Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit, of the act of Congress of 2d. February 1848, entitled, "An act making further provision for surviving widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
State of South Carolina
District of Pickens} SS.
On this fourteenth day of September 1848, personally appeared before Miles M. Norton Notary Public and Ex officio magistrate of the District aforesaid, Mrs. Anna Guest a resident of the same District and State, aged eighty four or eighty five years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d. February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of William Guest who was a private in the militia, a portion of his time under Capt. Moses Guest and Col. William Lanore—She received a pension under the act of 17th. June 1844 of Fifty dollars per annum. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Witness
David S. Stribling
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before
Miles M. Norton
Not. Pub. &
Ex. Off. M. P. D.
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Mrs. Anna Guest, and know her to be the same who was placed on the Pension List under the act of 17th. June 1844.
Miles M. Norton
Not. Pub &
Ex Off. M. P. D.
South Carolina
Pickens District}
I, William L. Keith, Clerk of the Court, do hereby that Miles M. Norton is a magistrate as the within proceedings indicate, and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereinto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name, this 14th. September 1848.
W. L. Keith
Clerk of the Court of
Pickens District
SoCa.
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