Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22004, for Job Taylor, Rhode Island
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R.I.     Taylor, Job    S. 22004
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31.483 
Rhode Island
Job Taylor
Providence Co in the State of R.I.
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Williams of the Regt. commanded by Col Waterman in the R.Id line for 7 mos and 25 days.

Inscribed on the Roll of R.I.
at the rate of 26 Dollars and 10 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issue the 16 day of July 1838 and sent Jonah Titus Scituate, R.I.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $182.70
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " $13.05
$195.75

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk,
Book E    Vol.      Page 132

Date of death not on A.B.
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I, Isaac Taylor of Gloucester in the County of Provi-dence aged 78 years and being duly engaged according to testify and say that I am the brother of Job Taylor of Scituate who is an applicant for a pension in the time of the revolution said Job did several monthly tours of duty in the Rhode Island Militia upon draft, said tours were for a month each.  I have been lame in my left foot since I was five years old, & for this reason I was exempt from doing duty int he said revolution- said Job upon the great alarm, of the landing of the British upon Newport was called out for a tour of one month, I went to Bristol as it was there talked to me, he was drafted in 1777 three times, for a tour of one month each which he went away to serve, and I believe that he came home from those tours, as follow, from the first in the last of March, the second the last of June & from the third the last of November, on this tour he was detained over his time, some, in 1778 he was again called for      went to Rhode Island and was gone all of one month- he went on one tour in haytime in 1780 besides once, he went after an alarm in that year, and was gone for as much as ten days-  whilst at Bristol in 1780 I carried him some things of   him on duty.  I also went three other times to the town of Providence to send him some Bread, which was carried from there in boats- I have heard him say that he went to Warwick to Warren to Bristol and on to Rhode Island, on his tours, and that Capt
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Coman Smith & Joseph Kimball were his captains we all         in our family, that he served as last eight months in said War- this was task held at the time of war closing and since-  I am still of the same opinion

Witness William Smith
Isaac Taylor
x  his mark

State of Rhode Island
County of Providence
January 1st
1838 when Isaac Taylor signed of the 
foregoing affidavit, made oath to the truth
of the facts therein stated- I also certify 
that he is a credible witness in the promises
Before me Jonah Titus, Just Peace
State of Rhode Island 
Providence               Clerk of
the County of                                              have 
for said County, being a Court of 
Record do              certify that Jonah
Titus has before him the preceding
affidavit      sworn is a justice of the 
Peace of the Town of Scituate in said
County- that by Law he is duly authorised 
and empowered to administer oaths and
take depositions- and that has signatories
before written 
In testimony whereof I have    
set my     & affixed the seal 
of       County of Providence
Twelfth day of January 1
Dexter Randall Uk
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832

State of Rhode Island
County of Providence

On this 9th day of September 1837 personally appeared in open court before the Court of Probate, of the Town of Scituate, in the county and state aforesaid, which is a Court of       , now setting, Job Taylor, a resident of said Scituate, in said County of Providence and State of Rhode Island, aged 77 years, was being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States, under the following recorded officers and served as herein states- states he was born in the year 1760 but has no record of his age- that he was living in said Town of Scituate when called into service, has lived some in Gloucester, in same county of Providence     , and now lives in said Scituate at the landing of the enemy on Newport in 1776 he states he upon the alarm marched to Providence, about the 20 of November and then served at least ten days under Captain James Williams and Stephen Kimball when was commands as draft and he was drafted for a month was    marched to Bristol.  Joseph Kimball had the command of our company & James Williams acted as our Colonel; that he then served his tour of a month as a private- that in February and March 1777 he was then again drafted marched to Warwick & served a tour of one month upon said draft in Capt Coman Smith Company and in Col John Waterman's Regiment that in May 1777 he was again drafted for a tour of one month and marched to Warwick was he was
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August 26, 1932
BA-J/AWF
Job Taylor
S.22004

Mrs. B. M. Latham
North Scituate, Box 27
Rhode Island 

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Job Taylor. 

The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.22004, based upon the military service of Job Taylor, during the War of the Revolution. 

Job Taylor was born in 1760, place not stated, nor are the names of his parents given. 

While residing in Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island, he served as private with the Rhode Island troops, as follows- 
From November 20, 1776, ten days in Captain James Williams' company; a little later, one month in Captain Joseph Kimball's company under Colonel James Williams; in February and March, 1777, one month in Captain Comer Smith's company, Colonel John Waterman's regiment; from sometime in May, 1777, one month in same company and regiment; from sometime in October, 1777, one month and fifteen days in Captain Comer Smith's Company, Colonel Ezekiel Cornell's regiment, and was in Spencer's expedition; in the summer of 1778, two months in Captain Comer Smith's company, Colonel Chad Brown's regiment, and was in Sullivan's expedition; from sometime in July, 1780, one month in Captain Comer Smith's company under Colonel Stephen Kimball. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 9, 1837, at which time he was a resident of Scit-
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uate, Rhode Island. 
Job Taylor's brother, Isaac Taylor, was seventy-eight years of age in 1938 and living in Gloucester, Rhode Island. 
There are no further data in this claim relative to the soldier's family. 
Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller 
Assistant to Administrator
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War Department
Office of The Quartermaster General
Washington
March 17 1931

Memorandum to:

Bureau of Navigation,
Navy Department,
Washington, D. C.

Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard,
Treasury Building,
Washington, D. C.

The Surgeon General
Washington, D.C.

In order that headstones properly inscribed may be furnished, it is requested that the "Service" of the decedents named on the enclosed applications be verified and returned as soon as practicable to this office.
The regulations provide that the name of the State from which the decedents came be inscribed on the headstones. It is requested that this information be given and that any corrections be made in red ink on the form. 

X  The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

The General Accounting Office, 
Washington D.C.

In order that headstones properly inscribed may be furnished for the graves of decedents named on the enclosed applications, it is requested that you furnish this office the correct spelling of the names and complete designation of the organizations.

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