Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,909, for David Jordon, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mess.
Jordon, David Jordan or
S. 32,909
CONTENTS

6620
Massachusetts.
Capt Stelson David Jordan
of Scituate in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel (Brewer) of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 1 year, 3 mo.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of April, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th of Feb. 1819 and sent to
  Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 - 4 mo. 22/30  37.86    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Nov. 1819  48.00     $ 85.86  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
David Jordan Massachusetts Revolutionary War Act 18th March 1818

32909 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32,909
David Jordan
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 206
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No 343
David Gordon.
a Private in the Massachusetts Line - Brewster Regt.
Date of Affidavit, 13 th Apr. 1818.
Affidavit states service from March 1776, for 1 year & 3 months.
Correct.
The Judge "must certify, that he believes the applicant "by reason of his reduced innum- "brances in life, needs the assist- "ance of his country for support"
Adm l
Jenny

United States
Massachusetts District
David Jordan of Scituate in the county of Plymouth and District of Massachusetts a resident citizen of the United States and applicant for a pension from the United States under the Act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolution who were not enlisted on the rolls. That he served as a private soldier in the war of the Revolution for upwards of one year in manner following viz - Enlisted in March 1776 in the company commanded by Captain Stutson in the regiment commanded by Col. Prewer - and served in said corps one year and three months and was then honorably discharged and is in such reduced circumstances as to require the aid of his country. David Jordan
Massachusetts District ss.
Boston 13. April 1818
Sworn to before me
M c Quarrie Dist. Judge Mass. Dist.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 11 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that David Jordan subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M Davis } Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
30 January 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, David Gordon by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
J. W. Dyer { District Judge U. S. { Massachusetts Dist.

I Josiah Mann of Situate in the County of Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts served as a soldier in the Revolutionary Army Do Testify and say that David Jordan of said Situate served as a soldier in the War of the Revolution on the Continental Establishment in the State of New-York more than ten months from the time the British army went to New-York, from Boston, and was Legally Discharged after the time his enlistment expired and accord- -ing to the best of my Recollection he served in Col: Brewers Regiment and a considerable Part of the time with a Party of Artificers Preparing or repairing Boats V:G which Party one Henson appeared to have the Command Josiah his Mann mark Attest Charles Mann
Plymouth ss May 4 th 1810 Then Personally appeared Before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Plymouth the above named Josiah Mann who after being Carefully Examined and Cautioned to Testify the Whole Truth and Nothing but the truth, made solemn Oaths to the Truth of the above Deposition by him Signed _____ Elijah Turner Just: Peace
E Mann was appointed to take his depositions in this case. JD

David Jordan
6620
11 Feb '79
CM

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.
On this seventeenth day of July 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County Elisha Foster Jr. who has the care of David Jordan aged 73 years, resident in Scituate in said County, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz: for the term of the said David Jordan and that he has received a pension certificate dated Feb. 21st 1819 and numbered 6620 in pursuance of his original Declaration made April 13th 1818 - and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz:
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
And that said Jordan has no property whatever except his pension Elisha Foster Junr.
Sworn to, and declared, on the 17th day of July A.D. 1820 before Nahum Mitchell Esquire Justice of Court.
I, Wm B Thomas clerk of the said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nothing dollars and cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the on this twentieth day of July 1820
Wm B Thomas Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth