Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22381, for Isaac Taylor, North Carolina
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The declaration of Isaac Taylor resident
in Ashe County in the matter of an application for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 1832
State of North Carolina
Ashe County
Court of pleas and quarter Sessions
November Term 1832
On this 13 day of November personally appeared in open court before the Justices of our Court of pleas and quarter Sessions for said County now sitting a resident of the county and State aforesaid aged ---- years, who 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 7th 1832
Isaac Taylor was born in Craven County, State of North Carolina near the warsaw settlements and was seventy one or seventy two years of age in July last - about the year 179? - my father was drafted to serve on the waters of the Catawba & [illegible] rivers Rivers to suppress the Tories - I being then the fourteen or fifteen years of a proceeded to the camp with him which was stationed at the High Hills of Santee Where Col. Robt. Patton commanded about three hundred militia - my father being in very frail health I offered my services in the place of his
which was accepted and joined the company volunteers under Capt Walker
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of the body of militia under Col. Patten he marched with the greater part to Charleston. The remainder  under Capt Walker ranged about the waters of the waters the Catawba & Pee Dee, sometimes at Camden sometimes at Cheraw Hills occasionally encountering with small bodies of Tories - one of when principal officers by the name of Kulp was killed - this tour served three months -
About two months after returned from my
first tour another call was made for the militia to march against the Tories on Lynch's Creek, the waters of Pee Dee - I volunteered & entered the service under Capt Walker at Rocky Mount of Catawba River where Col. Patton who had returned from Charleston joined in with about two hundred men-- we marched from this Station against a Tory Capt Leonard on Sandy River from which place the Tories returned to Lynch's creek to  which place we pursued and being driven from there he dispersed his men & went home where he was [hunted?] by one of our officers named Ferrill and killed - From Lynch's Creek we marched to Mecklenburg County in N. Carolina when we rendezvoused for awhile -
our next movement was back to Rocky Mount, where we  remained about three weeks & after marched towards the High Hills of Santee -
during this [illegible] the whole body under Patton were occasionally together and sometime even with Genl Sumpter's army but
generally our company of Volunteers under Walker commanding was marching as a scouting party from place to place - this tour I served three months -
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within a few weeks after the expiration of the last tour an express arrived that Col Fanning a Tory officer had some of the whigs [illegible] at the Flat Swamps on the Pee Dee River- I again volunteered and marched under Capt Walker, at this time Sumpter was upon the Santee and Patton on Sandy River- Our company marched as far as the Pee Dee River and found that the  Whigs had made their escape - in turned our march to Salisbury in N. Carolina where we remained about four weeks. - our next movement was to Mecklenburg in N. Carolina
where we were stationed for sometime [illegible] Warsaw settlement and this ended our tour of three months - during the
whole of which I was in service - During my absence on the last tour my father had sold his land in South Carolina and within a month or two after my return I removed with him to Mecklenburg county, N. Carolina - here the  first and only service I performed  was  when
the Tories encouraged by the fall of Charleston
in the year 1780 and the approach of the British were meeting in considerable bodies in the county of Lincoln and in the surrounding country - I volunteered under Capt. Robt. Alexander and joined a body of men in the forks of the Catawba  under Col. Hill - Early in the summer we marched down to the Rocky
Mount under Capt Alexander where we remained as a check on the Tories for several weeks - we removed from this station up to Mecklenburg in N. Carolina and our march encountered in the [illegible] a body of Tories
whom after a short fight we displaced - we again moved and took a station not far from Kings mountain - when the battle at that place occurred we were a few miles distant -
the remainder of the said was spent in the
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scouting about Camden, Cheraw & on
the Pee Dee, it was six month in duration, the whole of
which time was in active service. After its operation
I joined General Green's s army chiefly for personal
safety -about the close of hostilities in the County where I resided I removed with my father to Rowan county where I resided nine years and then removed
to this (Ashe County) where I have resided
ever since except about five years during which
lived in Kentucky - I had three discharges
Signed by Col Patton and one signed by
Col Ferrill for my services but was inattentive in
their preservation and they were lost thru neglect
I hereby  relinquish every claim [illegible] to a pension
or annuity except the present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state

Sworn to and subscribed
Isaac Taylor
the day and year above written by

Callawarth
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