Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 11597, for Richard Taliaferro, Virginia
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Va

Taliaferro, Richard   W11597.
Taliafferro
Mildred
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[left page, badly damaged]
[...] to Pensian [Pension?]
12 June 1843

Agent of F Bostick
this let. in John Magnum, S 16939

[right page, slightly damaged]
[...] ania - (Mobile) 2,239.
Mildred Taliafferro, ctf 2239
widow of Richard Taliaferro, decd
who died on the 15th of April 1806
of Pickins Co. in the State of Alabama, who was a Captain in the      commanded by Captain   Va   of the      commanded by [blank] in the Virginia line for 2 years, Captain of Inty
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Know all men by these presents, that we Richard Taliaferro and William Powell are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Virginia in the sum of Fifty pounds Virginia currency, to which payment well and truly to be made to the said Commonwealth we bind ourselves and each of us, our and each of our heirs. Exors and Admrs jointly and severally firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated this 18th day of July 1780. 

The Condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a marriage shortly intended to be solemnized between the above bound Richard Taliaferro Batchelor and Mildred Powell Spinster. If there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said Marriage, then the above obligation to be void or else to remain in full force. 

[at right side]
Richd Taliaferro (seal)
Wm Powell (seal)

A copy 
Teste
Robert Tensley

[at left]
Seals & deed
in presence of Wm Loving
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State of Virginia Amherst County Court:
I Robert Hensley Clerk of the Court of Amherst County in the State of Virginia aforesaid do certify that the within is a true copy of a Marriage bond the original of which remains filed in my office.

[there is a seal affixed]

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand a Seal of office this twenty first day of September 1837 in the 62nd year of the Commonwealth. 
Robert Tinsley. 

Copy of Marriage Bond
Richd Taliaferro
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V2917 Ala. Pickins Co.
Declaration of Mrs Mildred Taliafero
Act July 4 1836
Married July 1780
died Capt of Infty 1806
Adm $480 per ann
no deductions
3 [illegible]
2 years. Capt.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July 1836. 
State of Alabama
& County of Pickens  

On the 31st day of October 1837 personally appeared before the Court of the County aforesaid in the State aforesaid, it being a Court of record. Mildred Taliaferro is a resident of the said County aged 74 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 provision made by  the Act of Congress passed the 4th of July 1836. That she is the Widow of Richard Taliaferro who was a Captain in the Virginia Continental line during the War of the Revolution who at that period resided in the County of Amherst State of Virginia that the first time she recollects to have seen her late Husband was in the months of January or February in the year of 1777 or 1778 that at the time he was a recruiting regular officer, a Captain of Infantry in a Virginia Regiment Continental establishment that the said Capt Taliaferro was stationed at Amherst Court House near the residence of declarants Father that part of his time was taken up in the Army and conveying his recruits to his Regiment, which was his constant employment for near two years before she intermarried with said Taliaferro that after her intermarriage with said Taliaferro he continued his connexion with the Army and attended to all the orders of his Commander and was from home a greater portion of his time and with the Army, at the scene of action. That she recollects to have heard and does believe that her said Husband was at the Battle of Bottoms or Long Bridge and she also understood and believes that he was at the siege of Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis. That she well recollects his great success in the recruiting service and his ardor and zeal therein and that at one period after her marriage with him his health became too bad to travel on foot when he would travel on horseback to recruit men. That she does verily believe that he was connected with the Army as aforesaid until the close of the War // that for the services of her said Husband his children and heirs at law, he having died intestate on the 15th day of April 1806 have as she is informed and believes received from the Commonwealth of Virginia a Military bounty land warrant for four thousand acres of Land or a service of three years.
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and that herself as Administratrix of her said Husband at the last regular Session of Congress and several preceding Sessions have petitioned or the commutation of five years full pay with Interest in lieu of Half pay for life to which she is advised his services aforesaid entitled his personal representatives to which petition or rather the evidences exhibited with it she now refers to sustain her claim under the Act of the 4th of July 1836. She further declares that she was lawfully married to the said Captain Richard Taliaferro in the County of Amherst and State of Virginia on the 19th day of July 1780, that her Husband the said Richard Taliaferro died in the State of South Carolina on the 15th day of April 1806 and that she hath remained his widow and unmarried ever since all which will appear by reference to the proofs hereto annexed and referred to. 

Sworn and subscribed the day and year [signature] Mildred Taliaferro
before written in open court. 

And the said Court doth order that it be certified to the Pension Department in the City of Washington that it satisfactorily appears to the court that Mildred Taliaferro who hath made the foregoing Declaration is a credible person. 

[signature]
Sam B Moore [?]
Judge of said court

I Francis M Bostick Clerk of the Court of the County of Pickins and State of Alabama do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original Declaration of Mildred Taliaferro which was as it purposes subscribed and sworn to in open Court together with the certificate o the Court by its direction thereto appended. 

In testimony of all which I have hereunto signed my named caused the Seal of my Office to be hereunto annexed this 31st day of October 1837.
Francis M Bostick Clerk

Know all men by these presents that I Mildred Taliaferro of the County of Pickins and State of Alabama a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the Act of the 4th of July 1836 do hereby nominate constitute and appoint John Thompson Jr of Amherst Courthouse Virginia my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive
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from the agent of the United States for paying pensions in Washington City my pension under and by virtue of the Act aforesaid from the 4th day of March 1831 to the 4th day of September 1837. Witness my hand and Seal this 31st day of October 1837. 
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
[signature] Mildred Taliaferro (seal)

State of Alabama
Perkins County 
Be it known that on the 31st day of October 1837 before the subscriber a Justice of the peace and for said County personally appeared Mildred Taliaferro and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be her act and deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last mentioned. 
James B Sherrod J.B.S.

I Francis M Bostick Clerk of the Court of the County of Pickens State of Alabama do certify that James B Sherrod is a Magistrate and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the Seal of the said Court this 31st day of October 1837.
Francis M Bostick Clerk
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Revolutionary War Records Section
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington D. C. 

[handwritten]
W. F. 11.597

In reply to your request of ____ received ____ for a statement of the military history of Richard Taliaferro a 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. 

[Form, headers of columns]
Dates of enlistment or appointment | Length of service | Rank | Officers under whom service was rendered | Captain | Colonel | State

[handwritten entries below column headers]
Jan or Feb 1777 or 1778 | 2 yrs | Capt |   | 
F Taylor | Va
[next line]
detached [illegible] recruiting service

Battles engaged in [handwritten] Long Bridge, Siege of Yorktown
Residence of soldier at enlistment [handwritten] Amherst Co Va
Date of application for pension [handwritten] Oct 31 1837  her cl was at
Residence at date of application [handwritten] Pickens Co Ala
Age at date of application [handwritten] She was 74 years old
Remarks: [handwritten]  He mar. July 19 1780 in Amherst Co Va Mildred Powell, spinster. They moved to South Carolina in 1783 where he died Apr 15 1806. A "numerous family" is referred to but no names are stated. 

Respectfully, 
Commissioner
d-285G
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Amherst County to Wit
This day personally appears before me a Justice of the peace in the county aforesaid William Lavender, who made oath in due form of law, that he is a soldier of the war of the Revolution, and that for his services he is now in the semi annual receipt of pension from the General Government of Ninety Six dollars per annum __ and that during the said war he became acquainted whilst serving in the army with a certain Richard Taliaferro who was a Captain of a regular company of soldiers, that he recruited in the County of Amherst, and marched northward, that he does not know what regiment he belonged to, nor does he know whether that Regiment was of state or Continental Troops, that he does not know when he joined the army nor how and when he quit it, but he well recollects that he saw him in the Northern Army in the year 1777 and that he again saw him in James Town first before the siege and surrender of York Town, and on both occasions he was in the command as Captain of a company and that his belief is that he served the greater part of the war. That some years after the peace the said Richard Taliaferro removed to one of the southern states where he is informed he died. 

Given under my hand this 11th day of June 1833
Henry L Davies

It appears to me that William Lavender who has made he foregoing affidavit is a credible person, and that his testimony is entitled to credit. Given under my hand this 18th June 1833 & that in the affidavit above there is one erasure and an interlineation of the word "Well recollects that he". 
Henry L Davies

Amherst County Court [or, "to wit"]
This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace for the county afore Benjamin Taliaferro Esq and made oath in due form of law, that at a very early period of the Revolutionary War he recollects that his brother Richard Taliaferro was an officer and employed tin Revolutionary War or the regular army, and he believes for the state service.  That his  impression is that his rank when he joined the service was that of a subaltern commissioned officer and that about the close of the war he was styled Capt. That he does not recollect that he the said Richard ever bore any command in the militia of the county of Amherst where he was raised. That he does not know when the said Richard first joined or when his commission [connexion?] with the army was ended but he does recollect that about the close of the war he the said Richard had a severe and protracted spell of [illegible] & fever. That it was as he believes in the year 1783 that the said Richard Taliaferro and his wife Mildred removed to the state of South Carolina where they lived until the death of Richard which took place many years ago, his union and many children survive him. Given under my hand this 15 June 1833. 
Nelson Crauford [or, "Crawford"]

Amherst County Court
I Nelson Crawford a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that is appeared to me that Benjamin Taliaferro who hath made the foregoing affidavit is a credible person and that his testimony is entitled to full [illegible]. Given under my hand this day & date aforesaid. 
Nelson Crawford
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Amherst County Court
This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid Nelson Crawford Esq and made oath in the form of law, that early in the war of Revolution (and his impressions are) in the years 1776 or 1777 Richard Taliaferro of the county of Amherst, was an officer in the regular service and he inclines to think of the [illegible - "verslate" or "Va state"? ] line that the said Taliaferro whilst he knew him in that Character was was employed in the recruiting service, and his success was said to be great, so much so it was understood, that when he would carry on a party of recruits to the Ports where ordered, he would be detached again and returned to the same service. That he cannot pretend from the great lapse of time, to speak positively of his grade, whether it was that of a subaltern commissioned officer or that of a Captain, but that the impression in his mind is that is was the latter grade. That he cannot speak with precision when the services of the said Richard began or when they ended or how long continued, but he well recollects to have heard that the said Taliaferro on one occasion, desired to be permitted to accompany his recruits in to actual service, which for the reasons aforesaid it was said was denied him. That the said Richard Taliaferro with his wife Mildred removed from the county of Amherst about the year 1753 to the state of South Carolina where they became parents to a numerous family, when the said Richard some years ago departed this life, leaving the said Mildred and several sons and daughters. Given under my hand this 15 June 1833
Benj Taliaferro

Amherst County court
I Benjamin Taliaferro a Justice of the peace for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Nelson Crawford Esq who hath made the foregoing affadavit is a credible person and that his testimony is entitled to full credit. Given under my hand this day and date aforesaid. 
Benj Taliaferro
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A pay Roll of Capt Richard Taliaferros company of [illegible] in the Regiment of guards at Albemarle Barracks whereof F Taylor Esq is commander for the months of April May --79. 

[What follows is a handwritten table with 10 columns; columns 5 and 6 are connected by a header, and columns 8, 9 10 are connected by a header; there is a final 11th column with a few notes]

[Column headers:]
No | Names | Rank | Command [?] of Pay | Terms of Service [broken into two columns:] Mos | days | Pay [3 words illegible] in Dollars | Amt of pay in Va currency [broken into three columns:] £ | S | D

| | | 1779

| John H Woodroof | Lieut | -- | 2 | 11 | 36 2/3 | 22 | 0 | 0 |

1 | Henry Campbell | Corpl | 19 April | 1 | 11 | 7 1/3 | 3 | - | - |

2 | Hardin Woodroof | do | -- | 2| -- |  7 1/3 | 4 | 8 | -- |

3 | Daniel Kelley | P | -- | 2 | -- |  6 2/3 | 4 | -- | -- |

4 | John B Mane | do | -- | 2 | -- | 6 2/3 | 4 | -- | -- |

5 | John Everett | do | -- | 2 | -- | 6 2/3 | 4 | -- | -- | 

6 | Jesse Tucker | do | -- | 2 | -- | 6 2/3 | 4 | --  | -- |

7 | Robert Brown | do | -- | 2 | 15 | 6 2/3 | 5 | -- | -- |

8 | Rich Corethers | do | -- | 2 | -- | 6 2/3 | 4 | -- | -- |

9 | Robert Corethers | do | -- | 2 |  -- | 6 1/2 | 4 | -- | -- |

10 | Charles Hutchens | do | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |  Not found [or, "Not joined" or illegible]

11 | [scratched out] [illegible in last column - possibly something like Derated]

12 | Jno W Kinney | do  | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Enlisted in the Service 

13 | Bordee [or, Bordel?] Hollas | do  | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | do

[Totals under columns 8 & 9] £58 | 8

[At bottom of page under table:]
I do swear that the within is a just and true pay Roll [illegible 2 words - "without"? 
written"? "hand"?] to the United States or any individual, to the best of my knowledge. 
John H Woodroof

Sworn to before me this 7 June 1779
F Taylor Col R.G.

Nelson County Court
This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for the aforesaid Nicholas L Martin and made oath in due form of law, that the within is a true copy of an original paper now in his possession as the son and Executor of the late Hudson Martin did of the said county, that said paper is one of many documents, [illegible] the documents of his said father as the Paymaster of the Regiment of Barrack Guard stationed at Albemarle Barracks during the war of the Revolution, which port he said further held as the said documents amply have, and as he has often heard his father whilst living apart.
Given under my hand this 28 day of November 1833
Tho [or, "Ro"] Reves
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[Illegible]
Richmond Va Dec 11 1837

The foregoing are true copies of part of the papers on file in this department, upon some [illegible - "?Barnly"?] was former [?] [illegible] of Richard Taliaferro a captain in the Va Continental Line. 

Wm H Richardson  Cmdr [?]
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[envelope]

[stamp in circle, upper left:]
Amherst C.H. Va
May [year illegible]
[Separate stamp]
Free
[Written underneath circular stamp]
Mildred Taliferro
Va

[addressee]
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City

[upside down at bottom right]
Mildred Talleaferro
[crossed out: "Va"] Ala
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Amherst Court House 18 May 1838
Dear Sir
Your letter to Major James Garland the Representative from our district on the subject of the claim for a Pension submitted by me on behalf of Mrs Mildred Taliaferro of Alabama. In your letters to me as well as the one to Major Garland you still incline to the opinion that the services of her husband was in the militia & not in the regular service. ___ Permit me to remind you or rather again to refer you to the testimony of Lavender, of Nelson Crawford & of Benj Taliaferro all of whom are positive as to the service being either of the [illegible] or State line ___ It seems to me that you are clearly mistaken in supposing that the Regt of Barrack Guard were not of the regular service ___ It is time that it was [illegible] by enlistment / as to the men) for one year the & to do service no where else than at the Barracks but they were not less of the [illegible - "call"?] line  ___ I refer you to the 3rd Volume of the Journal of Congress pages 92 & 93 deciding the removal of Burgoyne's Pension to Charlottesville & the Gov of Virginia in the main line to punish the militia guard ___ But this was found onerous to the state and on the 9 July 1779 See same volume page 179 Congress by its resolution ordered the raising up of a Battalion of 600 [?] men by the Gov & Council of the by enlistment or one year to be offered by the appointment of officers from the Va line [here begins 3 lines of underscored text] "who have been left out of the late [?] arrangement o the Continental Army, as far as their numbers will reach" and that so soon as the said Regt shall have been completed as to be able to do the duty of the Port the militia has in the service there to be discharged. [Here ends 3 lines of underscored text]

Same volume page 410 to wit in Dec 1779 a Revolution is found approving the organization of the corps ___ In the published correspondence of Mr Jefferson Volume 1 page 170 his letter dated the 28 Nov 1779 addressed to Gen Washington he capably claims this Rep of Col Taylor [illegible] as a portion of our Albemarle quota. 

Now the muster roll [illegible] that Richard Taliaferro commanded a company in that Regt the [illegible] him the proof enlisted them up by his success in that service this corps of the army, which dep was not Richard [illegible] the summer of 1781 under which Lavender proves that he was in command at James town just before the siege of Yorktown ___ I say nothing of the [illegible] of Mrs Taliaferro herself given the application of [illegible] at law for land bounty, yet I deem it competent testimony now because at that time the pension law was not in force nor any pension [illegible] for her so that no [illegible] of interest could operate ___ Be pleased sir to review the evidence & the references now given you [illegible] the result ___ I should have given you these references earlier but supposed that you would examine the full record in Senate accompanying the Militia for commutation pay which refers to all these matters & to another but that other officers whose services were mainly in that corps [illegible] and bounty land [illegible] then the [illegible] Government & John Thomas commutation pay & Hardin Woodroof who is stated to have been a corporal of Taliaferro was rewarded by being placed on the pension role under the act of 1825 but if you will examine that record you will see more certain references on that subject. Respectfully yr Ob Servt
[signaturel John Thompson Jr

[Note at lower left]
The muster Role of Taliaferro company is dated after the date of the Revolution [illegible] authority the corps. [?] J.T.
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Amherst County to wit

This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and or the county aforesaid William Cashwell who declares himself in the seventy seventh year of his age and  made oath in the form of law, that he was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and that he is now a pensioner under the act of Congress of the 7 June 1832. That [illegible due to a smudge on page] he said was he was well acquainted with Capt Richard Taliaferro of the County of Amherst, who was a recruiting officer in the regular service, that the said Richard Taliaferro recruited men in the County of Amherst, and at different times marched his recruits to the army some times northwardly and at another to Carolina and he has a perfect recollection that at the period of the Battle of Guelford [Guilford?] the said Richard Taliaferro was engaged in the recruiting service and to the best of his recollection the said Taliaferro was so engaged for three or four years. Given under my hand the 7th day of July 1838. 

Za Drummond, J. P. 

I do hereby certify that it satisfactorily appears to me that William Cashwell who hath made the foregoing affadavit is a credible person. Given under my hand this 7th day of July 1833. 
Za Drummond, J. P. 

State of Virginia
Amherst County to wit: 
I Samuel M Garland Clerk of the County Court of Amherst County in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that Zachariah Drummond, who hath signed his name to the foregoing certificates is and was at the time of signing the same, a magistrate as above stated, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of office & subscribed my name & [illegible - "quately"? "gerately"?] as aforesaid this 13th day of July 1838. 
Samuel M Garland Clerk of the County Court of Amherst County Virginia
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[Envelope]
Free
[addressee:]
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department 
Washington City

[upper left, sideways:]
[illegible - "Lmat" "JMat"?]  July 28
87
Mildred Taliaferro
Mail

[at bottom, upside down:]
Mildred Taliaferro 
Ala
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Richmond Va 26 July 1838

Sir /
[a note in the top margin:]
See papers in claim of Hudson Martin widow Jane W4394]
[body of letter:]
I applied today for copies of the evidence upon which the heirs of Hudson Martin drew their land bounty and it is now enclosed to you ___  It establishes beyond doubt that the Regiment of Barrack Guard commanded by Col Taylor remains in service up to the spring or summer of 1781 __ Martin was then paymaster and it seems from the enclosed paper that he does pay up to the 1 Augt 1781 and by several entries that he was ordering clothing & money for the troops after July 1780 the time when Richard Taliaferro married his wife Mildred where application for a pension under the act of July 1836 the enclosed paper is designed to support ___ I hope you will review the evidence in the case for I must believe that no case after so great a lapse of time could be better proved. 

Write me to this place when I shall remain our or ive days before I start out for my home at Amherst Court House.
Your Od Servt
John Thompson Jr
of Amherst
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[Envelope]
Free
[addressee:]
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City

[upper left, sideways]
2917
Va  Nov 18
4 July '36
[illegible]

[round postal stamp:]
Richmond Va
Nov 16
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Richmond Va 16 November 1837

Sir/
Enclosed I send you the declaration of my aunt Mrs Mildred Taliaferro for a pension under the act of July 1836, by reference to the files of soldiers [?] will be clerk of the Senate or House of Representatives you [illegible - "you cule pied the credones"?] refer to --

I shall remain in this place for some days and when you have examined & directed upon the [illegible] me to this place when necessary I will visit your city.
Respectully yr obdt Svt

John Thompson Jr
of Amherst Court House Va
now in Richmond

[crossed out at bottom:]
report to M. T. at Amherst CH
Va
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[Envelope] 
[addressee]
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions, War Department 
Washington City

[upper left, sideways]
Nov 25
Note with
Mildred Taliaferro's 
papers
Mail

[round postal stamp]
Richmond Va
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Richmond Va 23 Nov 1837

Sir/
Finding that I shall be delayed here longer than I anticipated when I wrote you last entering the papers upon the application of Mrs Mildred Taliaferro for a Pension under the act of July 1836. Now ask the favor should you act upon the claim in the next two [?] weeks to advise me of the result by letter to this place ___ It is probable that other business may lead me to the city owing the full week of the approaching session of congress & if so & if I don't hear the result earlier I will call at your office. 
Respectfully your obed. servant
John Thompson Jr

J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
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[Envelope]
Free
[addressee:]
J. L. Edward
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City

[upper left, sideways:]
W Dec 5
Jm at
Mildred Taliaferro
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Richmond 3 December 1837

Dear Sir /
I find that my engagements here will put it out of my power to visit Washington before the month of February having to release [?] to my home at Amherst Court House about the 15 Jul, beforehand if you should act on Mrs Mildred Taliaferro's claim to a pension, under the act of July 1836 to advise me of it to this place, if it can reach me on or before the 16 Jul.

Yours respectfully
John Thompson Jr
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Carrolton Ala
June 8th 1843

Dear Sir
Some time in March last Mrs Mildred Taliaferro forwarded to the Pension office her application to draw her pension from the 4th of March 1842 to the fourth of March 1843. Also some time in the first of May Gabriel Franks executor of Marshall Franks applyed for the pension due his father in his life time -- at the same time I enclosed the papers of Mrs Mangum to draw the pension of John Magnum her deceased Husband from the 4th of March 1842 to this 5 day of March 1843 the day he died which papers have never  been heard of since ___

You will confirm a favor on the parties by informing them the situation of their applications as they are much in need of it. 

Respectfully your obt servant
Francis W Bostick

NB their post office is Carollton Pickins County Ala
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Jan 9 1779 Resolved that a Bat. has men be raised to serve as a squad at the Albemarle Barracks for one year unless sooner dischd ___ The Cont est* Comm@ly out of those offices of the Va line who had been Cd -- 
out by the late arrangt. Fmr Cong Vol5 p12 Dec 10 '79 Congress approved the measure of Va the raising these troops & results that they be [illegible]. 

Richd Taliaferro was a Capt in May [illegible] 
Mark roll dated Jun 7 1779. By what roll it appears that the service commd about the 1 Apr 1779 & was open [?] in Apr 1780 the wa [?] Mar & July 1786.
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[Envelope]
[Addressee:]
Joseph L Edward
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City D.C.

[round postal stamp]
Amherst C H Va 
Aug [illegible date]
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Amherst Court House Va 8 August 1838

Dear Sir /
The mail of this evening brought me your letter enclosing the Pension Certificate of Mrs Mildred Taliaferro of Alabama. By reference to the declaration you will find that upon the same sheet there is a power of attorney authorizing me to draw her pension up to the 4 September last, be believed to say if I can or cannot be permitted to do so either by visiting your city or by filling up [illegible - "executing"?] returning to you proper vouchers [parenthetic text inserted:] (which would be greatly preferable to me) such as you will have the goodness to her and to me by mail, or as such as it is necessary for her now to execute to enable me to do. So, or if there is any thing in your regulations forbidding me to draw the money for her, then that you send me the proper papers which I will forward to her, to enable her to draw the money in Mobile as for memo on the back of the certificates.

Respectfully your obdt servant.
John Thompson Jr
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[Envelope]

To J. L. Edward
Com of Pensions

J Thompson Jr
Present [?]
July 21 82
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In the case of the application of Mildred Taliaferro or a pension under act of July 4 1836 ___ The affidavit is of William Cashwell is unfiled [?].

He proves that at the date of the Battle of Guilford Capt Richard Taliaferro was then recruiting in the county of Amherst for the Regular line [?] [inserted text] & recruited for that service three or four years. The battle of Guilford was fought in March 1781 the marriage took place in July 1780 ___ It will be remembered that the last witness corroborates all others who have referred us to the [illegible] of Capt Taliafer in [illegible] leave [illegible] of the [illegible].

Will the commissioner be pleased to act upon the case today so that I may leave the city in the steamboat this evening as business compels me to be in Richmond on Monday morning at the [illegible] of the meeting of the   Cty [?] Court.

Respectfully

John Thompson Jr
of Amherst Va

Washington 20 July 1838
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V Alabama
Mildred Taliaferro
Susped [?]
Let to Jn Thompson
6th Dcer 1837
do do Jany 26 1838
do do Hon Jas Garland
Apl 28 1838
McThompson June 19 1838
                Same     " 23 1838
                 do     July 21 1838
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[illegible - Revy?]
[form:]
WIDOW. &c.
No. 11597
Mildred Taliafferro
Widow of 
Richard Taliaffero
Capt Rev War
Act: July 4th /36
Index:--Vol. BN, Page 263
Arrangement of 1870
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Jany 14, 1896
Mil. history to
James D Pilcher
Nashville Tenn
Dec 9 - 97 Hist to Mrs. A. O. Lane
Birmingham, Ala
[illegible] Hist to Edna Tiffy
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[This has some text written horizontally, the principal text, and another note vertically]

Mildred Taliaferro Alabama Mobile
4th July 1836 $480
To what time last paid
Pension Office
24th March 1843
Paid to 4th March 1842
[signed with initials, mostly illegible] BLB

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(Mrs T. was transferred to Tuskaloosa from Jn to Sept '39 and paid there to 4th March 1842)
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[Addressee:]
Pension Dept
Washington D.C.

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Clinton, Mo 
July 12 4:30P
1916

Pension Office U.S.
Jul 14 1916

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July 12 - 1916 - 
Please give all data recorded of Richard Taliaferro (1757-1806) was as recruiting officer at Amherst Court House. In 1837 his widow applied for pension in Pickins County, Ala. Was allowed for two years service as Capt. Virginia line. He was born in Amherst Virginia; died in York District S.C.
Very Resps.,
Edna Tiffy


Address
Miss Edna Tiffy
314 W Jeff. St., Clinton, Missouri

Rev See
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Birmingham Ala
Nov 18th 1897
Mr Wm Lochran
Dear Sir,
To join the daughters o the Revolution organization it is necessary or me to have a record of the fact that Richard Taliaferro of Virginia was an officer in the Continental Army. My cousin Mrs Pilefery [?] of Tenn informs me her [illegible - oblaimed?] the fact that his widow received a pension. I wish any information you can give me relative to him for benefit of my sister Helen Terry Bullhame and myself (Mildred Terry Lane) we are descended from Capt Richard Taliaferro in follow
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[this is side two of a note dated Nov 18th 1897 to Mr Wm Lochran]

ing manner. 

We are daughters of
John Taliaferro Terry & his wife Elizabeth Kern
Granddaughers of John Wesley Terry & his wife Emily Taliaferro
Greatgranddaughters Richard Taliaferro Mildred Powell

By giving this your earliest attention you will confer a great favor on

Yours most respectfully
Mildred Terry Lane

Address
Mrs A. O. Lane
816 19th St. North
Birmingham Ala

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Pension Office U.S.
Nov 24 1897