Morris County NJ Archives Military Records.....GORDEN, Jemima December 19, 1781
Revwar - Pension 3rd Regt. NJ
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Revolutionary War Pension Record Of Jemima Widow Of William Gorden
JEMIMA GORDEN.
  Morris County Ss : At a Court of General Quarter Sessions of the peace in 
and for the County of Morris on the nineteenth day of December Anno Domini, 
one thousand Seven hundred & Eighty one 
    Present
  David Thompson Benjn. Halsey John Stiles & Will Woodhull Esqrs., Justices.
  Application was made to the court in behalf of Jemima Gorden widow of 
William Gorden, decd. late a Captain in the 3rd regt. of the Troops of this 
State of Newjersey in the Service of the United States for a Certificate to 
entitle her to a Warrant for the halfpay of her late Husband and Certificates 
were presented to the Court in the words & figures following -- to wit

  1st.  I Certify that Captain William Gorden who Died about April 1777 was at 
the time of his Death a Captain in the Third Jersey Regiment.
Morris Town                          F. Barber
December 9th. 1781.                         Lieutt. Coll.

    & also the following Certificate  . . . . . .
  2nd.  New Jersey Morris County -- We whose names are hereunto Subscribed 
being Justices of the peace in Said County do Certify that Jemima Gorden was 
Wife of Captain William Gorden & that they lived together in Honour and 
Reputation Several Years before his Decease in this Township & that the above 
said Jemima is now the Widow of him the said William Gorden who died while in 
the Continental Service as Witness our hands in Pequanock Township September 
the Twenty fourth 1781.
                                      Abrm. Kitchel
                                      William Ross.

  The Court having considered the Same, are of opinion that the Said Jemima 
Gorden is entitled to the half pay of her late Husband Captain William Gordon 
from the Thirtyeth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven 
hundred & Seventy Seven during her Widowhood and that a Certificate be made 
out accordingly . . . . . . . .

Additional Comments:
Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society.
Vol. 1, New Series, 1916, Page 96.


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