Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35095, for Mathew Taylor, Pennsylvania
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(8-1776)

SERVICE    Penn  Penn Sea Service     
Taylor, Mathew     
Matthew

NUMBER   S.35095

CONTENTS
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Letter to Mary Taylor, Oct 28 1837

(80) Maryland
Matthew Taylor
Capt Van Hair Cornett, Penn
Army M. D. Bodyguard of Gen Washington
At $80 per mo. 2 April, 1818
Certified 5th April, 1818 and
sent to W. Matthew Taylor, of Baltimore, Maryland.
arrs. [arrears] to 4th Sept. 1818. 5 2/3 mo: $101.93

(Revy Claim, Act 18th March, 1818)

General Washington's Guard.
two years
date of death not sent Agency [unreadable]
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Baltimore, Sep 13, 1837
James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
I am the widow of Matthew Taylor- who was an officer, under Gen. Washington in the War of the Revolution. I have often heard my Husband say that he was Aid de camp to General Washington. He received a Pension from the United States a Short time prior to his death- I think about the year 1817 or 1818. Will you be so kind as to inform me what the particular office of my deceased Husband was, and what line he belonged to and whether he was entitled to the Commutation of 5 year full pay promised by Congress?

Your obt.(obidient) Servant,
Mary Taylor

Please be direct to the care of my friend Alexr [Alexander] Yearley
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James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

[postal stamp]
BALTIMORE
MD
SEP 14
[handwritten]Sep 8 15
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M. Boyd
Matthew Taylor

20
  5
$100
     $1.93
$101.93

6000/31= 193
   -36
   290
  -270
    110
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State of Maryland, City of Baltimore Is: On this second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and in the forty second year of the Independence of the United States of America personally appeared before me the undersigned Matthew Taylor residing in the City of Baltimore, ages sixty one years, or there about, an applicant for a pension under the 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 and then and there made the following declaration an oath by me administered. Viz:      
"That he enlisted into the service at the Burrough of Lancaster in the state of Pennsylvania in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight in a Company of Cavalry commanded by Captain Thomas Van Hair   - that about six months after enlistment deponent received by the hands of his captain aforesaid a Cornets Commission signed as deponent believes, by Gover. Reed, the then governor of the state of Pennsylvania - that he continued in said Company in the service of the U. States, first as a "Provost Guard" and afterward as the body Guard of General Washington, until the latter part of the year 1780, when Deponent resigned in consequence of the Captain having drawn the pay for his Company and applied it to his own use without paying off his men - Deponent then entered as a midshipman on board the United States Ship called the General Green Commanded by Captain Montgomery then lying in the port of Philadelphia, went on a six months cruise which having completed, went as Cap: Marines in a Letter of Marque to France, then entered as a midshipman on board the U.S. Ship Saratoga Cap. Young - Deponent alleges he was actually engaged in the service in various capacities from the Commencement to the close of the Revolutionary War,
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He further declares that there are none of the officers or privates who served with him under said Commander now residing in the City or County of Baltimore, within his knowledge, but there is a person to wit: Adam Clackner, a Waggon master in said service, now residing in the City of whom deposition is herewith respectfully submitted. And that his name hath never been included on any pension list, altho severely wounded at the battle of German Town by which your petition has been deprived of hearing. And also another severe injury in the hand - that from his reduced circumstances that he needs the assistance of his Country for support.     
Deponent on his oath aforesaid and further declares that same time in the year 1785 being at a Tavern in New Castle the baggage carried by the stage in which he traveled was put into the pack, from which several trunks were stolen, among which was your petitionary with all his paper &c, among which were the Cornets Commission and Midshipment Warrant, none of which did he ever regain.      
Mathew Taylor          
Subscribed and sworn to before Alex Nisbet    
Associate Judge Baltimore City Court      
 State of Maryland, Baltimore County ss}        
I hereby certify that said Matthew Taylor in addition to the aforegoing declaration under oath brought before me a certain Adam Clackner also residing in the City of Baltimore, whose disposition is hereunto annexed from which it appears to my satisfaction that said Matthew Taylor served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy on the Continental establishment. Alex Nesbit Asse Judge Balt. City Court
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State of Maryland, Baltimore County
On this day of April Eighteen hundred and Eighteen personally appears before me the undersigned Adam Clackner of the City of Baltimore aged seventy seven years & upwards who being by me duly sworn doth depose and say that while acting as Waggon Master in the service of the United States, he frequently fell in with Matthew Taylor now present who was acting as a Cornet in the provost Guard, in the company of Cavalry commanded by Cap. Thomas Van Hair, that he knows the said Matthew Taylor to have been in said service during the year seventeen hundred and seventy Eight & nine.

Sworn to and subscribed
before me
Adam Clackner
Alex. Nisbet
A Judge Ball

City of Baltimore to with
I, Thomas Harwood Clerk of Baltimore City
Court, hereby Certify That the Honourable Alexander Nisbet Esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings, appears to
have been taken and certified, was at the time of taking and signing the same and still is associate Judge of Baltimore City Court, duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given.

In Testimony hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of Baltimore City Court, this second day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

Th. Harwood
Baltimore City Court
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35095
Pay INVALID.
File No. 35095
Matthew Taylor
Cornet Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 414
Arrangement of 1870.}
1924 Oct. 30. Hist. to Frank A
Skilton au.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section. 

Frank Avery Skilton,
52 Livingston St.
Brooklyn, N.Y.

Sir:

I have to advise you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 35095, it appears that Mathew Taylor enlisted at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1778, in Captain Von Heer's Company of Cavalry and six months after enlistment was appointed Cornet in said company. He first served as a provost guard and afterwards as a body guard to General Washington, in said company until he resigned in 1780. He was wounded at the battle of Germantown.

He then entered at Philadelphia, and served six months as a Midshipman on the vessel "General Greene" commanded by Captain Montgomery. He next to France as Captain of Marines on a Letter of Marque, after which he served as Midshipman on the vessel Saratoga, under Captain Young. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 2, 1818, while living in Baltimore, Maryland, aged sixty-one years. He died Aug 27, 1818.

see printed list for death
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His widow Mary lived in Baltimore in 1839. The dates and places of his birth and place of death are not on record. There is no further data on file as to family.

Respectfully,
Washington Gardner
Commissioner

Office notes AW
Von Heer's name was Bartholomew not Thomas, see account of this Troop in Vol 2, 5th Series Penn. Archives
The ships were not US Navy - The USS Saratoga was lost in 1780, before this man's voyage (this one probably a Privateer)
The Gen Green was a Penn ship. see archives
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52 Livingston St.,
Brooklyn, N.Y.,
October 13, 1924

Commissioner of Pensions,
Department of Interior,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
I should deeply appreciate the following information necessary for proof of Revolutionary military service of the solder Matthew Taylor, a private recorded also as a member of Washington's Life Guard.
His name is listed in your early list on pensioners as of Baltimore County, Maryland; pension commenced April 2, 1818; age of soldier 61; died August 27, 1818 - this is not printed list but noted on record

For purposes of identification of this solider, I would appreciate any and all data pertaining to his wife and child, his parentage, date and place of birth. 

Thanking you for your attention and courtesies, 
I beg to remain
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Frank Avery Skilton
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-3-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veteran's Administration Archives

Name: Taylor, Medad Grade: Private Line: New Hampshire

Warrant number: 3525 Acreage: 100 Issued: Dec. 6, 1791 to Stephen Thorn, assignee

*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.