Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10965, for Barak Jordan, Rhode Island

SERVICE
NUMBER
R. I.
Jordan, Barak
R. 10965-
Vorce, Zeniah
or Zeruah
CONTENTS
Former widow

2531
Declaration of Terriah Vorce, widow of Barach Jordan for Pension
Direct to E. H. Osborne Mayville Chaut. Co. N. Y.

State of New York Rensselaer County
Elvira Groun of the town of Berlin in the County of Rensselaer aforesaid being duly sworn before me the undersigned justice of the peace of the town of Petersburg in said County Deposeth and saith that she is the daughter of Barack Gordon deceased her father Barack Gordon lived in the town of Courtney in the state of Rhode Island in the Revolutionary war, she thinks that in the year 1775 her father went into the United States service in the Revolutionary war and thinks that he was gone nine months or more, she was then about some years of age but well recollects of her father's going away and it was the general talk that he went into the service of the United States, and well recollects when he came home to his family in then state he had been into the service she don't recollect the names of his officers
This deponent further saith that in about three years after her father came out of the service above stated her father again went into the United States service and she thinks he was gone from home at that time nine months or more she well recollects of his going and coming home she can't recollect where her father was stationed, that her mother's name is Deborah Gordon the wife the wife of her father Barack Gordon so called and further this deponent saith not Sworn & subscribed before me August 12 th 1937 William Vollen justice peace Elvira Groun

I certify that I am acquainted with the within affidavit of Francis Green and that the same can be relied upon as to truth and veracity
William Walton justice of peace
State of New York Rensselaer County ss I Henry R. Bristol clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Nathan Norton Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been sworn was at the time of taking the said Affidavit a Justice of the peace in & for the said County of Rensselaer duly appointed & sworn that his signature above written is genuine In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said County this 28 th day of August A.D. 1837 Henry R. Bristol clerk

State of New York } Chautauqua County ss.
On this sixth day of October 1838 personally appeared before me, the subscriber a judge of the county courts in & for the county of Chautauqua, the same being a court of record, by express legislative enactment. Jerusha Vorce , a resident of the town of Chautauqua, in the county & state aforesaid, at her dwelling house in said town, she being unable from age and infirmity to attend in open court, aged eighty eight years, in March next, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4. 1836 and the act explanatory of said act, passed March 3 d 1837. That she was married to Barak Jordan who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution. That in the year 1775, he served in the Rhode Island militia for the period of three months . That he then lived in Coventry, Rhode Island and served as a substitute for Job Whaley. That he left home on such service to the best of her recollection on the first of October and returned on the first of January 1776. That she does not know the names of the officers under whom he served, but thinks the captain's name was Jeremiah or as he was called Jerry Olney, from the circumstance that her brother at that period was in such company, but of this she is not certain. That on his return, he told deponent that he had been to Boston during his absence, and served there the time of three months. That after remaining a short time at home, but the exact time she cannot tell, he enlisted under Captain Thomas Gordon and served a period of twelve months. As she recollects, he did not enlist among the first, but by agreement the time of service was from the first of January 1776 and expired the first of January 1777. That he was absent during the year. That on his return in January 1777 he told deponent about crossing Kings Bridge, and the Delaware River, and being in the Jerseys. That he said he was first stationed at New Port, Rhode Island, but was wanted at the Northward, when he went there, & was continually marched about from place to place through the year. That she thinks he told her he was under Col. Lippit, but is not certain as to her recollection of the names of any of the officers, except Capt. Gordon, about whom she thinks she cannot be mistaken. That after this, he remained at home, two or three years, with the exception of short periods of service of two or four weeks at a time, in guarding the shores. That on these occasions, which were quite frequent he was draughted for such service, and she cannot recollect the precise times, nor the precise length of any period of service, but knows, that they were only for a few weeks at a time. That after

being at home as aforesaid. In again extend the army for six months. That she cannot remember the year, but remembers that it was a year or two after Independence was declared, and perhaps longer, and that it was the latter part of the war. That he was absent six months, and returned in the month of January & said he had served out his time. That she thinks he was stationed in Rhode Island during this period, but does not know, with certainty, nor the names of the officers under whom he served. That she knows he was absent from his family, & said he was in the service, & has no doubt he was so. That he resided at Coventry Rhode Island throughout the period of the war. That she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim, & knows of no person now living who served with him. She further declares that she was married to the said Barak Jordan, in March 1768 as she remembers that she was then seventeen years of age. That she was married by Elders Timothy Green of the Baptist denomination. That there is no record of her marriage to her knowledge, and she thinks there is not, as the Baptists did not to her knowledge or being kept any parish record of marriages or births, and that she had no family record thereof. That her husband the aforesaid Barak Jordan, died in October 1793. That she was afterwards married to William Vorce who died in April 1806, and that she was a widow on the 4th day of July 1836, and still remains a widow, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Leviah her Vorce mark
1838 1058 70 16 86
Sworn to and subscribed by the said Leviah Vorce, by her making her mark she never having been able to write her name, after the word "months" had been interlined in this declaration. I further certify that she is from bodily infirmity unable to attend court, nor do I think from present appearances that she would at any future time be able to attend the sessions of the county courts of which I am judge -
J. A. Osborne

State of New York County of Chautauqua
§ 85. I George W. Tew Clerk of said County do certify Thomas A. Osborne Esq. is a Judge of the County courts of said County, commis- sioned & sworn, & that the foregoing signature "T. A. Osborne" subscribed to the jurat & cer- tificate to the above declaration, is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office, this 6th. day of October 1858. G. W. Tew Clerk

Chautauqua County - Daniel Jordan of the Town of Deafield in the County of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania being duly sworn depones and saith that he was sixty eight years of age the fifteen th day of last May. That he is the son of Barak Jordan and Sarah Jordan. That his mother Sarah Jordan is now living. That according to the best of his information & belief she is now eighty seven years of age. That in the time of the Revolutionary war he was living with his father in the town of Coventry in the State of Rhode Island. and that during the time of the continuance of said war he recollects that his father Barak Jordan was a soldier enlisted under Captain Thomas Jordan for the space of six months and that he served as a soldier under said Jordan the said time of six months. and that subsequent to that period he recollects that he was a soldier in the army of the revolution for the space of nine months. and then returned home. and again he was out and served for the space of six months. That he at present does not recollect the name of the officer of the Regiment in which his father served as a soldier, as he was quite young at that time. but he distinctly remembers of his father being absent as a soldier the times above stated. That according to the best of deponent's recollection his father died in the year 1794 and for the further rest,
In presence of this 9th day of October 1837
Daniel Jordan
Before me S. A. Green Clerk of Deaf

Chautauqua County Clerk's Office. p. 5 I, George W. Tew, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do hereby certify that George A. Green Esq: before whom the within deposition was taken, was, at the time of taking the same, a Commissioner of Pleas in & for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized to take the same, and that the signature "G. A. Green" subscribed thereto is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official seal, this 19. day of September, A.D. 1838.
G. W. Tew Clerk

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Mrs. Leannah Vorce
or Miss Delilah M. Jones
Chauque
Chitague Co.
Maysville P. office N.Y.

State of New York
County of Chenango. Marcy Gile of Oxford in said County being duly sworn deposed and says that she is now over eighty years of age and that she lived in Rhode Island from her childhood up to the year 1817 and and that Zeruah the sister of this deponent who is now about 88 years of age was married to Barak Jordan previous to the month of February 1775 and that this deponent attended the wedding when the said Barak Jordan was married to her said sister who this deponent is informed and believes is a widow residing in the County of Chautauqua in the State of New York
Witness J. M. Koon subscribed and sworn this second day of August 1837 Before me
J. M. Koon Justice of the peace
her Marcy X Gile mark

V. A. York Jeremiah Vance let to J. Salbome 29 Ap r 1829
10965
Not July 1836

10.965
P.O. Beniah Vance Service: Barak Jordan
Enlisted: REJECTED , 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18