Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4378, David Gugel, Ga.
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SERVICE Ga
Gugel, David
NUMBER R 4378
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David Gugel
Ga 30.721

John Charlton Springfield, Ga
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State of Georgia Effingham County
On this third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in open Court before the
undersigned Justices of the Inferior Court, sitting for ordinary purposes of said County David Gugel a resident of the County of Effingham State of Georgia aged Seventy one 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 7th June 1832
That he entered in the service of the
United States, under the following named officers and served as herein stated to wit 
He entered the service of the United States about the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, or beginning of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two. When General [Anthony] Wayne was at
and near Ebenezer in the County of Effingham in said State under the Generals Command, that he performed a arduous and laborious duty, in the service in building up
the different Bridges keeping sentry at the different fortifications and performing all the duties of a Soldier
was also on duty at a fort at Zublys ferry, in said County of Effingham and at the Commissary store within ten miles of Savannah. The following are the names of the Officers, under whose command he was
at different times. Colonel Eustis, Major Fishburn [Benjamin Fishbourne] and Capt Hughes, that he was in actual service for upwards of nine months, at different times, and all the time under orders to be ready at a moments warning the time of his discharge, he cannot now recollect not having taken particular notice of the day and date He served as a private Soldier from the time of his entering the service untill the day he was discharged He distinctly remembers the time when the British drove the greater part of the Militia into Savannah, which rendered his duty the more severe and it was during the stay of the British in and about Savannah that this duty was performed. He then lived within two miles of Ebenezer, Effingham County, and at present resides at a
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a place called Goshen, about sixteen miles from Savannah He says he served always in Georgia, and was in no battle He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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 Sworn and subscribed the
day and year before us
s/ David Gugel
J. F. Waldhauer JIC
Jno G Mathers JIC
Jno Edwards JIC
We James S Olcott, a Clergyman residing in the said County of Effingham and Clem Powers in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Gugel who hath subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and we believe him to be Seventy one years of age, and 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 opinion
Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
James S. Olcott
J. F. Waldhauer JIC
Jno G Mathies JIC
Clem Powers
Jno Edwards JIC
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
James S Olcott who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the County of Effingham and that _ who has also signed the same is a resident in the same County, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit
J. F. Waldhauer JIC
Jno G Mathies JIC
Jno Edwards JIC
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John Charlton Clerk of the Court of Ordinary do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of David
Gugel for a pension
In Witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal there being no Seal of Office this third day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirty four.-
Jno Charlton
Clk Co ordy
Effm Cty
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Revolutionary Pension Claim of
David Gugle decd of Georgia
Pr of atty Ex to M Thompson
Filed June 8 1856
[illegible] for
June 17/52
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R. A. WATERS, Print., D street, bet. 9th and 10th.
POWER OF ATTORNEY - Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these presents, That I, Elizabeth Charlton of the Town of Springfield, County of Effingham and
State of Georgia hereby constitute and appoint Col M Thompson of Washington City my true and lawful agent and Attorney, to prosecute the claim of my father David Gugel for
any amount of Revolutionary Pension, 
or increase of pension that may be due and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the Departments at Washington City or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or argumentsand to receive the certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to Col M Thompson my agent for my benefit and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed and to do all things that I might or could do 
were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
WITNESS my hand and Seal this 4th day of June A.D. 1852
Elizabeth Charlton
Signed and Sealed in the presence of
George R Wright
Anna C Shiob
STATE OF_ COUNTY OF_ ss
On this 4th fourth day of June A. D. 1852, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace  in and for the County  aforesaid personally appeared Mrs Elizabeth Charlton
and acknowledged the foregoing Power, of Attorney to be her act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned IN TESTMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid.
s/ John W. Exley J. Peace.
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[printed form with handwriting in blank spaces]
Claim of
Act of
STATE OF Georgia
COUNTY of Effingham
Be it known, That on this fourth day of June A.D., eighteen hundred and fifty two, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Mrs Elizabeth Charlton a resident of Springfield in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the only surviving child and sole heir of David Gugle Deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner
at the rate of [blank space] Dollars per annum; that [blank space] has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me.
John W Exley J. Peace.
I, John W Exley Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that Mrs Elizabeth Charlton who executed the foregoing paper, is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
John W Exley J. Peace
I, James Rahn Clerk of the Superior Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John W Exley before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed in his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this fourth day of June A.D. 1852
James Rahn Clerk.
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[form with blank spaces and a handwritten note at the bottom]
State of
County of
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me [blank space] that [blank space] was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $ [blank space] per annum and that [blank space] died on the [blank space] day of [blank space] eighteen hundred and [blank space] leaving surviving [blank space] and that [blank space] the only surviving child [blank space] of the aforesaid.]
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this [blank space] day of one thousand eight hundres fifty-[blank space]
Col Thompson
If there be any thing more to be done in the way of filling out, you must do it. June 4th 1852 G R Wright
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V.L.M.
Rev. War Section.
December 7, 1917.
Mrs. R. V. M. Cordell,
Oak Street,
Eldorado, Arkansas.
Madam: 
In response to your letter dated the 39" [sic] ultimo, you are advised that it is alleged in the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. File No. 4,378 that David Gugel was born January 31, 1764, near the village of Ebenezer, Effingham County, Georgia, and while residing there in 1781 or 1782 was enrolled as a Private in the militia and served at various times under Captain Hughes, Colonel Eustis and General Wayne, building bridges, guarding the magazine at Ebenezer Georgia, and the Commissary's store at Zubly's Ferry.
He applied for pension March 3, 1834, while a resident of Goshen, Georgia, but his claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish sufficient proof of six months military service as required by the Act of June 7 1833 under which he applied.
In 1853 Mrs. Elizabeth Charlton the only surviving child was a resident of Effingham County, Georgia.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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[form with handwritten responses]
1917 Dec. 7 Hist
to Mrs. R.V.M. Cordell
4378
P.O.
David Gugel
Service:
Enlisted: [blank space], 18
Discharged: [black rejected stamp], 18
Application filed: [blank space], 18
Alleges: [blank space]
Re-enlisted: The printed list of 1852 gives cause of suspension as follows.
"For proof and explanation and details of the tours of actual service"
Attorney: [blank space]
P.O. [blank space]
Recognized. Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for [blank space], 18
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David Gugel
Georgia
Suspended
4378
Tho. Charlton
11th Oct.1834
LB. True
Attorney
2 Agt in this case
Power of Attorney on File
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(Stamp)
U S Pension Office
Dec 4 1917
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Dear Sir-
Can you tell me whether David Gugel of Effingham County Georgia - and David Hermon either of Virginia or South Carolina, were soldiers in the revolutionary army?  If so in what- capacity did each serve-thanking
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you very much for any information you would be able to give me about both men.  I am- Very Truly
Anna Harmon Cordell
Mrs. R.G.M.  Oak Street El Dorado Arkansas
Eldorado Arkansas
[illegible note]
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Springfield, Effingham, Ga
29th Sept 1834
JL Edwards Esq
Sir
Agreeable to your instructions the Certificate of Judge Wayne Member of Congress from Georgia as also the original declaration is herewith enclosed- this would have been attended to before as it was not required in the case of Jonathan Rahn, similar to this. I suppose Judge Wayne was in Washington at the time the first declaration was sent on is the reason why it was not particularly attended.  
I have the honor to be 
Yr Obed Servt
Jno Charlton
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David Gugle
Power of Atty.
by
Elizabeth Charlton
Pen. Office
LB True atty Co in this case
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"Suspended for proof and explanation & details of tours of actual service"
Claim in his name
?
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[Power of Attorney]
Know all men by these presents, That I Elizabeth Charlton, only child of David Gugle Rev Soldier, of the County of Effingham, and State of Georgia, for and in consideration of
(blank) do hereby make, constitute, and appoint L Blanchard True, of Washington Cit, D.C., (blank) my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name to examine all papers filed in any Department or Office of Government, up on which a (blank) Pension was granted to (blank) on account of the Revolutionary services of my father David Gugle, dec. and to obtain, by all lawful means, any and all additional amounts that may be due from the United States to said David Gugle Rev. Soldier, by virtue of said services, as (blank) in the Company of Capt. (blank) in the Regiment of (blank) and in the (blank) line of the forces of (blank).  And for good and sufficient reasons I do hereby Revoke and Cancel any and all other Powers of Attorney and authority which I may at any former time have given to any person or persons for the above specified purposes; and I do hereby vest the same irrevocably in my said Attorney herein appointed , said L. Blanchard True.
Eliza (th) Charlton
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John Charlton
11th Oct 1834
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War Dept Pension Office
Oct 17 1834
Sir Unless David Gugel Can specify his service in conformity to the regulations no allowance can be
made. He say that he served upwards of nine months at different times. He must State Each time Separately by giving the time of entering and leaving the service the officers under whom it was performed, the places
when performed & all other facts within his recollection. As was before remarked he could not have served
nine months continuously in the militia, and in each it would
now appear that he does not mean it to be so understood if he has not
some data by which he is governed in arriving the amount of actual service performed by him how can he be able to state it as any thing like certainty
at nine months. If he does possess such Evidence it is what the Department requires His papers are placed on file, awaiting written explanation I am
John Charlton Esq
Springfield
Geo
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State of Georgia Effingham County
On this fourteenth day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in open Court before the
undersigned Justices of the Inferior Court, sitting as Inferior Court for said County. David Gugel, a resident of the County of Effingham, State of Georgia aged seventy years and upwards 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 the seventh of June 1832. That he was born on the 20th day of January 1764 near the village of Ebenezer in the County of Effingham in the State of Georgia, that the record of his age is on the Church books at Ebenezer, that he was living near Ebenezer when called into service that he lived many years after the revolutionary War in the
City of Savannah in the said State of Georgia and that he now lives
about sixteen miles from Savannah near the road leading from Savannah
 to Augusta in said State at the latter end of the year 1781. The British army left Ebenezer, and marched to Savannah at that time the few inhabitants friendly to the American cause that was left, the rest going off with the British, secreted themselves in the Swamps &c. to prevent their being obliged to go along with the British and to avoid the Torys and Indians of which number he David Gugel was one, in the beginning of the year 1782. The American Army under the command of General Wayne, came to Ebenezer, when by an order of the General who then commanded he was enrolled in the service of the United States as a militia man
and entered on his duty as a private Soldier, the service performed
by him was guarding the different bridges on the roads and also
making new bridges and repairing old ones which the British
had burnt down, guarding at the magazine at Ebenezer and
doing duty at Zublys ferry by guarding the Commissary store etc The names of the officers who were with the troops on service and under whose command he served was Colonel
Eustis Major Fishburn [Benjamin Fishbourne] and Captain Hughes, which duty was performed from the beginning of the year 1782 until some
time in the month of July of the same year untill the British left Savannah some smaller duties were afterwards performed until the British left Charleston in South Carolina that during this time he performed duty as a private, he was not employed in any
civil pursuit, he always served in the State of Georgia and was in no Battle. The Militia was then called to muster at a place called Indian bluff under the command of a Major Campbell,
of this name he is not very certain his memory on this fails him but to
the best of his knowledge he believes he is correct, when they all took
the Oath of Allegiance and at that time were discharged from further service. after having performed a laborious but willing
duty. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or
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except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State 
s/ David Gugel
Sworn to and subscribed the
day and year before us
J. F. Walthauer JIC
Jno G Matheis JIC
Jno Edwards JIC
James O Goldwin JIC
We James S Olcott a clergyman residing in the said County of 
Effingham and Thomas Elkins
in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Gugel who hath subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and
we believe him to be seventy years and upwards of age and 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 opinion 
s/ James S Olcott Thos Elkins
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid s/
J. F. Waldhauer JIC
Jno G Matheis JIC
Jno Edwards JIC
James O Goldwin JIC
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 James S. Olcott, who has signed the preceeding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Effingham and that Thomas Elkins
who has also signed the same
is a resident in the same County and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit s/
J. F. Waldhauer JIC
Jno G Matheis JIC
Jno Edwards JIC
James O Goldwin JIC
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I John Charlton Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County of Effingham and State aforesaid, contains the original
proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of David Gugel, for a pension In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal (there being no seal
of Office] this fourteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
Jno Charlton
Clk Infr C
Effingham County
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Georgia I James M Wayne a Representative to Congress from the
State of Georgia, do hereby certify that John Charlton is Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County
of Effingham in the State aforesaid, and his signature as Clerk aforesaid at the foot of the Affidavit stating the claims of David Gugel to a pension
attached to this Certificate is in his own hand writing
Given under my hand this 24
day of September one thousand
eight hundred and thirty four-
s/ James M Wayne 
M.C from Georgia