Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 21894, for Thomas Tayler, Virginia
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(S-1776)
SERVICE
Va.
Tayler, Thomas
or Taylor
NUMBER
R. 21894

CONTENTS
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M
Revy
REJECTED
(3-223.)
No. 21.894
______, Ex'r.
OLD WAR INVALID.
Thomas Taylor of Geo
P.O. Pri Col Lee Va Troops

Service:___________
Enlisted:_________, 18  .
Discharged: _____, 18  .
Application filed: _______, 18  .
Alleges: ______________
Re-enlisted: ___________
Attorney: ____________
P.O. ______________
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21,543.
Thomas Taylor of Geo
Petition for Pension
Pri Col Lee Va Troops
Exemplification of the Records of the Superior Court Gelt County Georgia
-
Dec. 21. 1830
Reg. (with Resol.) to Mil. Pensions

(21)
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Original Claim
Declaration to be placed on the Pension list under the act of the 18th March 1818

County of Gwinnett State of Georgia
On this fifteenth day of September 1830 Personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the County afforesaid Thomas Tayler - resident in said County aged eighty five years who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820 that the said Thomas enlisted for the term of the war in the month of December in the year 1777 in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Captain Leach in the
regiment commanded by Colonel Philip Lee in the line of the State of Virginia on the Military continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until the end of the Revolutionary War when he was discharged from the service at the Post House in the State of Virginia that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, that his name is not on the Roll of any State ecept Virginia and the following are the reasons for not making application earlier for a pension. that this declararation was untill recently ignorant of his right under said acts of Congress and also has been able by his labour to procure a subsistance
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untill age and disease disabled him-
And in persuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 I do solemly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 & that I have not since that
time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service
of the United States in the Revolutionary War
passed on the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have not nor has any person in Trust for me, any property or securites contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income or property whatever, that since the 18th of March 1818 no changes have been made in my property.
Thomas Tayler
Sworn to & declared on the 15th day of September before me
A. Clayton Presiding Judge S.C.
I John G Park Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Gwinnett do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Thomas Taylor, did serve in the
Revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration against the Common Enemy, for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental Establishment.
I do certify also, that the foregoing oath is truly copied
Records of said Court
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court on this 18th day of October 1830,
John G. Park Clk
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Affidavits of
Andrew Leach
& Certificate of
the Clerk of the
Superior Court
of Pike
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Georgia
Pike County ⎬
personally appeared before me Andrew Leach and after being duly sworn sayeth he acted in the Command of Captain in the Revolutionary war with America and Great Britian in the continential service in the third Ridgement in the Virginia Line and that Archibald Henderson
did enlist under his Command at ninety six in South Carolina on the seventh day of January Seventeen hundred and seventy seven and that he enlisted during the war and served as first Sergant in his company until the termination of said war when he was discharged at the red house in Virginia and furlowed without date and that he the said Archibald had not drawn wages for eighteen months previous to said discharge

Sworn to and subscribed before me
this the thirteenth day of October
eighteen hundred and thirty
Sion R Bullard JP
Andrew Leach
Capt

Georgia
Pike County
Personally appeared before me Andrew Leach
and after being duly sworn sayeth he acted in the Command of Captain in Revolutionary war with America and great Brittian in the continential service in the third Ridgement in the Virginia Line and that John Davis did enlist
in his Company in Virginia on the fourth day of February seventeen hundred and seventy seven during the war and served in his Company during the war and was discharged at the Red house in Virginia at the termination of said war and furlowed without date and that he the said Davis had not drawn wages for eighteen months previous to said discharge

Sworn to and subscribed before me
this the thirteenth day of October
eighteen hundred and thirty
Sion R. Bullard, JP
Andrew Leach
Capt
Sion R Bullard,
Capt
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Georgia
Pike County
personally appeared before me Andrew Leach and after being duly sworn sayeth he acted in the command of Captain in the revolutionary war in the Continential service in the third Ridgement in the Virginia Line and that Thomas Taylor did enlist under his Command at Monks corner in South Carolina some time
in the month december seventeen hundred and seventy seven during the war and served in his company during the war and was discharged at the Red hous in Virginia
at the termination of said war and furlowed without date and that he the said Thomas had not received wages for eighteen months previous to said discharge

Sworn to and subscribed before me
this the thirteenth day of October
eighteen hundred and thirty
Sion R Bullard JP
Andrew Leach
Capt

Georgia
Pike County
I Eghest. P. Daniel Clerk of the Supreme Court of said County do hereby Certify that Sino R Bullard is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County. There being no Seal of office
Given my hand and private Seal this 14th
day of October 1830
Eghest. P. Daniel
Clk
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Taylor, Aaron
GRADE Private
LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 5148
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Mar. 26, 1796
to Peter Sevier-

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.