georgia
Washington County }

[Crossed out:  I Haywood Brookins Clerk of the Superior Court of said County do hereby certify that I am well acquanted with Daniel Harris and James Gainer]
Page 89

State of Georgia  }
Washington County  }

I Lewis A Jernigan
Clerk of the Superior Court of Said County do hereby certify that I am well acquanted with Daniel Harris and James Gainer whose affidavit is annexed and that their statements are entitled to full credit, and I further certify that William B. Warthan whose genuine signature appear to the annexed deposition in an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that has attestations as such is entitled to full faith and credit 

Given under my hand and Seal of Said Court of Office in Sandersville this 24th day of March 1852
Lewis A. Jernigan Clk
Supr. Court W. C.
Page 90

State of N. Carolina  }
Northampton County }

On this the 8th day of January 1855 before the subscribed personally appeared Ann Howel aged according to he Mothers statements 62 years the 9th day of April [illegible] 1855 whose statements are entitled to full credit and after being duly sworn according to law states that from her first recollection she knew John + Winifred Jordan who at that time lived in this County about 6 miles from this place that her father and John Jordans plantations joined that they were related by marriage and were very intimate that she has ever since her first recollection understood and readily believes that said John Jordan was an enlisted soldier in the War of the Revolution in the State of Virginia that he was departed and believed to have served faithfully on the Whig side in said War by all that knew him on that she heard speak of his serviced in said war that said John Jordan lived in Greenville County Virginia in time of said war that her Father Christopher Foster and John Jordan was raised in Greenville County Virginia that after the close of the War John Jordan settled in this County and remained in this County until about 1802 when said Jordan + family removed to Georgia she further states that she went to school with three of John + Winifred Jordans children namely Green Jordan Precpay Jordan and Patience Jordan in 1801 that there were older children or an older child Brittain Jordan who was nearly grown about 16 or 17 years old she would suppose from his size when she went to scooll in 1801
Page 91

she further states that her Uncle Edmund Jordan who died in Oglethorpe County Georgia in 1836 or about that time enlisted for 3 three years in the Virginia Continental Line and she believes that her Uncle Edmond and John Jordan served at the same time and in the same Company as she has heard her Mother Edmund Jordans sister speak often of their being together in service she does not recollect the Officers names that her uncle Edmund and John Jordan served under in said Revolutionary War and deponent further states that she has no interest in any claims of the heirs of John + Winifred Jordan

Ann Howell

Sworn to and subscribed before me this the  day of January 1855}

Wm M Crocken JP

State of North Carolina }
Northampton County }

I William M Crocken  a Justice of the Peace in and for said County do hereby certify that I have been week acquainted with Mrs. Ann Howell who has made a oath to the foregoing statements for the last twenty years, that she is a person whose statements are entitled to full credit.
Given under my hand + in my official capacity the day + year above written
Wm C Crocken.  J. P.
Page 92

Ho Reps [House of Representatives]  Feby 7, '55

I certify that I have been informed by Jno E Rogers Esq the clerk of the County Court of Northampton County North Carolina that Wm M Crocken whose name appears on the foregoing paper is and has been for some years an acting Justice of the Peace for that county and I have not the least doubt of the truth of the statements

H. M. Shaw
Page 93

[Stamped:  U. S. PENSION OFFICE D Jan 13 1920]
[Note in different hand:  Rev See Enc]

Washington D. C. 
Jan 12 / (19)20

Pension Office Washington D.C. 
Gentlemen - 
I would like a copy of the Revolutionary War record of John Jordan.  He is buried in the family burying ground near Davisboro Ga. in Washington Co. Ga.  His home was there also.  Not many years ago a Mrs. Mewton (John H, I think) of Athens Ga, died who was then receiving a pension from the U.S. Pension
Page 94

Revolutionary service of this John Jordan.  His grave was marked by the government as a Revolutionary soldier.  Does this record include where he was born and when, whom he married and when, and where he died and when, if so I would like very much to have these dates, with the otherdata.  Could you also tell me some other place I could find old records of this period
Page 95

Thanking you very much for this, 
I am Yours Turly
Miss Reba Jordan 
1432 M. St. N. W.
Page 96

[Letterhead:  Laboratory of Central Lard Co, 519 West 23d St.     Geo. F. Tennille Chemist]

New York,  Oct 10th 1895

Pension Office - Washington D. C. 

Messrs - 

I wish to obtain from the records of your office some proof of the services and information regarding the same, of one John Jordan - a revolutionary soldier.  
A pension was obtained during the 50th Congress by [inserted:  Mrs John H. Newton or] Mrs. Mary Newton, since deceased, a daughter of the aforesaid John Jordan and I think it was through the efforts of a Mr. H. H. Carlton thas to the service of John Jordan
Page 97

[Letterhead: Laboratory of Central Lard Co, 519 West 23d St. Geo. F. Tennille Chemist]


in the Revolutionary War - what years he served in what capacity etc etc. 
By an Early reply you will greatly oblige
Your truly 

Geo. F. Tennille
Page 98

Rev. War Section.

Feb 17, 1980

Mrs. Walker Jordan, 
Hawkinsville, Ga.

Madam:  
   In reply to your letter of the 8" instant, you are advised that the history of the soldier of the Revolutionary John Jordan which was furnished you the 37 " ultimo, was compiled from the original papers in the pension claim of his daughter Mrs. Mary Newton. [handwritten:   It is not recorded in any ] volume, and therefore there is no number of volume and page to be used in referring to it.

Very respectfully, 
G M [illegible]
Commissioner.
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[Written in a different hand:  Rev Sec 1 ED]

Hawkinsville Ga
Feb - 2- 1920

Dep of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions, Rev. War. Section
Washington D. C. 

Gentlemen
  Please write me the number of volume and page from which the record that you recently sent me of John Jordan, a Revolutionary solder was taken.

Thanking you.  I am your truly Mrs. Walker Jordan
Hawkinsville, Georgia 

[stamped U.S. PENSION OFFICE  Feb 5 1920]