Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32283, Benjamin Guess, N.C.
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Service N.C. 
Guess, Benjamin
Number S 32283
Born in Va.

This envelope includes final payment voucher.
Received from GAO
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Alabama 26403
Benjamin Guess
of Fayette Co. in the State of Al. who was a Pr in the Company  commanded by Captain Isaacs of the Regt. commanded by Col. G[illegible] in the N. Carolina line for [blank]
1 yr 3 Mo [illegible] $66, 66 1/2
* resides in Marion County
Inscribed on the Roll of Alabama at the rate of 66 Dollars and 66 Cents per annum,  to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of June and sent to 
[illegible] Fayette Co. 
Arrears to the 4th of Mar [illegible] 200.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sepr  33.33
$233.33
Revolutionary Claim ,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J.P. Sprague, Clerk
Book 6 Vol. 8 page 45
Date of death not on  AB
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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Huntsville Alabama, December 7, 1842 Received of Bartley M. Lowe Agent for paying pensions Nineteen dollars & 36 cents, in special, being for three months & 15 days pension due to Benjamin Guess a Revolutionary pensioner deceaced from the 4 September 1841 to 19 December 1841 the day of his death for which I have signed duplicate receipts
Samuel Guess Executor of Benjamin Guess Deceased
by his attorney in fact
D B Turner
Original $79.36
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The State of Alabama Fayette County
On this 28th day of April 1834 personally appeared in vacation before the Hon. Walter Harkins Judge of the County Court of said County Benjamin Guess a resident of Marion County Alabama aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That I was born in the State of Virginia in Faquier County from which place when I was about twelve years of age my Father and Family moved and settled in Wilks County in North Carolina where I remained until the commencement of the Revolutionary War. About June 1776 myself with others volunteered under Captain Isaacs who was commanded by Col. Gordon to suppress the Indians on the Frontiers of North Carolina and was marched under the same command to a fort on the head of the Yadkin River and was there stationed until some time in October thereafter and as there discharged after being in the Service about five months
The whole of the company then returned home where I remained until June 1780 at which time I volunteered in a horse company commanded by Capt Pearson and Col. Isaacs and General Rutherford and marched from Wilks County to Salisbury thence to near Cheraw hills and joined General Gates then to Rugeleys Mills and was then encamped two days and nights. The third night we were ordered to march in order to suppress the British then in Camden but was met by the British about half way between the mill and Camden where we had a battle known as Gates, defeat when Col Isaacs was taken prisoner. we were all [illegible] after the battle the most of the company with the captain and myself returned home to Wilks County where we remained four or five days when we were again gathered by Captain Pearson the Col's name I do not recollect and continued in service until we were met by Col. Polk near Camden and was discharged near Camden sometime in September 1780 making a service of about three months after which time
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I returned home to Wilks County but when I arrived at home I found the Tories were bad. I did not stay at home more than two days before I went and volunteered again under Capt. Moses Guess, my brother who was commanded by Col. Cleaveland and was marched from thereon to near the forks of Broad River where we found Col Campbell and Col Shelby and from thereon we were marched to the Cowpens area and were found by Col Williamson and from thereon we were marched to Kingsmount and where we had a Battle with the British and Tories and I was in said battle after the Battle we were marched as a guard over the British and Tory prisoners which we had taken to Moraviantown where we were encamped some time and from thence we were marched on scouting parties after the Tories below Moravian Town and thence back to Wilks County and was there discharged some time in December 1780 making a tour of full three months. After I returned home Capt. Guess raised another volunteer Company myself with others volunteered under him [illegible] time in January 1781 under Col. Cleaveland as minute men and were more than half of our time actively engaged against the British and Tories for more than twelve months or until the was was ended during which time  we had several skirmishes against the Tories and were then discharged. Making in all my tours (allowing to have been in service at least six months the last tour) full seventeen months and for said service I claim a pension. I had regular discharges for each tour of duty. My second discharge together with my pocketbook was stolen from me the others in the lapse of time have all been mislaid or destroyed and my reason for claiming out of my County is in order to obtain a  certificate of a clergyman with whom I have been acquainted for many years. I do hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency in any State for testimony of my credibility I refer to the annexed certificate of Quellen Moore & Wm L Taylor Sworn to and [illegible] this day & year aforesaid Benj.n Guess  [illegible] Jas B Morton clk
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W Quellen Moore a clergyman residing in Fayette county and Wm S Taylor residing in the same county that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Guess who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy seven 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 to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Quellen Moore 
William S Taylor
List Jas B Morton
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations 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 in appeal to them that Quellen Moore who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in said county and Wm S Taylor who has signed the same is a creditable person and this statement is written to credit 
Walter Harkins Judge
Answers to the interrogatories
A 1 . I was born in Faquier county Virginia in the year 1757
A 2. I have a record of my age taken from my fathers record in my family Bible.
A 3. When I was called into service I was living in Wilkes County N Carolina  since that, in S Carolina [illegible] in Alabama
A 4. I volunteered each tour of duty
A 5. Among the officers were Major Lewis, Col Cleaveland  Col Isaacs, Col Polk, Gnl Rutherford
A 6. I received a discharge for each tour which was given by my captains as well as recollected my second discharge was stolen from me together with my pocketbook, the balance was as I believe burnt in my home some years since,
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The State of Alabama
Fayette County 

I Jos B Morton clerk of the County court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the general preceding's of the said court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Guess for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 28th day of April 1834
Jos B. Morton clerk
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31.222
Benj Guess 
Alabama
for 1776 (illegible)
$66.66

Mef Paytons
Fayette C
Alabama

Benjamin Guess 
Declaration
for a Pension
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21996
Declaration for Pension 
Benj Guess
Hon W Marders
HR 
17 Dec 18(illegible)
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The State of Alabama
Fayette County
Entered court for September 1831 be the 13th day of September Eighteen hundred + thirty one personally appeared in open court (being in county of record for the county aforesaid) Benjamin Guess resident of the County of Marion & State aforesaid aged Seventy four years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration is on order to obtain the provision
made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that he the said Benjamin Guess served in the War of the Revolution in the North Carolina
Militia under the command of Capt Pearson
in the  [illegible] service under the command of Col. Elijah Isaac three months during which term of service he fought in the Battle of Gates Defeat after which time he served the Regt commanded by Col. Benjamin Cleaveland & during which time he fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain [illegible] after which time I served in a company of Light Horse commanded by my Brother Capt Moses Guess  called Minute Men for about Eighteen
months. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the Roll of any state except North Carolina that the
following are his reasons for not making earlier
application for a pension to but never untill the present time has he felt himself laboring
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under such Bodily infirmity or in such
reduced pecuniary circumstances as to render [illegible] the charities of his county for a comfortable support
And in presence of the act of the 1st of May 1820 I the said Benjamin Guess do solemnly swear that I was resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intend thereby to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of
an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain person engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or security
contracts or debts due to me nor have I any  receives other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed [illegible] 
the 18th of March 1818 the following [illegible] have been made in my
property on the 18th March 1818 I had a negro women about fifty year old, Seven Head of Horses [illegible] about fifteen head of cattle some hogs Household and Kitchen furniture. The negro Woman  I yet
have but she is aged & afflicted so much so that she is an expense to me I was so unfortunate as to lose every one of my  Horses by [illegible] & was under the rest
of trade my waggon for one horse which I have at this time. about two years ago I had my House and every thing except the clothes myself & wife had on was consumed by fire 
 as we were at the time from [illegible]
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A schedule containing the whole estate and and [illegible] necessary wearing apparel excepted of the said Benjamin
Guess to wit-
One Horse Beast worth about fifty Dollars three cows and calves & two yearlings about thirty head of Hogs of all
sizes about twenty five Dollars worth of Household & Kitchen [illegible]

Sworn and subscribed to this 13th day of September 1831
Benj.n [Benjamin] Guess
Sworn and subscribed to in open court this
13 day of Sept 1831
B L Lindsey Clk
By G W [illegible]
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No 4
Benjamin Guess
deceased
Act 7 June 1842
Huntsville Ala
Hgn 1842
Box 16
(illegible) 16
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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I Reid B Pederson clerk of the County court of Marion County in the State of Alabama do certify that Davidrege Farris whose signature is to the executer (illegible) is now and was at the (illegible) of the service are acting Justice of the peace in and for said county and are due faith and (illegible) is due and aught to all his office acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name + affixed the seal of the county court of said county at office in hereunto will this seventh day of December Eighteen Hundred + forty five and of (illegible) Independence by yours
Reid, B. Pederson
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State of Alabama
Fayette County 
I James B Morton clerk of the County Court aforesaid County do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been substituted to said court that Benjamin Guess was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Sixty Six dollars and Sixty Six cents per annum was a resident of the County of Marion and died in Fayette County Alabama on the 19th day of December 1841 that the deceased had six children heirs at the time of  his death, and that he left no widow and that letters testamentary have been granted by the Orphans County of Fayette County to Sammuel Guess Executer according to his last will and testament and he is duly authorized  to act as such and that James M Morris is a Magistrate of above and the foregoing signatures pertaining to be his is genuine   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 27th day of October AD 1842
Jos B. Morton clerk

State of Alabama
Marion County}SS
Be it known that on the 7th day of December 1842 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Daniel B Turner the attorney named in the foregoing Power of Attorney and made in that the same was not given him by reason of any sale, transfer or mortgage of the pension or arrears of pension them authorized to be received by him
D.B. Turner
from to + subscribed the day and year last above mentioned before me
D B Turner JP

FINAL (ILLEGIBLE) Received (illegible) GAO
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Payments to be made at Mobile, Ala
by (illegible) B State BR
agent for paying Pension=
ers in the Agency of Al
Recorded in the Pension office, in Book E Vol. 8 Page 45 by - J Sprager _ clerk
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Payments to be made
at Mobile AL
by [illegible] Br State Bk
Agent for paying Pensioners,
 in the Agency
of AL
Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book 6 Vol. 8
Page 45 by
-
Sprague, Clerk
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Fayette C House Ala May 5th 1834
Dear sir, Enclosed are the declarations of Horace McCain and Benjamin Guess for a pension should any thing be required in support of service claims please inform us at the above place
Respectfully 
Peyton O. Morrow
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FINAL PAYMENT
Received from G(illegible)
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Benjamin Guess of the State of Alabama, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War is entitled to receive Sixty Six dollars and Sixty Six 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 16th day of September on thousand eight hundred and thirty four
Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
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Know all men by these presents that I Sammuel Guess of (Fayette County Alabama) Executor of Benjamin Guess of Benjamine Guess deceased of Marion County Alabama who was a Revolutionary Pension of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint Daniel B Turner my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to recure from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions in Huntsville State of Alabama the balance of said pension from the 4th day of September 1860 to the day of December 1861 being the day of his death certify my hand and seal this 5th day of September AD 1842  signed sealed + in presence of Jos M Morris
his mark Sammuel Guess
Daniel Peton

State of Alabama Be it known that on the 5th day of Fayette County September 1862 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Sammuel Guess administered and acknowledged the foregoing power pf Attorney to be his act and deed for testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this day and year list above mentioned
Jos. M. Morris
State of Alabama I James B. Morton clerk of the County court for said County do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been submitted to said Court that Benjamin Guess was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Sixty Siv dollars and Sixty Six cents per annum was resident of the county of Marion and died in Fayette County State of Alabama on the 19th day of December 1861 that he left no widow, and that Sammuel Guess was duly appointed Executor by his last will and testament and duly authorized to act as such \In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal of office the 15th day of September AD 1862
Jos B. Morton clerk
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State of Alabama
Fayette County
Be it known that before me James M Morris a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Sammuel Guess executor afforded by the last will and testament of Benjamin Guess deceased and made oath in due form of law that he is the Executor of Benjamin Guess the identified person who was a pensioner and is now dead and to whom a certificate of pension was issued of which the following is a true copy. 
War Department 
Revolutionary Claims
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 Benjamin Guess of the State of Alabama who was a Private during the revolutionary War is entitled to receive Sixty Six dollars and Sixty Six 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 16th day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty four 
Lew Cass
Secretary of War
(illegible) and Countersigned
JL Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
That the deceased pensioner received in Mariona County in the State of Alabama for the space of ten years before his death and previous thereto he recorded in Mississippi 
Sworn and subscribed this 5th day of September  be me  his mark Sammuel Guess
James M Moriss JP
Daniel Peyton

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
RECEIVED FROM GAO
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Final Payment Vou
Received from GAC
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Benjamin Guess
Alabama
net 18 March 1818
Received G Jany 1832
letter to Hon
W Mardis
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J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington

Alabama
original
May 23 


FREE
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32283
Bureau of Pensions
Benj Guess
apt 28  1834
Marion Ala
June 26 Wilkes Co N.C.
Capt Isaacs
Col Gordon
(rest of notes illegible)
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(stamped)
Pension Office
Feb 5 1904
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Mar & Navy
Feb 8 1904
Files
Fremont Ohio Feb 3rd 1904,
Pension Office
Washington D.C.
Have you any record of a pension granted to William Godby of Montgomery Co. (illegible) soldier on the War of the Revolution or Benjamin Giss or Guess of North carolina also a soldier in the same war.
Respectfully
Elizabeth E. Rube
1205 Birchard ave, Fremont Ohio
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 1873.
4376
P.O. Benjamin Guess
Service:_____
Enlisted:______, 18__
Discharged: REJECTED, 18__
Application filed:____, 18____
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32283
Rev INVALID
File No. 32283
Benjamin Guess
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 163
[Arrangement of 1870
Feby 34, 1904, this to Elizabeth E. Rube
Fremont Ohio