Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16000, for Benjamin Taylor, North Carolina
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
N.C.

Taylor, Benjamin

NUMBER
S. 16000

Born in S.C.
carded

CONTENTS
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30.573
Missouri
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Benjamin Taylor
of Stoddard Co in the State of Missouri
who was a private in the Compy command
by Captain Hall of the Regt commanded
by Col Armiting in the N. Carolina line
for one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Missouri
at the rate of 40 Dollars
Cents per annum.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of April
1836 and sent to Hon
W. H. Ashley
Arrears to the 4th of March 1836 $200.
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 36 20.
$220.
⎨ Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Wm Allison clerk

Book E.2 Vol. 9 Page 83
File S. 16000
Paid at the Treasury un--- the act of the 6th April 1838
4 March 1837 to 6 March 18--
Agt notified 21 March 1839.
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letter to H. C. Ranney 25th April 1839
H T Sanford July 16 1839
Duplicate certificate issued 8th [illegible] 1839
and sent to H. G. Sanford
Jackson Mo.

Paid as above from 4 March 1838 to

4 Mar 1839. Agt Notified
2nd Jany 1846
Letter to Wm [illegible]
Dec 22.49. with wishes
enclosed
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33.550
Benjamin Taylor
Missouri

Wral (Spelling?)

Hon W. H. Ashley
DR

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State of Missouri
County of Cape Girardeau
Cape Girardeau County
Court November Term 1835
On this third day of November
personally appeared in open court before the county
Court of Cape Girardeau County now sitting Benjamin
Taylor resident of Stoddard County in the State of Missouri
aged seventy six 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 7, 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served
as therein stated. That in the year seventeen hundred
and eighty one, this deponent resided in Lincoln County
in the State of North Carolina on the Catawba river,
about seventeen miles from the town of Lincoln in said
County, that in the spring of that year seventeen hundred
and eighty one, he volunteered as a private for the term
of twelve months under one Capt. Ephraim Perkins in the
militia, and was shortly after marched down, under the
command of Col. McDowell to Frohocks mill near Salisbury in Rowan County in said State of North Carolina that

after remaining there a short period he asked
and obtained leave of absence with a view of procuring
some one to serve in his place in which he failed; during
his absence from the army on leave as above stated, he
was taken sick, and was unable to rejoin the army
until a very short time before the battle of the Eutaw
Springs; being absent two or three months- two as he
believes. After his recovery from sickness and a short
time before the battle of the Eutaw springs he joined
the army again at High Hill Santee river in South Carolina
and entered into a company there under the
command of one Captain Benjamin Carter Company
Lieutenant Sherlock Lieutenant, Martin Armstrong Colonel in the second regiment of North Carolina troops
General Green Commander in Chief-- from the High
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Hill on Santee
this deponent with the army crossed
Santee river and marched on to Eutaw Springs where
on the 9th day of September of seventeen hundred and
eighty one on Saturday, they met the British forces
when a battle ensued well known as the battle of the
Eutaw Springs. This deponent states that he was in that
battle, and had his gun shot off at the breach, a bullet
lodged in his cartridge box and his canteen bursted as
this deponent believes by a grape shot. On the same day of
the action the American army recrossed the Santee river,
where they remained until the British evacuated also, the
battle ground, which was on Sunday night Monday morning, and Monday the Americans returned and buried their
dead this deponent continuing with the army during its
marches after the battle - That at the battle aforesaid, Sherlock the Lieutenant of the company to which deponent
belonged, had his thigh broken. He recollects the following
officers as attached to the army Col. Martin Armstrong
Col. Malter or Malaber a frenchman, who was killed
at High Hill Santer in a duel - Major Donohue of the
1st Regiment of the North Carolina troops, Captain
Alexander Brevard one Joseph Brevard who belonged
to the staff Col. Carrington who acted as commissary
and one Capt Garber of the 2nd Regiment. This deponent further states that after burying the dead at the
Eutaw springs, he was marched with the army back to
High Hill on Santee River in South Carolina where
they went into winter quarters and remained until
spring; and in the spring of 1782 they were marched to
Pond Ponds in South Carolina where the army
remained for some time and from thence were marched
to Bacon's bridge in the same State and from thence to Ashley
river, where this deponent obtained his discharge. That previous
C
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to marching to Ashley river this deponent cannot state how
long, he was transferred to the company of Capt Hall
from whence he received a written discharge. The discharge
received by this deponent was passed to one Gen Moore and
he believes it now to be entirely lost, as he has understood
and believes that said Gen Moore has not now got it.
This deponent states that his father died when he was
young, he was born as he understood and believes in
South Carolina His father left no record of this deponents age, and he was raised among strangers, he
cannot tell his precise age, but from circumstances
within his recollection, as he was a young man in the
Army
he believes his age to be seventy six. That he
served in the army as above stated at least twelve
months, from the first day of August seventeen hundred and eighty one untill the first day of September
seventeen hundred and eighty two that he served a
longer time, he knows but cannot fix any other
certain date, that during all the time of his service
he was a private, that when he volunteered into the
service as above stated he resided in Lincoln County North Carolina
on the Catawba river about seventeen miles from
the town of Lincoln in said county. He has no documentary
evidence of his service, and he knows of no
person whose testimony he can procure to testify of
his service, except as below stated. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity
except the present and declares that his name is not
on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State
Benj. Taylor
Sworn and subscribed to the day
& year first aforesaid
Peter R. Garrett Clk

We Moses Bailey Clergyman residing in the County
Cape Girardeau about thirty miles from the res
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idence [residence] of Benjamin Taylor, the above deponent and John
Allen residing in the same do hereby certify that we are
well acquainted with Benjamin Taylor who has subscribed
and sworn to the above declaration that we believe
him to be seventy five or seventy six years of age; that
he is reputed and generally believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution
and that we concur in that opinion_ That we were
also acquainted with said Benjamin Taylor in Lincoln
County North Carolina for a number of years, and that 
the said Benjamin Taylor was in said Lincoln repu-
ted and generally believed in that neighborhood
to have been a soldier of the revolution
Sworn and subscribed to in
open Court this 3rd day of
November 1835
Moses Bailey
John Allen
Peter R. Garrett Clk

James Chronister residing in the County of Cape Girar-
deau [Girardeau] in the State of Missouri do hereby certify that I
became acquainted with Benjamin Taylor who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration at Pond
Pond in the State of South Carolina, where this depo-
nent knew said Taylor in 1782 as a private soldier
in the company of Capt. Hall and continued to be
acquainted with said Taylor until the American army
arrived at Ashley river in said State, where this depo-
nent recollects on enquiry being made about said Benja-
min Taylor the reply was, he was discharged. This de-
ponent knows the said Taylor to have served in the army
of the revolution in the 2nd Regiment of North Carolina
Troops, as this deponent was in the first regiment of
said troops and served in the same. As to the time
the said Benjamin Taylor served he does not know.
This deponent after the close of the war knew the
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said Taylor at his residence in Lincoln County North Carolina for about twenty years, during which time
the said Taylor was reputed and believed by his neighbors
generally to have been a soldier of the revolution and
since the removal of the said Taylor to Missorie [Missouri] this
deponent has known him ten years and the reputation
& believe prevails among his neighbors. 

Sworn and subscribed to in open
Court this 3rd November 1835
James Cronister
x his mark
Peter R Garrett Clk

Q. Where and in what year were you born
A. I was informed and believe I was born in the
State of South Carolina in the year seventeen hun-
dred and sixty or sixty one My father died when
I was young leaving no record of my age. I was
raised among strangers, but from my recollection
of the time when I served in the revolutionary war,
I judge I must be seventy five or seventy six
years old.

Q. Have you any record of your age
A. I have none

Q. Where were you living when called into service; where
have you lived since
A. I lived in Lincoln County in the State of North Car0-
lina on the Catawba river about seventeen miles from
the town of Lincoln in said county: After the revolution-
any war I continued to reside in said County of Lincoln
until I moved to the State of Missouri, which was
in the year 1822 or 1823 to the county of Cape Girar-
deau [Girardeau] in said State, in which county I remained two
years & since that time in what is now called Stod-
dard [Stoddard] County

Q. How were you called into service? were you drafted
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did you volunteer or were you a substitute? and if a substitute
for whom
A  I volunteered

Q. State the names of some of the regular officers who were
with the troops where you served, such continental and
militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general
circumstances of your services
A. I recollect Col. John Martin Armstrong, Maj Gen Greene
Major McDowell Col Carrington Joseph Brevard, Capt Alex
Brevard, Col. Malbec or Malabec militia Capt Garber, Capt
Hall. I recollect the 2nd Regiment and Major Donohue
of that regiment. I served for more than twelve months
and was at the battle of Eutaw Springs in the fall of
1781 under the command of Capt. Benjamin Carter was
marched to qHigh Hill Santee river Pond Pond, Bacon's bridge
& discharged at Ashly river in 1782.

Q. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, if
so, by whom was it given and what has become of it
A. I did receive a discharge as stated in my declaration
from Capt Hall by order, as I believe of Maj Gen. Green,
which discharge I transferred to Gen. Moore of Lincoln
County North Carolina, who as I understood passed it
from his hands, and I know not where it is

Q. State the names of the persons to
whom you are known
in your present neighborhood, and who can testify to
your character for veracity, and their belief of your
services as a soldier of the revolution
A. Moses Bailey, John Allen, George F. Bollinger
and James Chronister
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Cape Girardeau County Court
November Term 1835

An application of Benjamin Taylor ⎬
For a pension for Revolutionary
[unknown]

Declaration & certificate
An oath filed

And now at this day comes the said
Benjamin Taylor and makes his declaration
in writing, on oath, in open Court, with
the certificate annexed, sworn to as presented, and
the said County Court for the County of Cape
Girardeau in the State of Missouri, in session,
do hereby declare their opinion, after investigation
of the matter, and after puting [putting] the interrogatories
presented by the war department that the above
named applicant Benjamin Taylor was a
Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, and
the Court further certifies, that it appears to
them, that Moses Baily who has signed the
proceeding Certificate is a clergyman resident
in the County of Cape Girardeau, and that
John Allen who has signed the same is a
resident in the County of Cape Girardeau
and James Chronister who has signed the sub-sequent
certificate also resident of Cape
Giridian County are credible persons and
that their statement is entitled to credit.
And it is further Ordered by the Court, that 
the said declaration and certificate annexed,
as sworn to, be filed as the record of this
Court, and a Copy thereof, and of the procee-
dings herein, properly certified, be furnished
said Benjamin Taylor for the information
of the war department.

I Peter R Garrett Clerk of the County
Court within and for the County of Cape
Girardeau in the State of Missouri; Do
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hereby certify that the foregoing seven pages contains
a full true and perfect statement of the declaration
of Benjamin Taylor the applicant, together with
the
proceedings of the Court thereon, as fully
and completely as the same remains on file
and of record in said County Court
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
 set my hand, and affixed
the seal of said Court at
Office, this the Twenty ninth
day of January A.D. 1836
Peter, R, Garrett Clk
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Revy
sion on file in this Bureau. Benjamin Taylor S16000
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
Spring 1781
Aug. 1 1781

LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
12 months
RANK.
Private

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Ephraim Perkins
Benjamin Carter
Hall
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COLONEL.
McDowell
Martin Armstrong
STATE.
N.C.
Battles engaged in, Eutaw Spring
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Lincoln Co. N. C.
Date of application for pension, Nov 3,  1835. His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Stoddard Co. Mo.
Age at date of application, born in 1760 or 1761
Remarks: No data as to family.
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State of Missouri
County of Cape Girardeau
On this seventeenth day of
September 1839 before me the subscriber a justice
of the peace for the said County of Cape Girardeau personally appeared Benjamin Taylor who on his oath declares
that he is the same person who formerly belonged to
the company commanded by Captain Ephraim
Perkins in the regiment commanded by Colonel
McDowell that afterwards he belonged to a company commanded by one Captain Benjamin Carter
in the regiment commanded by Colonel Martin
Annstrong in the second regiment of North Carolina
troops, that afterwards he was transferred
to the company commanded by Captain Hall
all in the service of the United States, that his
name was placed on the pension roll of the State of
Missouri, that he received a certificate of that
fact under the signature and seal of the secretary
of war, which certificate, on or about the fifth
day of March
1839 at or near Neelys landing
in said State of Missouri was lost by Henry
Sanford his agent, to whose case he had entrusted the same
Benjamin Taylor
Sworn & subscribed to before
me the day and year aforesaid
John W M Guire, Justice of the peace
⎬
State of Missouri
County of Cape Girardeau
On this seventeenth day of
September 1839 before me the subscriber a
justice of the peace for the said County of Cape Girardeau personally appeared Henry Sanford who on
his oath declares that he well knows the said
Benjamin Taylor to be the same person described in
the above affidavit
Hy Sanford
Sworn to & subscribed before me the the day & year aforesaid
John W. M Guire J peace,
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State of Missouri
County of Cape Girardeau
On this seventeenth day of
September 1839 before the subscribed a justice of the peace for the said County of Cape Girardeau
personally appeared Henry Sanford who on his oath
declares that he had the original pension certificate
of the above named Benjamin Taylor in his possession
for the purpose of drawing his pension for him in
St Louis that on his return home, on or about the fifth day of March 1839 at or near Neely's landing
in said State of Missouri he lost the same together with his other papers on hand of the Steamboat, and that he has not been able to recover
the same although he has made exertion to do so Hy. Sanford
Sworn to and subscribed
before me the day and year aforesaid

the
John W M Guire Justice
of the peace
I the undersigned justice of the peace for said
County of Cape Girardeau do certify that I am
well acquainted with the above named Henry
Sanford, that he is a person of reputed veracity
and that his statements are entitled to full
Credit. September 17. 1839. John W. M. Guire,
Justice
of the peace
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State of Missouri
Cape Girardeau County
I Henry Sanford
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County
aforesaid do hereby certify that John W M Guire is a justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, that his Commission was dated on the twenty third
day of February 1837 and will expire on the
twenty third day of February 1841, and that
his signatures before written are genuine

In Witness whereof I hereunto set
my hand and seal of office the
Seventeenth day of September 1839
Hy Sanford Clk
circuit court Court Cope Girardeau County Missouri
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Apl 18
Benj Taylor
Mo

allow for
2 yr. $40
on Roll
Hon. W. H. Ashery
H.R.
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State of Missouri fourth Judicial Circuit SS
Stoddard County, Circuit Court March Term
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
thirty six. first day of the Term
Benjamin Taylor of lawful age personally appeared in open Court, and makes oath that in
the year seventeen hundred and eighty one, there
being call for twelve months men in the State of
North Carolina to serve for that period of time
and that one out of every thirteen or fourteen men
being obliged to serve to be determined by draft
that this affiant, with a view clear the draft
turned out as stated in his declaration filed
at the war department, heretofore made before
the County Court of Cape Girardeau County, that
this affiant by turning out to clear the draft,
the lot of thirteen or fourteen to
which he
was attached
 when he was
was not subject to the draft that he served
as he heretofore stated, in the declaration sent
on the war Department. That he never applied for
a pension under the act of March 18 1818
That he was what was called a twelve months man, and
does not recollect whether he was called a regular or
militia man but believes, the militia were three
months men but on this subject his recollection is
indistinct. Col. Martin Armstrong commanded the
regiment to which this affiant belonged during the
war as this affiant stated in his declaration
heretofore forwarded, and that he served the
as therein stated in said war. and further
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the affiant saith not
Sworn and subscribed to in
open Court this 21st day March 1836
Jonas Eaker Clerk
I Jonas Eaker Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Stoddard County in the State of Missouri do
certify that the above affidavit of Benjamin
Taylor was signed and sworn by him in open
Court at the Term aforesaid, and the above
a foregoing is the original affidavit therein made
In testimony whereof I Jonas Eaker Clerk
of said Court have hereunto signed
my
name, and fixed my private seal there
being no seal of said court yet provided
Given under my hand & private seal as
aforesaid this 21st day of March AD. 1836
Jonas Eaker Clerk
I John D. Cook Judge of the fourth Judicial
Circuit in the State of Missouri do certify
that
Jonas Eaker above named is & was at the
time of signing the above certificate was Clerk
of
the Circuit Court of Stoddard County and that
his acts as such are entitled to full faith and
Credit
Given under my hand & seal
this 21st
day of March 1836
John D Cook
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TREASURY DEPARTMENTS
Second Comptroller's Office,
Dec. 26, 1839,
Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States", Benjamin Taylor,
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Missouri
Agency, at the rate of forty Dollars and
- Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th
of March 1838
to the 4th March 1839
Respectfully, yours,
16
Albion K Parris
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
February 16th 1839.
Sir:


Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States," Benjamin Taylor, 
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Missouri Agency, at the rate of Forty Dollars and -- Cents
per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has
been paid at this Department, from the
4th of March, 1837,
to the 4th March 1838.

Respectfully, yours
Albion H. Parris
Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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FREE

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

[illegible] Oct 8

[illegible stamp]
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Jackson Mo. Septr 17. 1839
J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Enclosed
you will please receive the affidavit of Benjamin
Taylor and other requisite affidavits and
certificates accompanying it
for the purpose
of procuring from the war Department a
new pension
certificate in lien of the one lost
By attending this business at your earliest
convenience you will much oblige
Very Respectfully your Obt Sert
Hy. Sanford
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S. 340   3    15 July
July 16. 1839
Pension Office
[illegible stamp]
FREE
Hon. J. R. Poinsett
Secretary of War
Washington City
DC
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Jackson Cape Girardeau County Missouri
June 26th 1839-
The Hon J R Poinsett Secy. of War
Sir. The object of this
communication is to procure for Benjamin Taylor a revolutionary pensioner, copy of his
certificate of Pension, the original being lost.

Mr Taylor being very old and infirm and unable
to go to Saint Louis to draw his money himself,
got me to go, and took me with his original certificate, which by some means or other was taken from me on board
of the steam boat or which
I returned from St Louis, Owing to some [illegible]
in the power of attorney,
I did not draw his pay
due from March 1838 to March 1839, this I believe
a part was drawn for last winter, by A G Harrison [illegible] to congress from this state; the declaration
of Wm. Tailor was made in the circuit court of
the County of which I am the Clerk, and he has
along got me to draw his money for him &
he desires for a copy of his certificate may be sent
on that he may be able to make out his papers
to draw again at Washing City as the agent at
St. Louis informed me that he would have to draw
six months pay at Washington before he could
draw again at St Louis-- Should there require
any thing more done to procure a copy of his
certificate, the old man would be much
pleased to be informed of it
Your obt Servant
Hy. Sanford
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dated Feby 16. 1839
Reg't. no 1211. in favor of Hon. Albert Harrison a
Wash'g. City
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3 -- 595.
O. W. AND N. DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Jun. 5, 1907
Searched by
Gill
Original No.
Certificate No.
Claimant,
Soldier Benjamin Taylor
Service
N.C. Service
Rev. War
Remarks.
No claim as above
except In 16.000. & Rej. 10.406
2326b5m6 - 06
Chief of Division
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R
16000
INVALID.
File No. 16.000
Benjamin Taylor
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7" 32

Index: -- Vol. 1, Page 445
Arrangement of 1870.}
1907 June 8. Hist to Mrs B.H.Griffin
(letter in Inv. File 7685.) o
1909 Feb 4 Tombstone [illegible]
to Wayne  Foncanon   V. L. M.
See serv. File 17038
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[illegible] 26/64

Hon J. L. Edwards
U S Pension Office
 Washington DC
W. Cole
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Saint Louis Decr 10 1849
Sir

Inclosed I forward the papers of Benj'n.
Taylor of Stoddard County Mo. to obtain an
order from the Pension office at Washington
to the Agent here for payment
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with great respect
Your obd. sera't.
N. Rannry
Attorney in fact for
Benj'n. Taylor
J. L. Edwards
Washington DC