Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37046, John Guest, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Guest John
S. 37046.
CONTENTS

✓ 8,239 Connecticut
John Guest 4
of Cornwall in the state of Connecticut who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Stark of the N. Hampshire line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23 d of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 d of March 1819 and sent Post Office Corn- wall, Connecticut.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 86.16
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep r 1819. 48 —
10. 8/308 4/31 $ 134.16
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

I John Guest of Cornwall in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut do depose and declare that I enlisted as a private Soldier into the Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy in the forepart of the Summer 1775 in the Company commanded by Capt Sylvanus Walker Regiment commanded by Col: Davidson in the Massachusetts line and I continued in the said Service until the first day of January 1776 I again enlisted into the said Service into said Walker's Company and Col: Starks New Hampshire line Regt and continued therein until the first day of January 1777 I was then regularly discharged - I further declare and depose that by reason of my reduced circumstances I stand in need of the assistance of my Country for my support.
John X Guest Mark
State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss April 20 th 1818 Personally appeared John Guest and made solemn Oath to the truth contained in the above affidavit before me
Augustus Pettibone Esq d Judge of Litchfield County Court -

State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss
I Augustus Pettibone Esq. Chief Judge of Litchfield County Court which is a Court of record do hereby certify that the aforesaid affidavit was regularly taken before me and from the Evidence Exhibited it appears to Satisfaction that the said John Guest served in the revolutionary war in the manner and for the term as stated in his aforesaid affidavit - and from his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of the assistance of his country for support - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Court to be affixed this 23 d day of April Anno Domini 1818
Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge
To the Hon ble John C. Calhoun Secretary of War -

John Guest Disposition Returned Adm. of Henry
P.O. Canall, Con.

John Guest
0239
Can Sept 10/19

District of Connecticut, ss. County of Litchfield
I, Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of Litchfield in the State and District of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing and the Schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the records of said Court : and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is Nothing Dollars and  Cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court on this
17. day of July 182 8
Frederick Wolcott Clerk
presiding Judge of the  Court in and for the in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that
 is Clerk of said Court, and keeper of the Seal and Records thereof ; and that the preceding Certificate, under his hand, and the Seal of said Court, is authentic, and in due form of Law.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in
this  day of  182

At a County Court, held in and for the County of Pittsfield , in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 4 th day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, John Quest a resident in the town of Cornwall in the County of Pittsfield in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, necessary cloathing and bedding excepted, viz:
Nothing

District and State of Connecticut, ss. County of Litchfield
Be it Remembered, That in the County Court, held in and for the County of Litchfield , in the District and State aforesaid, on this 14 th day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court, John Quest aged 67 years, resident in the Town of Cornwall in the County of Litchfield in said State, and being sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:
That he enlisted into Capt. Sylvanus Walker's Company Col: Davidson's Regt in the Massachusetts line afterwards said Company was removed to Col: Stark's Regt in the New Hampshire line
that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, was dated the 23 rd day of April 1818; that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the list of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 8239 And I do further 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 hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation is a day labourer. That I have no property whatever and I am not able to labour and have been maintained by the public and that I have family residing with me
John X Quest
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid.
Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule, is Nothing Dollars and _____ Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court.
Frederick Wolcott Clerk

ans
September 29, 1928.
COPIED BY ADY
Charles R. Hale, 33 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut.
Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 37046 , it appears that John Guest enlisted in the summer of 1775 and served as a private in Captain Sylvanus Walker's Company, Colonel Danielson's Massachusetts Regiment until January 1, 1776, when he enlisted in same company in Colonel Stark's Regiment, he was in the battle of Trenton and served until January 1, 1777.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 23, 1818, at which time he was living at Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut, aged about sixty-five years.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.
Danielson Duler
See Heilman, fn Capt. Sylvanus Walker. Page 566

Rev. 1812
HEADQUARTERS COMMANDERY-IN-CHIEF SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR
COMMITTEE ON MARKING GRAVES CHARLES R. HALE, CHAIRMAN 33 CAPITOL AVENUE HARTFORD, CONN.
Sept 25-1928
Chief Clerk Pension Dept. Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:
Please send me Revolutionary War Record of John Grest on the 1818 Pension Roll We wish to get a headstone for this Veteran.
Yours very Truly Chas. P. Hale

37046
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 37046
John Ernest Oli Rev 180
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 168
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1928 Sept. 25-Heist to Tombstone Duke St. class. R. Hale wns

I Simeon Colton of Longmeadow in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Woman of lawfull age testify depose & say that in January AD 1775 I enlisted into Capt Wallers company 2 d Col Hakes Regiment of the New Hampshire line in the Revolutionary War & that when I joined said company John Guest was a private soldier in said company & continued therein until December following during all which time he sustained the character of a good and faithful soldier, I was taken sick at Albany and left by the army & knew that the s d Guest was taken down in a kindle with the rest of the troops but I never heard any thing more of his services & further the Deponent saith not Simeon Colton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss
Personally
appeared Simeon Colton and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed before me Edmund Pillsbury Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss. I John Ingersoll Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within & for the County of Hampden do Certify that Edmund Bliss Esq r is a justice of the Peace within & for the County of Hampden and that the within signature is his proper hand writing - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the County Seal this seventeenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred & Nineteen John Ingersoll

I Lemuel Parsons of Springfield in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Woman of lawful age testify depose & say that in the year 1770 in January John Guest was a private soldier in the same company with me commanded by Capt Walker in Col. Haskell Regiment in the New Hampshire line & that the said Guest continued as a faithful soldier in said capacity until the January following & that he was with me at the action in Newton at the taking of the Hessians - Further the deponent saith not Lemuel Parsons
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss
Personally appeared before me Lemuel Parsons above named and acknowledged the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed
Edward Bliss Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss.
I John Ingersoll Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within & for the County of Hampden do certify that Edmund Bliss Esq. is a Justice & the True within & for said County of Hampden and that the within signature is his proper hand writing - In testimony whereof I have here set my hand and affixed the seal of the County this Twentysecond day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred & Nineteen
John Ingersoll

State of Connecticut ss Cornwall County of Litchfield On this 19 th Day of February A D 1819 Personally appeared before me George Wheaton Esquire and Mr. James Alling both of the Town of Cornwall to me personally known as credible witnesses and being duly sworn according to Law testify and say that they are personally acquainted with John Gurtner Esq., of Cornwall that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support Sworn before me the day and date above written
Oliver Burnham Justice of the Peace