Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,458, for Peter Taylor, New Jersey
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(8-1776)
SERVICE                            NUMBER
New Jersey   Taylor, Peter  S.42.458

CONTENTS
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2785.
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New York
Peter Taylor, private
New Jersey line 4
Capt Bratt
In the army of United States during the Revolutionary War 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commentce
the 2nd of April, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued  the 23.of Spt: 1818
and sent to Richard Riker, Esq
Recorder of the City of N: York
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 .. $: 40.80
Semi.anl. all'ce ending 4. March 1819  48-
5mo: 3/30                                  $: 88.80         
   ( Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818)
Cont
City of New York
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Peter Taylor
Soldier
In New Jersey Re
or
Ogelin
Compare this case
Ex. Yfd. to be correct
New York role
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(1)
State of New-York.
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, 88.

I, BENJAMIN FERRIS, Clerk
of the City and County of New-York,
and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for the said City and County,
Do hereby certify, That Richard Riker, Esq.
before whom the annexed Affidavits were made, and who hath subscribed his
name to the Certificate also hereto annexed, was on the day when the said
Affidavits were made and the said Certificate signed, Recorder of the City of
New-York and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, called the
Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, and duly commissioned and sworn.
And further, that the said Court is a Court of Record of the State of New-York, and that the signature of R. RIKER subscribed to the said Certificate, is the proper hand writing of the said Richard Riker.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this fourteenth
day of April 1818
Benjn.. Ferris
Clerk
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Printed by E. CONRAD, Frankfort-street.
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State of New-York, ss.
To the Hon. Richard Riker__
Recorder of the City of New York, and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, which is a Court of Record of the State of New York.

The Declaration under oath of Peter Taylor
formerly a Soldier engaged in the Service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, now a Citizen of the United States and resident of the City and County of New-York, respect sheweth,
THAT the said Peter Taylor [crossed out: Inlisted] a Soldier sometime in the
month of March 1777 a Soldier in Captain William Peatts Company in Col Ogdens Regiment called the first New Jersey Regiment in the Continental standing Army
and Inlisted for three years and served the whole time and immediatly reinlisted for and during the war in the same Company and Regiment and continued serving under
severl. Captains fighting the common enemy untill the end of the war and was honorable discharged but my my discharge I have lost

         his
Peter   X    Taylor
        mark

And the declaration further sheweth, that the said Peter Taylor
is now a citizen of the United States, resides in the city of New-York, and is by reason
of his reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from his country for
support

Therefore the said Peter Taylor conceives himself entitled to the benefit of the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, ""An
Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the
United States in the Revolutionary War," approved 18th March, 1818, and requests
your Honor will examine into the truth of the matter aforesaid, certify and transmit
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the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Honorable the
Secretary of the Department of War, to the end that such relief may be had in the
premises, as is by law in such case made and provided. And in support of the facts
above set forth, the said Peter Taylor
refers to Joseph Yates of the City aforesaid who was my orderly Sergeant
       his
Peter X  Taylor
      mark

City and County of New-York ss. Peter Taylor
of the City and County of New-York, being duly sworn, saith, that the matters by him set forth in the foregoing Declaration, are in all respects just and true.
        his
Peter X  Taylor
      mar
Sworn before me this 2nd}
day of April 1818}
P Riker
Recorder of the
City of New York 

City and County of New-York, ss.
Joseph Yates
of the City aforesaid
being sworn, saith, that he is well
acquainted with Peter Taylor in the Revolutionary service
from the year 1780 untill the end of the war in the year 1783 and was in the same Regiment at the taking of Lord Earl Cornwallis with the same Applicant Peter Taylor
for about three years in the Continental army_

Joseph Yates

Sworn before me this 2nd}
day of April 1818}

P Riker
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City and State of NEW YORK, SS.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this second day of April ____in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me Richard Riker ___ Recorder of the City of New-York, and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, which is a Court of Record, personally appeared the aforesaid Peter Taylor

who being by me duly sworn to the truth of the facts stated in the foregoing Declaration and at the testimony of Joseph Yates which
is satisfactory to me___ the age of the applicant is about 62 years of age__

WHEREUPON I being satisfied that the said Peter Taylor did serve in the Army of the United States was in the Continental Establishment in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and longer, to wit: for the term and the manner stated in the Declaration of the said applicant; and that the said applicant is fairly and justly entitled to the benefit of the
Act aforesaid. THEREFORE I DO HEREBY CERTIFY and transmit the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, as before set forth, to the Honorable the
Secretary of the Department of War.

GIVEN under my Hand and Seal of the said Court, in the
City of NEW-YORK, this Second
day of April__in the Year our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
P Riker
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Peter Taylor
New Utrecht
Long Island
County of Kings
NY
2785
23 Sept
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Present the Honorable William Furman first Judge.
State of New York, Kings County Ss.
Best Remembered, that in the seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty, Personally appeared in the Court of Common
Pleas, for Kings County, before the Judges of the said Court in open court, the said
Court being a Court of Record for the said County and State, Peter Taylor, resident
in New Utrecht Long Island, County of Kings, aged Sixty five years, who being
first duly sworn, according to Law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the
Revolutionary War as follows: That he enlisted at New Utrecht Long, Island
in Captain Jacques Rupelyes Company about the month of July 1776, and
afterwards in the month of March following he enlisted under Captain William
Peall in the New Jersey Line, Colonel Ogdens Regiment, and continued in the said
service under the said Captain and Colonel Ogden's Regiment until the close of
the War, when you was honorably discharged; was in the Battles of Monmouth, Brandywine & Germantown, was discharged near New Ulinsor in the State of New York. Deponent states that he has a wife aged about 70 years, and two
children, one named Peter, the other Eliza. That he is a Weaver by trade, but on account of age and infirmity is unable to pursue the said trade;
and that his original declaration is dated the second day of April 1818 and that
his pension certificate is No 2785. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident
citizen of the United States on the 18th March 1818, and that I have not since
that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part
thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself 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 March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto
annexed, and by me subscribed, to wit.
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Real estate
About ½ acre of Land with a small house valued at $100
Personal estate,
4 Chairs __  __  __8 "
1 Table __ __ __    4"
2 Beds __ __ __ 1" 10"
Set of Tea Cups & Saucers __ __ 2"
Plates, Knives & forks __ __ __ 2"

           his
Peter    X    Taylor
         mark

Sworn to and declared on the Seventeenth day of October 1820 before me
William Furman first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Kings County
William Furman

I, Abraham Vandeveer, Clerk of Kings, do hereby certify, that the foregoing afidavit, and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is one hundred and five dollars and seventy five cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said court, on this seventeenth day of October 1820. 
Abrm. Vandeveer Clerk of the
County of Kings
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42458 
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 42.458
Peter Taylor
Pri Rev  War
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Act: 18th March 18
Index: -Vol. 3, Page 507
Arrangement of 1870.
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Hon S. C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington City

[written vertically]
501
Rec. 13 Dec 1820
Ex
Lend to M Myers & Co
Dec 18 1820
New York
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New York Decr 11th 1820
Sir
Enclosed is Peter Taylors Schedule
for a renewal of Pension, should it be granted you will please forward
the Certificate of Continuance to us,
We Are Respectfully
Your most Obent Hble Servts
M. Myers & Co