Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5764, for John Jordan, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass
Jordan, John Jane
VI. 5764
CONTENTS

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, PORTLAND, March 22 nd _____ A. D 185/ }
I, Charles C. Harmon, CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
_____ Jacob Kenrick is an _____
_____ Acting Justice of the Peace, _____
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is _____ DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the COMMISSION of the said Kenrick _____ is dated July 21 st _____ A. D. 1848 and will expire July 21 st _____ A. D. 1855 _____
and that the following SIGNATURE/purporting to be his are _____ Genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court , for said State, the day and year first above written.
_____ C. C. Harmon,  CLERK.

United States of America, State of Maine
On this fourteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, person- ally appeared before the Honorable Asahel Ware, judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine, Jerme Jordan a resident of Bruns- -wick in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged eighty nine years, who being duly sworn according to law on oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress passed July 7 th 1838, March 3 rd 1843, June 17 th 1844 and February 2 nd 1848.
And this declaration states that she is the widow of John Jordan late of Brunswick aforesaid, who was a sold- -ier in the Revolutionary Army and served therein eight months at least, that her said husband was born in Brunswick, that in the time of the Revolution he lived in Henspanwell

and entered the service from that place. That afterwards he removed back to Brunswick, where he died on the 11 th day of January 1837. She also makes declaration under the act of June 7 th 1832, claiming the amount due her said husband under said act from March 4 th 1831 to the time of his death as before stated.
She also declares that she is a native of Hampwell aforesaid, that her maiden name was Jane Burnes, that she was married to said John Jordan previous to the first day of January 1796 - That she has remained unmarried since her husband's death and that she now is the widow of said John Jordan and for proof of her declaration she refers to the proof hereto annexed, and to any documents which may be in the Pension department.
Witness
Asken Owen
I am X Jordan mark
Signed & sworn to before me this 12 th of March 1841
Asken Owen

I certify that it has been known to me by satisfactory evidence that the above named John Fordan was the lawful wife of John Fordan as is stated in the declaration that said John is dead & from remanence his widow
Simon Mann
Aug 15. 1878
Dist. Judge of the U. S. for Northern Dist.

State of Maine, Cumberland County, Town of Henspell, Town Clerk's office March 15 th 1857 — In a book of Records of Marriages kept in said Town the following Marriage is recorded Viz John Jordan and Jenny Barnes January the seventeenth, One thousand seven hundred and eighty two — The foregoing is a true copy of the Record excepting the date which is expressed in legible words & figures thus " 17 th Jan y 1782. ,,
Attest
Robert Pennell
Town Clerk
I Robert Pennell on oath depose and say that I am Town Clerk of Henspell aforesaid, duly chosen and sworn, that the Records of said Town are in my custody, that the foregoing certificate is a true abstract from said Records with the above exception as noted by me,
Robert Pennell
State of Maine Cumberland Co March 15 th 1857 subscribed and sworn before me
Jacob Herrick Justice.

State of Maine, Cumberland County, Town of Brunswick, Town Clerk's office March 15 th 1857 — In a Book of Records of deaths happening in said Town of Brunswick page 264 the following death is recorded viz John Jordan died January eleventh One thousand eight hundred and thirty seven the foregoing is a true copy of the Record excepting the date, which is expressed in legible char- acters and figures thus "January 11 th 1837," Attest
Nathaniel Badger Town Clerk
I Nathaniel Badger, on oath depose and say that I am Town Clerk of Brunswick afore- said, duly chosen and sworn — That the Records of said Town are in my custody that the foregoing Certificate is a true ab- stract from said Records with the exceptions above noted by me
Nathaniel Badger
State of Maine Cumberland ss March 15 th 1857 subscribed and sworn before me Jacob Herrick Justice Peace.

John Jordan 10 10.296 2
John Jordan born in Delaware widow of John
Long

State of Maine.
LINCOLN, ss—I NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that the annexed paper, signed by the Judge and attested by the Clerk, contains the original proceedings of the Court of Common Pleas, at a special session thereof holden at Sopsham in said County, by the Hon. Ezekiel Whitman one of the Judges of said Court on the 31 st day of August A. D. 1832, in the matter of the application of John Jordan for a Pension. In TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this first day of September A. D. 1832. Nathl. Coffin CLERK.
John Jordan of Orono aforesaid & State aforesaid, aged seventy-five years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832,
That he entered the public service in the revolutionary war under the authority of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts about the year 1778 or 1779, being drafted into a company of which Nehemiah Butts was Captain, Ebenezer Sturtevant Lieutenant & Isaac Hall Ensign. The company embarked at Falmouth , now Portland , for Penobscot ; the substitute whom he had engaged being taken sick, of the said Jordan he immediately followed and overtook the company at a place then called Turners on the coast of Maine, where the company had made a port; he there joined the company & proceeded with them to the Penobscot river & landed at Bagaducee point, now Castine . He was, the first man in the detachment, who stepped on shore from the transport. He immediately engaged in a battle with the enemy who attacked the detachment on their arrival. The detachment fought under the command of Small , as field officer & Sullivan , as commander of the sea forces. The said applicant remained there and about Penobscot Bay & River a term of four months doing duty as a private soldier, when he was regularly dismissed. He had no certificate of discharge.
Before he was drafted into said company he had been a minute man, as near as I can recollect, about six months.

State of Maine.
County of Lincoln S.
On this twenty first day of August - A.D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court John Jordan of Brunswick , before which Whitman Esq. Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas said State now held at Topsham, within the County of Lincoln, by the said Justice, John Jordan of Brunswick in said County of Cumberland & State aforesaid, aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832,
That he entered the public service in the revolutionary war under the authority of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts about the year 1778 or 1779 being drafted into a company of which Nehemiah Butts was Captain, Ebenezer Standwood, Lieutenant & Hall Ensign. The company embarked at Falmouth, now Portland, for Penobscot; the substitute whom he had engaged being taken sick, the said Jordan immediately followed and overtook the company at a place then called Townsend now on the coast of Maine, where the company had made a port; he there joined the company & proceeded with them to the Penobscot river & landed at Bagaduce point, now Castine. He was the first man in the detachment, who stepped on shore from the transport. He immediately engaged in a battle with the enemy who attacked the detachment on their arrival. The detachment fought under the command of Lovell, as field officer & Fattenhall, as commander of the sea forces. The said applicant remained there until about Penobscot Bay & River a term of four months doing duty as a private soldier, when he was regularly dismissed. He had no certificate of discharge.
Before he was drafted into said company he had been a minute man, as near as he can recollect, about six months

and had been called upon to do actual service in that capacity for at least two months, at & about Harpswell, or Mexican cague Neck & Lobacodegen Island, protecting the coast, which was continually exposed to plunder by the enemy's vessels.
After his dismissal from the four months service at Benobscot he remained a minute man, as before for one or two years or more, & was repeatedly called upon for the same kind of service & at the same places, as before he went to Benobscot, and was twice in skirmishes with crews of the enemy's vessels, in one of which one of the enemy was killed. During this last mentioned period of service as a minute man, he was actually engaged in the public service for at least the term of two months more, and the applicant believes for a longer time, and he positively declares that his whole actual service at the periods above mentioned exceeded the term of eight months. and the whole under the same Act of Service was required Mr William Gatchell was in the same company with said applicant at Baycedore, but the applicant cannot find direct proof of his other service, the except by John D. Dingley whose certificate is annexed, witnesses having deceased, but he is well known by respectable people in his own town to have been a soldier in the revolution. He was born in Barnum; during the revolution & afterwards belonged to Harpswell & returned to Barnum about 31 years ago, where he has ever since resided. He has no record of his age, now extant.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the government of any State.
John Goddard
sworn to & subscribed the day 3 years
of service before me
Ezra G. D. Whitman Ch. Justice B. B. P. 223/224

I William Gatchel of Brunswick aged 75 years hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Jordan who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That I served with him in Capt. Nchemiah Bates's company at Bayaduce as he has above stated for the term of four months, and can positively attest to the accuracy of his statements in regard to his service at Penobscot & vicinity. I also certify that I have ever understood & believed that the said Jordan was engaged in the service at different times, both before & since he went to Penobscot, and that I believe from information at the time of said service when I well knew the said Jordan, tho' I cannot state how long of my own knowledge, but I believe his statement to be also correct in these particulars. I believe him to be 75 years of age, and he is reputed & believed, in the neighbourhood, where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution & I have never heard it doubted.
William Gatchel
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
before me
Ebenezer Whitman Ch. Just. C. Com Pleas
Attest Nathl. Coffin Clk
I Ichabod Doughty of Brunswick aged 76 years hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Jordan, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. In the revolutionary war, I knew by report that he was in the service at Penobscot for the term of four months. I also certify that before & after he went to the Penobscot, as he has stated I served with him at Harpswell, and on Monhegan neck & Lebassee-degen Island at many different short periods of several weeks, while I was in the Continental service & the said Jordan was in the Militia. I have known him from his childhood, was born in the same town with him. I know that the said Jordan did as much duty at the said periods last mentioned, exclusive of his service on the Penobscot, as he has stated, to wit four months, and as I verify believe about five months. I believe him to be 75 years of age & he is reputed & generally believed in the neighbourhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier in the revolution & I have never heard it doubted.
Ichabod his Doughty mark
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
before me
Ebenezer Whitman Ch. Just. C. Com Pleas
Attest Nathl. Coffin Clk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after fulling the interrogatories  by the War Department , that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that that William Gatchel and Deborah Doughty, both of said Brunswick, who have signed the preceding certificates are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit. The said town of Brunswick is in the immediate vicinity of this Court held now in Topsham in the County of Lincoln and the said Jordan's age & infirmities disable him from attending Court in his own County at Portland, which is distant 27 miles from said Brunswick.
Ernest Whitman Ch. Just. C. Com. Pleas
Attest Nathl. Coffin Clerk

No. 38.158
John L. D. D.
Mr
Act 7 June 1832

Augt 22, 1807
Adel Cvi: in Case of Jane Gordan wid: John D. Kelle
Sebring & Coombs Present
J. E. Hatt. Esq
Comm te of Pensions

No 14.330
Jane Jordan widow of John
Maine
Act of 7 th July 1838
Dickins & Coombs 20 th June
18
transferred by ok Coombs
31/51
5764

No. 38.108
John Jordan decd.
Maine
Act of 7 th June 1832.
Dickins & Coombs 20 th June 1857.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1870.
REJECTED
5464 me
P. O. _____
Jane Jordan
Service: John
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

August 1 st 1857
Cadd. evi: in case of Jane Jordan
Mr. Triplett
Dickinson Coombs
Present

Washington 29 July 1851
Sir,
Enclosed we have the honor to present - to you the additional evidence required by your letter of the 20 th ult. in the case of Jane Jordan
Yours very respectfully Dickins & Coombs
James E Heath Esq Com: of Pensions.

No 14.350
Jane Indian, m rs of John
Me
Act 7 July 1836

Washington March 31 st 1857.
Sir:
We herewith enclose the declaration of Jane Jordan, widow of John Jordan dec d . claiming a Pension under the Act of 1838, and subsequent acts - as well as arrears of Pension due her said husband under the Act of 1832.
We enclose also, a declaration under the Act of 1832, made by her said husband in his life-time, with the depositions of W m Gatchell and John Wood Daughty, in relation to said Jordan's services. We think the evidence sufficient to establish the claim for a small pension.
Very respectfully Your obed Servt.
Dickins & Coombs
Dr Heath Esq Comm r of Pensions

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
March 20 th 1846.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of John Gordon is found upon a Pay Roll of Capt Nehemiah Curtis' Company, in Col Jonathan Mitchell's regt in the Penobscot Expedition, as a private from July 7 to September 28 1779. 2 Months + 18 days

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Pierpont, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

To the Secretary of State Massachusetts Jane Jordan widow of John Jordan late of Brunswick deceased, who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolutionary war requests evidence of her said husband's service — She believes that her husband was a native of Hapswell in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine and that he entered the war from that place — She believes that her husb- -and served one year at least in Capt Nicholas Larkin's Company in the expedition to Penobscot and in the war that ensued — She is not positive as to the length of her husband's service, she therefore respectfully requests the Sec- -retary to cause the rolls and other Revolutionary documents in his office to be examined and a certificate granted of all the service which can be identified with her husband John Jordan of Hapswell.
Jane Jordan mark
State of Maine Cumberland County S c signed in my presence
Jan 13 th 1846
Isaac Herrick pub. proc.

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, PORTLAND, August 15 th — A. D. 1851
I, Charles C. Harmon, CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Jacob Henrick
Is an Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for _____ the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that his Com- mission is dated July 21 st — A. D. 1848 and will expire July _____ A. D. 1855
that the following SIGNATURE purporting to be his are — Genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
C. C. Harmon , CLERK.

I Shimeal Owen of Danville in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged eighty years on oath depose and say that I am a native of Brunswick and have lived there all my days until the last ten years - I was well acquainted with John Folsom of said Brunswick deceased and also with his wife Jane Folsom whose maiden name was Jane Barnes familiarly called Jenny Barnes - I am also well acquainted with the family, Mrs Folsom and her sons John and Henry being members of the Church of which I was for many years the Pastor. Said John Folsom was a minute man in the time of the Revolution and served in various places along the shore. I do not know the length of his service myself but it is traditional in Brunswick and Harpswell that he served nearly or quite a year, and that the service was performed in Capt Lunt's Company principally if not wholly - From my own personal knowledge and conversations held with the family and from the general opinion of the neighborhood I have no doubt he served as long as that time namely a year in what was called guarding the coast.
Shimeal Owen
State of Maine Cumberland ss August 7th 1851 subscribed and sworn before me, Jacob Merrill Justice.

I hereby certify that Shimeal Owen within named is a venerable Clergyman of the Baptist Association with whom I have been acquainted all my days and that his statements are entitled to full credit and belief any where he is known.
August 7th 1831.
Jacob Henricks just, juv.

Washington, Aug. 21. 1851.
Sir:
Enclosed please find additional evidence in support of the claim of Jane Jordan of Maine, widow of John Jordan dec d . for Revolutionary pension, now pending in your office
Very Respectfully Your obed t serv t
Dickinson O'Conner
J. E. Heath Esq. Comm r of Pensions