Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 11604, for Lemuel Taylor, Connecticut
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Taylor, Lemuel
Ada
Number W. 11604.
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Contents
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4797
Connecticut.
Ada Taylor
widow of Lemuel Taylor
who served in the Revolutionary War, Conn. as a drummer & Pri.
Conn.
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 38 dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 
26 October 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of May 1849 and sent to Wm F Taylor Danbury
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act Febuary 2 1848, Page 357 Vol. 1,
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She died [illegible] 23 1853
1891 Sept 25 W O Taylor History Prov
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31.905
Connecticut
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Lemuel Taylor
of Fairfield in the State of Conn: who was a priv Drum in the Comp: commanded by Captain Turrell of the regt. commanded by Col. Canfield in the Connecticut line for Militia for 6 mo: Drummer} 5 mo. pri. Infantry}
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Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 38 dollras 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
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Certificate of Pensionissued the 18: day of Dec: 1841 & sent to Hon: Thos B. Osborne H. Reps...
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Arrears to the 4th of Sep '41          405.93
Semi-annual allowance ending "      19.33
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                                                     $425.26
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{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Theo. L Moody, Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 3. Page 42
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26.523
Lemuel Taylor
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State of Connecticut, } ss.
County of Fairfield -   }

On this 2'd day of August 1833 personally appeared, in open Court, before
the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in the
[illegible], the same being a Court of Record and
now sitting, Lemuel Taylor a resident of
Danbury - in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut,
aged Sixty eight years, who being first 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 herein
stated.

I [roman numeral one] That on the 1st day of April 1779, he entered
the service of the United States under the following
circumstances - one Samuel Gregory then of said
Danbury, but now deceased, was drafted to serve
six months, at Horseneck in the State of Connecticut.
The said Gregory belonged to the Connecticut Militia, and
his [illegible] Nathaniel Ketchum employed him the
said Lemuel Taylor & [illegible] the said Lemuel his
substitute. Horseneck [illegible] a military [illegible]
the [illegible], and a garrison of American Troops
[illegible] maintained [illegible];
which was composed chiefly of militia from the County
of Fairfield and adjoining Counties in Connecticut.
The said Lemuel Taylor joined the Troops in said
Garrison on said 1st of April and was enrolled in
the Company of Connecticut Militia commanded by
Captain George Turrell, in the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Samuel Canfield; and served as a
Drummer in said Company the full term of
six months, and was discharged early in the
month of October, being detained a few days after
his term of service expired. There were no battles
at said Horseneck during said term; but in
the month of July 1779 when the British landed at
Fairfield a detachment was ordered to [illegible] Fairfield
[illegible] said
Lemuel Taylor, and he was engaged in the
battle with the British Troops at that place.
He immediately returned to [illegible] Horseneck.
When he was dismissed he received no written
discharge, but was dis[illegible]
there were no Continental Troops at F'd Horseneck, and the Garrison
was commanded by said Colonel Canfield.

II That on the 1st day of April 1780, he volunteer[ed]
to serve for the term of three months in a
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Corps of Troops stationed at a guard at hindsey's Court in the Town of Fairfield in said county. Said hindsey's Point is situated at the north of the Harbor of Mill River and a guard was there stationed. Said guard was commanded when he entered and for several weeks afterward by Captain Brewster who had commanded in the naval service and commanded several whale boats on that station. Afterwards it was commanded by Captain Smedley,  of the Connecticut Militia who acted under the order of Colonel Dimon of the Connecticut State troops said forward was in embodied corps, and cor listed of forty men, volunteers and drafted me from the Continental Militia called into service by the military authorities. He served as a Private soldier doing garrison duty under the command of said Captain Brewster and Smedley from said [illegible] day of April 1780, until the 9th day of July 1780 when he was dismissed [illegible] by said Captain Smedley.

III That from the 1st day of October 1781, he engaged or enlisted for the term of three months in a guard stationed at Danbury in said Fairfield County to protect the magazines of provisions and ammunition deposits there. He served the said term of two months under the command of Lieutenant Colfax of the Continental Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel B Webb. The said guard consisted of about fifty men, for a portion of the time and at times there were not more than thirty. He served the said last mentioned [illegible] Private soldier and was dismissed by Lieutenant Colfax on the 1st day of December 1781. The said Lemuel Taylor was born  on the 24th day of March 1765 at said Danbury and has always resided there. He has no record of his age, but it was always informed by his father and mother that he was born on said 24th of March. He was consequently quite young when he first entered the service , but
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he was accepted by the officers, and [illegible] as the substitute of said Gregory and he believes performed his duty as faithfully and efficiently as the major [illegible] of older men.
He has no other evidence of his service than that which is here unto annexed. On each [illegible] actions where he entered the service he resided in said Danbury

The said Lemuel Taylor 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. 
signed: Lemuel Taylor

in Open Court attest Edward Taylor Clerk

We, Lemuel B. Hull a clergyman, residing in the town of Danbury and William Patch residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Lemuel Taylor who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be sixty eight 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 and year aforesaid.
signed: Lemuel B. Hull 
Wm. Patch

in Open Court attest Edward Taylor Clerk

And the said Court do hereby desire their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Lemuel B. Hull who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Danbury and that William Patch who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Danbury and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Attest Edward Taylor Clerk

I, Edward Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lemuel Taylor for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my said Office, this 2nd day of August 1833.
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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I Reuben Booth Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Edward Taylor Esq. who hath certified the ongoing proceedings of said Court and the caption of the annexed deposition is Clerk of said Court & duly appointed and sworn and [illegible] [illegible] Clerk whom the same purport to have been signed and certified him that the said signatures purporting to be his are in the genuine hand writing of the said Edward Taylor.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 3rd day of August 1833
Reuben Booth Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury Connecticut.
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I Nimrod Benedict of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged seventy three years being duly sworn do depose and say that I am now and for more than sixty years last past, have been acquainted with Lemuel Taylor of said Danbury who hath applied for a pension. That during the whole time of the war of the Revolution the said Lemuel Taylor and myself resided in said Danbury and in the same neighborhood. that in the spring of the year 1779, Samuel Gregory then of said Danbury, now deceased, was drafted to serve six months as a Private soldier at Horseneck in the State of Connecticut. but being an apprentice to one Nathaniel Ketchum - a mechanic, the said Ketchum employed the said Lemuel Taylor as the substitute of said Gregory - and that, on the 1st of April 1779, the said Taylor left Danbury for the purpose of entering the said service and joining the troop there at Horseneck: I saw him leave Danbury equipped for the service in company with other drafted men. Afterwards and early in the month of July, about the 9th of said month in the same year 1779, I was drafted to serve one month at said Horseneck. I left house on said 9th day of July, and immediately joined the said Troops at Horseneck: I served the said term of one month in the Company of Militia commanded by Captain Ephraim Barrum. There was one Regiment of Connecticut Militia at said Horseneck under the command of Colonel Samuel Canfield. At the expiration of said term and some time in the month of August
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I was [illegible] and returned home. The whole garrison during my said term of service at said Horseneck consisted of Connecticut [illegible] and were all under the command of said Colonel Canfield. It was an embodied [illegible] call into service by competant authority and a military post or garrison wa maintained at said Horseneck during the whole war.
I further depose and say that the sail Lemuel Taylor was in the said service at [illegible] when I joined the said corps as aforesaid. He was a drummer and served as such during all the time I was in the said service in the militia company commanded by Captain George Turrell in the same regiment commanded by Colonel Canfield and when I was discharged and returned home. I left him in the service, his term not having expired. During the time I was in the said service I understood from the said Taylor and others that he had been in the said service from the 1st of April proceeding.
I further depose and say that in the year 1781 that the said Lemuel Taylor again entered the service of the [illegible] state and served two months at said Danbury in a guard there stationed to protect and guard the [illegible] stores, & ammunition and [illegible] there kept & deposited. In this latter of service he entered on or about the 1st of October and served until the 1st of December of said year. He served under the command of Lieutenant Colfox or Colfax who was an officer in the Continental Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel B
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Webb of the Connecticut Line
The said Lieutenant Colfax commanded the said Guard which consisted of about forty or fifty men, most of whom were Continental Troops. I was then in the employ of Noble Benedict of said Danbury, the said Lieutenant Colfax boarded during the time in his house and I have the said Lemuel Taylor almost every day during the said term. He was constantly engaged in military duty and attended to no civil employment.
Noble Benedict

State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County}
On this 1st day of August 1833, before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in the said County and State, now sitting at Danbury in the said District, personally appeared Nimrod Benedict well known to the born [illegible] a person of truth & a credible witness and subscribed the foregoing declaration and being duly sworn, made solemn oath to the truth of the same.
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk




1 Aug
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I Ira Taylor of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged sixty two years, being duly sworn , do depose and say that Lemuel Taylor of said Danbury is my mother. And that during the Revolutionary War, the said Lemuel Taylor served in small military [illegible] to [illegible] uncontained along the shores of Long Island found as [illegible] . [illegible] at Horseneck in the year 1779, I believe six months. And at Fairfield in said County of Fairfield three months. I did not see him in the service at either place, but we both lived at the time in fathers family [illegible] although I was quite young. I well recollect the following circumstances. One Samuel Gregory was drafted to go to said Horseneck on a tour of service for the term of six months. Gregory was an apprentice to one Nathaniel Ketchum and [illegible] employed [illegible] said brother to go instead of Gregory and a [illegible] he's [illegible]. He was equipped and left my fathers house in company wtih several others, who were also drafted or a like tour of several, for the purpose of joining the Garrison at said Horseneck in the spring of the year and according to my present recollection in the month of April. And  [illegible] [illegible] six months and returned in the fall of the same year. We frequently heard from him while in the service at Horseneck both verbally and by letters.
The following spring, to wit, in 1780, and about the 1st of April, the said Lemuel Taylor left home to enter the service in a guard then stationed at said Fairfield under the
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command of Captain Brewster. Whether he was drafted or volunteered I did not know at the time, or if I did have now forgotten. We frequently heard from him while in the service at Fairfield by letter and otherwise. He served in the last mentioned tour as a Private. on the first mentioned tour he served as a drummer.
Afterwards in the fall of the year 1781 he entered the service of the [illegible]  as a private [illegible] - and served t said Danbury 2 months. Large magazines of provisions and ammunitions for the American Army [illegible...} during the whole [illegible] the war, accd they were usually protected and guarded by a [illegible] body of troops stationed there. At the time his said brother entered the service in 1781 the said guard was commanded by Lieutenant Colfax a Continental officer. The said Lemuel Taylor entered the said service in October and was discharged in December.. He served constantly during the said term of two months in the said guard, and was engaged in no civil employment. I saw him in the said service every day.
I further depose and say that the said Lemuel Taylor returned home from the service at Fairfield some time in the month of July
Ira Taylor
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County} SS

On this 1st day of Aug 1833 before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in said County & State the same being a Court of Record and [illegible] [illegible] at Danbury in said District personally appeared Ira Taylor, well known to the Court as a person of truth and a credible witness who [illegible] the foregoing deposition and being duly sworn made solemn oath to the truth of the same.
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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No

Ada Taylor
widow of Lemuel Taylor
Ct.
Act 2nd Feb 1848

Married 1787
Husband died 26th Oct 1848

Adiu 6 mo's drumr
5 mo's Pri,
$38.66 per annum,
[illegible] 26 Oct 1848



Wm T Taylor,
Danbury, Ct.
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State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield} SS

Danbury April 30th 1849

Be it know that on this day and year aforesaid personally appeared before the Court of Probate within and for the District of Danbury in said county and state the same being a Court of Record Ada Taylor of said Danbury in said District County and state aged eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the Acts of Congress passed February 2nd 1848.
That she is the widow of Lemuel Taylor late of said Danbury deceased who was a Private and musician in the army of the Revolution and served during the Revolutionary War as a private soldier and musician in the Continental line under the command of the officers specified and named in the original declaration of the said Samuel Taylor now on file in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions in the War Department and for the several terms and periods of time mentioned in the said declaration and in asmuch as she has no personal knowledge of the various particulars relative to his said service - of the several times when his terms of service commenced and ended on the names of the officers under whom he served of the country through which he marched on of the battles in which he was engaged she refers to said original decla-
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-nation for a more particular description thereof. That said Lemuel Taylor was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States from the eighteenth day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty one to the time of his death at the rate of thirty eight dollars and sixty six cents per annum.  Said Taylor receiving back pay from the 4th day of March 1881 - which said pension was granted to him for the services aforesaid - and she refers for proof of such facts to the evidence accompanying his said original declaration also on file in the office of said Commissioner of Pensions. She further declares that she was married to the said Lemuel Taylor previous to the 1st day of January eighteen hundred to wed on the sixth day of March seventeen hundred & eighty seven for proof of which said marriage she refers to his accompanying affidavit of Waters F Olmstead of said Danbury who is the town Clerk of said Town of Danbury. She further declares that the said Lemuel Taylor died on the twenty sixth day of October 1848 at said Danbury and for proof of this said death she refers to the accompanying certificate of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury within said county of Fairfield and state of Connecticut. She further declares that she has never intermarried since the death of said Lemuel Taylor but still continues to be the widow of the said Lemuel Taylor
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as will more fully appear by reference to the proof
Ada (her x mark) Taylor
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury}
David B Booth Clerk

State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield} SS
Danbury Apl 30th 1849

Clerks Office. at said Danbury - 
"Lemuel Taylor was married to Ada Cornwall of Middletown March  sixth seventeen hundred and eighty seven" I hereby certify that the above is true copy of the town record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "Lemuel Taylor was married to Ada Cornwall of Middletown March 6yth 1787"  Attest Waters T Olmstead Town Clerk of town of Danbury}
I Waters F Olmstead Town Clerk of the Town of Danbury above named depose and say that I hold the office of town Clerk in the County town and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from Records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me.
Waters F Olmstead - Town Clerk

Sworn before me the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury on the 6th day of pl 1849 at said Danbury
Dvid B Booth Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury
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State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield} ss
Danbury Apl 30th 1849 
I David B Booth Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Danbury in said county and state the same being a Court of Record and holden at said Danbury on the day and year above named in and for said District of Danbury do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Lemuel Taylor late of said Danbury in said District was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of thirty eight dollars and sixty six cents per annum: was a resident of said Danbury in said county and state, and died in said Danbury in the year eighteen hundred & forty eight on the twenty sixth day of November & that he left a widow whose name is Ada Taylor the above named signer of the foregoing declaration.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at said Danbury in said District this 30th day of April 1849.
David B Booth Clerk

I Nelson L. White of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Danbury in said Court and State do hereby certify that David
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B Booth who hath signed and certified the foregoing affidavit is clerk of said Court of Probate lawfully appointed and sworn and that the signature above written purporting to be his is the genuine hand writing of the said David B Booth and the seal affixed to said certificate is the seal of said Court. 
Given under my hand at Danbury this 7th day of May 1849.
Nilson L White Judge of Probate
for the District of Danbury
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O. W. & N. Division
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D.C.,

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of __Lemuel Taylor__, a soldier of the Revolutionary was, your will please find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in the Bureau.
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DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT: Apr 1779
LENGTH OF SERVICE: 6 mos
RANK: Drum.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED: CAPTAIN Geo. Tirrell Colonel Sam. Canfield 
STATE: Conn.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT: Apr 1780
LENGTH OF SERVICE: 3 mos
RANK: Gd.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED: CAPTAIN Brewster Colonel not stated
STATE: Conn.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT: Oct 1781
LENGTH OF SERVICE: 2 mos
RANK: Gd.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED: CAPTAIN Lt. Colfax Colonel Sam G Webb Regt
STATE: Conn.

Battles engaged in,__was present at the burning of Fairfield.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, __Danbury, Conn.__
Date of application for pension, __Aug. 2, 1833__
Residence at date of application __Danbury, Conn.__
Age at date of application__Born at Danbury, Conn Mrch 24.1765__
Remarks: He married Ada Cornwall of Middletown, Conn on Mrch 6, 1787 & died Oct. 26. 1848 at Danbury Conn.

Very respectfuly,
Mr. T Andrews
Noroton Heights
Box 22 Fairfield Co. Conn
Commissioner

18603 b-3 m
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Hon. T. B. Osborne
H R
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State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County} SS
on this 2nd day of December 1841 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in and for said County and State, Lemuel Taylor of said Danbury aged 75 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration supplemental to a former declaration by him here to fore made, and now on file in the Pension Office at Washington in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That the statement in his former declaration of his being in the service of the United States on a six months term at Horse Neck in the Regiment Commanded by Col Canfield as performed in the year 1779 is a mistake so far as it regards the year. The service set forth in his said former declaration was performed, as then set forth in the year 1780, and ought to have been so stated in his said former declaration, and how the mistake occurred the Declarant is unable to say, whether it was his own mistake, or the mistake of the person who made out his said former declaration he does not know. When his said former declaration was made out the Declarant had and now has a distinct recollection that said term of service was performed the summer after the Town of Fairfield in this State was burned which too place in the year 1779 in every
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other respect the statement in his said former declaration are correct, and he prays that this may be received in correction of his said former Declaration, to which and the accompanying evidence I hereby respectfully refer your honor
Lemuel Taylor

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Gilead G Taylor Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
Gilead G Taylor Clerk
State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County} SS
I Gilead G Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury within and for said County and State do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the supplemental application of Lemuel Taylor for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
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I Edward Taylor of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut Judge of Probate within and for the District of Danbury in said county and state do hereby certify to all whom it may concern that Gilead G Taylor who hath signed the foregoing and accompanying certificates is a Clerk of the said Court of Probate and was Clerk at the date thereof duly appointed and sworn,. That the signatures subscribed to said certificator and purporting to be his is in the proper hand writing of the said Gilead G Taylor and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such Clerk and that the seal [illegible] upon the said certificate is the seal of said Court of Probate. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Danbury aforesaid the 2nd day of December 1841

Edward Taylor Judge
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I Alexander McLean of Danbury Fairfield County and State of Connecticut aged 72 years being duly sworn doth depose and say that I am well acquainted with Lemuel Taylor of this town. That in the year 1780 said Lemuel Taylor was in the service of the United States on a six month term at Horse Neck, or on the lines between this state and the State of New York, he went into the service the fore part of April 1780 and returned in the fall of the same year. I think, and am quite sure that he was gone six months or more. He went as a substitute for Samuel Gregory. I lived at that time a near neighbor to him, and well recollect of seeing him when he went away with the troops, and also of seeing him immediately on his return. I do not recollect the names of any of the officers of his company, but I think he belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col Canfield. and further saith not
Alexander McLean

State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County}

I Gilead G Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury within & for said County and State do hereby certify that Alexander McLean the above named deponent on the 24th day of May 1841 personally appeared before said Court of Probate and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed and that the said deponent is well know to said Court as a man of good character and a credible witness. 
Giliad G Taylor Clerk
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I Eliakim Hamilton of Danbury Fairfield County and State of Connecticut aged 75 years being duly sworn doth depose and say that I am well acquainted with Lemuel Taylor of this town, and was well acquainted with him in early life. That in the year 1780 the said Lemuel Taylor went into the service of the United States for term of six months, he was stationed at Horse Neck in this state. He went into the service, about the 1st of April in said year, and returned in the fall of the same year. I think he was in the Regiment commanded by Col Canfield. I am confident he was in the service as above stated, as I was then a near neighbor to him, and I will recollect that he did not return until on or about the 1st of November of the same year. I am not positive whether he went as a substitute or not, but I think he went as a substitute for Samuel Gregory who was drafted into the service for that town, and further saith not

Eliakim Hamilton

State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County}

I Gilead G Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury within & for said County and state do hereby certify
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that Eliakim Hamilton the above named deponent on the 27th day of October 1841 personally appeared before said Court of Probate, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above depostion by him subscribed, and that the said deponent is well know to said Court as a man of good character and a credible witness

Gilead G Taylor Clerk
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Noroton, Conn. Apr. 6th. 1894

Hon Wm Lochren,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.,

Dear sir:

Please accept my thanks for so promptly complying with my request for information concerning Lemuel Taylor a soldier of the Revolution. I had not expected to receive a reply for two or three weeks yet, and I am highly pleased to receive it so soon.
Respectfuly yours,
Wm. F. Andrews
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File in case


date stamp: OLD WAR & NAVY APR 11 1894

date stamp: U S PENSION OFFICE Apr 9 1894
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House of Representatives
December 10, 1841

Sir - I enclose herewith the supplement at Declaration and evidence in the case of Mr. Lemuel Taylor who applied several years ago for a Pension. The former papers are on your fiels & with the additional ones now furnished will I trust, make out the claim of Mr. Taylor to a pension. I am well acquainted with Judge Taylor before whom the Declaration were sworn & with his family & do not believe that there is any relationship between him & the applicant. I am assured from a highly respectable source that there is not the slightest. Please communicate the decision to me at your earliest convenience.
with much respect
your Obdt Servt
Theo. B Osborne

Samuel L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
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Lemuel Taylor
Born in Danbury Con March 24 1765 where he lived up to Augt 1832 when he applied for pension. He died Oct 26. 1848 at Danbury. Mar'd March 6 1787 to Ada Cornwall of Middletown (at Danbury) widow applied April 1849 aged 80 years & died April 23 1853

He served from April 1780 as substitute for Sam Gregory at Horse Neck. His marker Nathl Ketchum & [illegible] aged Taylor as substitute. He served with Capt George T Horak & [illegible] Col. Sam Canfield. When the [illegible] landed to burn Fairfield 1779 [illegible] order from Horse Neck to that place & war in the fight there (July 8 1779)
April 1781 he vol'd 3 mos in April 1780 [illegible]
to be stationed in Fairfield at [illegible] gerard at Kinsley Point under Capt Brewster  & Smedley & Col Dimon
From Oct 1781 he served 2 mos at Danbury at guard to magazine stores of provisions under St Colfax & Col S B Webb.
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 11.604
Ada Taylor
Wid.
Lemuel Taylor
Drummer & Pri.
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Act: Feb 2nd 1848

Index: - Vol. [illegible], Page 263

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Apr 3/94 [illegible] Hist. Ct Wm. T. Andrews
Noroton Heights, Fairfield Co Conn Box 22

Danbury Con
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ESTABLISHED 1830
INCORPORATED 1869

Samford Foundry Co.
Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces.

J. D. Warren, President
Stamford, Conn., Mar. 24 1894

The Honorable Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.,

Dear sir:
Will you please give me a copy of such information as you have on file in your department concerning Lemuel Taylor, of Danbury, Fairfield Co., Conn., a pensioner of the Revolution? I shall highly appreciate the favor.

Very respectfully yours,
Wm. T. Andrews,
Box 22
Noroton Heights
Fairfield Co. Conn
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date stamp: 
U S PENSION OFFICE MAR 24 1894
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Danbury May 7th 1849
Honl J. E Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Dr Sir
Enclosed I send you the application of Ada Taylor of this town for a Pension agreeably to the laws of the United States. accompanying the declaration will be found all the evidence requisite to substantiate the application. Your earliest attention is requested. 
Respectfully Yours 
William F Taylor

P. S. Will you be so good as to send as soon as practicable a land warrant for William May hero of this town. Whose discharge was sent to your office some time in Jany or Feby last.
W F Taylor
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Connecticut
Lemuel Taylor
[illegible]

Letter R Bootle
23 Left 1833

Let to Hon ? ? Cahill [illegible] of Ct
June 17 1836

let Hon G Tomlinson
14 February 1834
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lemuel Taylor
Conn.
Act June 7 1832
Alloco 6 mo Drummer aso
5 mp [illegible] Inf
Capt Turrell Col Canfield
Conn Militia $38.66
per ann.


Hon. Thos. B. Osborne
HR
Page 40

Lemuel Taylor Born '65 March
1 Apl 70 6mo. Horse Neck
Capt Turrell Col Canfield
a drummer

1 Apl 80 3. mo Smedley
1 Oct 81 2 mo. Colfax

Now says the [illegible] [illegible] was in 1780
[illegile Taylor wife only 9 year [illegible]