Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10319, for Archibald Taylor, Virginia
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Va.        Taylor, Archibald. W.10319
Rachel
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442
Indiana Madison
Rachel Taylor
widow of Archibald Taylor
who Va served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars --
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
23 day of June 1848
and sent to
Wm. Manly
Marshall
Ills
recorded on Roll of Pensions under act
February 2, 1848, Page 339 Vol. 3.
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State of Indiana     }
Hendricks County  }  ss

On this 22nd day of July A.D. 1843 personly [personally]appeared before the subscriber ^associte^ [associate] Judge of the Circuit Court in and for the County and State aforesaid, Rachel Taylor a Resident of the County and state aforesaid. 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 pension made by the Act of Congress passed July 1 1838. entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," that she is the widow of Archibald Taylor who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and Served in the state of Virginia as a Regular soldier five years and six months. And that he was a Resident of Buckingham County and State of Virginia when he entered the service.  She further states that her husband the said deceased Archibald Taylor enlisted in the service in his sixteenth or seventeenth year of his age at the place above named.  She cannot recollect the names of the officers he served under in consequence fo old age.  She further Staes that her husband the said Archibald Taylor was in the Battle of Charlestown and Beaufords defeat.  She thinks that he served principaly [principally] in the states of Virginia and Pennsylvania.  She cannot recollect when he entered the service nor the time he was discharged distinctly but thinks he was discharged some time in the year 178 [rest of date smudged] he had a discharge but it has been destroyed
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and cannot be found, She further declares she was married to her said deceased husband on the 16th day of March AD 1785 by license in Buckingham County and State of Virginia by a Minister of the Gospel by the name of Enock Matison, She further states that her maiden name was Rachel Chinalt and that she was Married to the said Archibald Taylor her deceased husband at the time above named, And that she bore in wedlock with her deceased husband, the following named seven children (viz) Thomas, born November 6th AD1785.
next Sally, born on the 3rd of April AD 1787, next Elisabeth, born the 2nd of December AD 1788, next John born June 1790 Mary born 10th of November 1795, next Johnathan born 27th of November 1798 next Archibald born 3rd of May 1801. Elisabeth John, Sally, are all dead
She further declares that she had a family Record of the births of her children but her son Thomas Taylor took it with him to the state of Tennessee she further states that after she was Married to her deceased husband the said Archibald Taylor they Removed to Surry county, N Carolina at which place her husband died on the 27th day of May AD 1813, or 1814 and after his death she removed to Hendricks County Indiana at which place she now Resides, She further declares that she has never intermarried with any other person since the death of her husband and is now living
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as the widow of the said Archibald Taylor as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed
sworn to and subscribed Rachel Taylor x her mark
this 22d day of July AD 1843
William Naylor
Associate Judge

State of Indiana
Hendricks County SS
I William Naylor associate Judge of the Circuit Court in and for said County do certify that Rachel Taylor did on this day in my presence subscribe and was by me duly sworn to the foregoing declaration. I further certify that the said Rachel Taylor is unable from bodily infirmity to attend said court at its usual place of sitting-
Given under my hand this 22d day of July AD 1843
William Naylor
Associate Judge
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State of Indiana
Hendricks County SS
On this 22d day of July AD 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber the associate Judge in and for the county and state aforesaid Archibald Taylor Junior Resident of the county and state aforesaid aged forty two years past who being by me duly sworn according to law upon his oath says, that he is a son of Archibald Taylor Senior now deceased and Rachel Taylor his widow, the persons spoken of and named in the declaration of the said Rachel Taylor above hereto annexed. That he has heard his father Archibald Taylor deceased say frequently that he served in the Revolutionary war [in the] as a Regular Soldier in the State of Virginia and that he served five years and six months and that he enlisted in the service in Buckingham County and State of Virginia where he was in his sixteenth or seventeenth year of his age. and that he was in the Battles of Charlestown and Beauforts defeat. He further states that he always heard from his earliest recolection his father the said Archibald Taylor now dead and Rachel Taylor his widow say that they were married in Buckingham County and State of Virginia on the 16th day of March AD 1785 by a minister of the Gospel by the name of Enoch Matison. He further declares that Archibald Taylor senior his deceased father died on the 27th day of May AD 1813 in Surry County, North Carolina which he testifies from his being present at his Burial.  He further states that his father the said deceased Archibald Taylor never
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applied for a pension or had his name placed on any pension roll, He further states that his father had in his life time a discharge and a land (?)
and that the discharge was lost or destroyed and can-not be found. He further declares that his mother the said Rachel Taylor had in her possession a certificate of her marriage which was got from the Minister that married them and that her she has read it several times and that it stated they were married on the 16th day of March AD 1785. and signed by Enock Matison the Minister that married them that he saw ^it but a few months ago but he has examined all his papers to find it when his mother made him declar-ation for a pension and could not find it. but thinks it must be about the house somewhere. He further states that he was looking at said certificate some twelve months ago and he dew off from said certificate the day month and year that his mother and father were married and set it down in his Bible which is now in his possession the dates of which are as above stated. further said not (?) to and subscribed this 22 fay of july AD 1843
William Naylor(?) 
Associate Judge
Archibald Taylor
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I William Naylor the associate Judge before whom the foregoing deposition of Archibald Taylor junior was on this day taken subscribed and sworn to; do certify that the said Archibald Taylor junior the deponent is a person of truth and credibility and that his statement are entitled to credit, which I certify from my own personal knowledge 
Given under my hand at the said county of Hendricks this 22d day of July AD 1843
William Naylor
Associate Judge

State of Indiana
Hendricks County
I James M. Gregg clerk of the Circuit court in and for said county do certify that William Naylor is Judge of the Circuit Court of in and for the county and state aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that the several foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 24th day of July AD 1843
J. W. Gregg clerk
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State of Illinois
Clark County SS Be it known that on this 28th day of July 1843 before the subscriber one of justices of the Peace in and for said county personaly appeared Archer Bartlett, who being first duly sworn says that he wrote the amended Declaration of Rachel Taylor and at the time of writing the same he had no other knowledge either verbal or written upon the subject of her husband's services than that which he derived from the statements of the said Rachel Taylor made at that time. That after leaving the said Declaration to be Authenticated a delay in the execution of it occured by Reason of the Resignation of the Judge of Probate that the annexed certificate marked B was Received from the Auditor of Virginia by Mail after the said deponent wrote the said Declaration. That he had no knowledge whatever of the facts at the time of writing said Declaration except such as he derived from the said Rachel Taylor. That he had no knowledge of the existence of said Certificate nor of the proof that might be adduced in the Auditors office of Virginia, nor does he believe the said Rachel Taylor had any such knowledge
sworn to and subscribed Archer Bartlett
on this 28th day of July 
AD 1843.
Uri Manly JP.
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This is to certify, That it appears from a list in this Office of Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line, during the REvolutionary War, as settled their Accounts, and received Certificates for the balance of the Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed the November Session 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 11th day of July 1984, in the name of Archibald Taylor, as Soldier of {?} for L 85.11.2 which Certificate appears to have been delivered to himself and was given for services prior to the 1st January 1782.

P295. No Seal of Office.
Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 21st day of June 1843
Jas E Heath Auditor.
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I Certify that Archer Barlett who has this day subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Deposition before me is a credible witness
given under my hand the 28th day July 1843
Uri Manly J.P.

State of Illinois
Clark County SS. I David Phillips Clerk of the County commissioned Court in and for the said county do certify that Uri Manly is a Magistrate as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Marshall this 28th day of July A.D. 1843
Darius Phillips
Clerk
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9374
Rachel Taylor
Illinois
Act 7 July '38
m 85-
admd
2 yrs pri
$80.
also
Act 3 March 43
80
Hon. B. O. Ficklin
Chaarleston
Coles Co
Illinois
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State of Indiana
Hendricks County SS.
Before the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court in and for the county and state aforesaid personly appeared Lucinda Taylor who being first duly sworn upon her oath says that the Annexed declaration of Rachel Taylor was written at and left at the house of her the said Lucinda Taylor in the absence of her husband on the 24th day of June 1843, the same was written in the presence of Mrs. Rachel Taylor the Declarant and left to be Authenticated on the Return of her husband Archibald Taylor, That in the mean time James McClure the Probate judge before whom it was intended to be Authenticated the same Resigned his office of Judge of said Court.
Lucinda Taylor x her mark
Subscribed and sworn to 
before me this 22d day of July 1843
William Naylor
associate Judge

I William Naylor one of the associate Judges of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Hendricks and State of Indiana do Certify that Lucinda Taylor who has this day subscribed and sworn to the foregoing deposition before me is a Credible Witness. Given under my hand this 22d day of July 1843
William Naylor
Associate Judge
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State of Indiana
Hendricks County SS
I James M. Gregg clerk of the Probate Court in and for the county and state aforesaid do certify that James McClure the Judge of the Probate Court of said county Resigned his said office of Judge on the 4th day of July 1843 as appears to me by his Resignation on file in my office and that there is, at this time no Judge of Probate Court of said County
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court at Danville this 24th day of July AD 1843
J. W. Gregg clerk

I William Naylor the Judge before whom the foregoing and Annexed Declaration of Mrs Rachel Taylor was taken do Certify that before the same was signed by her it was atted and interlined a to be taken before one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court for Hendricks County Indiana instead of the Judge of the Probate
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court of the same County. the Judge of the last named Court having Resigned his office. Given under my hand this 22d day of July 1843
William Naylor
Associate Judge
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State of North Carolina
Surry County
Be it remembered that on this thirtieth day of January One Thousand Eight hundred and forty four before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county aforesaid personally appeared Benjamin Shinault a resident of said county who being first duly
sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say as follows: That he is about Eighty three years old. That he served one winter in Petersburg Virginia with Archibald Taylor Sent and under the command of General Greene. That shortly after the Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown he saw him and is confident that he had on a Regimental Coat with Continental
buttons it and he stated to me that he had been in service ever since I saw him at Petersburg Va. That shortly after this interview
with Taylor he saw him and Rachael Taylor
as man and wife. That Taylor went on
immediately from his house to his (Shinaults) fathers and he heard that they were married at that time and that he saw them together as man and wife and they had several children
And furthermore that he (Shinault) is at this time a Pensioner of the United States.
That Rachael Taylor (formerly Rachael Shinault) is his Sister.  That he was acquainted with her and lived near her in Surry County North Carolina.  That she afterwards moved to
the State of Indianna and that he afterwards understood that
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she moved to the State of Illinois. And further this deponent saith not.
Benjamin Shinault
X
his mark

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 30th day of January 1844
Jerry Marion

I certify that Benjamin Shinault whose signature appears above is personally known to me and I believe him to be a credible witness -
Given under my hand & seal Feby 10th 1844
H.M. Waugh

State of N. Carolina
Surry County
I, Francis K. Armstrong, clerk of the county court in and for said county do hereby certify that Jerry Marion and Harrison M. Waugh are magistrates as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting be theirs and genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and have affixed the seal of my office at Rochford this twelfth day of February - One Thousand Eight hundred & forty four
F K Armstrong Clk
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July 23, 1931

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section | EFL

Mrs. J. H. O'Hair
509 W. 4th Street
Muscatine, Iowa

Dear Madam

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 10319, that Archibald Taylor, while residing in Buckingham County, Virginia, enlisted, when in his sixteenth or seventeenth year, served five years and six months as a private in the Virginia Troops, officers names and exact dates not given, was at Charleston and at the battle known as Buford's Defeat and was discharged sometime in 1783.

He married March 16, 1785, in Buckingham County, Virginia, or in Bedford County, Virgina, Rachel Chinalt (the name also appears as Shinault or Chanault).

After their marriage, they moved to Surry County, North Carolina, where the soldier died May 27, 1813 or 1814.  The date and place of his birth are not given.

Soldier's widow, Rachel, was allowed pension on her application executed July 22, 1843, at which time she was aged eighty years and resided in Hendricks County, Indiana, where she moved after the death of her husband.

They had seven children as follows;
Thomas born November 6, 1785, moved to Tennessee, data not given.
Sally [born] April 3, 1737, deceased in 1843.
Elisabeth [born] December 2, 1788, deceased in 1843.
John [born] June -, 1790, deceased in 1843. Mary [born] November 10, 1795.
Johnathan [born] November 27. 1798.
Archibald [born] May 3, 1801, in 1843, residing in Hendricks County, Indiana.
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In 1845, Lucinda Taylor, wife of one Archibald Taylor made affidavit in Hendricke County, Indiana, in support of the claim of Rachel Taylor, no relationship to said Rachel Taylor shown.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator. 

[handwritten note bottom left]
Date of widow's death 
not an AB 
Her brother
Being lived in Surry Co. NC
in 1844
aged about
 81 yrs
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Muscatine, Iowa
July 1, 1931

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-
Will you please supply me with the war record of Archibald Taylor who served in the army during the Revolutionary War? His wife, Rachel Chinott Taylor received a letter granting her a widow's pension of eighty dollars ($80.00) a year. The date of her death is April 30, 1849. We believe she lived in Indiana, in the vicinity of Bellville, when she received the pension.
Thanking you for any information that you might supply me, I am
Respectfully Yours
Mrs. J. H. D'Hair
509 W. 4th St.
Muscatine, Iowa

[stamp]
JUL 6 1931
OFFICE
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
Rile No. 10,319
Rachel Taylor
Wid. of
Archibald Taylor
Pri. Rev. War

Act: Feby. 2 48
Index:-Vol. M, Page 263

[Arrangement of 18

1931 - July 23 - Hist.
to Mrs. J. H. O'Hair
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Marshall M. 29 July 1843 I have the honor to enclose you the application of Mrs. Rachael Taylor for a pension under Act of 7 July 1838 Very respectfully
[illegible]
[illegible]
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nth ad Mar 3:43
[illegible]
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State of Indiana Hendricks County 
J William Naylor
the associate Judges of the circuit Court, in and for said County, before whom Wm Lachical Taylor was sworn to, subscribed a declaration for a pension under the act of the 7th of July 1828 do certify that the said Racheal Taylor, was at the time of taking and declaration so infirm of body, owing to sickness and old age and decrepitude it was impracticable for her to attend said Court at its place of sitting. Given under my hand this 30th day of September 1843 
William Naylor 
associate Judge
State of Indiana 
Hendricks County 
I James M. Gregg Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County do hereby certify that William Taylor Esqr by whom the above certificate was made, is one of the associate Judges of the Circuit Court 
duly commissioned and qualified
of said County of Hendricks that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine; and that full faith and credit are due his official acts as such 
In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at Danville this 30th day of September A.D. 1843. 
J M. Gregg, Clerk - ---- By R. Crawford, D.C.
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Menr Harland Buckingham Courthouse Va. 13 January 1844 
Messrs Harland + Manly
Gentlemen 
I have made a second examination amongst the records of this Office to see if any evidence could be found touching the marriage of Archibald Taylor & Rachel Chenault and a find none. In the absence of a register, the only other evidence which this office could afford is the bond given at the time of granting the license, & it appears that no bond was given in this office, either in the year you state as the time of the marriage or at any time before or after-- I think there was a family of Chenaults  residing in the lower end of this County where it adjoins Cumberland about the period of the marriage & it is not unlikely that the license was obtained in that county - 
I have ascertained that a man of the name of Hatcher Tindall + his son Robert Tindall who removed from this County reside in Jasper a County adjoining that in which you live-- While they resided here I became bound as their security for about $100 which I have been compelled to pay - Will you do me the favour (if you can without much inconvenience) to ascertain whether they are in such circumstances as will enable them to satisfy this claim, & to inform me of some person who could be confided in to collect it. 
Respectfully yr M O S
Rolfe Eldridge
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Clk. of
[illegible]
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House of Reps.
June 13th 1844

Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you a letter from the clerk of Buckingham Co. Va in regard to the case of Mrs. Taylor. Will you inform me what has been done in the case of Mrs. Rachael Marshall.
Yours very respectfully
Orlando B. Ficklin
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State of North Carolina
Surry County

Be it known that on this 17th day of February 1844 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid personally appeared Benjamin Shenault age eighty three years, a credible person & pensioner of the United States, and made oath in due form of law, that he first became acquainted with Archibald Taylor in Petersburg, Virginia, & shortly thereafter he left under the command of some officers of United States, his name he does not recollect, he thinks that he was absent five years from the fact that, after Tayler returned he seen his discharge, often heard him read it, & that he does not recollect now of the officers commanding the regiment to which he was attached, Shortly after his return from the army he intermarried Rachael Shinault, in Bedford County, Virginia, though he declares that he was not at the marriage, but from the fact that they lived together as man & wife for a number of years & that Rachael was a sister of his the aforesaid Shinault & states that the marriage must have took place something upwards of fifty years ago, he states that he himself married some three years before Archibald Tayler & Rachael was married, that he lived forty miles from there, & did not see them until some three of  four months after the marriage was said to have taken place, he further states that his sister Rachael Tayler now resides in Illinois
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but does not recollect the county & that he understands that she is a widow - Sworn to & subscribed before me
Eilisha Banner

Benjamin Shinault
X
his mark

I F K Armstrong clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Surry County, certify that Elisha Banner is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his, are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name, this 17th day of February in the year 1844
H.K. Armstrong Clk

State of N. Carolina
Surry County
I Elisha Banner one of the presiding justices of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Surry County do certify that F K Armstrong is clerk of said court, & that the foregoing is genuine. This 17th day of Feb. AD 1844-
Elisha Banner Clk
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J L Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Washington DC

Mar 12 1844

Hon. O.B. Ficklin
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House of Reps March 11th 1844 
J L Edwards Esqr 
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you a deposition in the case of Rachael Taylor applicant for a pension. 
It is one of the many cases + I think she resides in Illinois, though will know the case.
yours respectfully 
Orlando B Ficklin
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House of Reps March 13th 1844
J L Edwards Esqr
Sir
Enclosed please find a deposition in the case of Mrs. Rachael Taylor who is an applicant for a pension.
Your [indecipherable] servant
Orlando B Ficklin
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Taylor 
Cumberland Co 
July 31 1844 
J L Edwards Esqr 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C. 1838
Mail}
August 3 1844
D Gump
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Cumberland Clerks Office 
30th July 1844. 
Sir
I have examined the records of this office, and can find no evidence of the marriage of Archibald Taylor and Rachel Chenanth
yours Respectfully, 
B.B. Woodson
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
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State of Indiana 
Hendricks County 
Fr. On this Thirteenth of May one thousand Eight hundred and forty Eight before the subscribed a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared and Rachel Taylor a resident of said County aged Eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on 2d February 1848 granting Pensions to the widows of persons who had served during the Revolutionary war--that she is the widow of Archibald Taylor who was a private in the service of the State of Virginia on account of the United States in the war of the Revolution --that she refers to the paper on file for the particulars not being able to state them--that she has been pensioned under the act 7 July 1838 and acts supplemental to same at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum on the Indiana Roll-- and that she is still the widow of said Archibald Taylor 
[illegible] and Sworn to before me the Thirteenth day of May 1848
Nathan Meredith J P
}for  Rachel Taylor [Judah?]
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I certify that I am personally acquainted with Rachel Taylor who has subscribed and Sworn to the foregoing declaration before me and that I am fully satisfied by the truth of the statements therein made by her, she being personally known to me. 
Nathan Meredith J P 
State of Indiana 
Hendricks 2 County ss. 
Joshua D. Parker Circuit 
Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County aforesaid do certify that Nathan Meredith is a magistrate in [illegible]
and for the said County duly commissioned and qualified, and that the several foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said [court?] this 13th day of May 1848 
J D. Parker, Clerk 
By W.L. Hadley D C
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Marshal In
16 May 48 
Sir,
Please send me the certificate for M. Taylor when granted. 
Resptly
W Manly
 J. L. [illegible]
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2 Certs;
1938
1843
rep, 5, Aug,

5,925
Madison
Indiana
=================
Rachel Taylor
widow of Archibald Taylor
who was a Private
in the Rev. War.

=================
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
80 dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
==================
Certificate of Pension issued the
5 day of Aug. 1844
and sent to
Hon. O B Ficklin,
Charleston, Coler Co
Illinois
=================
[act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 181
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8580
Madison
Indiana
Rachel Taylor
widow of Archibald Taylor
who was a pensioner under the Act of[blank]
and who died on the 27 May 1813 or 1818
of Hendricks, co in the State of Ind.
who was a Private in the [blank]
commanded by Captain [blank] of the
 [blank] commanded by [blank] in
the Rev War line for 2 years
_________________________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of Madison
at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank]
Cents for per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
_________________________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Aug1844 and Sent to Hon. O. B Ficklin Charleston, India
__________________________________________________Total Amount, $[blank]
Act July 7, 1838 
Recorded by F. L. Swann Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1 Page 431
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[Letter] to Ari Manly Oct 2 1843
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Letter to Hon. B.O. Ficklin
26. April 1844