GUESS, Joseph:  RW Pension-Nonselected Records-Caldwell Co., KY 

SUBJECT: Joseph Guess-RW Pension-Nonselected Records-Caldwell Co.,KY
SUBMITTER: Julia Newman
EMAIL: cardsrmine@aol.com
DATE: Nov 29, 1999
SURNAMES: Guess, Taylor, Swift, Stringfellow, Stringer
Revolutionary War Pension Records of Joseph Guess,1841,1853,1854,Princeton,Caldwell
County,KY

Number W8878 (Nonselected Records)

Princeton,Kentucky
June 19th 1841

Sir:
Enclosed you will receive the declaration of Mrs.Constance Guess,relict
of Joseph Guess,formerly a pensioner on the Kentucky roll,and such proof
as could be adduced before the Court,to show that she is entitled to claim
the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838. I trust she
has substantially made out her claim under the provision of that humane
law of our National Legislature. The declarant is old,and infirm,and much
in need of the bounty which the humanity of our Nation has provided in
such cases. It is possible there may be some informality in the mode of
this application:If there is,it results from the want of familiarity with
the laws of Congress,and the practice of your particular department upon
this subject. I hope however,it will not prejudice the rights of the claimant.
She has applied to me to aid her in making known her claims upon the Government.
In compliance with her wishes therefore,I make this communication,ardently
hoping that her application may receive a favorable response.

Your obt.Sevt.

Lev.LINDSAY

Commonwealth of Kentucky
County of Caldwell
Monday,May term 1841

Be it remembered that at a County Court began and held for said County
at the Court house in Princeton on Monday the 17th day of May 1841. Constance
Guess came personally into Court and made oath that she was married to
Joseph Guess on the 11th day of January 1785? in the County of Caswell
State of North Carolina,that she lived with said Guess as his wife until
his death which took place on the 14th day of January 1835 in the County
of Caldwell and State of Kentucky. That she is now the widow of said Guess
and has never been married since his death,that said Guess at the time
of his death was a pensioner of the United States,and his name was in the
pension roll of the Kentucky agency under the Act of Congress passed in
June 1832,that she is now 74 years of age and resides in the said County
of Caldwell and State aforesaid,and claims the benefit of the act of Congress
of July 1838,that her husband was a private of Cavalry in the North Carolina
Militia,that the pension certificate since the death of said Joseph was
returned to the pension office or to the agency as she believes.

Mr.John C.Guess also appeared in open Court and being duly sworn stated
that he knew the above named Constance Guess and her late husband Joseph
Guess,that he knows they were married in Caswell County North Carolina
and lived together as man and wife until the death of said Joseph which
he states took place in January 1835,that said marriage took place some
fifty two or three years ago,that this deponent was not present at the
marriage,but lived with said Joseph at deponent's father's at the time
of the marriage,that said Joseph left his father's house to get married,and
returned in about a week with his wife the said Constance and lived with
her as his wife till his death and that they had seven children,five of
whom are now living.
James Guess was called and sworn according to law and deposed that his
father Joseph Guess late a pensioner under the act of 7th June 1832 departed
this life in this County on the 14th day of January 1835. That at the time
of his death he left a widow named Constance Guess who is still living
and unmarried,that the said Constance is the mother of this deponent,that
the deponent is fifty two years of age,that his said father and mother
lived together as husband and wife ever since his recollection,that there
was once in the family a Bible containing a register of the births,deaths
and marriages of all the members of the family,and particularly the marriage
of his said parents,which the deponent has often seen but which was lost
and destroyed about twenty five years ago in the State of Tennessee where
my father and the family then lived. The loss happened by a sister carrying
the Bible to school to read in,where she left it for the night and during
the night the School house was broken open and the book carried off and
destroyed. And the Court doth certify that the said witnesses,John C.Guess
and James Guess are known to be persons of good character,credible and
entitled to credit,and the Court further Certify that the said Constance
Guess is a person of good character and repute.
In Testimony whereof and that the foregoing is truly copied from the Record,in
his office,the undersigned as Clerk of said Court doth hereunto subscribe
his name and affix the Seal of said Court at office in Princeton this 4th
day of June 1841 and in the 50th year of the Commonwealth. Chas.B.DALLAM
Clk.

State of Kentucky
Caldwell County

On this 10th day of May 1853 before me,E.P.?WATKINS,an acting Justice of
the Peace within and for the county and State aforesaid,personally appeared
John Guess,aged fifty-three(53)years,a resident of the aforesaid county
and State who,being sworn according to law,on his oath makes the following
declaration to wit:That in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten
(1810),he lived in the county of Orange,and State of North Carolina,and
was acquainted with Joseph Guess dec'd late of Caldwell Co.and State of
Kentucky,then a resident of that county,and with his wife,Constance Guess,dec'd.
That he lived near them and was well acquainted with their children. That
the said Joseph and Constance Guess then and from that time until his death,lived
together as husband and wife,and were generally reputed and believed to
be so by all who knew them. That they always sustained characters without
reproach,and he has no doubts that they were lawfully married. He further
declares that his own age is fifty-three (53) years.That when about ten
(10) years of age he was an associate and playmate of the children of the
said Joseph and Constance Guess,and that James Guess,their oldest child,was
then at least twelve (12) years older than himself. That the said Joseph
Guess and his family removed to the State of Kentucky and settled in Caldwell
County,and that subsequently he himself removed to the same county and
settled near them,and continued to live near them until the death of the
said Joseph Guess,on the ( )day of ______one thousand eight hundred and
_____. That he left Constance Guess his widow,who survived him,and did
not again marry,but remained a widow until she died in the county of Caldwell
and State of Kentucky on the ____ day of ____,one thousand eight hundred
and ____. He further declares that he is a disinterested witness.

John N.?Guess

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of May 1853.And I hereby
certify that John Guess is a reliable witness.

E.P.WATKINS,J.P.

State of Kentucky
Caldwell County

I,James C.WELLER,Clerk of the county court within and for the county and
State aforesaid hereby certify that E.P.WATKINS,before whom the foregoing
declaration was subscribed and sworn to,is and was at the time of signing
the same,an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid,duly
commissioned and sworn,and that his official acts are entitled to credit.Given
under my hand and seal of office this 17th day of May,1853.James C.WELLER,Clk.

(Copy)

James Guess,Son of Joseph & Conny Guess was bornd December the 11th day
1787
Peggy Guess their Daughter was bornd January the 20th day 1792
Polly Guess their Daughter was bornd May the 11th day 1795
Frances Guess their Daughter was bornd February the 14th day 1799
William Guess their Son was bornd February the 13th day 1803
Jinny Guess their Daughter was bornd December the 8th day 1806
Nancy Guess their Daughter was bornd September the 8th day 1810

Caldwell County Kentucky Sct.
I James Guess of said County aged past 66 years do hereby state on my oath
that the annexed Record (copied above adding dates of years in words)is
the oldest Family Record known to me of the births of the Children of my
parents Joseph and Constance Guess both now deceased.Said Joseph Guess
my Father was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States on the Kentucky
Agency and died in this County January 13th,1835.The first entry on the
above named annexed Record is that of my own birth as I have always believed.We
once had a Bible Record of our birth but the Bible got stolen while we
lived in Rutherford County Tennessee,(having been left one night at the
school house which was broken open and that and many other books stolen
at the same time) and my parents got some one while we lived there to write
down the above named Record and I believe it is in the handwriting of one
STRINGFELLOW our School Teacher(or perhaps his name was STRINGER,I forget
which).
There was one child between me and my sister Peggy but it died in infancy
and its name is not on the list.
I have always heard and believed that my parents above named were lawfully
married in Caswell(I think)County,North Carolina by a Justice of the Peace
named SWIFT about a year previous to my birth and that my mother's name
before said marriage was Constance TAYLOR.
The memorandum on the back of the above named Record "Children's Ages
1825" I made (as well as I remember) myself at that date:but the Record
itself is several years older than that date.
Witness my hand and seal in Caldwell County Kentucky on this 6th day of
March 1854.

Witnesses James Guess
Stephen RILEY
Thos.M.McGOUGH

Sworn to and subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for Caldwell
County Kentucky on this 6th day of March 1854 and I do certify that at
the same time I carefully examined the annexed Family Record. I believe
it to be original and genuine and the bona fide Family Record of the births
of the children of the above named Joseph and Constance Guess deceased.
I also certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of said Family Record
with the addition that the dates in the years in the Copy are put down
in words but in the original they appear only in figures. I further Certify
that the words "about a year previous to my birth" were interlined
before signing.In Testimony of which I do hereby Subscribe my name. Thos.M.McGOUGH,P.C,C





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