Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,755, for William Taylor, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn. 
Sea Service
Born in Ireland

Taylor, William

NUMBER
S. 3755 -
carded
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5691
Ohio_Pittsburgh
William Taylor
y 6. Township in the State of Ohio
who was a Seaman in the____ commanded
by Captain         of the_____commanded
by_____in the Navy of
the Revolution for 2 years
Pa and Sea Service Records O.K.  Marg '04 
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pittsburgh
at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of Feb
      1833 and sent to Hon
H. H. Leavitt House of Reps
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $145.10
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 $48.
[Total] $193.00
Repo
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by E. D. Bullock Clerk
Book D Vol. 5 Page 1431

see letter to Wheeling P. Agt. 31
March 1837
P. Agt 31
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State of Ohio, Jefferson County S
  On this 24th day of October, 1832, personally appeared, in open court, before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, now sitting William Taylor, a resident of Clinton township, in said County of Jefferson, aged seventy eight years, in June last past, 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 in August 1775, being then a resident of the city of 
Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, he was drafted in the militia
of said State, and was attached to a company commanded by Captain David Rose in the Battalion commanded by Major Mifflin that shortly after said draft, said Company was ordered to proceed to the Jersey coast, to protesd [protect] it from the invasion of the enemy, then lying of [off] the coast_ that he went up the Delaware, with said company, by water as far as Burlington, and from thence marched across the state of N. Jersey to the sea coast where said company did duty_ afterwards returned to Philadelphia, and was discharged by his Captain at that place having been in the service, a little upwards of two months
  In the month of April 1776 this declarant was again drafted in the militia of Pennsylvania, and was again attached to the said Captain Rose's Company, and again went with his company to the Jersey Coast for the same purpose as before mentioned and having remained in the service for three months, the company returned to Philadelphia, where this declarant was again discharged by his said Captain.
  In October or November of the same year, he was again drafted in the Pennsylvania Militia, and went out into the service under the said Captain Rose, whose company was again ordered to the Jersey coast, for the purpose before stated. During this tour, declarant was engaged in several skirmishes with scouting parties of the British army and having served for the period of three months, was discharged at Philadelphia, by the said Captain Rose. He does not remember the names of any regular officers, with whom he was acquainted, and thinks there were no continental troops or regiments, serving in Company with him.
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  In the month of January 1777, as many as this declarant can
remember, he enlisted at Philadelphia, as a seaman on board
the armed Brig mounting eighteen guns, called the Montgomery
commanded by Capt. Benjamin Hill of Boston. He can now only recollect the names of but two of the subordinate officers on board this vessel, viz 1st Lieut Blair, and the Boatswain Robert Wilson_ the Brig sailed from Philadelphia some time during said month of January, in said year 1777, and after being out about three weeks, in the vicinity of the Island of Madeira was overtaken by the British frigate, the Levant of 28 guns, commanded by Capt. George Murray & after a running fight of four hours, the Montgomery was obliged to surrender, having first lost her top mast, by a squall of wind_ this declarant was taken, with the rest of the prisoners to Lisbon in Portugal, and after staying there one week, were taken to Gibralter [Gibraltar], when the crew of the Montgomery was distributed among the British fleet then lying at that place. This declarant was put on board the
frigate Enterprize [Enterprise], commanded by Capt. Thomas Rich. This
declarant was then taken to Portsmouth, in England, where he was put on board the English frigate That is of 40 guns, commanded by Capt. Blanket. In the spring of 1778, this
declarant sailed on board of said vessel (being still a prisoner)
for Bombay, and after being at that place for three or four months, he succeeded in making his escape to a Dutch trading ship, then lying at Bombay from Baltimore. He went in this vessel to Batavia, where he got on board a Dutch East Indiaman, in which he sailed to Flushing in Holland, and from thence by way of Derrierara [Derrière] and the Island of Barbadoes [Barbados], to the City of Baltimore, in the United States, where he arrived in July 1781 or '82
  This declarant is a native of Ireland having been born in the
County Downe, in June 1753. He has no record of his age
nor does he know that there is any record thereof extants [exists]. He never
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received any written discharge from the service, nor has he any documentary evidence of any kind, in his possession, by which he can prove his enlistment or service before set forth, nor does he know of any person now living by whom the same can be proved. He is well known to Thomas George, Andrew Anderson,
& George Woods, who reside in his neighbourhood, and by whom he will be able to prove his good character for truth and veracity and their belief in the truth of the facts stated in the foregoing declaration. After his return to the United States, as above set forth, this declarant resided in Philadelphia County until the year 1793_ he then removed to Bald Eagle, on the Susquehanna, where he resided two or three years_ He removed thence to Pittsburgh, where he lived two years_ and from thence he went to Brooke County, Virginia where he lived six years_ and for the last sixteen or seventeen years, he has resided in said Jefferson County, Ohio. He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
William Taylor
James Ross Wells Clk

We Thomas George and George Woods, residing in the neighbourhood of the above named William Taylor, in said County of Jefferson, who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing declaration hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with said Taylor, that we believe him to be in his seventy ninth year; that he
is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Thos George
George Woods
James Ross Wells Clk
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State of Ohio Jefferson County ss
[Written fainly:] Wm Taylor 17136
  I James Ross Wills Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Do
hereby certify, that the foregoing containg the original proceeding of said Court in the matter of the application of William Taylor for a pension
  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Steubenville the 30th day of October A.D. 1832
James Ross Wells Clk

I do hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with Thomas George & George Woods, who have sworn to & subscribed the within certificate, and that they are men of good character for truth & veracity & of high respectability also further certify, that I am acquainted with the within named William Taylor, and believe him to be a man of truth & veracity. I moreover certify, that it is within my knowledge, that the court before which the within declaration was sworn to, did direct it to be certified, that the judges were satisfied of the truth of the facts set forth in the within declaration
Feby 8. 1833.
H H Leavitt, m. C
of this
H. of Reps.
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Rev. War Section.

Dec. 11, 1916.

Captain Elliott L. Gyger,
Lock Box 272,
Alliance, Ohio.

Sir:
  In reply to your letter of the 20"" ultimo, you are advised
that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. F.
3755, it appears that William Taylor was born in County Down,
Ireland, in June 1753 and was living in Philadelphia, Penn. when
he was drafted in the Penn militia and served as follows: in
August 1775, for 2 months in Capt. David Rose's Company, Major
Mifflin's Battalion in April 1776, for 3 months in Capt. David
Rose's Company and in October or November 1775, for 3 months, in
Capt. David Rose's Company,
  In January 1777 he enlisted at Philadelphia, Penn. as a seaman
on the armed ship Montgomery commanded by Benjamin Hill and
about three weeks later, near the Island of Madeira said ship
surrendered after a fight of four hours to the British Frigate
Levant. He was captured and upon arriving at Gibralter was put
on the Frigate Enterprize, taken to Portsmouth, England, then put
on the Frigate Thetis and sailed in the Spring of 1778 to Bombay
after being there 3 or 4 months he escaped to a Dutch trading
ship, went to Batavia, thence on a Dutch East Indiaman to Flushing
Holland and thence by way of Demarata and Barbadoes to
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[Typed:] Baltimore where he arrived in July 1781 or 1783.
  He was allowed pension on his application executed October
24, 1832, while living in Jefferson County, Ohio. There is no
data as to family on file.
Very respectfully,
[Signature illegible]
Commissioner.

[Handwritten:] See Penn. Archives. 5 Series. Vol. 1. page 608
for account of their ship.it is on list of
armed vessels from port of Phila - 1776 - 1777
and is called Brigt "General Montgomery"
Jan. 1. 1777, Martin, Benj Hill, Owners John Pringle
and Joseph Dean - Crew 100 Guns. 16 -
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Rev-1 C B H
The Review Publishing Co.
THE DAILY REVIEW
Book and Job Printing
Alliance, Ohio

November 20th, 1916.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Sir:
  I am desirous of securing the military record, if possible, of
William Taylor, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, whom I am told
enlisted at Philadelphia. Further data I am unable to furnish. The
information is desired in order to make an application for membership
in the Daughters of the American Revolution, to which order my wife is
eligible to membership.
Very Respectfully,
Elliott L Gyger,
Late Captain 8th O.V.I
War with Spain.

Lock Box 272
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[Stamp saying:]
U. S. Pension Office
NOV 21 1916
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North Western Bankoffice
Wheeling, March 18th 1837
J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
Dr Sir
  Some difficulty having arisen respecting the construction to be put on the Circular from the Treasury Dept. of Septem 29th 1836. I take the liberty of asking some explanations
  In the first Section of the Circular, it requires that "the execution of the power of Atty must be in the presence of at least one witness other than the magistrate before whom it is acknowledged." Am I to understand from this, that the magistrate
must in all cases be a witness to the Power of Attorney, or that he
may entirely be dispensed with, as a witness to its execution. One
witness without him being sufficient?
  The Second Section required, that "in all cases where the Signature of the Pensioner is made by a mark or cross,
the execution must be in the presence of at least one competent witness other than the magistrate who acts officially in the case "
  The construction which I have put on this and the one of which it
seems most susceptible is that the magistrate must witness the Signature and one other besides him_ or does it mean that one witness being employed the magitate may be dispensed with?
  The better to illustrate the difficulty. I transmit herewith the pension voucher of Robert Reynolds marked at the
several points, at which I think it varies from the requsitions of the
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Circular. you will please return it and inform me whether to pay it in the present form or not_
  I would also act if associate Judges in Ohio are acknowledged by the Department the same as Magistrates

I am
respectfully yours
Arch Woods  Pension Agt
John S Brown

William Taylor, Seaman, a pensioner under the act of 7 June 1832 was not on the roll you furnished us at first, but is on the Second roll showing the time when pensioners were last said. will he be paid at this Agency on his presenting the proper voucher?_ He lives in Jefferson Co Ohio
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No. 3755
Rev. War
INVALID.
File No. 3755
Wm. Taylor
Seaman Navy
Act: June 7, 1832
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 368
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Pa. and Sea Service Records corrected
Mar 9 '04   [illegible]

[Page on right:]
1916. Dec. 11, Hist. to Elliott S. Gyger. and
1923 Nov. 12 Hist. to Mrs. R. S. Hill and
1924 May 21- Mrs. R. S. Hill inf. how to obtain data of last payment acct
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Bureau of Pensions
Department of the Interior
Washington D.C
Washington Gardner Commissioner
Dear Sir
  In regard to Pension claim S. 3755 in the name of
W Taylor, which he was allowed on his application
executed Oct 24. 1832 while living in Jefferson County
Ohio.   If possible Please send me the year of his death
or exact date of his death if you can find it I want to
have a D.A.R. marker put at his grave in what
is now the Bergholz Cemetery Jefferson Co. Ohio   Emery Taylor who is still living in Jefferson County at an advanced age was first [illegible]
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at his burial to stone marks his grave. Mrs Hurford B. Frances of 529 Washington St has promised to see that a D. A. R marker
is provided for his grave, which I think should be done while Emery Taylor is living. Let me
hear from you as soon as possible.
  Sincerely yours
  Mrs Robert S. Hill
  547 South 4th St.
  Steubenville Ohio
If a marker is provided my husband and I will see
that it is placed in position in the cemetery at Bergholz Ohio
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER
U. S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS
MAY 17 1924
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Steubenville O.
Oct 2, 1923
Pension Department
Washington D.C.
Gentleman
Can you tell meany thing about the Revolutionary War record of Wm Taylor [penciled in above his name:] S3755 who died many years ago in Jefferson County Ohio.
  My great great great Grandfather James Boggs
was an officer in the Revolutionary War. I have
been told he commanded a Regiment Can you tell me where he is buried or tell me any
[Stamp marked:] PENSIONS OFFICE Oct 4 1923
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thing about his family. Did he become of
member of the Order of Cincinnati of Pennsylvania? Can you send me my thing about
Francis Boggs or any thing about Wm Boggs
Please let me hear from you in a few days
Sincerely yours
Mary Mears Hill
Mrs Robert S Hill
547 S. 4th St.
Steubenville O
[Stamped:] U. S. PENSIONS OFFICE
OCT 4 1923
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P.S. My husbands great great grandfather
O Barnett Cunningham was in the
Revolutionary War. Can you tell me any thing of him Was he an officer? I  do not know the
full name of his Father but have been told he was in the Revolutionary War. He lived in Easton Pa in 1737. Barnett Cunningham married Annie Wilson in 1762 and they lived at Peach Bolton York Co. Pa. until 1770 when they moved to Tyrone
Township, Fayette Co. Pa. where he died in 1804.
  Was Annie Wilson Cunningham a daughter of Captain James Wilson's  of Company of
Lancaster Co. Militia in 1781 & 1782.
  The Boggs family lived in Cumberland Co, 
Pa. York Co Pa Washington Co.
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They lived in Virginia at one time.
[Stamped:] U.S. PENSIONS OFFICE OCT 4 1923
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Rev. and 1812
War Section.

May 21, 1924.

Mrs. Robert S. Hill,
547 South 4th St.,
Steubenville, Ohio.

Madam;
  I have to advise you that in order to obtain the date of last payment, name of person to whom paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, William Taylor, S. 3755.
  You should apply to the Pension Section, Interior Department Division, General Accounting Office, 1800 E Street, N. W. Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data- William Taylor, Certificate Number 5691, Issued February 15, 1833. Commenced March 4, 1831, Rate $96 per annum, Act of June 7, 1832, Ohio Agency.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.