Revolutionary War Record/Letters
Document dated May 3, 1784
This is to certify that Alexander Gordon, a private soldier
in my company in the first South Carolina Continental Regiment,
is intitled to a warrant & grant for two hundred acres of land
within this State, agreeable to a resolution of Congress & an
Act & Ordinance of the said State. Witness my hand this third
day of May 1784 and in the eighth year of the Independence of America.
Felix Warley, Major So Carolina line
To all singular the Commissioners of Location the State of So Carolina
Undated letter
Honourable Sir I find me intitled to the pay of a soldier in
the Continental line agreeable to the within and former
declaration agreeable to the Act and records at Washington
you will remit or send my pay to Springfield, Robertson County
State of Tennessee. In my former declaration was to be sent to
Nashville Tennessee but will be convenient to Springfield at
which place my attorney will be duly authorized to receive the
same agreeable to law as I can scarsely dissern day from night
by affliction. Sir if you should require anything more in regard
to proof be pleased to give me that information that is requested
to obtaining my pay as I believe I am entitled as much as any on
earth. I am sir your very obedient servant
Alexander Gordon
Richard Bush
Document dated Nov 23, 1828
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS, for the purpose of obtaining the amount of pay accruing to me for the half year ending on the second day of September Eighteen Hundred and Twenty Eight under the Act entitled For the Relief of Certain Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution approved the fifteenth May, Eighteen Hundred and Twenty Eight. I Alexander Gordon of the County of Robertson and in the State of Tennessee do hereby declare that I was a soldier enlisted for three years service in the first Regiment of South Carolina under Felix Warley, Capt and Pinckney General, being an Army of the Revolution in the continental line as is more fully set fourth on my application for the benefit of said Act and that I have been found entitled by Secretary of the Treasury under that Act to the pay of a Soldier in said line, Witness my hand this the twenty fifth day October in the Year of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Eight----
Alexander Gordon (his mark)
Test, ms a Draft on the Branch Bank at Nashville Tennessee Davidson County w prepared for to receive Letters directed Springfield Robertson County Tennessee
Alexander Gordon (his mark)
R. Rush
Document dated Oct 25, 1828 - James Doss & Andrew Washington gave an affadavit as to
Gordon's reputation for having been a Revolutionary soldier.
Came before me Joel Moore a Justice of the Peace for the County of
Robertson in the State of Tennessee personally appeared this day
James Doss and Andrew Washington of the said County who did
severally make oath that Alexander Gordon by whom the above
declaration was made and subscribed is well known to them to
be the person therein described and that he is genuinely reported
and believing to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution
in the manner as therein stated and that the said declaration was
made and suscribed by the said Alexander Gordon in their presence
on the day and date thereof __mentioned in said declaration as
witness my hand this the twenty fifth of October in the Year of
One Thousand and Eight Hundred and Twenty Eight
signed, James Doss
Andrew Washington
Joel Moore Justice of the Peace
I William Seal Clerk of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter
Session__for the County of Robertson in the State of Tennessee do
hereby certify that Joel Moore before whom the foregoing affidavit
were sworn was at that time a Justice of the Peace for the said
County and duly impowered to administer oaths in testimony whereof
I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at
office this 10th day of November 1828 and 53rd year of American
Independence
Wm Seal, Clerk of Robertson County Court
Letter dated Feb 24, 1829
Sir, I received your advices dated December 22nd, 1828 which
informed me that my declaration was not fully specific enough
to draw my pay under the Act of May the 15th, 1828. Sir, I
hereby agreeable to your advices make this part of my declaration
to be annexed to my former. I first declare I was enlisted by
Captain Martin, and it was for and during the war and served under
Captain Felix Warley until its termination on in the first South
Carolina Regiment commanded by General Pinckney in the Continental
line at which time I was hororably discharged by said Warley my
discharge is lost or mislaid so that I cannot send you the same.
But I have a certificate for my land I was to draw which I have
never drawn as yet to which I will send to you for further proof
unto which you will inclose the same and send to me again. I also
declare to the best of my knowledge that I did receive certificate
for the reward of eighty dollars under the resolve of Congress
passed the 15th of May 1778 and I further declare that I was not
on the pension list of the United States on the 15th of May
eighteen hundred and twenty eight as witness my hand this the
twenty fourth of February eighteen hundred and twenty nine.
Alexander Gordon
Signed and acknowledged before us whose oaths is to the former
declaration.
Signed, ?
Andrew Washington
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS
TREASURY DEPARTMENT 1 May 1829
Alexander Gordon in the County of Robertson in the state of
Tennessee has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for
the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of
certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution,
" approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted
in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and
during the war, and continued until its termination, at which
period he was a private in Captain Warley's company, in the
first regiment of the South Carolina line; and that he received
a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the
resolve of the 15th of May 1778; and further, that he was not
on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United
States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of
March, 1826, nothing. The Third Auditor is requested to report
how far the several statements are corroborated by the records
in his office.
By order of the Secretary
Test, Dickins
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Third Auditor's Office, 2 May 1829
It further appears that Alexander Gordon is not now on the pension
list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3rd March 1826.
The name of Alexander Gordon cannot be found among those of the
South Carolina line, to whom Certificates for the gratuity of eighty
dollars was issued.
Signed, ?
Short note from the War Dept dated May 7, 1829
The records of this office do not shew that Alexander Gordon of the
So Carolina line has received or is entitled to bounty land,
signed Robert Taylor
Letter dated Jul 25, 1829
Honorable Sir I received your instructions of May the 26 which
finding me in a calamitous situation by an eating cancer have lost
my sight entirely. I know not day from night and do not expect to
survive but a short time longer. Therefore find it impossible for
me to make out any more satisfactory proof of my being a soldier
and performing the duty set fourth in my declaration which I
solumnly testified on oath and has believe it was all the act or
law required. Therefore you will lay the same before a proper
committee and if they find me intitled to a pension the same will
be remitted agreeable to my former instructions or if other wise let
me know it and I will lay all expectations aside and dye without
being benefited by said act. Therefore I remain your respective
servant this the 25 of July 1829
Alexander Gordon
By my clerk
Honorable Asbury Pickins-Acting
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