Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10428, for Samuel Taylor, Virginia
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Service  Va.		Taylor, Samuel		Number R  10428
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Virg a/n  35186
Samuel Taylor
Act of 7 June 1832.
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At a court held for Buckingham County at the courthouse on Monday the 8th day of March 1841.
State of Virginia, Buckingham County, towit:  On this 8 day of March 1841 personally appeared in open court before the county court of Buckingham aforesaid now sitting Samuel Taylor a resident of said county of Buckingham & State aforesaid aged upwards of 80 years who being first duly sworn according to law, and doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed  June of 1832: That he entered the service of the United States as a private soldier under the following officer, towit:  Capt. John Chambers the said Chamber having taken the place of Capt Cannon, he has now no recollection of the field officers many of them in Command, when he entered the service and he served as herein stated.  He has now no recollection of the day month or year on which he entered the service at first. That he served two tours of duty.  He served out his first tour and was discharged from the service when he delivered up his gun and bayonet which time will be seen by reference to his receipt therefor hereto attached and bears safe the 1hday of March 1781. He was in the battle of Guilford and there fought under the command of Generals Lawson & Green.  He was under the command of General Lawson before he reached Guilford and which place General Lawson joined General Green.  He does not remember the names of any of the places through which he passed.   He has now no recollection of the Continental regiments or companys with which he served.  That he was drafted as well as he now remembers when he first went into the service.  That upon his return home from his first tour he was in the same year in which he returned home called into service again.  He does not remember the time of year he entered the service the second time nor does he remember whether he was drafted or volunteered to serve second tour.  He entered the service the second time under Capt Robert Cary, and passed through Williamsburg Virginia, and was confined by sickness in the county of King William Virginia for some time during his second tour.  He was again under the command of the same General Lawson.  He also remembered a General Stephens who was an officer commanding when he was in service. He also said that his memory is now very imperfect by reason of age. He was born and raised in the county of Buckingham aforesaid and state of Virginia.  He was a resident of said county of Buckingham when he was drafted as forementioned returned to said county when first discharged as
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aforesaid was a resident of same [illegible] the time he entered the service the second time and when again discharged he returned to said county and has continued to live therein from that time to this.  His second discharge he received from his said Capt Robert Cary and is herto appended and bears the date the 18 day of September ’81-   He has no other documents in relation to his service except here appended. He is from loss of memory by reason of old age unable to state how long he served as a soldier while in the revolution but to the best of his recollection he believes he served eight months and fifteen days-He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity or cash the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.   Sworn to and subscribed the day and year [illegible] aforesaid.     Samuel X his mark Taylor Senr-

We John Ayres a Clergyman residing in the County of Buckingham aforesaid and State of Virginia and Thomas Cobbs residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Samuel Taylor who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration_ That we believe him to be Eighty years of age and upwards, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we can concur in that opinion__ Sworn and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
                                               John Ayres Rev.
                                               Thomas Cobb
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 solder and served as he states.   And the court further certifies that it appears to them that John Ayres who has signed the preceding certificate as clergyman resident of the said county o Buckingham and State of Virginia and that Thomas Cobb who has also signed the same is a resident in said county and state & is a credible person and that their statements is entitled to credit__
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Is entitled to credit.  I Rolfe Eldridge clerk of said County Court of Buckingham County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in matter of the application of Samuel Taylor for a pension.

The following are the interrogatories propounded by the court to said Samuel Taylor the above applicant and his answers to wit:  Where and in what year were you born? Answer I was born in the county of Buckingham and state of Virginia, but I do not know the year_
Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Ans.  I have no record of my age, the same has been lost as I understand and believe____
Where were you living when called in the service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?  Answer: I was living in the County of Buckingham Virginia when called into service, have lived there and since and lives there since_  How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom? 
Ans   I believe when I was first called into service I was drafted and have no recollection whether I was drafted or volunteered the second time I was in service, I was no substi-tute_  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 service?  Ans:  I can make no other answer to this than by referring to my declaration aforesaid for I have there=in stated. all that I can remember.
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom given and what has become of it?
Ans:  all the papers that I ever received as far as I now remember are hereto answered, Certainly they are all I now have
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and they stand for themselves.
State the names of the persons to whom you are know in your neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution?
Answer: In answer to this question I would refer to all my neighborhood and all who know particularly to John Ayres and Thomas Cobb, Capt. William Moseby, Dr. James Austin and John Ralleson.                                             Samuel his X mark Taylor Senr

I Rolfe Eldridge clerk of the said county court aforesaid to hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Samuel Taylor for a pension.   In testimony whereof I have here [illegible] set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 8th day of March in the year eighteen hundred and forty one
                                                                    Rolfe Eldridge clerk of Buckingham County Court
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Recd of Sam Taylor, soldier one gun and bayonet  he being   in his  [illegible] from [illegible] [illegible]  Camp 16 Mach 1781
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Pvt Taylor a soldier in the militia from the county of Buchham [sic] hath served his tour and is here by   [illegible]  given from  [illegible] and this 18th day of Sept 81 Robt Cary Capt
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March 15th 1841
To The Secretary of War
Sir:   You will receive herewith under - cover the application of Samuel Taylor of Buckingham [torn page] for a pension under the act of Congress of 1832.  I ha [torn page] as clerk of Buckingham County court do seal safe the declaration of the applicant as made in open court in order that the [illegible] may be [illegible] that it will secure the same [illegible] as made in court.  I [illegible] the answers to which the applicant may be entitled [illegible] commences from the 4th March 1831.  I know nothing of the practices of the department in reference to the subject of interest which right to] accrue upon the principle.  If the applicant be entitled to a pension or an annual allowance it would seem that the interest which may have accrued after the yearly allowance should alas be paid   I am aware that governments rarely ever pay in trust but there is no reason for the rule I as not [illegible] however that the [torn page] of the department ever be [illegible] from the case h [torn page]   that practice may be-If there be error on the proceedings [torn page] acceleration and the original papers amended there is shall not be satisfactory- Please inform me of it-we can know [illegible] writing of Capt Carey which I learned after the declaration was prepared in  court- when the pension shall be allowed forward to me the certificate of the [illegible] evidence of said  allowances. Be so good as to communicate with me after the subject in aforesaid to all matters touching the pend cases. 
P.S. an early answer is [illegible].   JF                   Respectfully   Joseph Faqua
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Samuel Taylor,
VA
Act of June 1832
Joseph Faqua 22 Mar 1841
10H28
1832
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Let is Jos. Fuqua   March 22, 1841
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10.428
P.0.  Samuel Taylor
Service:_________________
Rejected 
Enlisted: ______________________;
Discharged:___________________;
Application filed:______________;
Alleges: _______________________;
Re-Enlisted:___________________;
Attorney: _____________________;
P.O. __________________________
_____Recognized.  ________Contra
___Cert. of Dis.  Searched  for_____, 18
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Revolutionary Pension Claim
Act of June 7, 1832
Samuel Taylor
(Va.)
POWER OF ATTORNEY to Examine Claims
CHARLES C. TUCKER   Attorney, Present
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Power of Attorney 
Know all men by these presents:  that I  Edmund   once the heir and son of Samuel Taylor dec-who was a revolutionary pensioner   do hereby constitute and appoint Chas. C. Tucker, of Washington City, D.C. my true and lawful agent and attorney to prosecute the claim of Samuel Taylor for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase in Pension that may be due under the provision of the Act of   [blank] or any other Act or Resolution of Congress, and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers and documents in relation to said Claim on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purpose herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do, were I personally present.   Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do in the premises.  
Witness my hand and seal this 6th day of March 1854. In presence of D L W [illegible] ss. Edmund Taylor {Seal}
State of Virginia Cumberland County –ss
On this 6th day of March 1854, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above mentioned personally appeared Edmund Taylor and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned.   William D Lalley [illegible]