Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4383, Reece Gullet, Va.
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Va.    Gullet, Reece                 R.4383
                    Reese
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4383

P.O. Reece Gullet
Service:
Enlisted:  Rejected
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized. 
Contract
Cert. of Dis.
Searched for,   18
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May 9 Ala

Hon J.L. Martin
HR

Hon J.L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Pension Office
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                       Washington May 7th 1836

Sir
     Enclosed I send you the application of Reece Gullet for a pension.  I have not examined the application.  I hope it will be found in form &c.
                     Respectfully
                       Your Obt. Svt
                           J.L. Martin

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Com. Pensions
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33.680
Reece Gullet
Alabama
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Hon J.S. Martin
HR
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Brice Graham Reece Hamilton Jos Wofford Thomas Moorman Richard S. Jones & Achilles L. Moorman

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the Investigation of this 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 Samuel B. White who has signed the foregoing certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Russelville in said county of Franklin and that Willis Bonner who has also signed the same is a resident of said county of Franklin and is a credible person and that their Statement is entitled to credit.
                 Daniel Coleman Judge

I William Lucas Clerk of the circuit court of the county of Franklin aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Reece Gullet Sr. for a pension.
      In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 19th day of April 1836.
                   W. Lucas Clerk
(seal)
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Interrogatory 3rd.  Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?  
Ans. 3rd When called into service I lived in the State of Virginia then Montgomery now Wythe 
County.  I moved from Virginia to Tennessee then a Territory and about 15 years after the 
Revolutionary War and resided in Tennessee until 1817 as I believe but my memory is so 
imperfect that I recollect but very imperfectly.  I removed to Alabama in 1817 I believe and am 
so informed where I have since & do now reside. 
Interrogatory 4th.  How were you called into service, were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom 
Ans.  4th I was a volunteer upon a requisition as I understood for Drafts and in Lieu of Drafts. 
Interrogatory 5th.  State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops 
where you served and Continental and militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general 
Circumstances of your Service 
Ans. 5th I can state nothing more than is contained in my Declaration which is referred as all the answer of that I can give to this Interrogatory. 
Interrogatory 6.  Did you receive a discharge from the service if so by whom was it given & what has become of it 
Ans. 5th I never received my discharge from any person whatever for service. 
Interrogatory 7th State the names of persons in your present neighborhood to whom you are known – who can Testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution 
Ans. 7th Samuel D White, Colonel Willis Bonner, G. D. Stone, Robert P Bates, Westley Bates, Christopher Tompkins, Gillington Chishum, Eli Silman, Alex Somerville,
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during the time for which he served in the Revolutionary War as aforesaid he was not employed in any Civil pursuit.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.
                    Reese X Gullet
                      (X his mark)

Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
            W. Lucas Clerk

We Samuel B White a Clergyman residing in the Town of Russelville in said county of Franklin and Willis Bonner residing in the neighborhood of Russelville and of said Reece Gullet Senr. hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Reece Gullet Senr. who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age;  that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution War that we concur in that opinion.
                        S.B. White
                        W. Bonner
Sworn and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
             W. Lucas Clerk

     Interrogatories prescribed by the War department and put to said Reece Gullet Senr. by the Court in open Court.

Ans. 1st I believe I was born in the year 1762 but have & know of no record that of my father's house containing such record in a Bible as I have understood was burned by the Tories in the Revolutionary War. 
Interrogatory 2nd Have you any record of your age if so where is it? 
Ans. 2nd I have none
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Of the State of Alabama County of Franklin: SS 
On this 19th day of April 1836 personally appeared in open Court before the Circuit Court of the County of Franklin aforesaid now sitting Reece Gullet Senior a resident of said County of Franklin and State of Alabama aged as well as he can ascertain Seventy-four 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 Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and 
served as herein stated – About a year or something more before the Battle of Guilford  in North Carolina this Declarant resided in what was then called Montgomery County 
in the State of Virginia but since called Wythe County.  A Draft was called for from that 
neighborhood which was supplied by volunteers and this declarant became one of said volunteers for the Term of service of eighteen months.  Declarant thinks he volunteered in the spring of the year but cannot remember on what day or of what month nor in what year but recollects that the Battle of Guilford was in the last six months of his service at which Battle he was present engaged therein & received two wounds one upon his head by a sword & the other 
in the thigh by a ball but has no written record by which to refresh his memory.  At the time of 
volunteering a Captain by the name of Jesse Evans a regular officer was in the neighborhood at Chissels old lead works with a few men enlisted by him in South Carolina as declarant believes.  This declarant & the other volunteers of his neighborhood probably twenty in number were attached to & annexed to said Captain Evans' Company, don't 
recollect any Lieutenant or other Commissioned officer of the Company and don't believe there was any Declarant with the other volunteers remained at said Lead Works about the year when Captain Evans left with
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regulars declarant thinks for the Falls of the Ohio.  Captain Isaac Taylor arrived and took the command of the volunteers or Militia in place of Captain Evans.  Shortly after which this declarant with several of the other volunteers by leave of Captain Taylor proceeded under a volunteer Captain by the name of William Montgomery to Guilford Court House in North Carolina where declarant arrived the evening before the Battle at that place and went into Battle next morning and was badly wounded and recollects very little of what took 
place.  General Green commanded declarant, lay there some time disabled does not know the name of the Physician or Surgeon who attended on him and was after a few 
days carried home to Virginia and served no more in the Revolutionary War.  Declarant has no documentary evidence of the time he volunteered, the duration of his service and knows of no one whose Testimony he can procure who can Testify to his services and never had any discharge and never saw Captain Taylor or Evans after declarant was wounded – thinks Captain Taylor was 
from Botetourt County but he was a stranger to this declarant who was under him but a short time – is not certain where he was from and if he ever heard does not recollect – what became of him he had left the Lead Works before this Applicant was removed home from Guilford.  Captain Montgomery continued to reside in the neighborhood of Declarant's residence in Virginia but never gave any discharges to his men that declarant ever heard of – This declarant never applied 
for a pension from the United for wounds or disabilities incurred or for services rendered 
during the revolutionary war except under the Law of the 7th of June 1832.  If any prior Law 
entitle him to a pension he never saw it and was never that he recollects advised of it though he had believed that he was previously entitled to a pension on account of his wounds but made no application for that purpose.  This declarant further states
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 that during the time for which he 
served in the Revolutionary War as aforesaid he was not employed in any Civil pursuit.  He 
hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. 
                  Reese X Gullet
                   (X his mark)
     Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
           W. Lucas Clerk


We Samuel B White a Clergyman residing int he Town of Russelville in said county of Franklin and Willis Bonner residing in the neighborhood of Russelville and of said Reece Gullet Senr hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Reece Gullet Senr who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age;  that he is reputed and believed in in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution war that we concur in that opinion.
                           S.B. White
                           W. Bonner
Sworn and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
               W. Lucas Clerk

     Interrogatories prescribed by the War department and put to said Reece Gullet Senr. by the court in open court.
Interogatory 1st  Where and in what year were you born
Ans 1st  I believe I was born in the year 1762 but have known of no record thereof.  My Fathers House contained such record in a Bible as I have understood was burned by the Tories in the Revolutionary War.
Interogatory 2nd  Have you any record of your age if so where is it?
Ans. 2nd  I have none
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Interrogatory 3rd. Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?
Ans. 3rd When called into service I lived in the State of Virginia then Montgomery now Wythe
County. I moved from Virginia to Tennessee then a Territory and about 15 years after the
Revolutionary War and resided in Tennessee until 1817 as I believe but my memory is so
imperfect that I recollect but very imperfectly. I removed to Alabama in 1817 I believe and am
so informed where I have since & do now reside.
Interrogatory 4th. How were you called into service, were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
Ans. 4th I was a volunteer upon a requisition as I understood for Drafts and in Lieu of Drafts.
Interrogatory 5th. State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops
where you served and Continental and militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general
Circumstances of your Service
Ans. 5th I can state nothing more than is contained in my Declaration which is referred as all the answer of that I can give to this Interrogatory.
Interrogatory 6. Did you receive a discharge from the service if so by whom was it given & what has become of it
Ans. 5th I never received my discharge from any person whatever for service.
Interrogatory 7th State the names of persons in your present neighborhood to whom you are known – who can Testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution
Ans. 7th Samuel D White, Colonel Willis Bonner, G. D. Stone, Robert P Bates, Westley Bates, Christopher Tompkins, Gillington Chishum, Eli Silman, Alex Somerville,
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Brice Graham Reece Hamilton Jos Wofford Thomas Moorman Richard S. Jones & Achilles L. Moorman

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the Investigation of this 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 Samuel B. White who has signed the foregoing certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Russelville in said county of Franklin and that Willis Bonner who has also signed the same is a resident of said county of Franklin and is a credible person and that their Statement is entitled to credit.
Daniel Coleman Judge

I William Lucas Clerk of the circuit court of the county of Franklin aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Reece Gullet Sr. for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 19th day of April 1836.
W. Lucas Clerk
(seal)
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33680
Reece Gullet
Alabama
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Hon. J.S. Martin
HR
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Of the State of Alabama County of Franklin: SS
On this 19th day of April 1836 personally appeared in open Court before the Circuit Court of the County of Franklin aforesaid now sitting Reece Gullet Senior a resident of said County of Franklin and State of Alabama aged as well as he can ascertain Seventy-four 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 Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and
served as herein stated – About a year or something more before the Battle of Guilford in North Carolina this Declarant resided in what was then called Montgomery County
in the State of Virginia but since called Wythe County. A Draft was called for from that
neighborhood which was supplied by volunteers and this declarant became one of said volunteers for the Term of service of eighteen months. Declarant thinks he volunteered in the spring of the year but cannot remember on what day or of what month nor in what year but recollects that the Battle of Guilford was in the last six months of his service at which Battle he was present engaged therein & received two wounds one upon his head by a sword & the other
in the thigh by a ball but has no written record by which to refresh his memory. At the time of
volunteering a Captain by the name of Jesse Evans a regular officer was in the neighborhood at Chissels old lead works with a few men enlisted by him in South Carolina as declarant believes. This declarant & the other volunteers of his neighborhood probably twenty in number were attached to & annexed to said Captain Evans' Company, don't
recollect any Lieutenant or other Commissioned officer of the Company and don't believe there was any Declarant with the other volunteers remained at said Lead Works about the year when Captain Evans left with
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regulars declarant thinks for the Falls of the Ohio. Captain Isaac Taylor arrived and took the command of the volunteers or Militia in place of Captain Evans. Shortly after which this declarant with several of the other volunteers by leave of Captain Taylor proceeded under a volunteer Captain by the name of William Montgomery to Guilford Court House in North Carolina where declarant arrived the evening before the Battle at that place and went into Battle next morning and was badly wounded and recollects very little of what took
place. General Green commanded declarant, lay there some time disabled does not know the name of the Physician or Surgeon who attended on him and was after a few
days carried home to Virginia and served no more in the Revolutionary War. Declarant has no documentary evidence of the time he volunteered, the duration of his service and knows of no one whose Testimony he can procure who can Testify to his services and never had any discharge and never saw Captain Taylor or Evans after declarant was wounded – thinks Captain Taylor was
from Botetourt County but he was a stranger to this declarant who was under him but a short time – is not certain where he was from and if he ever heard does not recollect – what became of him he had left the Lead Works before this Applicant was removed home from Guilford. Captain Montgomery continued to reside in the neighborhood of Declarant's residence in Virginia but never gave any discharges to his men that declarant ever heard of – This declarant never applied
for a pension from the United for wounds or disabilities incurred or for services rendered
during the revolutionary war except under the Law of the 7th of June 1832. If any prior Law
entitle him to a pension he never saw it and was never that he recollects advised of it though he had believed that he was previously entitled to a pension on account of his wounds but made no application for that purpose. This declarant further states
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that during the time for which he
served in the Revolutionary War as aforesaid he was not employed in any Civil pursuit. He
hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
Reese X Gullet
(X his mark)
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
W. Lucas Clerk


We Samuel B White a Clergyman residing int he Town of Russelville in said county of Franklin and Willis Bonner residing in the neighborhood of Russelville and of said Reece Gullet Senr hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Reece Gullet Senr who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed and believed in in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution war that we concur in that opinion.
S.B. White
W. Bonner
Sworn and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
W. Lucas Clerk

Interrogatories prescribed by the War department and put to said Reece Gullet Senr. by the court in open court.
Interogatory 1st Where and in what year were you born
Ans 1st I believe I was born in the year 1762 but have known of no record thereof. My Fathers House contained such record in a Bible as I have understood was burned by the Tories in the Revolutionary War.
Interogatory 2nd Have you any record of your age if so where is it?
Ans. 2nd I have none
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Interrogatory 3rd. Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?
Ans. 3rd When called into service I lived in the State of Virginia then Montgomery now Wythe
County. I moved from Virginia to Tennessee then a Territory and about 15 years after the
Revolutionary War and resided in Tennessee until 1817 as I believe but my memory is so
imperfect that I recollect but very imperfectly. I removed to Alabama in 1817 I believe and am
so informed where I have since & do now reside.
Interrogatory 4th. How were you called into service, were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
Ans. 4th I was a volunteer upon a requisition as I understood for Drafts and in Lieu of Drafts.
Interrogatory 5th. State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops
where you served and Continental and militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general
Circumstances of your Service
Ans. 5th I can state nothing more than is contained in my Declaration which is referred as all the answer of that I can give to this Interrogatory.
Interrogatory 6. Did you receive a discharge from the service if so by whom was it given & what has become of it
Ans. 5th I never received my discharge from any person whatever for service.
Interrogatory 7th State the names of persons in your present neighborhood to whom you are known – who can Testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution
Ans. 7th Samuel D White, Colonel Willis Bonner, G. D. Stone, Robert P Bates, Westley Bates, Christopher Tompkins, Gillington Chishum, Eli Silman, Alex Somerville,
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Brice Graham Reece Hamilton Jos Wofford Thomas Moorman Richard S. Jones & Achilles L. Moorman

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the Investigation of this 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 Samuel B. White who has signed the foregoing certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Russelville in said county of Franklin and that Willis Bonner who has also signed the same is a resident of said county of Franklin and is a credible person and that their Statement is entitled to credit.
Daniel Coleman Judge

I William Lucas Clerk of the circuit court of the county of Franklin aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Reece Gullet Sr. for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 19th day of April 1836.
W. Lucas Clerk
(seal)