Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,520, Phebe Gouge, Conn.

Gouge, Phebe Smith, Eli
W. 19.520,
B. L. Wt. 24753-160-55
Former widow

4157 over
P. O. Charles Souger
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Let. To Hon. P. Puryear Mar. 30, 1854.

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Catharine Gouger dec d widow of Henry.
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Hon. R. Puryear 30 th Mar. 1854.
4157
Arch y  th July 1838.

Revolutionary Claim
Act 7 th July 1838.
Henry Souger adm r . of Catherine Souger widow of Hen. ry Souger die a late Revolutionary Soldier North Carolina Militia
Militia
Comm ee of Pensions.
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Hen R 6 Puyar.

STATE OF North Carolina } COUNTY OF Rowan }
On this 21 st day of November , 185 3 , personally appeared before me Le P. Barbee a Justice of the Peace for the County of Rowan of the court. Jacob Beal & Jacob Shufing , who, being first duly sworn according to law, declare that Catherine Gouger was the widow of Henry Gouger Sen. decd. who was a Private Soldier of the Revolution and resided in said County for many years that they were personally acquainted with the said Henry Gouger Sen. & that he served in the War of the Revolution 12 months in the capacity of Private soldier in a Regiment under Brigadier General Griffith Rutherford & Col. Collet Shippen that said Henry Gouger Sen. was in the Battle at Ramseur's Mills that his horse was shot from under him in said engagement, that the same time he received a wound in his right arm that rendered him a cripple for life in that limb, do not remember the date & place at which he entered or retired from the service, but passed through Wilmington & Macabeeson S.C.
That said Revolutionary soldier died in the County of Cabarrus and State of North Carolina on the 6 th day of October in the year 1815 ; and that the said Catherine Gouger was married to him, the said Henry Gouger in the County of Rowan State of North Carolina on the day of April in the year 1786 and that previous thereto her name was Catherine Fries and they declare that they have derived the above information in regard to said service, marriage and death of said Revolutionary soldier, in the following manner, viz: §, Jacob Beal declares that he was in the service with said Henry Gouger Sen. in the War of the Revolution three months & that Gouger remained in the service when he Beal left it. Jacob Shufing declares that he was a assistant Sexton , at the burial of the said Gouger & that he relies upon his memory for the marriage
They further declare that the applicant is the widow , and that they are disinterested in making these affidavits.
Jacob Shufing his Jacob Beal Mark =
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written; and it is hereby certified that the affiants are credible persons and are aged Shufing Eighty Eight years and Beal Nine or Ten years , Le P. Barbee J. P.
and Chairman of the Court.

STATE OF North Carolina COUNTY OF Rowan }
On this 21 st day of November , 1853, personally appeared before me W. S. Patten a Justice of the Peace for said County & Chairman of the Court Henry Gouger Junior —, a resident of said County and State, aged 63 years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the seventh day of July 1838 , granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war: That he is the widow of Administrator of Catherine Gouger who was the Widow of Henry Gouger Sen. deceased a late Revolutionary Soldier and Resident of the above said County and State , that his Father Henry Gouger Sen. as well as his Mother Catherine Gouger often in their lifetime spoke of his services in the Revolutionary War and it is yet fresh in his memory & from Tradition as well as the evidence of an associate who is now a Pensioner yet living that his Father did serve in the War of Revolution three months in Company Col. Caleb Phipps , that he was in the Battle at Guilford Courthouse that his horse was shot from under him in said battle that at that time he received a wound in his right arm that rendered him a cripple for life in that limb the affiant does not remember distinctly of another Battle in which Henry Gouger Sen. was engaged as he was a volunteer, the time he entered the service or retired from it not remembered , He further declares that she was married to the said Henry Gouger Sen. on the 10 th day of April , in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred hundred and Eighty Six (1786) = in the County of Rowan and State of North Carolina by one
a duly authorized by law to administer the rites of matrimony, and that her name previous to marriage was Catherine Fries ; and that she has no other proof of said marriage than that herewith presented: that her said husband died in the County of Cabarrus and State of North Carolina on the 6 th day of October , 1815; that she was not married to him prior to the year his leaving the service as above described but at the time above stated. He further declares that she died in the County of Cabarrus that she died in Guadalupe County State of North Carolina , on the 24 th day of December eighteen hundred and one (1821) leaving the following children surviving her, names Isaac, John, Margaret, Henry, Samuel, Elizabeth, Mary, Polly, Peter, Sarah, Catherine, Daniel, and Leah , and are still alive — save Margaret . She also declares that the name of Catherine Gouger is not in the Household of any State Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before W. S. Patten a Justice of the Peace for said County and it is hereby certified that the applicant is a credible person, &c. Henry Gouger W. S. Patten J. P.
W. S. Patten J. P. and Chairman of the Court

State of North Carolina } Court of Pleas and Rowan County } Quarter Sessions,
February term 1854.
I, James E Kerr, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid, certify that the annexed affidavits of Jacob Sharpung and Jacob Real were exhibited in open Court, and that it was made appear to the satisfaction of the Court, from the oath of Charles G Partee, that affiants, Sharpung and Real were, from age and bodily infirmity, unable to appear in a Court of record.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, at office in Salisbury, this the 10 th day of March, 1854.
James E Kerr Clerk.
STATE OF North Carolina } COUNTY OF Rowan }