Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5765, for Lemuel Jordan, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Jordan, Lemuel
R. 5765-
CONTENTS

Lemuel Jordan
Private - Mass'tts troops,
30. 5 14
Lanabee's Co. } 3 months Jordan's regt. }
Andrews' Co. } 8 months Prime's regt. }
12 months as a private.
See additional certificate of P. D. Bangs Sec'y. dated July 15, 1834.
Ans d R. C. Vose
Mar. 13. 1834
See Mr Bangs certificate as to Primes Regt belonging to 6th Wadsworth command at Boothbay - among Sam Marshalls suspended papers R. C. Vose,
Augusta, Me.

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
ON this 28 th day of March A. D. 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun r , a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Samuel Jordan a resident of Augusta in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged Eighty three 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 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1779 with Captain Benjamin Lamabee and served in Col. Jordan's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: viz, Lamabee Capt. &
Jordan Col. That in June 1779 he enlisted as a private for the period of three months in that company & regiment; that this period he served out; I was verbally discharged at Camden, Maine, in September, 1779.
That the first of May 1780, he again enlisted as a private for the period of eight months in Capt. Andrews' company, & Col. Prime's regiment of the same troops; that this period he fully served out, I was verbally discharged, at what is now Portland, then Falmouth, Maine, the last of December of the same year, That Johnson was Major or Lt. Col.

And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the War Department, he answers:
That he was born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, in 1749, where his birth is recorded. That in 1775 he removed to Scarborough, Maine, where he resided when he entered the service & where his home was during his services. That about 1805 he again removed to Cape Elizabeth, & in 1831 to Harnady, where he lived until the present year. That in his first service he was in the expedition against Bayside, where Lovel commanded the land forces, Saltonstall the fleet, & Brig Wadsworth was his Brigadier General. That at his second period he served on the coast of Maine, at Camden & other places, where Genl. Hall commanded. And that he does not know whether he can find a living witness of either service. That where he has recently resided at Harnady, there is no clergymen whose attendance he can procure to prove his character for veracity there being none living in that town. That he is very aged & while in Harnady lived with his daughter & was very little known in the town,
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Lemuel Forster
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. March 28. 1833 in open Court.
Nathan Winton
And the said Judge before whom said Court was held does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Winton

I Lemuel Jordan by whom the within declaration was made, do further on oath declare, that in addition to my services as within stated, I served as a private from Octr 1 st to Octr 23 rd 1779, a period of twenty three days in Capt. Roger Libby's coy. in a detachment of troops under the command of Col. Nathl. Jordan; we served at Portland, Maine, & were there verbally discharged. I further state that in 1779, in the summer & fall of that year I was attached as a private to Capt. David Sullivan's company in Col. Benjamin Foster's regt. of the Massachusetts troops, & during that period went as a boatman from Falmouth to Machias & on the coast of Maine three different times & was paid for one month & four days service. I do not know of any body living who served with me in Capt. Andrew's company in 1780, or of any evidence I can obtain of that service.
Lemuel Jordan
21. State of Maine } To Supreme Judicial Court held at Halloway Somerset County } within and for said county of Somerset on the fourth Sunday of September 1833 Personally appeared in open court the above named Lemuel Jordan now residing in Harmony in said county and subscribed and made oath to the above declaration.
State of Maine.
Nathan Weston
Justice of S th Court
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Judge  Just. before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge  Court , in the matter of the application of Lemuel Jordan for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 28 th
day of March
A. D. 1833
J. A. Chandler

Sept 8
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Col. J. L. Edwards (Comm. of Pensions) Washington, D.C.
Rev. J. Lent (father)
A. C. Hove

Augusta, Me. Sept. 2 d . 1834.
Sir,
In my letter to you of the 19 th ult. (I think) I sent you a certificate that Isaiah Wood served in Capt. Andrews' company in Col. Trumbull's regt. in 1780, as evidence of the service of that company, in that year. I have since received your letter of the 28 th ult. in relation to the claim of Lemuel Jordan. The facts stated in my said letter of the 19 th ult. I fully believed to be true. In July last, I was at the Secretary's Office in Massachusetts, & looked in the search for the roll of Capt. Andrews' company in 1780, which could not be found, & obtained from Mr. Bangs a certificate of that fact as I supposed, I believe that on reference to his certificate dated in May 1833, it will be found that there is an additional certificate thereon, dated sometime in July last, of the fact that there was at that date no roll of Capt. Andrews' company for 1780, unless as related to one man, to be found in his Office.

office. I will not again trouble you with my opinion of the service of Mr. Jordan; that has already been given in my former letters.
I am, Sir,
very respectfully, your obedt Servt Robert C. Vose
Col. Jas. L. Edwards. Commr. of Pensions.
State of Maine.
Kennebec, ss: Then the above named Robert C. Vose personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the facts stated in the foregoing letter, according to his best knowledge, belief & belief.
Before me.
Mr. Ward L. Justice Peace

Augusta, Me. August 19 th 1834.
Sir,
In my letter to you of the 8 th inst. I stated that the eight months service, claimed to have been performed by Lemuel Jordan in 1780, in Col. Prime's regiment, was in a company of State troops, raised for that period & which served accordingly. That that kind of service was performed, I fully believed, judging from the general terms of Eastern service. That I was correct I am now enabled to shew by the certificate of the Secy. of State of Massachusetts. When I was in Boston in November 1832, in examining the Rolls in Mr. Bangs' office, I found one of Capt. Andrews' company in Col. Prime's regiment for 1780. & finding on it the name of Isaiah Wood, who was several years ago well known to me, & who I supposed to be living, I procured Mr. Bangs' certificate of his service. On my return to Maine I wrote to Mr. Wood, in a distant part

part of the State that I would assist him in procuring his pension, & received in answer, a letter from one of his family, that he had deceased but a year or two before. Therefore the certificate became unnecessary, and was filed away with my papers, as not wanted. On application afterwards in the case of Lemuel Jordan, for a certificate of his service, Mr. Bangs was unable to find the Roll of Capt. Andrews' boy, and is still unable to find it. It has unquestionably been lost among the many & various papers in his office. I myself assisted in the search for it, but a few weeks since & it was not found. I therefore send you with this the certificate formerly made by Mr. Bangs in the case of Isaiah Wood. I trust that you will consider it satisfactory evidence of the service of Capt. Andrews' C.O. in Col. Prune's regt., in 1780. And that the application of Lemuel Jordan will now be admitted. Mr. Jordan is a very old & feeble man, extremely poor, & looks forward to

As this relief, with a great deal of anxiety. I would not thus urge his case, did I not deem it a just one.
I am, sir very respectfully, your obedt Servt Robert C. Rose
Col. J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions, }
P.S. For further evidence of Col. Prime's regiment having served in 1780, see certificate of Mr. Burges in case of Philemon Collins certificate of pension No. 11,965.
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was the draft from Andrew Co for the Leo road men

Lupinus
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Leaves Jordan
let Rob Rose
1 August 1834
same 16 th Aug 2 34
same 28 th Aug 2 34
5765

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
5465
P. O. _____
Samuel Jordan
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, May 14 th 1833.
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 Samuel Jordan is borne on "a pay roll of Benjamin Lambec's company belonging to Col. Mitchell's regt. in the expedition against Penobscot," as having served as a private from July 9 th to Sept. 12 th , 1779, & was paid for two months & three days service.
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And that the name of Samuel Jordan is borne on "a pay roll of Capt. Roger Libby's company who served in a Detachment of men raised out of the militia of the County of Cumberland under the command of Nathl. Jordan Esq.," as having served as a private from Oct. 1 st to Oct. 23 rd , 1779, when he was discharged.
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2.26
And that there are no rolls of Capt. Andrews' Company, on which is borne the name of Samuel Jordan to be found in this Office.
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And that the name of Samuel Jordan is borne on "a pay roll of Capt. Daniel Sullivan's company in Col. Benjamin Foster's regt. in the County of Lincoln, called to machineas three different times to do duty," as having been discharged Oct. 7, 1777, & paid as a private for one month & five days service.
Edward H. Bangs Secy

Boston, July 15 th 1834.
There are a number of Company rolls in Col. Prime's regt. found in this Office, but no one of Capt. Andrews's company, in said regt. except for one man by the name of Henry Aldrich. Samuel Jordan claims for services under Capt. Andrews, in Col. Prime's regt. in 1780.
Edward D. Bangs. Secy

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, November 3 d 1832
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 Gaiah Wood served in Capt. Jonathan Andrews company in Col. Joseph Prime's regiment from May 8 th to Dec. 31. st 1780. & was paid for seven months & 24 days service including time to go home.
Edward D. Bangs Secy