Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,231, Jeremiah Gurley, N.C.
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SERVICE     NUMBER
N.C.     Gurley, Jeremiah    S13,231

Born in N. C.        Carded
CONTENTS


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Alabama 19:995
Jeremiah Gurley
of Madison Co in the state of Alabama who was a Private in the Co. commanded by Captain Bryant of the Rgt commanded by Col. Eaton in the Infantry line for 16 months & 15 days.

14 mon. Infantry    46.66
2 1/2 mon Calvary  10.42
No 20.657.               ____
                                $57.08

Inscribed on the Roll of Alabama at the rate of  57 Dollars 08 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Oct. 1833 and sent to Hon. C. C. Clay, Huntsville, Ala.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833.               142.70
Same-amt. allowance ending 4 Mar '34     28.54
                                                                        _____
                                                                    $ 171.24
Revolutionary Claim, Act of June 7, 1832

Recorded by Wm R Palmer Clerk,
Book E. Vol three Page 42

Sett B. T. Moore Jan 3' 3'
Duplicate certificate issue 13 Oct 1837 and sent to B. T. Moore, Huntsville Ala

Letter to  [?] and from April 1839

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1834 to 4 March 1838
Agts notified 18 April 1839
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Alabama:

In the Circuit Court of Madison County held at Huntsville on the 30th day of October 1832 the hon William J Adair,  judge hereof providing-

Personally appeared in open court Jeremiah Gurley resident near Brownsboro, in said county, being in his 73rd year, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth in his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

That the original manuscript entry made by John Gurley affiant's father, of the births of his children, which is shown to the court & herewith sent, affiant was born the 29th of December 1759: & by family tradition his birth occurred in Johnson county, North Carolina. About February 1781 there was a draft in that county to reinforce the American army in N. Carolina, which it was expected would shortly engage the British in a general battle. Affiants brother being drafted for three months he determined to go with him & entered as a substitute for one whose name is forgotten & with his brother William was put under Capt Hardy Bryan & marched to form Maj Genl Greene, then stated to be in Guilford County.  They united with Gen Butler in Haw river, who considered them as Greene's army.  Genl Greene put most of the militia under regular field officers; & affiant this
company were placed under Col. Eaton. Genl Greene moved with his forces toward the waste fields near the Guilford Courthouse & entered from the East on the morning of the 15 March; Earl Cornwallis' army at the same time appeared on the wester part of the space & opened a cannonade.  Affiant & his company were near the centre of Greene's line, which opened at the centre & the artillery passed there formed in front & returned the cannonade. The action then became general &  lasted several hours. Affiant's brother was killed at his side, but he himself was not wounded.  Genl Greene at the close of the battle returned to Troublesome iron works where his army reached about night fall, and the next day or shortly after he advanced to Ramsey's mill, where it was
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expected to engage a detachment of the enemy; but on getting there they had retreated precipitately, leaving their fires burning & some of their baggage & provisions; having thrown a hasty bridge over a shallow of Deep river by rails & logs.  Genl Greene selected his best troops & moved toward Camden to attack Lt Rawdon.  Capt Bryant had left the army to act as a member of the Colonial Legislature, leaving his brother Asa, the lieutenant to succeed him - with whom affiant went in this expedition agt Radon,  Greene encamped about three miles from Camden; the next day ordered most of the militia with him to countermarch as if retreating, but to return the next day; he, on their return, proceeded rapidly with the van toward the town but was met by the enemy & thrown into apparent & ended real disorder; but the  militia & artillery coming to his assistance. The enemy were checked & engaged for some times, when he left the field in order, leaving the enemy too much injured to pursue.  In this affair affiant was under Col Read. Affiant becoming too ill to continue in active service was ordered to to a hospital, but on reaching the hospital he decide entering it but found a hospitable reception in a family on Lynch's Crack. The rest of his company were shortly after discharged, & coming [strikethrough] past [strikethrough] where affiant was the Captain gave him the discharge of the 13th May 1781 which is herewith sent. Affiant returned with them to Johnson County & someone likely volunteered in his brother Lewis Gurley's company of Light horse raised to defend the county from the Tories. It was raised for three months; but found that little else to do but move from point to point & arrest the stragglers of that worst of all enemy; & some were discharged before the term expired.  Samuel Smith the colonel of the county gave affiant a discharge of this service which is also amended. Presently after affiant served under Col Benjn Exum in  an expedition of the militia raised to attack the British in
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their passage at Spring Bank, but they passed farther below.  Afficiant, being best satisfied by being in the field offered himself & horse as a substitute for any one who should wish to leave it, & took the place of one, whose name he cared not to remember, in a troop of horse, & finished his term - about 15 mo 20 days . Eighteen months more were then called for by Congress to be raised by volunteering or draft. Classes were formed & numbered. Affiant took a number & got the men required to fill it, & when that number was called, they stepped forth. Col Robert Rayford, a regular officer was present, & heard of affiant's services, urged him to be of his mess, stating that he would put him on extra duties, & in general exempt him from the ordinary drills & fatigues. He consented; was allowed to ride his own horse & appear in a garb suitable for the Colonel's mess & staff.  He proceeded with him toward Charleston, & until the close of the revolution, acted immediately [strikethrough] under [strikethrough] or immediately under his orders. Affiant's whole service exceeded six months & was near twelve of  active combatant duty.  Affiant, in order to avail of the corroboratory memory of James Cotton of this county, will mention two incidents, which are also remembered by him. On their march from Troublesome Iron works to Ramsey's Mills affiant remembers to have been a man hanging to a tree, with a paper on his breast. Affiant went to him, turned his head - & read the inscription which mentioned his desertion to the Tories as the cause of the example made of him.  The other circumstance occurred at Ramsey's Mills, the troops were marched out upon an alarm & formed around a tree where two men were hung: the two, then hung, affiant understood were Tories & had come to the Whig camp pretending themselves to be Whigs, [strikethrough] but [strikethrough] & giving a false alarm about the enemy's approach. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state without exception.
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Shortly after the revolution affiant removed into Georgetown district of South Carolina remained there about ten years, removed back into Johnson County North Carolina where he remained with his family about ten years, then removed into Maury County Tennessee, where he resided until 1819, when he came with his family into the county of Madison aforesaid, where he has since & still does reside - 
Jeremiah Gurley

Sworn to & subscribed in open court this day 3rd October 1832 List
L. Mead clerk
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James Cotton, of said county, aged 67, in open court on oath declares that he has conversed with Jeremiah Gurley concerning what occurred at the battle of Guilford, on the march to Ramsey's mills, & at that place, and from the [?] circumstances related by him, this could alone have been observed by one in Genl Greene's army, he, affiant is fully convinced that said Gurly was in the same army with himself. It would be too tedious to relate the coincidences of their recollection; & he will only designate the incidents of the Tory hanging by the way on the march to the mills - & the hanging of two others upon a false alarm at the mills.
James Cotton

Sworn to & subscribed in open court this 30th October 1832
L Mead Clerk UC

We James Martin a clergyman, residing in said county of Madison and William Veitch of said county, do certify that we are well acquainted with [strikethrough] James Cotton [strikethrough] Jeremiah Gurley, who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be on or about 73 years of age: that he is reported & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have bee a soldier of the revolution; & that we concur in that opinion.
James Martin
William Veitch

Sworn to & subscribed in open court this 30th October 1832
L Mead clerk

And the said Court doth hereby declare its opinion, after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named Jeremiah Gurley, the applicant, was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. The court further is satisfied that James Martin who has signed the above certificate is a clergyman & resident of said county of Madison, & that William Veitch- who has also signed the same is a responsible person; & that their statement is 
entitled to credit.
W. J. Adair
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I Lemuel Mead, clerk of the Circuit Court of Madison county aforward do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original Proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Gurley for a Pension.

Seal

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 30th day of October 1832
L Mead
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Lewis Gurley son of the afores.d was born March 6th 1755

Lazarus Gurley son of the afores.d was born December the 4th 1757

Jeremiah Gurley sold of the afores.d was born December the 29th 1759

George Gurley son of the afores.d was born July the 29th 1762

John Gurle son of the aforesaid was born [strikethrough] Sept [strikethrough] September the 14 1764
Dead August 27, 1771
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At the bottom of the page

60-1  Goy
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Robert Gurley Son of John Gurley & Elizabeth his wife was Born the 6th day of March in the year of our Lord 1744
Death Novm'b 28 1760

Joel Gurley Son of the aforesaid was born May 30th 1747

William Gurley Son of the aforesaid was born October the 16th 1749

Edwards Gurley Son of the aforesaid was Born August the 13th 1752
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER

Received from GAO
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HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, April 12th 1834

Received of Bartley M. Lowe, Agent for paying Pensions --- Thirty six --- Dollars  38 --- Cents, in specie, being for Seven months & 24 days [strikethrough] months [strikethrough] pension due to [strikethrough] me a John [strikethrough] Jeremiah Gurley, a Revolutionary pensioner, deceased from the fourth day of March 1843 to the to the [strikethrough] fourth [strikethrough] 28th day of October 1843 the day of his death for which He have signed duplicate receipts.

John Gurley: his son
Thomas M. King for self and wife Ann King

$36.38
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER

Received from GAO
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State of Alabama
Madison County

Be it known that before me Joseph Pickens a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared John Gurley and Thomas M. King and made oath in due form of the law that the said John Gurley  is the only son, and that Ann King, wife of the said Thomas M. King, is the only daughter of Jeremiah Gurley, the identical who was a pensioner, and is now dead, and to whom a duplicate certificate of pension was found, of which the  following is a true copy:

"Duplicate
War Department.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, Jeremiah Gurley of the state of Alabama, who was a private of Infantry and Calvary in the War of the Revolution, is entitled to receive fifty-seven dollars and eight cents per annum during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.  [?] in lieu of one dated 7th October 1833, and numbered 19,995, which has been lost or destroyed.

Seal drawing

Given at the War Office of the United States this thirteenth day of October  one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.

J. R. Poinsett
Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigned.
J. L Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions"

That the deceased pensioner resided in Madison County in the state of Alabama for the space of about twenty-five years before his death and that previous hereunto he resides in the state of Tennessee.
John Gurley
Thomas M. King

Subscribed & sworn before me this first day of April 1844
Joseph Pickens J. P.

The state of Alabama
Madison County

I, John W. Otey, Clerk of the County Court of said county do hereby certify that at a time of the Orphans Court, of which I am also Clerk, held for said County at the Courthouse in the town of Huntsville in the county and state aforesaid, satisfactory  evid
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has been exhibited to said court this day that Jeremiah Gurley was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of fifty-seven dollars and eight cents per annum; was a resident of the county & state aforesaid and died in the county and state aforesaid on the twenty-eighth day of October eighteen hundred and forty-three; that he left no widow, and that John Gurley and Ann King, wife of Thomas M. King, are the only children of the said Jeremiah Gurley, deceased, and that the said Jeremiah Gurley, deceased, left no other heirs.

And I further certify that Joseph Pickens is a magistrate as aforesaid, and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his is genuine.

In Testimony whereof, I hereto subscribe my name and affix this seal of said court, at office in the town of Huntsville in the county and state aforesaid, on this the first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand sight hundred and forty-four, and in the sixty-eighth year of American Independence.
John W. Otey, Clerk
of the County Court of Madison Co. in the state of Alabama
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July 13, 1932
BA-J/AWF
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Jeremiah Gurley
S. 13231

Mary Cornelia Cole
54 East Broad & Miller Ave.
West Point, Mississippi

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Jeremiah Gurley, a Revolutionary War pensioner.

The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.13231, based upon the military service of Jeremiah Gurley, during the Revolutionary War.

He was the son of John and Elizabeth Gurley, and was born December 29, 1759 in Johnson County, North Carolina.

He enlisted sometime in February 1781 and served as a private in Captains Hardy Bryan's and Asa Bryan's company, Colonel Eaton's North Carolina regiment, was in the battle of Guilford Court House, and in the battle of Camden under Colonel Read, was discharged May 13, 1781.  He served about two months as a trooper in Captain Lewis Gurley's Company of Light Horse, and was discharged August 7, 1781, the said Lewis Gurley was the soldier's brother.  He served fifteen or twenty days as a trooper in Colonel Benjamin Exum's Regiment of North Carolina troops.  He served from sometime in 1781, about about [sic] one year under Colonel Robert Rayford.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 30, 1832, at which time he was living near Brownsboro, Madison County, Alabama.

It is stated that he moved in 1817 from Maury
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County, Tennessee, "with his family", to Madison County, Alabama.

It is not stated whether soldier was married.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date of death of the pensioner, Jeremiah Gurley, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington D. C., citing all of the following data -

Jeremiah Gurley
Certificate number 19995
Issued October 7, 1833
Rate $57.08 per annum
Commenned [sic] March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Alabama Agency

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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13.231
INVALID
[sideways near the title] RevWar

File no. 13, 231
Jeremiah Gurley
Priv. Rev. War

Act; June 7th 1832.
Index;-Vol. 1, Page 132

{Arrangement of 1870}

1928 Sept. 4 - Hist. to Hon Ed. B. Almon for Miss Clara Walker

1929 Apr. 18, Hist. to Frances Fitzhugh Hobart [?]

1930- Jan 29 - Hist to Mrs. H. C. Jones

1930 Aug. 22 - Hist to Justus R. Moll - JCC

1932-July 13 - Hist to Mary C. Cole [?]
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Jeremiah Gurley
S. File 13231
N. C
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State of South Carolina Camp [Lis]{tear in document} Creek May 13th 1781

Jeremiah Gurley of the N'o Carolina militia having served his tour of Duty agreeable [tear in document] is therefore Discharged by General Orders.

Asa Bryan, Capt.
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Jeremiah Gurley-
S. File 13231
N. C.
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Johnston County. This is to certify that Jeremiah Gurley is Discharge as a Private of the C.'o light horse from a Tour of Duty. Given under my hand this 7th of August 1781.

Sam'l Smith Col.
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Jeremiah Gurley Ala $57.08. 7 June 1932

To what time last paid

Pension Office
13th Oct. 1837

Pa to the 4 March 1834
JH
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
April 8th, 1839,

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", Jeremiah Gurley, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Huntsville, Ala., Agency, at the rate of Fifty seven Dollars and eight Cents per annum, under of law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1834 to the 4th March 1838.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller,

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present
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Via Airmail
Ma. 30
No 19,995
Jere. Gurley
[ala?]
[?]

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

Sir
The original Pension Certificate of Jeremiah Gurley, a Revolutionary Pensioner has been found since the pursue of the Duplicate and is deposited with me to return to you. It is herewith enclosed. If you should prefer the returning of the duplicate instead of the original it shall be returned as soon as you can be heard on the subject.

I am, Sir, very respectfully,
Your Ob servant
B. T. Moore
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Jeremiah Gurley

Payments to be made 
at Mobile, 
by [?] Bank 
Agent for paying Pensioners ,
 in the Agency of 
Alabama

Recorded in the Pension Office,
in Book E Vol. 8
Page 45 by Wm R Palmer.
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT,

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Jeremiah Gurley of the State of Alabama who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Fifty Seven dollars and eight cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States this Seventh day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three

Cancelled is written over this document.
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Application for a renewal of Certificate

State of Alabama
Madison County

On this the 30th day of March 1837 before me Benjamin Steger and acting Justice of the peace in and for the county and State aforesaid, personally appears Jerrymiah [sic] Gurley, who on his oath, declares, that while in the service of the United States he did not belong to any Regular Company, that his name was not as he knows or recollects of, enrolled in any regular Company, that he belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col'n Robert Rayford, that he was in some way connected with his staff at one time, and at another at his command as collecting Officer, for forage, Waggon [sic] Master [He, He?]

That his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Alabama, sometime in the latter part of the year 1832 or beginning of .33 and that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the secretary of War; Which Certificate was placed in the hand of Col'n Hutcherson an Attorney at law in the Town of Huntsville, for the purpose of drawing a power of Attorney, to draw my pension and while in his possession, was supposed to be burnt, with the larger part of said Attorneys papers at the fire that occurred on the night of the third day of October 1835, in said Town of Huntsville  or in the bustle , the said Certificate was lost to me so that I have received no benefit form it since.
Jeremiah Gurley

Sworn and subscribed to, before me the day and year aforesaid
Benjamin Steger J.P.
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I, John McCartney, of Madison County Alabama do certify that I am acquainted with Jeremiah Gurley, a Revolutionary Pensioner, and that I know him to be the same person described in the foregoing affidavit by him.
John McCartney

Subscribed & sworn before me this 10th day of April 1837
Benj'n Steger

I, Benjamin Steger, a magistrate in and for Madison County in the State of Alabama, certify that both Jeremiah Gurley and John McCartney when affidavits  are on this sheet of paper, came to me personally known, that they are respectable citizens of said County and that they are persons of maturity. Given under my hand and seal this tenth day of April 1837.
Benj'n Steger JP {hand drawn} seal

I, Richard B. Purdom, clerk of the County Court of Madison County in the State of Alabama, certify that Benjamin Steger, whom named is marked to the foregoing certificate and before whom the foregoing affidavits by Jeremiah Gurley and John McCartney have sworn is now and was at the act of a citizen. a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that the signature aforesaid are genuine.

In Testimony above I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said County Court at office in Huntsville, this tenth day of April A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty seven and of American Independence the sixty first.
Rich'd B Purdom
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State of Mississippi
In the Circuit Courthouse of Hinds county
- June 30th 1837 Anderson Hutchinson, of said county, appears in courthouse and being duly sworn on his oath declares the Jeremiah Gurley, a citizen of the county of Madison in the State of Alabama, was put on the Pension roll of that State and received a certificate from the Pension Bureau; & that the certificate did [?] in the year 1832 or 1833 as stated in the preceding affidavit of said Gurley, as affiant is very confident. He verily believes that he himself prepared the declaration of evidence on which the certificate [?]; he well recollects receiving the Certificate. He resided in Huntsville, Alabama, from 1821 until Dec'r 1834 - knew said Gurley personally, recollects his case distinctly, and is very confident that said certificate was left by him in Dec'r 1834 among the papers of his then called firm of Hutchinson & Craighead & delivered to his late partner James B. Craighead.

In testimony that the preceding is a correct exemplification of the record of the Testimony delivered in open court.
I Green E. Beauchamp, clerk of said Court hereto set my name and the seal of said Court June 20th 1837-
G. E. Beauchamp, Clek

I George Coalter, judge of the seventh judicial district of the State of Mississippi & now solely presiding in the Circuit Court of Hinds county, certify, that Green E. Beauchamp whose certificate & attestation appear above, is the clerk of said court duly [?] & qualified, & that said certificate & attestation are genuine & in due form of law. 
Sworn under my hand & seal this 30th day of June 1837
George Coalter
{hand drawn} Seal
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Personally appeared before me A. R. Manning an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Marengo County Ala. James B. Craighead and makes oath that in the fresh conflagration which took place in Huntsville Alabama about the 1st of October 1835 his law office together with many papers and documents were consumed. [strikethrough] in the flames [strikethrough]. The certificate of a grant of a pension to Jeremiah Gurley must have been among those that were consumed by the flames as it was not among those that were saved.
He further states : that a small pension was allowed to Mr Gurley who is an honest ant respectable gentleman. The sum though small is of great importance to a man of his age and penury.
James B Craighead
Sworn and subscribed before me this 23rd of September 1837
A. R. Manning, Just of Peace

State of Alabama
Marengo County
I Asa Robinson clerk of the county courthouse for the county of Marengo and State of Alabama hereby certify that A. R. Manning  whose signature appears above is an acting justice of the peace for the county and [?] aforesaid and his acts official are entitled to full faith and credit. I witness of which I hereby set my had and affirm ny seal of the office this 24th day of September A.D. 1837
Asa Robinson Clerk
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State of Alabama
In the County Courthouse of Madison County held at Huntsville before the hon Samuel Chapman, judge hereof, on the 20th day of August 1833.

Jeremiah Gurley appeared in the court & produced his original declaration for a Pension made before the Circuit Court of said County on the 30th October 1832 the affidavits of James Cotton & of James Martin & William J Adair the judge of said circuit court & the attestations & seal of the clerk hereof, all of the same date, being contained on one sheet of foolscap paper & a half sheet sealed hereto; the concluding part of the declaration being on one side of said sealed leaf & the clerk's attestation & seal on the other-all of which are annexed hereto & intended to be attached by a ribbon or string passing thru' the same & of the seal of the clerk of this court to be annexed to this supplementary declaration. And now the said Jeremiah Gurley on his oath declares that he is informed by A. Hutchinson, who prepared the said declaration & affidavits for signature, that the same, when compiled were transmitted to the War Department of the United States & have been returned thence to be more specific & better authenticated: that he affiant , is the identical Jeremiah Gurley who subscribed & verified said declaration & now again declares the truth thereof: that he is now in his 74th year still referring to the record of his birth & which he wishes annexed to the seal whereby & his affidavit may be authenticated: that by reason of his advanced age, the consequent loss of memory as to dates particularly, tho' still vivid as to important incidents, he cannot state on his oath in every instance the precise length of his services, but according to the best of his recollection he did serve the United States in the revolution as follows:...his first tour, as stated in his declaration, being that commenced by substitution under Capt Hardy Bryan in Johnson county, N. Carolina, was for full three months which
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he served & which ended on May 13, 1781, the date of his first discharge, which he sent with his declaration & which being returned is now annexed as above - in this tour he was a private or foot soldier in the North Carolina troop - whether Cap't Bryan or his brother who succeeded him & affiants company commanded by them successively were mustered into the regular service or as militia only, & whether muster rolls were returned, he does not now know or recollect: He does not [?] remember the name of him drafted for whom he substituted, but it occurred in the county of Johnson: that he volunteered in his second tour as stated in his declaration & served until the 7th of August then next, when he received a second discharge, which is annexed as the first in this he served as a trooper & he served, as he is confident, between the dates of those discharges two months: His third tour, being that as a volunteer substitute trooper under Col: Exum as stated in the declaration, was engaged in said county of Johnson & listed he thinks 20 days, but is confident half a month: his fourth tour, maintained in said declaration, was begun in the county Johnson - he volunteered for 18 months as a foot soldier but in fact & according to order served on horse as related in said declaration: the tour commenced to the best of his memory in Sept 1781 & was continued until after the Capture of Cornwallis' army, & he is confident when he declares he must have served in at twelve months, & submits whether under the facts stated in his declaration as to this tour he may be considered as a horseman or foot soldier: the whole period certainly claimed is seventeen & half months.

Affiant further declares that in his first declaration he was uninformed of the necessity of precision in the above particulars as well as of the importance of showing whether [his interested coidence?] of the facts of his services do exist or was known to him: as to the force of his declaration he relies on the skill of him who wrote it: but he could have been implicit had he been interrogated. He now declares that there is no more living & known to him by whom he has any hope of pressing the matter in his declaration & this supplement stated on regard to his revolutionary serviced: & that the circumstatial evidence of Maj'r James Cotton, which accompanies the declaration , is the nearest approach to it he can make. He still resides in Madison county aforementioned. Near twelve months of the 17 1/2 he served he was in active duty.
Jeremiah Gurley
Sworn & subscribed 20th August 1833
Rich'd B. Purdom clerk cc
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Anderson Hutchison, attorney, on his oath declares that he drew for signature the declaration affidavits & certificates annexed & which are identified in the preceding affidavit: that he drew them whilst the Circuit Court was in session & whilst much pressed with other duties; that he learned from the applicant before he began to write his narrative that he had no know witnesses who knew his service but in consequence of haste omitted to insert it:  that he had only read the published rules of the Department of& not the act on which they were based & did nothing then know that the am't of the pension was to graduated according to the length of service.  He states that the declaration  he annexed are the same which was signed the day of their date & which were transmitted to the department & returned. He did not know Maj James Cotton until he made the affidavit attached to the declaration but has since learned from several he believes that said Cotton is a person of good character & highly credible. A pension has been granted to him as affiant states from the Certificate thereof shown to him. Mr. Gurley, the applicant, is one of the most respectable citizens of Madison County & where know I think he would be fully believed when on oath whether interested or not. Samuel Allen, the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Madison County, is in bad health & absent at a watering place, so that his affidavit cannot be procured at this time: but his signature & the seal of his court to the document annexed are genuine, & were wishing my observation put to the same after I had attached by wafers the half sheet to the full sheet of the document. I saw James Cotton sign his affidavit, heard him verify & saw said Mead certify it as it purports. I say the judge sign, whilst on the Bench.
A. Hutchinson

Sworn & subscribed 20 Augt. 1833
Rich'd B. Purdom Clerk CC

Col William Brandon & Wm Veitch, of said county of Madison, on such state - that they have been long & well acquainted with Maj James Cotton, of said county, who's affidavit is afor the annexes document & is certified by L Mead the clerk of the Circuit Court of said county of the date of 30th October 1832; that they believe his is 67 or 68 years old, judging from his appearance & giving full credit to his affidavit: that said Cotton is a responsible citizen & fully credible; & they both concur with A Hutchinson in regard to th the respectability & veracity of Jeremiah Gurley the applicant.
Wm Brandon
William Veitch

Sworn & subscribed to before me 20.August 1833
Rich'd B. Purdom Clerk CC
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And I the said Samuel Chapman, Judge of the County Court of Madison aforesaid, now presiding in said court & holding the same, having [strikethrough] had [strikethrough] on this day first above named had the supplemental declaration of Jeremiah Gurley signed & verified before me - having examined him touching the same & his original declaration annexed - & put to him again the interrogatories prescribed by the War department - I am satisfied he was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states - I am satisfied too that James Martin was at the date of his affidavit & is a clergyman resident of said County; & that he & Wm Veitch, & James Cotton & Anderson Hutchinson & Wm Brandon whose affidavits appear to the the original & to this amended declaration, are credible persons & entitled to credit. The affidavits to this supplement were signed & verified before me in court this day -& recognizing as genuine the signatures of the Judge of the circuit Court of s'd County & the Clerk Sheriff the sal of that Court upon the document is annexed, I direct the same to be attache to the seal of my County & that it be affixed hereunto.
Sam'l Chapmen Judge County Court

I Richard B Purdom, clerk of the County Court of Madison County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said County Court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Gurley for a Pension & I proceed to annex as directed the document reffed to herein.

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 20th day of August 1833 - which seal in that of my court.
Rich B. Purdom, Clerk

Attached is a seal and ribbon.
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Jan 2nd 37
Mr Burdine

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington City

Jeremiah Gurley
Ala for New Cer
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Huntsville, Alabama
19th December 1836

Dear Sir,

Enclosed I send you an affidavit made by Jeremiah Gurley, a Revolutionary Pensioner of this (Madison) County, showing that his original Pension Certificate is lost or mislaid. I am, unable , at this moment to lay my hands on the late Pension Law, and on that account do not know whether any other evidence than what is now furnished will be required to [?] you to open a duplicate certificate -

I presume, (but am not certain) that the Hon Gabriel Moore and Hon R. Chapman are both acquainted with this Revolutionary Pensioner and also with the Magistrate before whom the affidavit, indeed, was made. Will you have the kindness to let me hear from you as soon as imminent.
I have the honor to be your most obtt svt.
B. T. Moore

Hon J. L. Edwards
Com'r of Pensions
Washington City
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Jan 2, 37

Mr. Burdine

Am Jany 3, '37

Hon Gabriel Moore, 
Senate US
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Senate Chamber Jany 2nd 1837

Sir,

Mr. Jeremiah Gurley has made application for a duplicate pension certificate having lost the original. If there be informality in his application be pleased to forward me a copy of the form [?] to be observed for his guide

With high respect
Your out. Sevt.
Gabriel Moore

J. L. Edwards Esq
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Oct 12

Mr Evans

Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington City
D.C.
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Huntsville Alabama
30th Sept 1837

Dear Sir

At length, I have been unable to forward you such evidence as I promised [?] you to forwith Mr. Jeremiah Gurley of Madison County, Ala. a Duplicate Pension Certificate.  This is the same about which I sometime since addressed you - As it has been sometime since M. Gurley has re'd his pension, we will take is a an act of kindness if you will inform the Pension Agent whom himself it will be to pay the same. He wants sum due or to what time he has been paid as appears from the wisdom in your office.

I am, sir, Yours respectfully
B. T. Moore

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Pension declaration Free

Mr J L Edwards
Pension office of the War Department
Washington

Alc Oct 2
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19.995
Jeremiah Gurley
Alabama

Adm 1 year 4 months
Adm 15 days 2 months
Adm 15 days  trooper

2 1/2 c.   10.41
14  m.     46.60
              ______
                57.01

12.50

8.33
2.08
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10.41

[strikethrough] Clerk of the Court  [strikethrough]

Huntsville
Alabama
Hon C. C. Clay

57.08
      2 1/2
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[strikethrough] 114.16
                            28.54 [strikethough]
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142.70
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Payments to be made at Decatur
by Horace Green
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of Decatur Alabama

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E. Vol 3. Page 45 by F. S. Evans.
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Duplicate

WAR DEPARTMENT.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Jeremiah Gurley of the State of Alabama who was a private of Infantry and Cavalry in the War of the Revolution is entitled to receive Fifty Seven dollars and eight cents per annum during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831 and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, every year.

Given at the War Office of the United. States, this thirteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.

J. R. Poinsett
Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned.
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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No 6
Jeremiah Gurley - died
" Act 7 June 1832"


Huntsville, Ala
2 gr.44
Box 17
C17
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Ret. & 1812
Wars Section
AWF/ILL

August 22, 1930.

Mr. Justus R. Moll
205 East Olive Street
Springfield, Missouri.

Dear Sir:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 13231, that Jeremiah Gurley, son of John and Elizabeth Gurley, was born December 29, 1759 in Johnson County, North Carolina.

He enlisted in February, 1781 and served as a private in Captains Hardy Bryan's and Asa Bryan's Company, Colonel Eaton's North Carolina Regiment, was in the battle of Guilford, and in the battle of Camden under Colonel Reed and was discharged May 13, 1781: he served about two months as a trooper in Captain Lewis Gurley's Company of Light Horse, and was discharged August 7, 1781, the said Lewis Gurley was soldier's brother: he served fifteen or twenty days as a trooper in Colonel Benjamin Exum's Regiment of North Carolina troops: and from September, 1781, to the close of the war, he served about one year under Colonel Robert Rayford.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 30, 1832, at which time he was living near Brownsboro, Madison County, Alabama.

It is stated that he moved in 1817 from Maury County, Tennessee, "with his family" to Madison County, Alabama.

It is not shown whether soldier was married.

Very truly yours,
E. W. Morgan.
Acting Commissioner

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January 29, 1930

Mrs. H.C. Jones
109 White Street
Huntsville, Alabama

Dear Madam:

I advise you that due to the very large number of inquiries similar to yours and the lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, the bureau is unable to make a series of investigations and reports pertaining to soldiers of the Revolution and War of 1812 for one person or organization.

It is proper to add that the Revolutionary War records of this bureau are open to the public for research work, and you or anyone designated by you, may examine and collect data from the papers on file by calling at the bureau, which is the usual practice in matters of extensive research.

You are herewith furnished the histories of Jeremiah Gurley and Moses Bailey:

From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.13231, it appears that Jeremiah Gurley 9son of John and Elizabeth Gurley) was borne December 29, 1759, in Johnson County, North Carolina.

En enlisted in February, 1781, and served as a private in Captains Hardy Bryan's and Asa Bryans's Company, Colonel Eaton's North Carolina Regiment, was in the battle of Guilford, and in the battle of Camden under Colonel Read, and was discharged May 13, 1781; he served about two months as a trooper in Captain Lewis Gurley's Company of Light Horse, and was discharged August 7, 1781, the said Lewis Gurley was soldier's brother; he served fifteen or twenty days as a trooper in Colonel Benjamin Exum's Regiment of North Carolina Troops; and from September, 1781 to the close of the war he served about one year under Colonel Robert Rayford.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 30, 1832, at which time he was living near Brownsboro, Madison County, Alabama.

It is stated that he moved in 1817 from Maury County, Tennessee, "with his family" to Madison County, Alabama.

It is not shown whether soldier was married.

This is the history of the only soldier named Jeremiah Gurley found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section
ADY

April 18, 1929

Frances Fitzhugh Hobart,
337 Sherman Street,
Decatur, Alabama.

Madam:

I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War. pension claim, S. 13231, it appears that Jeremiah Gurley (son of John and Elizabeth Gurley) was born December 29th, 1759 in Johnson County, North Carolina.

He enlisted in February 1781 and served as a private in Captains Hardy Bryan's and Asa Bryan's Company, Colonel Eaton's North Carolina Regiment, was in the battle of Guilford, and in the battle of Camden under Colonel Read, and was discharged May 13, 1781; he served about two months as a trooper in Captain Lewis Gurley's Company of Light Horse, and was discharged August 7, 1781, the said Laws Gurley was soldier's brother; he served fifteen or twenty days as a trooper in Colonel Benjamin Exum's Regiment of North Carolina Troops; and from September 1781 to the close of the war he served about one year under Colonel Robert Rayford.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed October 30, 1832, at which time he was living near Brownsboro, Madison County, Alabama.

It is state that he moved in 1817 from Maury County, Tennessee, "with his family" to Madison County, Alabama.

It is not shown whether soldier was married.

This is the history of the only soldier named Jeremiah Gurley found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

Respectfully,

E. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.
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September 4, 1938

Honorable Ed. B. Almon
Tuscumbia
Alabama.

My dear Mr. Almon:

In réponse to your letter of the thirtieth ultimo, enclosing letter from Miss Clara Walker of Gurley, Alabama, I have the honor to advise you that this bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution, unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services.

A careful search of said records fails to show such a claim on file on account to the services of any John Gurley, similar spellings of that name searched.

You are herewith furnished the history of the only soldier named Jeremiah Gurley found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

From the papers in the pension claim, S.13231, it appears that Jeremiah Gurley (son of John and Elizabeth Gurley) was born December 29, 1759 in Johnson County, North Carolina.  

He enlisted in February 1781 and served as a private
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in Captains Hardy Bryan's and Asa Bryan's Company, Colonel Eaton's North Carolina Regiment, was in the battle of Guilford, and in the battle of Camden under Colonel Read, and was discharged May 13, 1781; he served about two months as a trooper in Captain Lewis Gurley's Company of Light Horse, and was discharged August 7,  1781, the said Lewis Gurley was soldier's brother; he served fifteen or twenty days as a trooper in Colonel Benjamin Exum's Regiment of North Carolina Troops; and from September 1781 to the close of the war he served about one year under Colonel Robert Rayford.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 30, 1832, at which time he was living near Brownsboro, Madison County, Alabama.

It is stated that he moved in 1817 from Maury County, Tennessee, "with his family" to Madison County, Alabama.

It is not show whether soldier was married.

Your letter from Miss Clara Walker is herewith returned.

Very truly yours

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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54 East Broad & Miller Ave.
West Point, Mississippi 
June 12, 1932

Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.

My dear sir;

I am a descendent of Jeremiah Gurley and I find that he has a pension-Rev.Pension Roll, Vol.XIV.Doc.514,23rd Cong., let Sess.,1833-34, and Census of Pensions,1841,page148. He served as a private in the North Carolina State Troops during the Revolution: He resided in Madison County, Alabama, June 1, 1840, with his brother, John Gurley, aged 81.

I am wondering if you will be so kind as to send me a list of Jeremiah Gurley's children and his wife's name if this is given in your pension roll.  Has John Gurley a pension and are his children given?

I shall be most grateful for any information you can give me on these tow men and their families, with dates, if possible.

Thanking you in advance for your kindness in this matter and hoping to hear from you soon, I am,

Most sincerely yours,

Mary Cornelia Cole.

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Received June 15 1932
Pensions [smudged?]
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July 30, 1930

Pension Bureau,
WASHINGTON
D C

Gentlemen:

JEREMIAH GURLEY, born about 1760, lived in Johnston Co. North Carolina. He is supposed to have enlisted in the Revolutionary War from North Carolina, and to have served three enlistments. It is said hat a pension was granted to him.

1. Can you advise dates of his service, and companies in which he served?

2. Do your files show names of his parents, his wife, or his brothers and sisters?

3. It is said he died Oct. 28, 1843. Can you verify this date and advise where he died?

Yours very truly,

Justus R. Moll

(I am a descendent of Jeremiah Gurley.)

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December 30, 1929.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-

The Librarian General of the D.A.R. has suggested that I might obtain some assistance from you in my research for our local chapter.  Please advise me what help, if any, you can give us? We have the names of the following men who received pensions for service in the Revolution, (or data taken from their obituaries--I made the list from "Revolutionary Soldiers in Ala." compiled by the Ala. Dept. of Archives & History)
Allen, Robert
Aminet, John
Bailes, Eldridge
√Bailey, Moses
Baylis (Bayless) Hezekiah
Bentley, Efford
Beville, Edward
Caruthers, Hugh
Colliers, James
Cotton, James
Craft, Ezekiel
Davis, Thomas
Dean, Richard
Eddins, William
Eddins, Benjamin
French, Benjamin
Garner, Sturdy
Gurley, Jeremiah
Hague, John
Hancock, Robert 9obit.0
Harris, Henry
Harris, Richard
Hillsman, Jose
Jaggers, Jeremiah
Johnson, Richard
Latty, John
Long, Daniel
McCartney, John
McDuff, Daniel
McKilkeny, James
McNeely, David
Maples, Wm. C. xxrtxnx
Martin, Andrew
Melam (Milam?) John
Nail, Matthew
Nelson, Joseph
Parker, William
Petty, William
Pigg, Charles
Pope, Le[strikethrough] a [strikethrough] Roy (obit)
Powell, Peyton
Ready, Shadrach
Smith, John
Stone, Reuben
Stillwagon-----
Taylor, George
Tribble, James
Walling, William
Wellborn, Isaac
Williamson, Hawley
Winn, Elisha
Winn, Galanus
Wright, Daniel
Wright, Robert
Wright, John--this must be 1812, as in the census of 1840 he is shown as 40 yrs old I think.
Byun, John 1812

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Can you tell me whether there were any other Madison Countians who received pensions--or widows of same who received pensions in lieu of their husbands?

Our chapter is very much interested in compiling all data possible regarding our Revolutionary soldiers--and since the county began to be settled as early as 1804, we know we must have had many of them. Unfortunately we are not financially able to employ any research worker, and have to do what we can locally, with what help we can secure from others.

Please let me know if you can look for additional pensioners for us; and what it would cost to secure abstracts of pension records of all our pensioners--more especially places of residence before coming to this county, and any family data contained therein-that is more important from our point of view than the service records; if they received a pension that is proof positive they served; but if a [strikethrough] n [strikethrough] record mentions a wife Arabella and we have a will of that man mentioning wife Arabella and six children, then from the gnealmcial point of view we are rich, since we know it is the same man and that the descendants of the six children are all from this Revolutionary ancestor!!

If you can help us in any way, we shall be most grateful.

Most sincerely yours,
Kathleen Paul Jones
Mrs. Howard C. Jones, Chairman,
Genealogical Committee, Twickenham
Town Chapter, D.A.R.
109 White St.,
?(Washington, D.C.) ?

Mrs. H. C. Jones
109 White St.,
(Huntsville, Ala.)
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Revs & 1812
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Decatur, Ala -
Jan. 29th-1929-

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C-

I am writing to ask if you have any record in the Pension Dept. of Mr. Jeremiah Gurley. In his diary he speaks of having volunteered and served three (3) different periods in the Revolution Army but does not state what capacity he served. After the closing of the war - removed to S.C. then to Johnston Co. - N. C- then to Maury Co: Tenn; Finally settling in Madison Co:-Ala- He died Oct. 28th 1843.

If you can tell me, in what capacity he served during the war & if he drew a pension. I will be thankful.

Respt. Yours-
(Mrs. L. A.)
Frances Fitzhugh-Hobart
Address- 337- Sherman Street
Decatur, Ala-

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ED. B. ALMON
8TH DIST. ALABAMA

Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 

COMMITTEES;
ROADS
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Tuscumbia, Alabama.
August 30, 1928.

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir:-

I enclose you herewith a letter addressed to you and also one addressed to me by Miss Clara Walker, Gurley, Alabama, which are self explanatory.

If it is possible for you to do so I will appreciate it if you will furnish the information desired by Miss Walker, but if not please refer this request to the propter Bureau and advise me of your action. 

Thanking you for your attention to this, and awaiting your reply, I am,

Yours very truly,
Ed B. Almon
M.C.

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Gurley Ala.
Aug.28, 1928

Commisioner [sic] of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
Please send me the Revolutionary records of John and Jeremiah Gurley Private in North Carolina State troops. Gurley may be spelled on your records Gourlie as that was the way our ancestors spelled it when they first came to this country.

Please send me copy of Jeremiah Gurley pension papers Revolutionary Pension Roll Volume xlv, Senate document 514, 23rd. Congress 1st . session 1833 and 1834.

Jeremiah Gurley was a colonel in the Revolution. A private in North Carolina State troops. He enrolled for pension in 1833. He came to Madison Co. June, 1840 to live with his son John Gurley.

John and Matilda Tharp (Rutledge) Gurley, native of Johnson Co. N.C. soldier in Revolution who afterwards resided 10 years in South Carolina, returned to Johnson C., for 10 years, then to Maury Co. Tenn; thence 1817 to Madison co. Ala.

John Gurley was the son of Jeremiah and Francis Gurley also of Johnson Co. N. C. and Maury Co. Tenn.

Respectfully yours,
Miss Clara Walker

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