Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30153, for Nathaniel Taylor, Massachusetts
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Mass

Taylor, Nathaniel

S.30153

CONTENTS
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32475
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Taylor, dsc
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of Blaceta Co in the State of Mass
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Gols of the Peg't commanded by Col ---- in the Mass Revo line for 6 mo. 21 days
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Inscribed on the roll of Boston at the rate of 22 Dollars 33 cents per annu. to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 & ending 2nd MArch 1842 when he (?)
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Cetificate of Pension issued 9 day of July 1846  and ( ?)
son, vez of Ress
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Arrears tot he 4th of
Semi= anl allowence ending
Payable to Ebenezer, Jonathan & Edmond taylor & Sally Blood only surviving childfen==
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7 2832
Recorded by Tho Lumpkin Clerk
Book E Vol 2  Page 86
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34761
Nathan Taylor
died
Mass
Act 7 June '32
Witness - Goss B-
( ) 21.61 - Moore 2.13
-     3.250  white 1.8
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                      6.21
aomil
6 mo 20 days pri
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22.33  to 2nd MArch 1842
To Ebenezer Jonathan & Edmund Taylor & Sally Blood - surviving chilldren
Hon C Hudson
HR
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
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Secretary's office
Nov. 6 1845

I hereby certify that, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution which remains in this Department it appears that the name of Nathaniel Taylor of  Lancaster; 2nd Parish is borne upon Mileage Roll of Capt. Joseph Largent Company in Capt. Josiah Whiting's Reg't as a Private, for 88 miles travel - said will is dated June 20 1777. Upon a Muster will of same company at Rhode Island. As a Private  from May 3 to july 12 1777 - 2 months & 7 days.
Upon payroll of Capt' John White's company in Col. Job Cushings reg't as a private of said town, from July 28 1777. 1 month and 8 days - & 130 miles travel. Upon a payroll of Cap't David Moore's Company in Lt. Col Enoch Hallet's Reg't 13 for service at Rhode Island as a provate from August 1to October 9 1780, 2 months & 13 days including allowance for service in said Cap't Moore's company at Rhode Island in ( ) dated starting March 21 1782. The above is all the evidence of service, which can be identified withthe individual described in the annexed application.
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And I furhter Certify, That before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filled in this office, in the form in which the same appears; that the search ws made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contains all the facts and circumstances within knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Ebenezer Taylor of Sterling County of Worester Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Sixty four years of age deponent say that i have good reason to believe that my father Nathaniel Taylor was entitled to a pension  at the time of his demise in 1842 that he was not able to find proof of all the service which he rendered and I formyself & behalf of my brothers & sisters request the secretary of this commonwealth to examing the rolls & documents in his office for proof of all the service of said Nathaniel Taylor then on at that time second Parish inn Lancaster and according to the best of my knowledge my said father was in the srevice on the all arm of Lexington & Concord April 18 1775 that he was in the service at Cambridge also in Boston & at Providence in the state of Rhode Island at one or more times that he was in the service at the capture of genrl Burgoyn at Saratoga and that he was also in service at West Point in the state of New York and was ( ) under  Cap't Goss during his different services Worester SS Sterling August 14 1843  Edward Taylor
Subscribed before me 
Cyrus Holbrooks Jus. Peace
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Decleration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congess ( ) June 7 1832
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of  -ship on this fifteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousandeight hundred and thirty eight formally appeared in open court, before  this court of 
probabte  note setting, Nathaniel taylor a resident of Sterling in the said county of ( ) age eighty two years, who being first duly swornacording to laws doth on his oath make the following decelrationin order to obtain the benefits of the provisions under  by the act of congress ( ) june 7 1832.
  That he entered the service of the United States under th following named officers and ( ) as herein states
  He first wentinto the service in the fall of the year after the was commenced. he was drafted and sent out in the company commanded by Cap't Goss whose christian name the deponent does not recollect ; but he  ( ) to the town of Lancaster in said county hampshire. They resided from the twon of lancaster and ( ) through ( ) and ()
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( )  New York. They marched the latter prt of summer and ( ) October.  he knows it was before  the seventeenth of October, because a great snow fell on that day and her got home to Sterling before it fell.  He cannot state that this is the summer he went away, but he knows he served three months. he was in the Regiment of Col. Sawyer, and they were first ( ) of Dobbs Ferry; They then went in to the Jersies were ( ) at different ( ) and finally ( ) to Dobbs Ferry there they were discharged. The deponent wasin no battlebut the battle at white Plains took place while they were first at Dobbs ferry and he recollects that the Brittish took possesion of that place before they got away the ( ) into the Penisula their Regiment service alone he is unable to state who the officers in the ( ) army ( ) at N. York and after they were discharged at Dobbs Ferry, he ( ) home to Sterling the same day he went it was a busy time before he ( ) asertains ( ) ( ) living who was in this service with him.  He finally ( ) that David Gary was living, and his  deposition is ( ) to and the reason why he has not applied for his pension before is that he now was able to  ( ) enough time Till he ( )
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and herefor the court purposes the seen war interrogations provided by the war department, and the  said declarant makes ( ), on oath as follows, to ( )
  That he was born in the said town of Sterling then Lancaster, on the seventeenth day of October in the year 1756.

  The declarent expects that his birth was recorded in the town records of Lancaster. It was also recorded in the family Bible lest that is now in possesion of his brother in the loan of ( ) in the State of New Hampshire

3  The declarant says that he always has and aalways expects to his in said town of Sterling

4  To the
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6  To the sixth interrigatory the declarant says that he does not recollect tha he was never had any written discharge from the service.

7 To the seventh interragatory, declarant says that he is well known to Moses Thomas, Jacob Conent and Thomas H Blood ( ) and the Rev. Peter Osgood all of town Sterling, who he hopes will have given testimony to his character and to his respected services in the war of the Revolution

4  o the fourth interragatory, declarant says as  above stated, that he was always drafted intot he service and never sent as substitute.

his
Nathaniel Taylor
mark

subscribed & (signed) to on the day & year aforesaid            
before me  Jno Martin of the Court of District for said County of ( )
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he Peter Osgood a clergyman residing in the town of sterling, and Moses Thomas, Jacob Conent  all residing in the town Sterling,  hereby certify that we are well acquainted with nathaniel taylor who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration.  That we believe him to be eighty two years of age; that he is ( ) and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the revolution and that he ( ) in that ( )
Sworn and subscribed this nineteeth dayof December 1838
Peter Osgood
Moses Thomas
Jacob Conant

Before me T H Blood justice Peace
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Thomas and Jacob Conant who have also signed the same are majestrates, resided in the same town and are credible persons and that their testiment is entitled to credit
Jno Martin Jdge of the Coourt of probate for said county of Lancaster
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This testimony of Mr. Gary

The declarant was again drafted and sent to Dennington in the year 1777. He went in the Comany of Capt. John White in Col. Cushing's regiment, and was in the service between two and threee months. They marched from Sterling to Labany first, and from there they went up to a place called Half moon and while they were at Half Moon the battle at Dennington took place, and they marched into dennington immediately after the battle was over and they were ( ) then sometime quellering the Brittish ( ) -- of harm he recollects was very badly wounded and ( )  his shoulder blade taken off. They stayed at Dennington for some time and were then discharged after a ( ) as above stated.  The declarant  wishes to be ( ) that is was their company only which was at Half Moon at the time of the battle. the rest of the regiment in ( ) was in the battle. Nathaniel Mercybless was in the same company with the declarant, and his definition ( ) to.
The last service the declarant was in was at Rhde Island in the year 1780
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( ) ( ) this service, and went into - the copany of Capt. Moore, he thinks his given name was David, and belonged to the town of Bolton.  The declarant cannot state the Colonels name. They marched from Lancaster to Providence in Rhode Island and were ( ) then the ( ) part of the time during their service which was three months. they were stationed at that time at a place called Buttes Hill when they first ( )  some fortifications and when the declarant first ( ) General La Fayette. they went from Butts hill to a place called Norten ( ) where he thinks he was discharged at the completion of said service and early in the month of October. Joseph pearson was in this service with him and his definition is ( ) to
They ( ) of great age and infirmity . The decalrant is unable to state his services any more particulary
He hereby relinquishes every claim that ( ) to a pension or annuity except the ( ) and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn and subscribed to on this day and year afoesaid The town of Bolten ( ) Lancaster
( ) ( ) ( )
Before me Jno Martin Judge of the court of Probate for ( ) County
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FREDERICK W. JOB
DUDLEY TAYLOR

TELEPHONE CENTRAL 2310

LAW OFFICES 
JOB & TAYLOR
832 MARQUETTE BUILDING
CHICAGO

February 3, 1909.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-
I take the following from the publication known as Massachusetts Soldiers & Sailors of the Revolution:
"Nathaniel Tayler. Private, Captain David Moore's Co., Lieutenant Col. Enoch Hallet's Regiment; entered service August 1st, 1780; discharged October 19, 1780; service 2 months 19 days at Rhode Island, including 4 days (75 miles) travel home; regiment detached to re-enforce Continental Army for 3 months."
i surmise that this refers to my Great-great-grandfather and wish to verify it, if possible, by ascertaining from you if you have any further record which will afford information regarding him, including his age at the date of enlistment, his place of residence, occupation, etc., or where he resided later in life, who his relatives were, etc. Any information in fact that you can give me will be greatly appreciated. My ancestor Nathaniel was born in 1735, married to Cloe Brooks and resided in West Springfield, Mass.
Thanking you in advance for this favor, I am, 
Very truly yours,
Dudley Taylor

[postal stamp]
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30153
Resy INVALID.

File No.  30153
Nathaniel Taylor
Lis  Rev  War

Act:  June 7th 32

Index: -- Vol. 9, Page 413

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[[facing page]]
1909, Feb. 17. Hist of Dudley Taylor. A.E.P.
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Sent. CG Prentiss, June 18th '39 
 "     to Hon C. Hudson 14. Jany. 1846.
 "     "   same 3. March  "
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76. Capt. Goss  New York   3 mo.
77.    "     White  Bennington  rolls  1. 8
80     "     Moore   R [illegible]   "     2. 13
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3-871.
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RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

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Briefed by  L.D.L.
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier  Nathaniel Taylor
Service  Mass.
Additional Service  Rev. War
No ______claim, State records _________,190___
No claim, combination records _______,190___

REMARKS:
No claim, except I. #30153

0-8   Chief Division
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Hon. J. S. Edwards
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Worcester (Mass) Decr. 21, 1838.

Sir.
I send the papers in the case of Nathaniel Taylor, applicant for a Pension under the act of June 7. 1832.
Please to send his Certificate, Chas. G. Prentiss.
Hon. James S. Edwards.