Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1135-200, George Guyger, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn

Guyger, George

NUMBER
B.L. Wt 1135-200

CONTENTS
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Gasper Guygers
Papers

Guygers sent
Bartram and recd
Below Claimant  at
3 Jany

October 3rd
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State of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County

I Gasper Guyger aged seventy five years do under oath testify and declare that I'm a brother and an only heir at law to George Guyger late a Lieutenant of the Pennsylvania line in the army of the Revolution who died intestate and without children.  Also, I further declare that I have never received a warrant from the United States for the bounty land due me in right of said deceased nor do I believe that he received it or transferred his right to it in any manner whatever.  Therefore know all men by these presents that I Gasper Guyger as aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Col Joseph Watran of Washington City my true and lawfull attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary at war of the United States a warrant for the bounty land due me in right of said deceased and my said attorney is hereby authorized and impowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purpose above named and the same to revoke at will.

In witness of where of I have set my hand and seal this day of September 1825.
Gasper Guyger

Witness 
J Bartram

Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said Cty the above named Gasper Guyger signer and sealer to the above power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be his voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein named Sworn subscribed and acknowledged before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County this 26th of  Septr 1825 
G. Bartram 
Aldn and Ex Officio Justice of the Peace
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State of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Coty Ss.
Personally appeared before
me the Subscriber a Justice
of the Peace in and for said
City Sarah Gardner and James Guyger
persons of honorable credibility and
Disinterested witnesses who being duly sworn saith That Gasper Guyger who signed the foregoing power of attorney in their presence is a Brother and an only heir at Law to George Guyger with whoom the said Sarah acquainted and who they ever understood and verily
Believed was a Lieut in the Pennsylvania line in the Army of the revolution and who died single and intestate and without having any issue and further they say not
Sarah Garner
James Guyger
Sworn & subscribed before me
this 29th of September 1825
G. Bartram aldn & 
ex officio Justice of the Peace

Philadelphia County SS
I, Matthew Randall, prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, do certify, that George Bartram, Esquire, before
whom the above affidavit was made, and who has thereto Subscribed his name, was, at the time of so doing, and still is an Alderman of the said Cty, and ex officio a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned & qualified
In testimony whereof I have hereto
set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the said Court, at Philadelphia
the 30th September 1825
Matthew Randall
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July 23, 1935
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George Guyger-Wt.1135-200
BA-J/AWF

Miss Mary Fisher
7122 Edgerton Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

    The records of this office show that George Guyger was a lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Line, War of the Revolution.

    He died "intestate and without children".  Date of his death not given, nor is it shown when and where he was born.

    His brother, Jasper or Gasper Guyger, in 1825 was seventy-five years of age, and then made affidavit in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, stating that he was the only heir.

    Warrant No. 1135 for 200 acres of bounty land was issued October 10, 1825, on account of the services of the above named George Guyger.

    James Guyger made affidavit in 1825 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; it is not stated that he was related to either the soldier, George Guyger or Jasper (Gasper) Guyger.

    In order to obtain information relative to the location of the above noted land, you should write The Commissioner of the General Land Office, Washington, D.C. and cite the following:
     Warrant No. 1135-200 acres-issued October 10, 1825.

                               Very truly yours
            
                                A. D. Hiller
                                Executive Assistant to the
                                Administrator

Handwritten on the right margin - See her letter of required in Henry Sheafer R.9413