Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5762, for Elisha Jordan, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Privateer (mass)
★ Jordan, Elisha
A. 5762
CONTENTS

REJECTED
5762
P. O. _____
Elisha Jordan
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Elisha Jordan
N o 3202
Rejected Sept. 27. 1832
5762
Hon. J. Anderson

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
AT a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the - seventh day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
ON this Seventeenth day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Ebenezer Dyer a resident of Penobscot in the county of Penobscot in said Maine District, aged seventy one 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he entitled at Farmerville, Maine
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
Elisha For-Dar
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before
Arthur Ware
U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

I John Anderson of Portland in said District on oath declare that I am well acquainted with the within named Elisha Jordan & know that he is reported to have been a seaman in the Revolution against Great Britain in the Revolution & that he sustains a good character for truth & veracity. When Anderson
Arthur W. Ware Aug 17 1892 Just. of the Dist. for the Dist. of Maine.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary seaman soldier , and served as he states
I, John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Elisha Jordan for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this seventeenth day of August, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
John Nussey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

I Matthias Murch of Gorham in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged seventy three years do testify and say that in the month of April in the year A.D. 1782 - I went on board the armed ship Buccaneer carrying twenty guns, commanded by Jesse M c Pherson - of Salem, Massachu- setts - said vessel was then lying in the harbor of Portland - (then called Falmouth) said vessel was then engaged in the United States naval service. I then found on board said ship & belonging to said ship, Elisha Jordan of Cape-Elizabeth in the County of Cumberland & the Province, now State of Maine. The vessel soon after sailed on a cruise - and said Jordan remained on board & performed the duty of a seaman till he was put on board a prize, that we took & that he belonged to the said Buccaneer during her cruise, which terminated sometime in June or July in the year 1783. During the cruise we took fifteen prizes - & carried thirteen of them in safely - among others a large ship called the Pratte from Quebec for Liverpool - and a snow - and a Letter of Marque, called the Chambers carrying twenty guns & about sixty men, with which we had an engagement. The first Lieutenant of the Buccaneer was Andrew Dives. I farther testify & say that I have this day seen the said Elisha Jordan & know him to be the same Elisha Jordan, who was with me in the said ship Buccaneer in 1782 & 1783 -
Cumberland ss: August 9. 1832.
Personally appeared the above named Matthias Murch, & subscribed & made oath to the truth of the above deposition before me Gorham Aug: 9. 1832. Josiah Pierce, Justice of the Peace

1 Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine Aug: 9. 1832.
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the with- named Mathew Merrill - & that he is a person of truth & veracity - & that he now appears to be of sound mind & memory -
Jonah Pierce Just Peace.
Maine District.
District Clerk's Office August 17. 1832
In testimony that Jonah Pierce Esquire who took the within deposition is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified & that his official attestations are entitled to full faith & credit I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office the day & year above written.
John Mussey Clerk U. S. County