Before me William D. Steele Ordinary & Ex Offico Magistrate for District & State aforesaid, personally appeared Elijah Keese and old and respectable citizen of the State & District aforesaid aged Seventy nine Years who being duly sworn makes Oath that he well reccollects to have been present at the marriage of Wmilliam Guest & Anna Allen the Marriage took place at the House of John Keese in Wilks County North Carolina. They were Married by John Barton Esq who was a Lawful Magistrate he beleives the Marriage to have taken place in the year 1779 as he well reccollects that in 1780 the times was very troubelsome & that in that year William Guest was out doing service for his country on the whig Side & that they had one child at that time. He also reccollects that they were married some Six Years before this deponent which must have made it about the Year 1779 as this deponent was married in the year 1785—

He has been well acquainted with them ever since the close of the Revolutionary War (not liveing more than 10 miles from them since) that they have lived together as Husband & wife ever since til the death of William Gust which took place some two or three years since. Anna Guest who he understands is now applying to the United States for a pension is still the Widow of William Guest who was a Revolutionary pensioner that she has always been considered as truthful & that confidence can be put in her Statement.