Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,239, William Guest, N.C.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
NC
D
CONTENTS
Guest, William
Anna
NUMBER
W. 21.239
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Reported. Agent
Decr 14th 1838
Let Hon W Thompson
Dec 22 1838
Paid at the Treasury under the
Act of the 6 April 1838 from
4 March 1839 to 4 March 1840
Agt notified 30 Dec 1840
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M. M. Norton July 3d 1845
Let Miles M. Norton Esq
Oct. 17.5

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No 23,902.
South Carolina
William Guest
of Perkins Dist: in the State of S. Carolina
who was a private in the ... commanded 
by Captain .... of the Regiment command
by Col. Cleveland in the N. Carolina
line for 2 years-

Inscribed on the Roll of S. Carolina
at the rate of 50 Dollars .... Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of September, 1838.


Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Dec
1838, and sent to Hon. W.
Thompson, Ho. of Reps.

Arrears to the 4th of
Semi=anl. allowance ending

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Wm M Stuart Clerk,
Book Vol. 6 Page 68-
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Left side:

South Carolina
Anna Guest
wido of William Guest N.C.
who served in the Revolutionary

war, as a private 

Inscribed on the Roll the rate of
50 Dollars ~ Cents
per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March 1848

Certificate of Pension issued the
15 day of December 1848
and sent to Marrell Worth
Pickens Co S.C.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 372 Vol. 2

Right side:

[illegible] 3rd Aug 1850
[cut off] Lumpkin 27 Aug '52
T.T.C. September 24/56

Reported
Decr 15 / 48
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South Carolina Pickens District
On this 11th day of March 1833 Personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Pickens now sitting William Guest resident of State of South Carolna in the District of Pickens aged 70 years the 30th of December past who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed 4th June 1832

That he entered the service of the United States under the following officers and service as herein stated (viz) in June 1775 he enlisted in the Militia under Capt Elijah Isaacs for three months in Col Benjamin Cleveland's Regiment  rendezvoused on the Yadkin River Wilks County North Carolina where they remained in guarding the fort for the term of service. does not recollect the name of the Fort. was discharged at said fort by the captain. In March 1779 enlisted under Capt Moses Guest in a company of Mounted Infantry in the Regiment before mentioned and continued under said Captain until October 1781 rendezvoused at Wilks Court House was received by Col Cleveland. during this service we were generally on Scouting parties were marched to Wattauga twice and near to Long Flances of Holsten once after returning from said place went in pursuit Col Moore who commanded the Tories at Ramsours Mill from thence went in pursuit of Col Briant who commanded the Tory but hearing he had been defeated by Genl Sumter we returned to Wilks in June from until October we were employed in breaking up Tory Camps in different parts of the country
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we were then Marched under Col Cleveland to Kings Mountain defeated Col Ferguson were marched as a guard in the taking the Prisoners to Moravia Town from this I was sent by order of Col Cleveland after Joseph Reid who was wounded at Kings Mountain and left at Doct Dobson's Burke County with orders to bring him to Wilks and wait on him until he recovered from his wounds about the Last of May joined the company again in Wilks was marched over the Mountains to Holsten River. E Tennessee in pursuit of Robbers and Tories which had fled from Moore's defeat returned back to Wilks then was Marched to the head of Catawba where we remained three or four weeks waiting for supplies when we were discharged in October 1781 -- that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure except the affidavit of Moses Guest and Thompson Epperson which is hereunto annexed who can Testify to his service he hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the Present and declaring that his name is not on the Pension Role of the agency of any state Sworn to in open court

William L Keith C.C. Wm X Guest by his mark

We Anthony W. Ross a clergyman residing in the District of Pickens and John C. Kilpatrick residing in the same do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Guest
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who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 71 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the Neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion

Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid

William L Keith, C.C. 
H W Ross
J C Kilpatrick

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interogatory/interogation prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further [original words struck through] certifies that it appears to them that  
Josiah J Evans
[illegible] of Judges

I William L Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickens do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of said Court in the matter of the application of William Guest for a Pension In Testimony whereof I have hereunto out my hand and seal of officer this 13th day of March 1833

William L Keith
CC GS JC CP
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Interegatory [Interrogatory]
1st.  Where and in what year were you born
A.  I was born in Frederick County, Virginia 1762
2  Where were you living when called into service  where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live
A.  I lived in Wilkes County North Carolina when called into service I removed from there in 1785 to South Carolina and now live in Pickens District South Carolina

4.  State were you called into the service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
A.  I first enlisted for three months after which I volunteered and remained untill [until] the close of the war.
5.  State the names of some of the Regular officers who were the Troops where you served such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your services
A.  We were never under the Regular officers at least none was with the troops when I served we were under Col Cleveland Mjr. Lewis, Col Campbell, Col Shelby, Col Williams and Lacy Joined us at the Cowpens and was with us at Kings Mountain
6.  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it.
A.  I received a discharge from Capt Moses Guest at the head of the Catauta
left with Capt. Joel Lewis and do not know what has become of it
7th.  State the names of persons to whom you [have] known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and there belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution
A.  Col J. C. Kilpatrick,  Genl J. N. Whitner Co. R. Anderson and Capt. D. Sloan can vouch for my character
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836
State of South Carolina}
District of Pickens} S.S.
On this fourth day of September 1845 personally appeared before William D. Steele Judge of the Court of Ordinary for Pickens District, Mrs Anna Guest a resident of the District and State aforesaid, aged as near as she can come at it, about 81 or 82 years (whom I certify is unable by bodily infirmity to attend in open Court a distance of about 23 miles from where she resided) who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836: That she is the widow of William Guest who was a private in the Militia of North Carolina, that he entered the service under Captain John Reese she cannot say whether as a volunteer or a drafted militia man, that they resided in Wilks County North Carolina & she thinks when he first entered the service, he marched with the company to which he was attached to Ramson where there had just been a Battle, but he did not arrive in time for it, that he marched much through North & South Carolina, and served a part of his time under his brother Capt. Moses Guest, that he was all the time from her, and she had to work and make a support and nurse her infant and do the best she could, that from the time he first entered the service she seen very little of him, until after the Battle at Kings Mountain in which Battle he was, and after which he left the service, but before that was gone the whole time, only returning occasionally to see her, but it is impossible at this late day and at her advanced age to state much of his services, she recollect however in addition
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that he served under William Lanore who was a Colonel and lived about one mile from them. Her husband however made out his declaration, and proved his services, upon which he obtained a pension under the act of Congress of 7th June 1832, the Certificate for which she now has in her possession, and by reference to the said proof & she hopes satisfactory evidence may be had to establish the claim; certain she is however, that all the service her husband done
was performed after her marriage to him: they left North Carolina a few years after the close of the war and came to Pendleton District in the neighborhood of
where she now resides, and is now in that part of the same District called Pickens.
She further declares that she was married to the said William Guest on the 29th day of July, she thinks from the best calculation she can make, in the year one
thousand seven hundred and seventy nine (1779) as it was the July previous to the taking of Charleston by the British, that the marriage took place in Wilkes County North Carolina, her husband obtained a Licence for the occasion, and the ceremony was performed by one John Barton Esquire, she had a record of
the births of her children and perhaps of the State of the marriage in an old Bible, but the Bible was taken by son Squire Guest who resides in Greenville Dist.
several years ago, and she does not know that it can now be come at that her husband, the aforesaid Wm Guest, died on the Eighth day of July Eighteen hundred and forty one. and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herewith sent 
Anna her X mark Guest
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above
written before
William D. Steele
Judge of the Court of Ordinary for
Pickens District So.Ca.
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I, William L. Keith Clerk of the Court for Pickens District S.C. Certify that  William D. Steele is Ordinary of the District of Pickens, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my seal of Office, this eighth
day of September A.D. 1845
W. L. Keith
Clerk of the Court of
Pickens District
SoCa
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Vertical:
6563
Sept. 16, 1845
Anna Guest
July 4, 1836

Horizontal

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City,
D.C.
1 1/2 ay. 30

6574
S. Carolina
[illegible] of 4 July 1836
Anna Guest
4 July 1836

15 mos. service

Act 4th July 1836
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State of South Carolina}
Pickens District} Before me William D. Steele Ordinary & Ex Office Magistrate for District & State aforesaid, personally appeared Elijah Keese and old and respectable citizen of the State & District aforesaid aged Seventy nine years who being duly sworn make oath that he well reccollects to have been present at the Marriage of William Guest & Anna Allen the Marriage took place at the House of John Keese in Wilks County North Carolina they were Married by John Barton Esq who was a Law Magistrate he beleives the Marriage to have taken place in the year 1779 as he well recollects that in 1780 the times was very troubelsome & that in that year William Guest was out doing service for his country on the Whig side & that they had one child at that time. He also reccollects that they were married some six years before this deponent which must have made it about the year 1779 as this deponent was married in the year 1785- He has been well acquainted with them ever since the close of the Revolutionary war (not living more than 10 miles from them since) that they have lived together as Husband & wife ever since til the death of William Guest which took place some two or three years since, Anna
Guest who he understand is now applying to the United State for a pension is still the Widow of William Guest who was a Revolutionary pensioner that she
has always been & that considered as truthful confidence can be put
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in her statement
sworn to before me
day of September 1845 Elijah Keese
William D. Steele
Ord V Ex Offices
M.P.D.

I, William L. Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickens District S.C. Certify that William D. Steele is Ordinary and by virtue of Office Magistrate in and for the District aforesaid, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine and also, that the affiant Elijah Keese is an old and respectable truthful citizen & his statement, entitled to credit
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed my seal of Office, this
eighth day of September AD. 1845
W. L. Keith
Clerk of the Court of
Pickens District
SoCa.
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1st 4 lines are illegible.

Henry Guest was born
November the 17 day 1784
John Guest was born
[illegible] 
Spring
Allen Guest was
born October th 13 day 1785
Lindsey Guest was 
born April the 15th 
Vancy Guest was born
in August the 15 day 1793
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THE NEW TESTAMENT

OF OUR
LORD and SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST,
Translated out of the
ORIGINAL GREEK:
AND WITH THE
FORMER TRANSLATION
Diligently Compared and Reviled,
By His MAJESTY's Special Comm
APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCH
OXFORD:
PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS,
By W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, Printers to the University,
And fold at the Bible Warehouse, Pater-Row, London.
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CUM PRINILEGIO.
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24284
William Guest
S.C.
Rev
Admit as a private
2 years $80-


Suspended. See Act 23
October 1833 to
Col. Joseph Gresham
Falls P. O.
Pickins
So.Ca.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Pension Office,
183
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the service of William Guest SC
Period when the service was rendered. | Duration of the claimant's service.  years/monehts/days | Rank of the claimant. | Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. | Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. | Proof by which the declaration is supported 
June 1775 3 (months) | Private | Cap Isaacs Col Cleveland | 70 bornin Frederick Co. VA entered the service in Wilkes Co N.C. now lives in Pickens District S.C.
March 7 (months)
Mount 1779 mhs } mounted Infantry | Cap Guest Col Cleveland |
was discharged in Octo 1781- about  | 1 / 7/ | | | two surviving witnesses prove that he serve in the Mounted Infantry. They are not certified unable bu the Courts

Certificate of Clergyman and a Citizen-- but not Certified Credible by the Court

I am, respectfully
Your obedient servant
J. L. EDWARDS.
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. 
The following regulations have been adopted: 
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers, all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 
1. The Regular Troops. 
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service. 
4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record. 

DECLARATION. 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. State, Territory, or District of County of ........
On this ....... day of......... personally appeared (a) before ........ A. B. a resident (b) ........ of ........ aged (c) ........ 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 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) ........, with and served in the ........ (e) regiment of the ........ line, under the following named officers: 
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] 
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) 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, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of ......... 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I ........ of the Court of ____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of ........ for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office 
(i) this ........ of ........ & c. 
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. 
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: 
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the ........ and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with ........, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ........ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid. 
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the ........ and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the ........ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I, ........ Clerk of the Court of ........ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of ........ for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this ........ day of ........ & c. 
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. 
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted ; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his Case. The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia. 
1. Where and in what year were you born? 
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? 
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live? 
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom? 
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. 
6. To a Soldier: Did you ever receive a discharge from service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? To an Officer: Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it? 
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant. The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates. The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court. Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature. No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter. 
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[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance. 
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule. 
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned. 
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. 
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For ____ year ____ months, and ____ days, I served as a ____ and for such service I claim a pension." It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration in highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit, [f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable. 
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required. 
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case. 
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers. 

MODE OF AUTHENTICATING PAPERS. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
PROOF OF SERVICE. 
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
[k] The notes from [a] and [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops [k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases. 
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact. 
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

Specify on above required
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RECORD DIVISION. 3 -- 525.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., ..... 190..

In reply to your request of received for a statement of the military history of William Guest a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. W. 21,239
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. /CAPTAIN. / COLONEL. | 
STATE.
June 1777 | 3 mos | Pvt | Elijah Isaacs / Benjamin Berland | NC
1779 & 1780 | 10 mos | Militiaman | Moses Guest* / Benjamin Berland | NC
1780 & 1781 | 10 mos | " | Moses Guest / Benjamin Berland | NC
June 1781 | 3 wks | " |  Moses Guest / Benjamin Berland | NC
Aug. 1781 | 4 wks | Lieut |  / Heron | NC
* a elder brother of soldier

Battles engaged in, Kings Mountain
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Wilkes Co., N.C.
Date of application for pension, Mar. 1833- cl. al.
Residence at date of application, Pickens District. S.C.
Age at date of application,  6 Dec. 30, 1762 -Frederick Co. Va.- d July 8, 1841.

Remarks: In Wilkes Co, N.C. July 29, 1779 Ann Allen. She was al. pens. on an apl. Exec. Sept. 4, 1845, while "about 81 or 82 years of age and a res. of Pickens District, S. CC. Children: Squier or Squire b. Apr. 14, 1780, Susanna b. Sept. 3. 1782, Mary b. Nov. 17, 1784, Allen b. Oct. 13, 1785, John b. Mar. 30, 1787 and Nancy b. Apr. 15 (year illegible)

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

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Left side vertical:

Let 9th Jany 1835 Col. Jos. Grisham }
Let 9th Jany 1835 for: Johnson } {illegible]
“ 26 March 1835 Jos Grisham
“ 18 Dec 1835 Hon Maddy Thompson
“ 1 April 1836 to same

South Carolina No 23.902
William Guest
of Pickins Dist. in the State of S. Carolina
who was a Private in the .... commanded
by Captain .... of the Regt. commanded 
by Col. Cleveland in the N.Carolina
line for 2 years.
Reduce to $50
Issue new certificate for that
paid amt 1st Semi an payable
4 march 1839.

Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina
at the rate of 80 Dollars .... Cents per annum,
to commense on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of April
1834 and sent to Col. Jos Grisham
Falls, P.O. S.C.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1834  240.00
Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept 1984  40.00
$280.00

{Revoluntionary Claim, }
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 6 Page 68
Page 22

left side:
Refd

Right side:

8043.~
South Carolina.
Anna Guest
widow of Wm Guest
who was a private in the N.C. Line
Husband died 18th day July 1841.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
50 Dollars ---
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
16th day of Decr, 1846.
and sent to Miles M. Norton,
Pickens, C.H.
S.Carolina

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
and 17th June 1844.

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 166.
Page 23

Left side:

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21259
Anna West
Wid of
William Guest
Priv. Rev. War

Act: Feb. 2d 1848
Index:--Vol.
Index: - Vol. A, Page 298

[Arrangement of 1870.]

Right side:

1912, Mar. 12. Hist. to
Mrs. W. R. Roberts
Page 24

Papers of Wm Guest pensioner
Pickens Dist. S. Car Oct Act 1832
Page 25

Capt Guest paid up
to 4th Sept 1834
Page 26

No 11574
Anna Guest
S.C.

Let to M. M. Norton Oct 17 45
same June 19, 1845.
same July 14, 1846.
Same Octob. 1846
Same Nov 7 1846
Act 4 July 1836
Page 27

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
December 16th 1840
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States," William Guest a Pensioner on the Roll of the South Carolina Agency, at the rate of Fifty Dollars and --- Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1839. to the 4th March 1840.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
Page 28

Pickens C. H. S. C.
10th August 1846.

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Dear Sir,
On the receipt of yours of the 14th Ulto & upon reflection as to the justice of Mr Guest, claim under the act of 1836. I determined as I had to go to see her to advise her to make another effort in support of the original application, before accepting under your proposition and for that purpose send you herewith, the additional affidavit of herself & Elijah Keese together with the certificate of the magistrates & clerk, which when property considered, will I hope & believe, be sufficient, to admit her claim as first made, corresponding as it does with the family recorded forwarded before
I am Sir,
Very respectfully
your obt Servt
Miles M. Norton
Page 29

Dec 8, 1846
Supplemental doc
Ann Guest

vertical:
Pickens C. Hill
1st Dec

J.L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.


10
Page 30

Pickens S.C.
28th Nov 1846.

Enclosed I now send you the Declaration of Anna Guest, in accordance with the requisition of yours of the 7th. Just as near as I understand it.
Hope all will be found right.
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Miles M. Norton
Page 31

Oct. 27. 1946

Acceptance of
Ann Guest

Vertical:
Pickens C. Hall
20 Oct

J. L. Edward
Com of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

10
Page 32

Pickens District S.C.
20th October 1846.

Hon J. L. Edward
Com of Pensions
Sir,
Being unable at present to make the further proof of my marriage to my late husband William Guest, required by your several communication to my agent Col. Norton; I must accept your proposition to grant me a pension under the act of 3d Mar 1843 & 17th June 1844. altho' fully satisfied of my right to it under the act of 1836, but my necessities require present and and a longer delay might deprive me of the benefit altogether I hope therefore you will issue & forward certificate, accordingly.
With the highest respect
Sir, your Obt Servt
Anna her X mark Guest

Signed in presence of W. S. Grisham
Page 33

Pickens, S.C.
20th Octr 1846

Dear Sir,
Yours of the 6th. Just is at hand and I hasten to forward you Mrs Guests' acceptance under the acts of 1843 & 1844, agreeable to yours of the 19th June & 14th July.
You will please forward her certificates
very respectfully
your obt St
Miles M. Norton
,
Page 34

near Pendleton
Sept. 12. 1846

Sir
Enclosed I send you some affidavits respecting the date of the marriage
of Mrs. Ann Guest by herself and Elijah Keese.  I am not acquainted with
either Mrs Guest or Mr Keese, but I am intimately with W.S. Grisham and
Wm Steele Esqr. also with the Clerk of the Court W Kieth. All of whom I have
no hesitancy in assisting are man of character and veracity, and every credit may be given to the certificates
The age and circumstances of Wm Guest make it very desirable that she
should at an early day, get what ever the law may entitle her to and therefore request you would give her application an early answer.
Very Respectfully
your obt servt
R.T. Simpson

Col J. L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
Page 35

Anna Guest
S.C. adm


Cole


T. Lumpkin
Page 36

Washington D.C.
April 12th 1852

Sir:
I have examd the case of Mrs Anna Guest, of S.C. widow of William Guest,
who has been allowed a pension under act of 7th July, 1838, but who first
applied under act of 4 July 1836, and I am fully satisfied from the strong evidence in this case that she was justly entitled to the benefit of the latter act. You will see that she was married in 1779 and the birth of her first child took place in April 1780. He served in 1779 under Capt Moses Guest of S.C. who has enjoyed a pension act 7th Jany 32 and I respectfully ask a reference
his papers. He continued in service till 1781.
I have the honor &
be very resfy
Th Lumpkin

Hon J. E. Heath
Comm of Pensions
Page 37

[illegible] 26/50

Anna Guest
2416-48 SC

W Ames
Page 38

Washington 26th April 1850,

Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir a pension was granted some years ago to Anna Guest of Pickens Dist So.  Ca. under the acts of "43&44 - The application for pension was under the act of 1836 and from what I can burn the proof was sufficient to have entitled her under that act to the certificate. The Department however decided otherwise and I now respectfully ask that the papers may be reexamined and the error, if an error was committed, corrected.
I have the honor to be very
respectfully your Obt Servt
James L Orr
Page 39

Moses Guest
Act '32

Ga_
Page 40

{State of N. Carolina
{Comptrollers Department
I Geo. W. Brooks Comptroller of Pub. Accounts in and for the state aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears of record in my office among the payments made to sundry soldiers soldiers of the Revolutionary war as follows viz
William Guest,
Indent No. 959. £13.10. Specie Salisbury Dists allowed in the year 1782
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my name and
affixed the seal of said office at
Raleigh on his the 31st day
of October 1856
Geo. W. Brooks
Compt,
Dis Oct /87
Page 41

July 7 '46

Pickens C.H. S.C.} 10
30th June 1846

Hon J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington City,
D.C.

S.C.
Page 42

Pickens C.H. S. C
29th June 1846

Hon. J. L. Edwards

Dear Sir
Yours of the 19th Just is at hand, and altho' Mrs Anna Guest, in whose behalf you write, is not satisfied of the justice of her claim under the act of 4th July 1836. being withheld yet her present necessities forbid her refusal of your grant of a pension to her under the act of '43. & '44. you will therefore please forward her certificate accordingly
She does not however yet respond of being able to satisfy you of her marriage previous to her husbands last period of service, but at present cannot think of any way to do so
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Miles M. Norton
Page 43

Pickens C.H &c}
31 Mar } 10

Vertical:
April 8/46.
Addl to case
Anna Guest


J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
Page 44

Pickens C. H. S. C.
31st March 1846


Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Dear Sir
I have to ask your pardon for an error committed by myself in procuring & sending through mistake the to certificate of the Clerk of Yancey, Caswell County
with regard to the marriage of Mrs Guest, instead of that of Wilkes County which I have procured and now send you herein
very respectfully
Your obt St
Miles M. Norton
Page 45

Pickens C.H.S. C
27 June

Hon J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

Vertical:

July 3rd 45
Wm. Guest
S.C.
Page 46

Pickens S.C.
24th June 1845.


Hon J. L. Edward
Comr of Pensions,
Dear Sir, I write in behalf of the widow of William Guest decd formerly of this Dist. who was placed on the Pension List the 19th April 1834. and afterwards struck off. to enquire upon what grounds he was displaced. that I may know how to proceed to procure a Pension for her. your attention to this matter will oblige the poor old lady, as well as again very much oblige your often obliged
Obt. Servt
Miles M. Norton
Page 47

State of North Carolina}
Caswell County}
I Alisha Slade Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that I have searched my office for the Marriage Bond of William Guest to Anna Guest and have not been able to find said Bond I also certify that the records of Marriages about the date they are supposed to have been married ([illegible]) about 1778 or 1779
do not appear to be perfect -
In Testimony of all of which
I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my Official
Seal this 9th day of March
1846
A. Slade Clk
Page 48

Pickens C.H.S.C.} 10
27 March 1846

Hon J.L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington City 
D.C.

Vertical:
April 2, 1846
Ada’l tes can

Anna Guest
Page 49

Pickens S.C.
25th March 1846

Hon. J. L. Edward
Com of Pensions
Dear Sir,
In the case of Mrs Anna Guest, I have been since the rect of yours of the 17th Oct. 1845. trying to procure the certificate of the Clerk of Wilkes County N.C. and it is only today recd and is together with the Family record, herein forwarded, which I hope will be satisfactory in her case. The affidavit of Elijah Keese, which was in the first instance forwarded, was not taken either in the presence of myself or the old lady
very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Miles M. Norton
Page 50

Georgia
Franklin County ⎬ Personally appeared before me Woodson Blankinship a Justice of the peace in & for said County Capt Moses Guest & Thompson Epperson resident in the County & State aforesaid that they are hereby certify well acquainted with William Guest of Pickens District in the State of South Carolina and that they saw & knew him in the Militia of North Carolina, in Capt Guests Company of light Dragoons, in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War
Sworn & subscribed before
me this 18th day of Sept 1832⎬ Moses Guest
Woodson Blankinship JP Thompson his X mark Epperson


Georgia
Franklin County⎬Clerks office Inferior Court 
I Thomas King Clerk of said Court to hereby certify that Woodson Blankinship whose name appears to the above affadavit as a subscribing
witness is a Justice of the peace as there represented, and that full faith & credit ought to be had and given to his attestations as such, & that the same
is in due form - Given under my hand and
seal of office this 18th day of Sept 1832
Thos King C.I.C.
Page 51

Georgia
Franklin County ⎬ I, ....... one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that Thomas King whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is clerk of the Inferior Court of said County, and that full faith & credit ought to be had and given to his attestations as such, and that the same is in due form - Given under my hand this 19th day September 1832

Robt William J.I.C.
Page 52

William Guest
Payments to be made
at Charleston $80: ~
by the First U. S. Br. Bk. V
Agent for paying Pensioners
in the Agency of S. Carolina

Return answer 
to Co. Jos Grisham
Fall P.O.
Pickens Dist S.C.


Recorded in the Pension Office, 
in Book E. Vol. 6
Page 68 by D. Brown
Clerk

No 23.902
Page 53

WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, William Guest of the State of South Carolina who was a Private in the War of the Revolution is entitled to receive Eighty dollars and ... cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semiannually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year
Given at the War Office of the United
States, this 19th day of
April one thousand eight
hundred and thirty four
Lew Cass
Secretary of War.


Examined and
Countersigned. }
J L Edward
Commissioner of Pensions.
Page 54

The papers of William Guest a
rev pensioner from Pickens Disct
South Car. H. C. Spalding
Sept 30th 1856.
Page 55

William Guest S. Carolina
Act 1832 $50 pen and
Date of death or last payment
Pension office
H.C.W.
Dec. 11. 1846,
Died 18th July 1841.
paid to his death,
BLB
Page 56

9147 1304
Anna Guest
S. Carolina
3 Mar 1843
M. before 94-
D. 18 July 1841
15 mos
-11-
Admitted-- $50

Declaration made 4 Sept
1845
---
Also 17 June 1844

Col. Miles M. Norton
Pickens CH
S. Carolina
Page 57

Declaration
In order to withdraw the claim of Anna Guest to a pension under the act of 4th July 1836 and assert it under the act of 1843 and 1844.
State of South Carolina}
District of Pickens} On this twenty seventh day of November 1846. personally appeared Mrs Anna Guest before me, who declares that she application, by declaration dated 4th September 1845 for a Pension under the act of Congress of 4th July 1836. that she the widow of William Guest is the same who made application by declaration dates 4th September 1845, for a pension underthe act of congress of 4th July 1836. that she is a resident of this District and aged about 82 years, that she has been defeated for want of sufficient proof to succeed with her claim under that act, and she hereby relinquishes her said claim, and claims the benefit of the provision made by the act of 1843 and 1844 to which she is informed she is entitled for the necessary proof and statements in the matter, she refers to her former declaration and the proof therewith & subsequently sent Anna her X mark Guest 
Sworn to and subscribed
this 27th day of November 1846 before me-
Miles M. Norton
Not. Pub. &
Ex Off. M. P. D.

I, William L. Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickens District S.C. Certify that Miles M. Norton is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my seal of Office & subscribed my name
this 28 November 1846
W L Keith
Clerk of the Court of
Pickens District
SoCa
Page 58

Cap. Guest
Page 59

Fairplay Oct 25 1838

My Dear Sir
After my very best respects I wish you to examine my papers when you get to Washington and then give all the information or nearly so that I can give respecting my pension Capt Moses Guest was the Capt who I served under.  I was about the first on the roll I served all the time he did and he (Moses Guest) drew a pension as long as he lived (and of course I should).  I got evidence of my service and I told them to Col Jones before I left N Carolina.  I have done all I can do about it and if you can do any thing for me it never will be forgotten by your old friend and well wishes and pay you for your trouble
Respectfully yours
William Guest
Page 60

Mar 9 1912

Pension Office
US
Mar 6 1912
Page 61

Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C. 

Please send me the pension records of Wm. Guest South Carolina 1833. W 21239 of Thomas Young of  Iredell Co. N.C. 
Very Truly
Mrs. W. R. Roberts
907 Center Ave. 
Brownwood Texas  3/3/12
Page 62

State of South Carolina } Personally appeared before me F.N. Garvin a Justice 
Pickens District } assigned to keep the peace in and for Pickens District and State afforesaid William Barton Esquire and made oath in due form of law and on his oath saith that he is well acquainted  with Capt. William Guest who has applied for a Pension and has been acquainted with him and that from his own knowledge he knows that many of the facts stated by William Guest is substantially true and he
believes the whole is true as he lived in the same neighborhood that said Guest did during the war and that Moses Guest was a capt and was brother to the applicant William Guest.
Sworn to before me  Wm Barton
this 10th day of March1834
FN Garvin, J.P.

I certify that William Barton who subscribed
to the above affidavit in an acting Magistrate
and is worth of credit  FN Garvin J.P.
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I William L. Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickens District do certify that Frederick N. Garvin is a Magistrate as within stated & that all due credit is due to his attestation of such that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine
Given under my hand and
Seal of the Court this thirteenth
day of March 1834-
William L Keller
Clerk of the Court
Pickens District
S. C
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North Carolina }
Wilkes County } SS
W. Mastin Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the and State aforesaid do certify that I have carfully examined the record of Bond for Marriage Licence in my office from the earliest dates and do not find any evidence of the marriage of William Guest to Anna Allen
I further certify that the records was verry imperfectly keep from the time the records commenced up to the year 1800 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of my office at Wilkesborn March
18th 1846
W Mastin Clk
Page 65

State of South Carolina }
District of Pickens } SS. Be it Known, that on the twelfth day of March A.D. 1852, before the subscriber, a Notary Public in and for said District, personally appeared Anna Guest and made oath according to law, that she is the widow of William Guest (who was a soldier of the War of the Revolution) and a pensioner of the United States at the rate of $50. per annum, that she has reason to believe that the said pension ought to be increased; and that she is directly interested in the same, and makes this affidavit to be filed by her attorney, with any additional
evidence or arguments he may deem necessary in the prosecution of said claim
Anna her X mark Guest
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year last above
written before me,
Miles M. Norton
Not. Pub. & Ex Off. M. P. D.

State of South Carolina }
District of Pickens } SS. Be it known that before Miles M. Norton a Notary Public in and for said District, personally appeared Anna Guest who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say, that she is the widow of William Guest (who was a soldier in the war of the revolution) and a pensioner of the United States at the rate of $50. per annum, that she now makes this declaration to recover any encrease and arrears of pension, that may be due, on account of the services of Wm Guest as aforesaid, for the benefit of herself under any act, or
resolutions of Congress applicable to the case
Anna her X mark Guest
Sworn to and subscribed this 12th March 1852
Miles M. Norton
Not. Pub. &
Ex. Off. M. P. D.
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Ex by March 30/32 

Vertical margin - Mr Lumpkin

Know all men by these presents, That I Anna Guest widow of William Guest (who was a soldier in the revolutionary war) do hereby constitute and appoint Thomas Lumpkin my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to prosecute my
claim to any increase and arrears of pension that may be found due on account of the services of said William Guest as aforesaid and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers and documents touching my claim, on file in the departments at Washington or elsewhere, and file any additional evidence or
arguments he may think proper, to insure the recovery of the same. Witness my hand and seal this 12th March 1852.
Anna her X mark Guest {seal}
Signed and sealed in the 
presence of witnesses
Wm Guest
Miles M. Norton,


State of South Carolina } 
District of Pickens } Ss.
On this twelfth day of March 1852 before the subscriber, a Notary Public in and for said District, personally appeared Anna Guest and acknowledged the  foregoing power of Attorney to be her act and deed. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned
Miles M. Norton
Not. Pub. & Ex. Off. M.P.D.

I, William L. Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickens District S.C. do hereby certify that Miles M. Norton before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was at the date of the same a Notary Public in and for said District, duly authorised by law to administer oaths: and his name thereto subscribed is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal of Office this 15 March 1852
W. L. Keith
C. C. P. D
Page 67

State of South Carolina}
District of Pickens} SS.
On this ninth day March 1835 Personally appeared before the Hon Richard Gantt one of the Associate Judge of the State of South Carolina in lien Court at Pickens Court House, William Guest a resident of Pickens District and State aforesaid aged Seventy two years 30th December last, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following additional Declaration - by order of the Commissioner of Pensions in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That in June (as well as he recollect) 1777, he was the 15 years of age Capt. Isaac of Wilkes County N.C. applied to him to volunteer to build & Guard a fort on the head of the Yadkin near to Genl Lanores House He turned out volunteer for three months and did go with the said
Capt Isaac & did help to build the Fort & guard it by order of Col. Cleveland who commanded the Militia of Wilkes County. He was discharged at the end of three months some time in September and he was paid for these three months service
that afterwards in March 1779 he turned out a volunteer in what was called the
Minute service a corps ordered by the Legislature of North Carolina in 1778 to be raised on the Frontiers one Company in Wilkes County of Mounted Infantry of which company Moses Guest the Brother of Declarant who was 12 years older was appointed Captain. and in the month of March 1779 they rendesvouzed at Wilkesboro in said County and had their Horses &c appraised, Inspected & mustered in the service. The service was against the Tories, Deserters, outliers and enemies of the United States, and they were ordered into the service & continued in it continuously from the Month of March 1779 till June 1780 not less than ten months; during all the
Page 68

time he followed no regular business except as a soldier. It is true he was some days during that time permitted to visit his family and he was some days occasinally at home by leave of his officers, but many times he has left home at night often told to join his company. He does not at this late day now distinctly recollect all the incidents of the tours & services of that period of 15 months but he does know that his wife made the crops during that period & did nearly all the work in the field.
In June 1780 he volunteered or was yet considered & in the Minute Service and went under Capt Guest & with Col Cleveland & all his effection force to Ramsours Mill against Col Moore who had 800 Tories stationed there but before Clevelands army arrived Genl Rutherford defeated Moore. He was then marched under Capt Guest, Major Micajah Lewis, Col Benj Cleveland, to go to Hanging Rock against Tory Col Bryant, but before they arrived at the Hanging Rock the Battle was fought. They then returned home or rather by Home & was marched into the Lower part of Burke County and was there stationed on the Catawba River about two or three weeks when Col. Cleveland Ordered Capt Moses Guest with his company of mounted Infantry to cross the Mountains & to Watauga in (what is) perhaps what is now Ash County. They took some prisoners & returned to Wilkesboro, there joined Col. Cleveland again & was ordered to keep the Tories under as much as possible by Ferguson was then approaching the Mountain 
In September of 1st October having heard that Col Campbell, Shelly & Severe were comeing over the Mountain Col. Cleveland Collected all the men he could and joined Campbell and Mud creek, head of the Catawba in Burke County and went on with them one took Col. Ferguson at Kings Mountain was in that Battle Early in the engagement one of his messmates was wounded in the thigh who asked him if we gained the Battle not to leave him on the ground after the Battle was over he went & found the wounded man & was directed by the Capt &
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Col. to take him & the other wounded to Doct. Dobsons Burke County. Afterwards was ordered to collect Beef & take to the army at Wilkesboro which he did and went as one of the guard to Moravian Town was then ordered by Col. Cleveland to go back to Doct Dobson and take Reid the wounded man home & to nurse him till he got well which he did for four months which was in June 1781.- In June 1781 he was again volunteer with Capt. Guest Lieut Ferguson to go to the Long Island on Holstein against the Tories and they took 4 or 5 prisoners & on the return took one deserter who was hung-was out not less than three weeks this tour - In August 1781 was called out as a volunteer & Col Heron who had the command appointed him Lieut, but he got to commission that he recollects-- went with him to Cathys Fort on the head of the Catawba rendevouzed there remained about three weeks & a supply of amunition could not procured to go against the Indians & most of the men returned home. He was out not less than four weeks this time. He is certain he was in the service not less than three months, in the year 1777- 3 months
Ten month, in the year 1779 & 1780 June 10 do.
Six Month, from June 1780 to Jany. 1781- 6 do.
From January to June 1781 - Four Mo. - 4 do.
June & July - 1781 - 3 weeks .21 days
August 1781 - 4 weeks .28 days
Months. 24. 19 days
He has again repeated to the best of his recollections his services, and would add as a reason why there may be some discrepancy between the statement of him & his old Brother Capt. Guest that they were not together in the Tour 1777 and the some of the other services - And that the Gentleman who took his testimony for Moses Guest would not put in
any of the service as a minute man which was much and arduous and which he believes he is as much entitled to pay for as any other part.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares his not on the pension Roll of any agency in any state except the State of South Carolina which Certificate in now herewith return to the Department.
Ans. 1. He was born in Fredk County Va 30 Decr 1762
2. He has not now any record of his age.
3. He lived in Wilkes County N.C. during the war of of the Revolution & till 1785 He moved into Pendleton & has lived it & Pickens, ever since
4. Volunteer at all times
5. Does not know that he was ever under any Regular officer was with such Militia Officers as named & does not recollect any others
6. He thinks he he got one does not certainty know he had a written discharge at all
7. Col. J.C. Kilpatrick, Col Robt Anderson Col
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Joseph Grisham have known me for many years & I can appeal to them as witnesses for my character as an Honest & creditable person
Sworn to and Subscribed in open } William his X mark Guest
Court the day and year aforesaid } 
William L Keith C.C.

We Benj. D. Dupre a Clergyman residing in the District of Pickens and Joseph Grisham residing in the same hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Capt. William Guest, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion
Sworn and Subscribed the day and } Benj. D. Dupre
year aforesaid in Open Court } Joseph Grisham
Before William L. Keith C.C.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department, that the above applicant William Guest, was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Benj. D. DuPre who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the District of Pickens, and that Joseph Grisham who has also signed the same is a resident in the said Pickens Dist and is a credible person, and that their statements entitled to credit.
Richard Gault
Presiding Judge

I William L. Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickens District do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Guest for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of Office this
13th day of March 1835.
William L. Keith
Clerk of the Court
of Pickens District
South Carolina
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Mrs Anna Guest


answer to
Miles m. Norton
Pickens C.H. 
S.C.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of 2d February 1848 entitled, "An act making further provision for surviving widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."

State of South Carolina
District of Pickens ⎬ SS.
On this fourteenth day of September 1848 personally appeared before Miles M Norton Notary Public and Ex Officio Magistrate of the District aforesaid, Mrs Anna Guest a resident of the same District and State, aged eighty four or eighty five years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of William Guest who was a private in the militia, a portion of his time under Capt. Moses Guest and Col. William Lavone. She received a pension under the act of 17th June 1844 of Fifty dollars per annum. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Anna her X mark Guest
Witness.
David T. Stribling
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before
Miles M. Norton
Not. Pub. &
Ex. Off. M. P. D.

I certify that I am personally acquainted with Mrs Anna Guest, and know her to be the same who was placed on the Pension List under the act of 17th June 1844.
Miles M. Norton
Not. Pub. &
Ex. Off. M. P. D.
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South Carolina }
Pickens District } I, William L. Keith, Clerk of the Court, do hereby certify that Miles M. Norton is a Magistrate as the written proceedings indicate, and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have
hereunto affixed by seal of Office
and subscribed my name, this 14th
September 1848.
W. L. Keith
Clerk of the Court of 
Pickens District
SoCa
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William Guest
private
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The State of South Carolina } Personally appeared before me the under 
Pickens District } signed a Justice of the peace in and for the District of Pickens Capt. William Guest who being duely sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grade viz a Private he this  deponent entered the service in the year 1777 a volunteer under Capt. Elijah Isaacs in the month of June he thinks and was attached to Col Ben Cleaveland regiment and served three months and was dismissed in the fall of the year after having guarded a fort on the Yadkin River which he cannot recollect the name of he then returned home and there remained until March 1779 when he volunteered under Capt. Moses Guest in a company of mounted infantry and was again under Col. Ben Cleveland and was March to Long Island on holston and wattauga and took some deserters who had deserted from our army and some Tories prisoners and served not less than seven months he thinks, more he then went home but a short as the times were so troublesome he could not stay at home he again in the year 1780 some time in Early part of the spring turned out under Capt. W. Guest and joined Col Campbell, regiment after having been on several scouting parties after The Tories and was under him at Furgusons defeat on Kings Mountain he thinks in October of the same year and from there he went to the Moravian Town to where he remained guarding some prisoners until some time in the latter part of Dec. or the first of January 1781 he served in that time of service not less than
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nine months he then was sent from there by Col Cleveland to take care of Jos Reid who was wounded which he did and carried him home and attended on him for three months by which time he so far recovered that he left him in June 1781 turned out a volunteer again under Capt Moses Guest and was march to Long Island on Holston and was there for some time employed inquest of the tories he then after having staid about one month he was march back to the Catawber and there was discharged in October he thinks after having served not less than three months he is so infirm in body and mind that he cannot state facts with more precision than what he has done he is of opinion and believes that there is errors committed in his original declaration in consequence of the great haste in which it was drew up he or the writer has erred in the date of the years in which he first entered the service making it 1775 in place of 1777 he further saith that from March 1779 untill October 1781 he was not employed in any civil pursuit whatever
Sworn to and subscribed } William his X mark Guest 
before me this 9th Oct. 1833 }  
F.N. Garvin  J.P.             

I William L. Keith Clerk of the Court for  Pickens District in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that Frederick N. Garvin Esquire above named is a Magistrate as above stated and that the signature above purporting to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand
and the seal of the Court
at Pickens Court house this
10th October 1833
William L. Keith
Clerk of the Court
for Pickens District
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I Miles M. Norton Notary Public & Ex Off. a Justice of the Quorum at Pendleton Do Certify That Col. Joseph Grisham late Port Master at Pendleton. Archibald Lawhon one of the oldest & most respected Citizens of Pendleton Village and Enoch B. Benson Esquire also one of the oldest citizens of the Village & now a member of the Legislation of South Carolina appeared before me & made Oath. That the facts stated in their foregoing Certificate
are true. Joseph Grisham
Sworn to & subscribed this } A. Lawhon
9th day of August 1833 } E. B. Benson
before me
        Miles M. Norton 
        Not. Pub  & 
         Ex. Off.  JUQ
I, Van A. Lawlon Clerk of the Court of Anderson District, S. C. Certify that Miles M. Norton is a Notary Public and Ex. Off. a Justice of the Quorum, as above, and that the above is his signature.
9th August 1833 Van. A. Lawlon C.C
I have known Capt. William Guest for fifteen years & concur in the foresaid certificate.
Van A. Lawhon
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The State of South Carolina
I William L. Keith Clerk of the Court for Pickers District in the said State Do certify that John Myers Esquire whose signature appears to the annexed affidavit is an acting Justice of the Peace for the said District that the above or annexed is genuine and that all due faith & credit is & ought to be given to his Testimonial or [illegible]
I also certify that I am acquainted with the written names Miles M. Norton & Van A. Lawton the within is their certificate or signature and that I know they act in capacity & office within mentioned.
Given under my hand and
seal of the Court this tenth
day of August in the Year
of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty three and in
the fifty eighth year of the
Sovereignty & Independence of
the United States of America
William L. Keith
Clerk of Court
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The State of South Carolina
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace for
Pickens District in the State aforesaid Capt. William Guest of said District, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that he does not know of any living Witnesses who can prove his services except Guest & Epperson,  whose affidavit was sent with his application, that he did not know it was necessary to have a certificate of Credibility. That they are credible & respectable & if he was able to go to them again the Magistrate would no doubt certify. That the Certificate for the Clergyman & Citizen is erronious, in that it states them to reside in Anderson, where Col. Kilpatrick Avis in Pickens District. And the certificate of the Judge is defective as it does not say the Clergyman & Citizen are respectable these omissions were made in the hurry at Court, as the Judge had got through all the business and was waiting for the application & presuming no doubt the certificate, were full signed them in great haste. These explanations are made to shew how the errors were committed. And this deponent can produce any respectable citizen of the neighbourhood in which he has lived for the last Forty Seven Years to certify to his credibility & good moral character. And this deponent doth also declare that he served not less than three months in the year 1775 as it is stated, (only it is said he enlisted, when the fact was he volunteered, this was also an error of the man who drew up his application).
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This deponent further saith that he served not less than Two years and four months in in actual service under his enlistment in March 1779. and was by Col. Cleveland, Ordered to take the wounded man Jos. Reid & nurse him, which deponent did for the shace of about three months and was discharged as is stated. And further Moses Guest whose affidavit is with his application was for several years a Justice of the Peace until he got too old to serve. and Thompson Epperson was a captain of the Militia these matters are mentioned by way of explanation. This deponent cannot write nor can he read writing, otherwise he believes his papers would have been corrected as they were read over to him in haste & perhaps read as they should have been written, which he is sure was neither intended by the winter or directed by this deponent- William his X mark Guest
Sworn to & subscribed}
Before me this 9th}
day of August 1833}
John Myers J.P.

We the undersigned Citizen of Pendleton Dist lately divided into two Judicial District - Do Certify that we have been for many years well acquainted with Capt. William Guest above named and he has always supported an unimpeachable character for Honesty and truth & we have implicit confidence in his word
I have known him Twenty Years Joseph Grisham
I have known him betwen Twenty & Thirty years A. Lawhon
I have known Wm Geness for seventeen years E. B. Benson
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State of South Carolina} Personally appeared before me
Pickens District } FN Garvin a Justice assigned to keep the Peace in and for the District of Pickens and State afforesaid William Guest and made oath in due form of Law and on his oath saith that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he can not swear positively to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recolection he served not less have the periods stated below and in the follow grades to wit a private he entered the service in the summer of 1777 under Capt Elijah Isaac in North Carolina Wilks County and was garisoned at fort Isaacs in Wilks County North Carolina and served there three months guarding the fort whilst the North Carolina troops were on expedition against the Indians he next entered the service in March 1779 under Capt Moses Guest a volunteer meet at Wilks court house North Carolina and was there reviewed by the field officers of that County Col. Cleaveland, and Maj Herndon and was in the service untill June 1780 which was one year and three months during that time he was not at home more than seven days at any one time and more than twelve times he thinks that he was not at home so much but is certain not more in June 1780 he returned
home and stayed not more than ten days he then was mached to the Catawba and there joined Col Benj. Cleaveland and continued in actual service untill October was in the Battle of Kings mountain from there he was sent by Col. Cleveland with his messmate Joseph Reed that was wounded to a Doctor on the Catawba he then joined the army
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and march on to the Moraviantown with the prisioners and stayed there three weeks when he was ordered back to take care of Joseph Reed his wounded messmate he then took him home and waited on him and nursed him untill June 1781 he was order out by Col Cleaveland under Capt Guest after the tories and was six weeks out in that tour he then was at home about two weeks he then was ordered to Join Genl McDowel in an expedition against the Indians, and was quartered at Cathies fort on the head of the Catawba six weeks He could not get supplies and was there discharged for want of education. He cannot recollect dates precisely but the facts are as above stated as nearly as he can recollect
Sworn to before me William his X mark Guest
this 10th March 1834
F. Marvin J.P.


I William L. Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickens District do certify that FN Garvin is a Magistrate as within stated & the signature within is genuine. Given under my hand
and seal of the Court
13 March 1834
William L. Keith
Clerk of the Court
Pickens District
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South Carolina    }   Amendatory Declaration
Pickens District   }   of Mrs Anna Guest
Before me personally appeared Mrs. Anna
Guest and made oath in due form of law
that in her application for a pension under the
act of the 4th July 1836 she stated her mar-
riage to have taken place to the best of her 
recollection on the 29th July 1779, she is still
of the same opinion.  Her old family record
has been forwarded to the Pension Office
by which will be seen the date of the birth
of her first child Squire Guest who was
born as she well recollects, ten months and
about one week after her marriage.
She cannot produce record evidence of her marria
ge, but is sure she cannot be mistaken with
regard to its having taken place, previous, to
the service of her husband in the Revolution
ary War and thinks hard that the testimony
of her old neighbor Elijah Reese who witnes
sed the marriage, cannot be taken in
proof of the fact.                           her
   Sworn to Before me          Anna Guest
this 6th day August 1846            mark
    W.S. Grisham
              Not. Pub & Ex Off
                       M.P.D
South Carolina          }     Elijah Keese came personally
Pickens District         }     before me and made oath
in due form of law that upon being called upon
the second time to explain and prove with reference
to the marriage of Anna Guest states that he is
no relation of hers, and has no interest whatever
in her obtaining a pension that he was eighty
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years old the 20th of April last; that he knew the said Anna Guest, then Anna Allen, when he was quite young, probably eight or ten years of age, in Wilkes County N.C., that the said Anna Allen lived with deponents Brother , and was married at his house; deponent thinks he was about thirteen years of age at the time of the said marriage, is satisfied he was but little over that, from which, and other circumstances he is satisfied the marriage must have taken place about the year 1779.  Deponent farther states, that he himself was married on the 13th of October 1785, and is sure that the said Anna Guest was then living with the said William Guest as his wife, and had two or more children, that her oldest child was a Son named Squire, and he is also sure that the said child Squire was born previous to his father's entering the service in the War of the Revolution, or that the said William Guest was out in the said service after the birth of the said child Squire. When called upon in the first instance with regard to this matter Mrs Guest was not present, nor had he consulted with her to refresh his memory as to dates, nor has he since done so, but makes his statement as he first did, from his own memory and the foregiving circumstances
Elijah Keese
Sworn to before me this 7th August 1846 
W. S. Grisham
Not Pub & Ex Off
M. P. D.

From the appearance of the affiant Elijah Keese, I believe him to be the age he represents himself; and from my knowledge of him, and his general
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character; I certify that he is a man of undoubted veracity, and respectability, and his statements entitled to full credit; and also that Mrs. Anna Guest is of good character in her neighborhood and worthy of belief.
W. S. Grisham
Not. Pub. & Ex. Off.
M.P.D.

South Carolina
Pickens District
I certify that when I called upon Elijah Keese Sept 1845 to prove the marriage of Anna Guest. The old lady was not present nor was her Agent M. M. Norton. That W. Keese appears to be the age he represents himself that he is a man of good memory and seemed to make his statements with great care and from his own memory and the circumstances which he related not relying upon the statement of others to refresh his memory as to dates. And I was surprised to find on giving from there to Mrs. Guest (whose declaration was already made out) the statements of the two to correspond so well as to date of marriage. Elijah Keese is a man of respectability and undoubted veracity.
William D. Steele
Judge of the Court of Ordinary
for Pickens Dist.
SC
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I W. L. Kieth Clerk of the Court of Pickens District in the State of South Carolina, do hereby certify that W. S. Grisham whose signature purporting to be his as Notary Public are Genuine he is Notary Public for said District duly appointed Commissioned and qualified and D. Steele whose signature appears to the within Certificate of Ordinary is genuine, he is Judge of the Court of Ordinary for Pickens District and all due faith and credit are due and ought to be given to their official acts as such. I further certify that I am well acquainted with Elijah Keese who is an old Citizen of our District and is a man of undoubted veracity 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & Seal of Office at Pickens C.H.
this tenth day of August A.D. 1846
W. L. Keith
Clerk of the Court of
Pickens District So.Ca.
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