Isaac Guion

Guion was a lieutenant in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, when he was on the staff of Alexander Hamilton.{{Cite news |date=1883-02-06 |title=Some Prominent Citizens |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/mississippian-some-prominent-citizens/164778649/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=Mississippian |pages=4}} He was commissioned in the regular army after the war and supervised the official transfer of the Natchez District from Spanish military control to the United States in 1797, replacing "Crazy" Piercy Pope.{{Cite news |date=1917-04-01 |title=Grave of Guion Is Marked by D.A.R. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/natchez-democrat-grave-of-guion-is-marke/164786222/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=Natchez Democrat |pages=9}}{{cite book |last=Mitchell |first=Dennis J. |title=A New History of Mississippi |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |year=2014 |isbn=9781626740198 |location=Jackson |pages=44 |lccn=2013044104 |oclc=863127649 |id={{Project MUSE|33980|type=book}}}}“Enclosure: Arrangement of the Artillery, [25 April 1799],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-23-02-0059-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 23, April 1799 – October 1799, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976, pp. 74–77.] In 1798 an Army officer named Richard Butler, who was both the son of William Butler, one of the five Battling Butlers of the American Revolutionary War, and an associate of future president Andrew Jackson, traveled the Ohio and Mississippi to deliver dispatches to Guion.{{Cite web |title=Richard Butler papers, 1795–1899 |url=https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/collection/data/244004828 |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=Louisiana State University Special Collections |language=en}} He settled in Adams County, Mississippi and lived near Half-Way Hill, so-called because it stood near the midpoint on the road between Natchez and Second Creek.{{Cite news |date=1871-05-24 |title=The Half-Way Hill by Nota Bene |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-weekly-democrat-the-half-way-hill-by/164778229/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=The Weekly Democrat |pages=1}} As of 1806 he owned 300 acres in Jefferson County, Mississippi.{{Cite news |date=1807-05-05 |title=Notice |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-mississippi-messenger-notice/160544905/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=The Mississippi Messenger |pages=4}} His farm produced cotton, and supported "horses, black cattle, and hogs."{{Cite news |date=1823-12-31 |title=Administrator's Sale |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/mississippi-free-trader-administrators/164773466/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=Mississippi Free Trader |pages=4}}

When Aaron Burr was arrested at the house of Peter Bryan Bruin at Bayou Pierre for what was alleged to be the Burr conspiracy, he was held over as a guest of "Col. Benajah Osmun, a wealthy planter residing in the vicinity. He had been an officer in the New Jersey line, and intimate with Burr. In politics he was a high-strung federalist, had been a strong partisan of John Adams, and had no confidence in Mr. Jefferson. Near by Colonel Osmun, another old military friend of similar political opinions, the veteran Maj. Isaac Guion, and with these two, and other influential gentlemen, he had daily consultations. No sterner and truer patriots lived than these two veteran soldiers, and they reposed unshaken faith in the friend whom they had seen so often tested in the time that tried men's souls; Colonel Osmun lived at the place now owned by Dr. Stanton, and Major Guion resided at the foot of the Half-way Hill, and there was a rural path between the two places trellised with vines and shaded by evergreens. This was Burr's daily resort."{{Cite news |date=1880-01-21 |title=Aaron Burr |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-clarion-ledger-aaron-burr/164778387/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=The Clarion-Ledger |pages=4}} According to one account there were 65 "adherents" of Burr in the vicinity of Natchez (it is unclear if Guion was so categorized).{{Sfnp|Abernethy|1949|p=13}}

In 1823 Guion was a candidate for the Mississippi State Senate from Adams County, along with Adam Bingaman.{{Cite news |date=1823-06-21 |title=Isaac Guion - Senate |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/natchez-gazette-isaac-guion-senate/164769628/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=Natchez Gazette |pages=2}}{{Cite news |date=1823-07-17 |title=Candidates for August Election |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/mississippi-free-trader-candidates-for-a/164769687/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=Mississippi Free Trader |pages=3}} He died in September 1823, before the election.{{Cite news |date=1823-10-04 |title=Obituary - Departed this life on the 17th ult. MAJOR ISAAC GUION |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/natchez-gazette-obituary-departed-this/164769795/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=Natchez Gazette |pages=2}} He may have served as Surveyor and Inspector of Revenue for the port of Natchez for a time.{{Cite news |date=1825-03-31 |title=Appointments by the President |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charleston-mercury-appointments-by-t/164773697/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=The Charleston Mercury |pages=2}}

Guion married Sarah Lewis, the sister of Seth Lewis, who served as Chief Justice of Mississippi Territory from 1800 to 1803.{{Cite news |date=1871-05-24 |title=The Half-Way Hill by Nota Bene |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-weekly-democrat-the-half-way-hill-by/164778229/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=The Weekly Democrat |pages=1}} According to a Mississippian writing in 1883, "Both husband and wife were endowed with remarkable talents, and highly cultivated. Their sons inherited these gifts...John I. Guion, distinguished as lawyer and legislator, was partner of Wm. L. Sharkey and S. S. Prentiss. George W. Guion, parish Judge of Concordia, removed to Lafourche and became very prominent there."{{Cite news |date=1883-02-06 |title=Some Prominent Citizens |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/mississippian-some-prominent-citizens/164778649/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=Mississippian |pages=4}}

• John Isaac Guion was a Mississippi Senate Senator and Governor of Mississippi{{Cite news |date=1855-06-30 |title=Death of Gov. Guion |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/thibodaux-minerva-death-of-gov-guion/164778077/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=Thibodaux Minerva |pages=2}}
• Frederick L. Guion graduated West Point, class of 1823 (Cullum No. 323);{{Cite web |title=Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military academy at West Point, N. Y., : from its establishment, in 1802, to 1890. With the ... v.1. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x004718315&seq=312 |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=HathiTrust |page=304 |language=en}} killed in a duel with W. W. Yerby, "a young lawyer of Woodville," in 1824
• George Guion, Louisiana state senator
• Walter Burling Guion also attended West Point, class of 1828, but was expelled for his involvement in the Cadet Riot of 1826; became a civil engineer, died at Princeton, Mississippi, in 1845 {{Cite news |date=1845-10-31 |title=Died at Princeton, Miss. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/vicksburg-daily-whig-died-at-princeton/164802960/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=Vicksburg Daily Whig |pages=2}}

• Burr conspiracy

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• {{Cite journal |last=Abernethy |first=Thomas Perkins |author-link=Thomas Perkins Abernethy |date=1949 |title=Aaron Burr in Mississippi |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2198070 |journal=The Journal of Southern History |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=9–21 |doi=10.2307/2198070 |jstor=2198070 |issn=0022-4642}}
• {{Cite book |last=Claiborne |first=J. F. H. |author-link=J. F. H. Claiborne |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001874319 |title=Mississippi, as a Province, Territory and State, with Biographical Notices of Eminent Citizens |last2=Lagrone |first2=C. M. |date=1880 |publisher=Power & Barksdale |location=Jackson, Mississippi |oclc=68181845 |ol=7795030W}}

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