Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29265, for John Jordan, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Jordan, John
S. 29265
CONTENTS
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1296 Maine. ✓
John Jordan
of Cape Elizabeth in the State of Maine. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Deward of the Regt commanded by Col. Hinney in the Massachusetts Militia for 8. Mo:
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26. Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20. day of October 1832 - and sent to J. Mupsey Portland Me
Arrears to 14th of Sept. 1832 - $ 28.99 Semi-annual allowance ending 14. Mar 1833 - 13.33
$ 53.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by E. D. Bullen Clerk Book 2 - Vol. 14 Page 66.

29 265 INVALID.
File No. 29,265
John Jordan Rev Rev
Act: June 7 th 39
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 214
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Deposition of John Robinson as to service of John Jordan

John Robinson of Durham in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine Yeoman of the age of Eighty years on Oath declare that I am personally acquainted with John Jordan of Cape Elizabeth in said County Yeoman who is about Eighty five years of age we were both born in said Cape Elizabeth and in May in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and Seventy five said John Jordan and myself enlisted in the Massachusetts State troops in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Dunn in the Regiment commanded by Col. Phinney we afterward went to Cambridge in Massachusetts and continued in the public service as soldiers in said Company for the period of Eight months of the Revolutionary war - we were discharged the first of January A. D. 1776 - Dated at Portland the 9 th day of August A. D. 1832 John Robinson
State of Maine Cumberland ss. Personally appeared

appeared the before named John Robinson and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Statement by him signed
Before me Nicholas Emery Justice of the peace Portland August 9. 1832 —
I hereby certify that the said John Robinson according to my best knowledge and belief is a man of truth and veracity Nicholas Emery Justice of the peace Portland Aug. 9 th 1832 —
State of Maine.
Cumberland County ss.
I, William T. Vaughan, Clerk of the Court of Cumberland County do certify that Nicholas Emery is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this seventeenth day of August, A. D. 1832. —
Wm T Vaughan

No 2.808 John Jordan's
Application for a pension
After Aug. 1832 a private,
admit
8 mo private
$ 26.66
J. Murphy

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 seventeenth 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 John Jordan a resident of Cape Elizabeth in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged eighty 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he
entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated viz: That in May 1775 at Cape Elizabeth he enlisted as a private soldier for eight months in a company of militia commanded by Capt. Sam l Dunn in Colonel Phinney's Regiment, and marched with said company to Cambridge near Boston, where we were stationed and that he served there the full term of eight months and was discharged, & returned home - That he had no written discharge, but was dismissed with the rest of the company - That he enlisted as a Volunteer and served as a private - That he was born at Cape Elizabeth May 24. 1747 - has no record of his age - resided in Cape Elizabeth, when he entered the service & resided there ever since -
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
John Jordan mark
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Ashur Ware } U. S. Judge for the District 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 soldier, and served as he states
I, John Mufsey 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 John Serdon for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighteenth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Mufsey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.