Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,380, John Guy, New Jersey
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(S-1776) SERVICE New Jersey. * Guy, John NUMBER S. 34.380. CONTENTS [blank]
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34380 Revy INVALID. [illegible]
File No. 34,380 John Guy Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18th  Index:- Vol. 2, Page 163 [Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mountholly post office {free Jnu -  May 18 Mt Holly N.J.}. Houn d.d J.. C. Calhoun Esq. Secretary at War. At the City of Washington. John Gray correct
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Mountholly may the 16th 1818

Sir, Inclosed is the Affidavit & Declaration of ‘an old Black Soldier who I know to be in the Service of the revolutionary war.  [illegible symbol] The application is granted and the Certificate issued you will please Direct it to me. at Mountholly and in the State of New. Jersey as the soldier Lives near me and I will see he has it.

I am Sir, your most obedient and most humble Servant Joseph Budd [underlined]

The Houn. J C Calhoun Esq. Secretary at War.
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John Gray. 14 May. Correct -
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District of the State of New Jersey Burlington County Ss} On this fourteenth day of may Anno Domini 1818 before me the subscribed one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas in and for the county of Burlington in Said District - - personally appears John Guy aged sixty seven years resident in the township of northhampton in the Said County of Burlington and in Said District who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain person engaged in the Land and naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary war, that he the Said John Guy enlisted in the month of march 1776 in the County of Hunterdon in Lebanon township in Said District in the Company Commanded by Captain John Ross. belonging to the third Jersey Regiment Commanded by Col. Elias Dayton, for one year, and was marched to fort Hanar and staid there near fort a full month and motioned back to Albany from thence marched to Ticonderoga and staid there to the Spring of 1777 and enlisted again for three years in the same Company and Regiment and he continued to serve in the said Corps [illegible] in the Service of the United States after enlisting the third time for nine months which makes four years and nine months in the Said Service of the United States and he was discharge about the begining of the year 1781 by Major John Ross in Mountholly in said District by receiving a Written Discharge which Discharge he states he has lost, and his Capt and other officers is Dead. That he was in the Battles of Stratton Island, Brandiwine, Germantown, Mounmouth, and to the northard against the Indians and way ^on Sulivan.

And that he is in reduced circumstances and stand [illegible crossed out] in need of the Assistance of his Country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his services ( Except he states General Bloomfield who was a Major at that time in the Service. Sworn and declared before me the day and year aforesaid Joseph Budd [signature] John Guy [signature]

I Joseph Budd one of the Judges of the ^Inferior court of Common pleas in and for Said county of Burlington in Said District do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the Said John Guy did serve in the revolutionary war as Stated in the proceeding declaration against the Common Enemy and  behave himself as a good Soldier in the American cause and now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken before me to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress-  Given under my hand and Seal of Office this fourteenth day of May Anno Domini 1818. Joseph Budd [signature]
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I Joseph Mc.Ilvaine clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the county of Burlington in the state of New Jersey do hereby certify that Joseph Budd Esquire who hath subscribed his name to the written deposition was at the time of taking the same and is still one of the Judges of the Said court duly commissioned and sworn according to law and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such witness my hand and the seal of the said Court this sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen JM McIlvaine [seal]
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Notification sent to the Hon. Joseph Bloomfield,    @8 June 1820 Burlington, N.J. 

New Jersey Roll. 1928 John Guy Capt. Ross Private, New Jersey line 77- 4 years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 31. Of July 1818, and sent to Joseph Budd, Esq. Mountholly, N. Jersey.

Arrears to 4 Sept. 1818. 3 months 18/31 4/30. $ 29.70. {Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March 1818,}

Continued on the role under the law of the 1 of May 1890.  Northampton Burlington Co.
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John Guy - ~ 1928 ~ 31st July. 1818 (Sept. 1818) Continue [underlined]
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The court is of opinion that the statement written made by John Guy as to his property is true - Joseph Budd President of the court -

I certify the above [illegible] a true copy of the business [Illegible] 10th 1820 J McIlvaine clk
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District of New Jersey, ss.
 On this twenty seventh day of May - “ - 1820, personally appeared, in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common pleas, of the County of Burlington, in the state of New Jersey, being a Court of record, proceeding according to the course of the Common Law-having jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping records of its proceedings. John Guy aged sixty nine years, resident in Northampton - in said County, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath-..declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:-  That he enlisted in the second company commanded by the Captain John Ross in the third New Jersey Regiment on the Continental establishment that his original declaration to obtain a pension was according to the best of his recollection made on the 14 May 1818 and that his pension certificate is numbered 192.8 -“-

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And I do solemnly swear -“- that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war,” passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me ; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule following, and by me subscribed. That is to say my wearing apparel - that I am a single man having had  ten children all of whom have left me long ago and whether they are yet living I do not know - that my business has been that of a miller - but for six months past have been incapable of work from lameness arising from Rheumatism and have no property of any kind - 
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Sworn to, and declared, on the 27th -“- day of May 1820 before Joseph’s Budd President of the court -“-}. John Guy

I, JOSEPH McILVAINE, Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Burlington, in the State of New- Jersey, do here by certify, that the foregoing deposition and the schedule thereunder written, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is ———“———- dollars and ———“———- cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this thirtieth —-“—- day of May ———“——— 1820. {seal} JMcIlvaine