Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4,163, Thomas Gourley, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Gourley, Thomas
P 4,163
CONTENTS

38865, James Gourley, decd. ? S. C.
Let. H. G. Graham Mch. 26/55
4163
Act. June 7. 1832

Jonestown Tenn 16 March 1853
Sir:
Enclosed is a power of attorney, authorizing me to make inquiry in regard to what may be due the heirs of Thomas Gouley of the Revolutionary army.
Thomas Gouley was a 2 d Lieut. in Capt. John Marshall's Comp y , 2 d Tenn. Battalion, under Col. Saml. Miles, in 1776, and was afterwards a Capt. in Col. Snodgrass' Regt. 9 th Tenn. Inf y in the 1777. The Gouley family have a military chest, which belonged to their father, and contains large packages of rolls, supposed to be belonging to the Revolutionary service, not only of his own company, but of Capt. Snodgrass, Marshall's and others. It is presumed that, as he was in the Regular service, and served a long time in the army, that something is due the heirs; and to ascertain what that is, and the forms necessary to obtain it, is the object of the present inquiry.
Some years since, when Mr. Blair represented this District in Congress, a claim was presented either at the Pension office, or to Congress - but was never allowed; for what reason the claimants are unable to state.
You will please examine into the nature of the claim, & state in reply, what is due the heirs, if anything, and the forms necessary to obtain the same, and oblige
Yrs: S.P. Waldo,
Pension office,
Washington City,
D.C.
Your obedient
A.G. Mahan,

March 2nd BB

Pension Office,
March 26. 1855.
Sir,
I have received your letter of the 16 th inst. together with a power of attorney from the heirs of Thomas Gourley, an officer of the revolutionary army - These papers disclose the fact that Gourley died in 1796 and his widow in 1829. There could not, therefore, any by possibility, be any arrear of pension due their heirs - as they both died before the passage of any law by Congress giving them pensions.
Very respectfully J.C.
A. G. Graham Esq. Knoxborough Tennessee

Power of Atty.
Thomas Gurney
To
Albert G. Gahan

Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Gourley m c and heir at law of Thomas Gourley who was a Lieut. and afterwards, Captain in the Pennsylvanian State Troops during the Revolutionary war, in Col. Haggerty's Reg't. hereby appoint Albert G. Graham of Jonesboro' Pa. my true and lawful attorney for me, & in my name, to make in- quiry into, & prosecute, a claim for me, for 30 pay, seven yrs pay, or 7 yrs commutation pay, allowed by the resolves of Cong- ress, both Continental, and under the present constitutional to the officers of the Revolutionary war, then widows, and children; both on my own behalf, & in behalf of my brother William Robert, & Sarah, & Mary, who are the only surviving children of sd Lt. & Capt. Thos. Gourley. Said Thos. Gourley died in S.C. on the _____ day of _____ 1826, and my mother, the widow of said Thomas, died in this Co. on the 26 th day of Aug. 1827. And I hereby certify & confirm whatsoever my said attor- ney may lawfully do in the premises.
Given under my hand & seal this 9 th March 1855.
Executed in presence of us:
Henry King A. W. Williams
Thomas Gourley
State of Pennsylvania, ) Personally appeared before me, Jas. S. Brad- Central County, ) ley Clerk of the County Court of said County Thomas Gourley, the obligor in the foregoing Power of Attorney with whom I am personally acquainted, & who acknowledged the same to be his act and deed for the purposes and con- sideration.
Given under my hand & official seal at office in Elizabethton this 9 th day of March 1855.
Jas. S. Bradley - Clerk

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
P. O.
James Gourley Service: ?
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Gourthley, William GRADE Private LINE Lamb's Artillery (Gortley)  (New York)
Pencil notation
WARRANT NUMBER 7191 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Sept. 3, 1790
To John Brown, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.