Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,381, Benjamin Guyniss, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Gwyniss Benjamin
S. 34.381
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34 381 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34 381
Benjamin Elyiss Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 163
[Arrangement of 1870.] ✓

9106
New Jersey
Benjamin Gaynito Sussex in the state of New Jersey who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Martin of the Jersey line, for the term of Five Years .
scribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 of April and sent to M c Ogden Newtown, New Jersey
Arrears to 4th of March 1818 88 83 Semi-annual all'ce ending Aug t 11 48
10 3 1/2 30 35 129 83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Benjamin Guynip 28 th Apr l 1818 Private Martins reg t New Jersey 76 Five years
admitted
Benjamin Guynip The Witness of

The Widow of Benjamin Guyton
Ann M rs
Benjamin Guyton 28 th Sep r 1818 Inverness Minting New Street 76 Inverness

Sussex County New Jersey
on the Twenty Sixth day of April 1818 Before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appeared Benjamin Guggis aged seventy five years and being by me first sworn according to Law does 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 persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States that he served as a privet Soldier in the war of the Revolution that he Enlisted in the Army in the year of our Lord One Hundred and Seventy Six in the State of New Jersey and County of Sussex in the fourth Jersey Regiment commanded by Colonel Ephraim Morton in Captain Jacob Martens Company where he continued and did the duty of a Soldier for five years in said Corps or in the Service of the United States and then was discharged from said Service which discharge is lost that he was in the Battle of He further saith that he is in Reduced Circumstances in Life and stands in need of his country's assistance for Support and that he has no other witnesses now in his power of his said Service he says that he was in the Battle at Quebec Sworn and subscribed before me This 28 th Day of April Eighteen Hundred Eighteen John Beden
Benjamin Guggis mark

I John Reden Judge as before said do hereby certify that it appears to my latest factor that the said Benjamin Grayson had served in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy as stated in the preceding declaration and I have now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the Department of war agreeable to the above recited act of Congress and I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the Applicant Benjamin Grayson and believe him to be very poor and needy and justly entitled to full pension from his country
As witness my hand this 28 day of April 1818
John Reden

State of New Jersey Superior County
I Ephraim Green jun r Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do certify that John Ogden Esq r before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was
at the Taking and signing the same one of the Judges of the Court of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Superior duly commissioned and sworn into office and to all his acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of Superior County Court this tenth day of July in the Year of our Lord eighteen hundred & Eighteen —
E. Green jun r