Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 838, for Daniel Taylor, New Jersey
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SERVICE New Jersey 
Taylor, Daniel 
NUMBER S.838. 
carded
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New Jersey
Daniel Taylor
[illegible]
Was a Private in the [illegible]
[illegible] Squads [illegible]
[illegible]

[illegible] on the [illegible]
The rate of 80 Dollars 00 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.

Certificate of [illegible]
[illegible] 160.00
[illegible]  40.00
$200.00

d. Aug 19 1834

Revolutionary War
June 7, 1833

Recorded by [illegible] Palmer, Clerk
Book E   Vol. [illegible]   Page 183
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No 17068 
Daniel Taylor 
NJ
17.223
Adm 2 years 
Charles H. Halsey 
Newark
NJ
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WAR DEPARTMENT 
Pension Office, 
16th May 1833 

Sir
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the service of Daniel Taylor Essex County NJ

[column headings:  Period when the service was rendered| Duration of the claimant’s service (Years, Months, Days) | Rank of the claimant | Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served | Names and Rank of the General and Field officers | Battles in which the applicant was engaged | Country through which he marched | Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period | Evidence by which the declaration is supported ]

| Sep 15, 1771 enrolled & performed monthly terms of duty under 6 mo. | | 4 | | Captain Squier | Cols Van Cortland | Elizabethtown | NJ | Age 73 Essex County NJ | Traditionary Living Witness
| | | 2 | | | Nichols | | | | | 
| | | 6 | | | Gillam | |Springfield | | |
| | | 2 | | | Reeve | | | | |
| | | 2 | | | Spear | | | | |
| | | 2 | | | Williams | | | | |
| | | 2 | | | Ins. Condit |Maj. Hayes | | | |
| | | 3 | | | Squier | | | | |
| | | 3 | | | Little | | | | |
| | | 2 | | | Peck | | | | |
| | 2 | 5 |
| He did more than 2 years active duty throughout the war|

I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant 
J. L. EDWARDS, 
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. 

The following regulations have been adopted: 
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," “militia," and “volunteers”, all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 
1. The Regular Troops. 
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION. 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. 
State, Territory, or District of 
County of} ss.
 
On this ___ day of ___ personally appeared (a) before ___ A.B. a resident (b) of ___ in the county of ___ and State, Territory, or District ___ of ___ aged (c) ___ 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) ___, with ___ and served in the ___  regiment of the ___ line, under the following named officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service, and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged; and the country through which he marched.  This form is to varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of ___

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.   A.B.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above-named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he stated.
I ___ of the Court of ___ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of ___ for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this ___ day of ___ &c.

If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. 
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the ___ and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with ___, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ___ years of age: that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

 And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above-named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. ___ who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the ___ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the ___ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

I, ___ Clerk of the Court of ___ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application for a pension. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this ___ day of ___ &c. 

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. 

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia. 
1. Where and in what year were you born? 
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? 
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live? 
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom? 
5. 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. 
6. To a Soldier: Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? 
6. To an Officer: Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 

The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant. 

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates. 

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. 

Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court. 

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature. 

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter. 

(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for guidance.
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule. 
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned. 
(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. 
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served, otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: 
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For ___ year ___ months, and ___ days, I served as a ___.  For ___ months and ___ days, I served as a ___; and for such services, I claim a pension.”
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration highly objectionable.  It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served, the duration of each term of engagement, the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority that was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed; he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable. 
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required. 
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case. 
(i) The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 

Proof of Service. 
(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
Th noes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers, and State troops.  The proof required by rule in note (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases. 
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact. 
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

Dyer Castor 
Exam Clerk
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Declaration of Daniel Taylor
Essex County
New Jersey

With amendments
No. 17068
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(1)

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

State of New Jersey 
Essex County 
SS.

On this nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas holden at Newark in and for the County of Essex, personally appeared in open Court, now sitting, Daniel Taylor a resident in the Township of Caldwell in the County of Essex and State above mentioned, aged Seventy three 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.

That he was born on the 15th of September A.D. 1760 in the then Township of Newark (now called Livingston Township) within 8 miles of the Town of Newark, in the County of Essex aforesaid that he now has no family record of his age the same having been lost some time since, by moving. That he resided in said part of the Township aforesaid during the whole of the Revolutionary war except when doing duty as hereinafter stated, and resided therein sometime after the war and until he removed into the Township where he now resides. That on or about the 15th of September A.D 1776, being then sixteen years of age, (it being the age when they were then called on to do militia duty he was enrolled in the Militia of New Jersey in the company commanded by Captain Elijah Squier attached to Major Samuel Hays Battalion in Col Philip Van Cortland's Regiment of Essex County. That the Militia were regularly classed and drafted according to their turns to do monthly tours of duty, and that this Deponent was drafted to do monthly tours of duty every other month, but mostly one month out of every three months, making one quarter of the time throughout the whole of the war. That Deponent by reason of his infirmity and of his imperfect memory and not having kept any record of the same, is unable at this time to specify the particular months in each year of said war, when he did duty, but that the first that he did was immediately after his enrollment doing duty as a guard at Newark under Captain Squier, that he repeatedly stood Guard at Newark, at the Old Ferry near Newark and at Second River now called Belleville in the County aforesaid, that although enrolled in Captain Squier's Company, he repeatedly did duty under the captains, who were also classed and also did monthly tours of duty according to their tours or classes - That he recollects
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doing duty under Captains, Squier, Nichols, Gillam, Reeve, Spear and others not recollected, that he believes he also did duty under Captain Thomas Williams of Orange in this County as will appear by reference to the pay roll kept by said Captain at the time, and which this Deponent understands is now filed or is about to be filed in the War Department at Washington. That besides the regular monthly tours of duty this Deponent was out in all the alarms and did duty whereon the alarm gun was fired to give notice that the County, which was very often - That when the Refugees or Green Coats came to Elizabeth Town this Deponent was out and did duty - That when the British burnt the Academy at Newark this deponent was there doing monthly duty. That when the British came up from Elizabeth Town and marched on the Newark, Second River to Hackensack this Deponent was out on this monthly duty and in the engagement at Second River under Genl Winds, and forded the river there, and followed the British on to and beyond Hackensack then returned to Newark. That when the Battle of Monmouth was fought this Deponent was doing monthly tour of duty at Newark as Guard.  That this deponent was in the engagement when the British came from Staten Island thro Elizabeth Town to Connecticut Farms and burnt the meeting House and dwelling houses, that in this engagement at Connecticut Farms, this Deponent had one musket ball shot thro his hat and one other ball took off a part of the rim of the same. That he was at the Battle of Springfield and did duty there under Captain Squier, that the next day after Springfield was burnt, this Deponent under Captain Squier followed on the rear and flanks of the British in their retreat to Elizabeth Town Point where they crossed over to Staten Island, that in a wood near the Point Captain Squier, this deponent and seven others of whom he recollect the names of Thomas Belton (whom this deponent understand is now applying or has applied for a pension under this act, and whom this deponent knows to have done duty during a great part of the war and in particular at Springfield Battle & at Elizabeth Town as now stated), John Avery, Thomas Weller and William Squier and whom this deponent believes are now all deceased, excepting said Belton, captured and took seventeen British Grenadiers prisoners and marched them back to Springfield and delivered them up to the Continental Army or Troops still at Springfield he then did monthly duty.  That this deponent was often out at the times on scouting parties and recollect being over once on Staten Island on a secret expedition under the command of Major Samuel Hays of Newark now deceased.  That he has no documentary
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evidence and he knows of no persons whom he can conveniently procure who can testify to his service excepting Joseph Taylor and Abraham Speer whose affidavits are hereunto annexed in and he expressly charges the truth to be that he did more than two years active duty through the war. 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.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Daniel Taylor
His mark

Saml B. Miller Judge

Mr. Asa Hillyer of Orange a Clergyman, residing in the Township in the County of Essex, and John C Burnet residing in the Town of Newark hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Taylor who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy three years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day year aforesaid
Asa Hillyer 
John C Burnet 

Saml B. Miller Judge 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states - And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Asa Hillyer who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Township of Orange and that John C. Burnet who has also signed the same is a resident in the Township of Newark and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit, and the Court further certifies that Joseph Taylor & Abraham Speer whose certificate or affidavits are hereto annexed are residents of the respective Township mentioned by them that they are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit and belief.

Saml B. Miller - Judge
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New Jersey
Essex County
SS.

Be it remembered that on this 19th of Sept 1832 personally appeared before the Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in open Court now sitting, Joseph Taylor aged sixty four years, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he has known Daniel Taylor since & before the Revolutionary War, that the first that this deponent knew of applicant’s service was at the Battle of Springfield when he saw this applicant on the Road to the Battle.  This deponent was then about ten years of age, that he knew him to be enrolled in Capt Elijah Squier’s company & after saw him on duty during the war, that believes he did at least two years duty during the war, and that he believes he did the duty as he has above mentioned and further he says not.

Subscribed & sworn the day & year aforesaid 
Joseph Taylor

Saml B. Miller Judge 


New Essex Jersey
Essex County
SS.

Personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court above mentioned Captain Abraham Speer of the Township of Bloomfield aged eighty five years who being duly sworn according to law on his oath Saith that held a captain’s commission in the Militia of Essex County and served during the Revolutionary War. that he recollects of Daniel Taylor doing duty as a private, when the Green Coats came to Elizabeth Town, that he believes him to have done duty at Second River & when the British passed on to Hackensack as he has stated that he did duty at Connecticut Farm Battle & at Springfield & he knows that he was one of those who came on our past at Elizabeth Town Point, as he has above stated & recollects of the prisoners by marched to Springfield as he has stated & believes he did the duty as he has above stated.

Subscribed & sworn the day & year
Abraham Speer 

Saml B. Miller Judge
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Essex County I Elias Van Arsdale Clerk of said Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify That the foregoing contains the original proceeding Court in the matter of the application Taylor for a Pension 

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office this fifth day of October AD 1832 

E. Van Arsdale

Daniel Taylor
Declaration, Essex County. New Jersey
17068
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Additions and amendments to the declaration of Daniel Taylor in accordance with the requirements of the War Department in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

New Jersey 
Essex County
SS.

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Essex aforesaid, Daniel Taylor who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he is the same Daniel Taylor in the declaration hereunto annexed mentioned made before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid on the 19th Sept. 1832.  That by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades: For four months under Captain Elijah Squier as a private; for six months under Captain Isaac Gillam as a private; for two months under Captain Robert Nichols; for two months under Captain Isaac Reeves; for three months under Captain Thomas Williams, for two months under Captain Abraham Speer, for two months under Captain Jonathan Condit, for three months under Captain Nathaniel Squier, for three months under Captain Isaac Little and for two months under Captain John Peck, all of the county of Essex, making two years and five months of active duty performed as a private during said war faithfully and truly and during which service he was not engaged in any civil pursuit and for said service he claims a pension, and to the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department he makes the following answers by to the 1st he answers that he was born on 15th Sept. 1760 in that part of the then Township of Newark now the Township of Livingston. To the 2d he answers that he now has no record of his age, the family bible in which it was recorded being lost by accident some years since. To the 3rd he answers that he was living in the Township where he was born at the commencement of his service, that he resided there during & until some years after the war and until he was fifty one years of age, that since he has lived part of this time in Orange, Caldwell & Springfield Townships all in the County of Essex aforesaid in which County he has always lived.  To the 4th he answers, that all the duty he did was
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as a drafted Militia man, being enrolled on the list of Militia of Essex County & performing his monthly tours of duty regularly & faithfully-- To the 5th he answers that he has already mentioned the names of the Captains under whom he served so far as he can now recollect them, that the Battalion to which he belonged was commanded by Major Samuel Hayes and Philip Van Cortland Esqr Col of the Regiment and Genl Winds of the Militia, that he recollects seeing General Washington frequently during the war, also Genl Green, Lord Stirling Lee, Col Angel of Rhode Island at the Battle of Springfield & Col. De Hart and for the general circumstances of his service he refers to his declaration wherein he has set forth the same so far & as distinctly as he now can (by reason of his age & infirmities), recollect the same.  To the 6th he answers that he never received a written discharge from any of his commanding officers it not being customary to give written discharges to militia man.  To the 7th he answers that he refers to the Rev Asa Hillyer of Orange, John C. Burnett of Newark, James Hedden Esqr Newark, Stephen D. Day, John Harrison, Dr John Condit, Wm Williams Esqr, Honorable Dr Isaac Picton, all of Orange, Honorable Silas Condit, Newark, Wm Gould Esqr Caldwell, Joseph Harrison Esqr Rufus Harrison of the same place, to whom he is generally known.

Daniel Taylor

Sworn & subscribed this 4th June 1833 before me 
S. R. Grover Justice of the Peace


And I certify that it appears upon reference thereto that the Court of Common Pleas have already certified to the Character of Joseph Taylor and Abm Speer whose affidavits are to the application hereto annexed.

S. R. Grover Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
County of Essex

I Elias Van Arsdale Junior Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of Essex Do hereby certify that Samuel B Miller Esquire before whom the affidavits in the matter of the application of Daniel Taylor for a pension hereto annexed, were made and taken, was at the time when the several affidavits were made and taken and still is a Judge of said Court residing in said County duly commissioned and sworn; That the name "Saml B. Miller" Subscribed to the same is the proper hand writing of said Judge.  I further Certify that Stephen R Grover Esquire before whom an additional affidavit of Daniel Taylor was made and taken & by whom the certificate thereunder written is signed, was when the said affidavit was made and taken & when he Subscribed the said certificate a Justice of the Peace for said County residing therein duly commissioned and sworn, and that the signatures “S. R. Grover” affixed to the same is the proper hand writing of said Justice.

In Witness Whereof I have hereto set my hand & the Seal of said Court at Newark the Twelfth day of June AD Eighteen hundred and thirty three (1833)

E. Van Arsdale Jr.  Clerk
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section. 

February 12, 1924.

Mrs. Charles W. Nichols, 
43 Liberty St., 
New Britain, Conn. 

Madam: 

I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim S.836 it appears that Daniel Taylor was born September 15, 1760, in Newark Township, Essex County, New Jersey.  While a resident of that place he enlisted September 15, 1776, and served at various times amounting in all to two years and five months as a private under Captains Elijah Squier, Robert Nichols, Isaac Gillam, Isaac Reeves, Abraham Spear, Thomas Williams, Jonathan Condit, Nathaniel Squier, Isaac Little, and John Peck, and Colonel Philip Van Cortland, in the New Jersey Troops, and was in the battles of Second River, Connecticut Farms and Springfield. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 19, 1832, while a resident of Caldwell Township, Essex County, New Jersey. He died August 19, 1834. 

There is no data as to his family. 

Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
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Rev. War

INVALID
File No. 838
Daniel Taylor
Priv. N.J. Line

Act: June 7, 1832
Index: Vol. A, Page 368
[Arrangement of 1870.}



1920 Feb 11 – hist. to Wm. J. Conklin
1924, Feb. 12 – Hist. to Mrs. Charles W. Nichols  U.M.
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Jan 9 -1924

MRS. CHARLES W. NICHOLS 
43 LIBERTY STREET 
NEW BRITAIN CONN. 

Bureau of Pensions 
Rev. War Section 

Will you kindly send me a copy of the Revolution War claim for pension of Daniel Taylor No 838. Thanking you in advance, I am

Very truly yours
(Mrs. C.W) B. P. Nichols
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS. 
Washington, D.C. 19 

S.838

In reply to your request of ___ received ___ for a statement of the military history of Daniel Taylor soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

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|Sept. 15 1776 | and earned at various times 2 years and 5 months | Private | (Elijah Squier, Robert Nichols, Isaac Gillam. Abraham Spear, Thomas Williams, Jonathan Condit, Nathaniel Squier, Isaac Little, John Peck) (Phillip Van Cortland) |N.J. |

Battles engaged in: Second River, Connecticut Farms Springfield
Residence of soldier at enlistment: Newark Twp Essex Co. N.J.
Date of Application for pension: Sept. 19, 1832 His cl. Al.
Residence at date of application: Caldwell Twp. Essex Co. N. J.
Age at date of application: born Sept 15, 1760 in Newark Twp. Essex Co. N.J. {from agency book} died Aug. 19. 1834 
Remarks: There is no data on file as to his family 

Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
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THE NEW JERSEY SOCIETY 
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 
Headquarters 
750 BROAD STREET, NEWARK N.J.
(Entrance 1 Clinton Street) 
Telephone 3085 Market


OFFICERS 
PRESIDENT: CARL MONTAINE VAIL 
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: REV. LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN, D.D. 
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: HON. ADRIAN LYON
SECRETARY: SAMUEL ALBERT CLARK 
TREASURER: EDWIN ALLEN SMITH 
REGISTRAR: WILLIAM JOHNSON CONKLING 
HISTORIAN: DAVID LAWRENCE PIERSON 
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January 29, 1920

Hon. G.M. Saltzgaber, Commissioner
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

Will you kindly furnish a certificate showing the military history, also family data, of DANIEL TAYLOR a private in the New Jersey Militia during the Revolutionary War. 

His name appears under ESSEX COUNTY list of pensioners.  Placed on Pension Roll August 19th 1833.  

The information is desired to prove the eligibility of an applicant to membership in this society, and we will appreciate any information you can give.

Very truly yours,
Wm J. Conkling 
Registrar N. J. S. A. R. 

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US PENSION OFFICE
JAN 31 1920