Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9514, for John Taylor, Maryland
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(8-1776)
SERVICE | NUMBER
Md. | Taylor, John | W9514
Leggy| B.L.Nt.6447-160-55
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The Depostion of John Taylor, taken before me, Jeremiah T.
Chase Chief Judge of the third Judicial District in the State of
Maryland, deposeth and Saith, that he Enlisted in Second
Regiment of Maryland Troops on this Twentieth day of March
in the year seventeen hundred and Seventy eight, in the Navy:
land [illegible], then in the Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary
War, and that he continued in the service until the
first day of November in the year Seventeen hundred and
Eighty, at which time he was discharged and [illegible]
and discloseth
[illegible] in need of Assistance from his Government
for support

Sworn before
Jeremiah Townley Chase
Chief Justice of the third judicial
District on the 5th Day of May 1815.
I am satisfied that Facts maintained in the above
Deposition are correctly stated
 stated
Jeremiah Townley Chase
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State of Maryland, Anne Arundel County Seat
I hereby certify that it appears by the records and
proceedings of Anne Arundel County Court that the Honorable,
Jeremiah Townley Chase Esquire who appears to have
taken, certified, and signed the above affidavit was on
the day of the date thereof chief Judge of the third Judicial
District of Maryland comprehending the Counties of
Calvert founded and Montgomery duly
Commissioned and qualified and that to all his acts
as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given
as well in Courts of Justice as thereout
In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe
my name and affix the seal of Anne of
Arundel County Court this sixth day
of May in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
WMF Green [illegible] A. A. Coty [illegible]
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834
Maryland
John Taylor,
private | 4
Maryland Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 3rd of May 1818
---
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 of June 1818
and delivered to the applicant [crossed out]
Pension, then present.
---
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818, making
4 [illegible] months....$32.55.

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Two Years
78 to 80
Anne Arrendel
[illegible]
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Notify sent to Isaac Owens of Ben
Baltimore Nov. 17. 1820

Certification returned in dead letter
May 18, 1821 sent to Clerk of Anne Arundel County

Dead [illegible] letter 3rd
March 1835 to HM 
J. Kent [illegible] 1836
[illegible]
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55788 [illegible] Mar 31st
April 9/55
Lizzy Taylor widow
John Taylor [illegible]

Mds [illegible]. 
Erit.
Dis.
Rev War
[illegible]
[illegible] pensioner
and
160 Acres
Benton
Pensioner
Md [illegible] 53-No 752
[illegible] Sept. 20th 1855,
[illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible] | James H. Hyde
Annapolis
Md.
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752
Maryland
Lizzy Taylor
widow of John
Md
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence
the 4th day of March, 1848 [crossed out]
[illegible] February [illegible]
Certificate of Pension issued
22nd day of June 1853
and sent to
Mrs Tell Claude
Annapolis
Md

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under [illegible]
July 22, 1848, [crossed out] 3rd Feb, 1853 Page 118. Vol. A

1818

[illegible] July 7, 1838
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State of Maryland Anne Arundel County Court
I hereby certify that it appears by the Records
of this office that on the Eleventh day of October Eighteen hundred and twenty five a marriage [licence] was granted
to solemnize the rules of marriage between John Taylor and Leggy Crutche.
 In Testimony whereof I hereto set my name
and offer the Seal of the Circuit Court frame
Annual [illegible] this fourteenth day of March
Eighteen hundred and fifty three
[illegible]
Anne Arundel County
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In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of
Congress of the 3d February 1853.

State of Maryland Anne Arundel County Seat

On this 29th day of March 1853 personally appeared
before the Orphans Court of Anne Arundel County
Leggy Taylor a resident of the City of Annapolis
in the County of Anne Arundel & State of Maryland
aged fifty seven years, who being duly sworn according 
to Law doth on her oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
provisions made by the Second Section of the Act
of Congress; passed on the 3d day of February 1853
that her Husband John Taylor is deceased, was
a private in the 2d Regiment of the Maryland
line Continental Army of the Revolution; and
that her Husband the said John Taylor was
pensioned prior to her marriage and continued
to receive the same up to his death, as will be
seen by reference to the papers in the case on file
in the pensioners office; she further declares
that she was married to the said John Taylor
on the Eleventh day of October eighteen hundred and
twenty five; and that her husband the aforesaid
John Taylor died on or about the 26th day of February 1837,
that she was not married when prior to
his leaving the service, but the marriage took
place at the time above stated. The [illegible]
declares that she's now a widow, and that
she has never before made application
to the Government of the United States for a
pension. Sworn to and subscribed on the
day & year above written before the Orphans Court
of Anne Arundel County. Leggy [illegible] Taylor [illegible] 
Witness Benj. E. [illegible] A.A. [illegible]
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Anne Arundel County, State of Maryland
March 29th 1853
We the Judges of the [illegible] Court for Anne Arundel County and State of Maryland do hereby certify that satisfactory proof was exhibited in Court this day, that Leggy Taylor the present applicant for a pension under the second Section of the act of Congress of the 3rd February
1853 and who is now present, is the identical Widow of John Taylor 1st deceased, of the 2nd Regiment of the Maryland Line in the Revolutionary War, and that Leggy and John Taylor 1st
deceased were married on the 11th day of October 1825 and that her Husband the said John Taylor received a pension prior to his death and that he died on or about the 26th day of February 1837.
Judges
John [illegible]
Phil Pettibone 
Stephen Beard
In testimony that the foregoing is a true [illegible] taken from the original proceedings of the Court. I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my Office this fourth day of April eighteen hundred and fifty three.
Benj. E. [illegible]
[illegible] Wills for
Anne Arundel County
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Declaration
State of Maryland
Anne Arundel County [illegible]
On this twenty second of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Leggy Taylor aged
fifty-eight years a resident of Anne Arundel
County in the State of Maryland who being duly Sworn according to law, declares that she is the Widow of John Taylor 1st deceased who was a private in the company commanded by Captain [blank]
in 2nd Regiment of the Maryland
line continental army commanded by Col. [blank] in the revolutionary war, and
that her said husband enlisted at Anne Arundel County on or about [blank] day of [blank] A.D for the term of [blank] and continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days and more as will appear by Reference to the muster rolls and the evidence on file in support of her application for a pension under the "act of Congress of the 3rd of February 1853, and was honorably discharged at [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] A.D 17-
She further states that she was married to the said John Taylor in Anne Arundel County on
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The twelfth day of October AD 1825
by one Dennis Batty a Methodist Minister
and that her name before her said marriage
was Leggy Crutchley and that her said husband died at Anne Arundel County on the  ----- day of ----- A.D. 1839 and that she is now
a widow.
She makes this declaration for the
purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which
she may be entitled under the act of March
3rd 1855.
her
Leggy Taylor                   Seal
mark

We John T. Johnson and James A. Wells residents of Anne Arundel County in the State of Maryland upon our oaths declare that the
foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Leggy Taylor in our presence; and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the
applicant that she is the identical person she
Represents herself to be.
John T. Johnson    seal
James A Wells        seal
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the
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Claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
John E. Stalker 
Know all men by these presents that I Leggy Taylor of Anne Arundel County and State of Maryland do hereby nominate constitute and appoint James H. Hyde of the City of Annapolis my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of the Interior of the United States want for the quantity of bounty land due to me under the act approved 3rd of March1865, and to do all other acts as fully as could be done by me [illegible] I personally presents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal the day and year above
written.
Test. John E. Stalker                  her
                                             Leggy Taylor
                                                 mark

State of Maryland
Anne Arundel County [illegible]

Be it known that on this twenty-second
day of March A.D. 1855 personally appeared
before me the subscriber a Justice of the
peace in and for the County aforesaid the
above named Leggy Taylor and acknowledged
the foregoing power of attorney to be her act
and deed for the purposes therein mentioned
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Witness my hand and seal the day
and year above written,
John E. Stalker
-

State of Maryland
Anne Arundel County [Sct]
I hereby certify that John E. Stalker Esq. before
whom the aforegiving declaration, affidavit and acknowledgment, were made, and who has thereto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the peace of the said State, in aforsaid County duly commissioned and sworn.
In Testimony whereof I hereto
set my hand and affix the
seal of the Circuit Court for
Anne Arundel County, this
30th day of March 1855
H. Green, Clk.
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District of Maryland, Anne Arundel County Sct

On this 18th day of October 1820 personally 
appeared in open Court being a Court of record 
for the County aforesaid (possessing) the power of 
fine and imprisonment and a jurisdiction unlimited 
in [illegible] and such [illegible] John Taylor aged upwards 
of fifty years resident in Anne Arundel County 
State of Maryland who being first duly sworn 
according to law doth on his oath declare that 
he served in the revolutionary war as follows: He
enlisted in the City of Annapolis in Capt. Daniel 
Lynes Company [illegible] a Maryland regiment and 
the 11th of May 1778 and served in said Company 
[illegible] years in the course aforesaid he was at 
the siege of York.  He was discharged at the City 
of Annapolis on the 16 of August 1780.

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident 
citizen of the United States on the 18th day of 
March 1818, and that I have not by gift sale 
or in any other manner so disposed of any part 
of my property thereby so to diminish it as to 
bring myself within the provisions of act of 
Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain 
persons engaged in the land and naval service 
of the United States in the revolutionary war" 
passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I 
have not nor has any person in trust for me 
any property or certificates contracts or debts 
due to me nor have I any income other than 
that is contained in the Schedule [Schedule] hereto annexed 
and by me subscribed.  I do further declare that 
I was a labourer [laborer], but from age and infirmities
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not in a situation to pursue it to advantage and 
that my family consists of a wife about in 
her fifty seventh year, and a [illegible] boy about twelve years 
of age.  I do further declare act I am now a pensioner 
of the United States under the act of the 18th of March 
1818.  That my original declaration bears date on the 
3d day of May 1818 and is numbered 834.

A Schedule of property in possession of John
Taylor on the 18th day of October 1820.

One horse 14 years old, 2 [illegible] tables, 1 chest
1 spinning wheel, half a dozen old pewter plates 
half a dozen earthen plates, 2 tea pots, half a dozen 
cups and saucers, 1 sugar dish, 6 old chairs, 
6 tablespoons pewter, 6 teaspoons old, 1 desk, 1 [illegible],
1 [illegible] pot, 1 dutch oven, and 6 knives and forks.
Valued by the Court at forty dollars.
John his X mark Taylor

Sworn to and declared on the eighteenth 
day of October 1820 before the Judges in open 
Court sitting in and for Anne Arundel County.
[Circular stamp of National Archives] Wm S Green Clk
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE
UNITED STATES

I William S Green Clerk of Anne 
Arundel County Court do hereby certify that 
the foregoing oath and the Schedule hereto 
annexed are truly copied from the record of 
said Court; and I do further certify that 
it is the opinion of the said Court that the total
amount
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amount in value of the property exhibited
in the aforesaid Schedule is Forty dollars.
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the said Court
on this Eighteenth day of October
1820.
[Illegible]Green Clerk of Anne
Arundel County Court
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State of Maryland
Anne Arundel County [illegible]
Be it known that on this twenty first day of March A.D. 1853, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Edward Holland [carrot to insert text: of said county] aged Sixty seven years a credible and disinterested [illegible] and made oath in due forum of law that he is personally acquainted with Leggy Taylor the present applicant for a pension and that she is this identical widow of John Taylor the 1st deceased who was always respected and believed to be a private in the second regiment of the Maryland Line Continental Army of the Revolution and that she said John Taylor was pensioned by the United States and Continued to receive the same up to his death which took place on the [blank line] day of February A.D. 1937. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
[Illegible]
Before me
Owen M Taylor J.P.
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State of Maryland, Anne Arundel County
I hereby certify that Owen M. Gaylor Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and whom had thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Anne Arundel County duly commissioned and sworn.
In testimony whereof I hereto set my  hand and affix my seal of the Circuit Court for Anne  Arundel County this 15th day of June AD 1853.
(not readable) Green, Clk.  Cir. Court for A.A. County
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Annapolis April 11, 1953
Sir
Enclosed you will receive the application of Leggy Taylor for the benefits of the act of Congress passed 3rd April 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served in the Revolutionary War also empowering me as her Attorney to receive such certificate of pension as may be issued prompt attention to this application will gratefully oblige
Very respectfully
your obedient servant
[illegible]
Hon [illegible] 
Commissioner of Pensions
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Sir, enclosed you will review the proof filed in the Orphans Court of Anne Arundel County with the application of Leggy Taylor for pension and on which the certificate of that Court now as the Departure was predicated I believe all that you require is [not readable]. The only evidence of a marriage recorded by [not readable] is the license obtained from the Clerk of the Court, a certificate of which in this case is herewith submitted accompanied by proof duty authenticated that Leggy Taylor is the widow of John Taylor, deceased,
Very respectfully,
[signature unreadable]

Hon. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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Brief in the case of Leggy Taylor, widow of John Taylor 
Anne Arundel County and State of Maryland
act 23d February 1853
=========================================
Claim, ("original," [struck out: for "for increase,]")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.

Husband of claimant was a pensioner 
under the act of 18th March 1818.
Marriage proved by certified copy 
of license, and parol testimony certified 
to be credible

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

William T. Claude Esqr.
Annapolis,
Maryland | R. Goddes
Name and residence of Agent | Examining Clerk.
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Annapolis Md March 31st 1963
L.P. [illegible] esq
Dear Sir
Enclosed please find Mrs Leggy Taylors application for County land under the act of the 3rd of March 1953. Your early attention to the within will oblige yours with high esteem
[illegible]
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State of Maryland
Ann Arundel County
Be it known that on this twenty eighth day of Marhc A.D. 1858 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in an for said County Elizabeth Thompson [insert carrot: of said county] aged forty four years and made oath in due forum of law that she was present at the wedding when the rites of matrimony was solemnized by the Rev. Mr. Beatty between Leggy Taylor the present applicant for a pension and John Taylor deceased formerly a pensioner of the United States; and who was always respected and believed to be a solider of the Revolution.  
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written, and that the party making this affidavit is a credible witness.
Before me 
[illegible] J.P.
Elizabeth [illegible scrawl and insert: mark] Thompson [illegible]


State of Maryland Anne Arundel County hereby certify that James [illegible] Hunger Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit was made and who has thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Anne Arundel County duly commissioned and sworn.
In testimony thereof thereto set
(May)
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my hand and affix the seal of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County this 15th day of June AD. 1853.
[illegible] for AA county
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[Envelope with notes]

[Written vertically left margin]

Mar 30
Foggett
Taylor
get papers

[Address}
James L. Edwards Esqr.
Pension Office 

[Written vertically right margin]

Hon Jos Kent
Senate US
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Washington 
30th March 1836

Dear Sir

I take the liberty of enclosing 
a letter form W. Ohara respecting arrears
of pension due Foggett & Taylor two 
deceased pensioners.

Please inform me what 
is the balance due each & send me the 
form of such in order as will enable 
the widows to draw their respective [illegible].

Mr. Ohara is entitled to [ilegible]
confidence should he be authorized to 
apply for the money.
Very respectfly [illegible] 
Obt Srvt
Jos. Kent

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pens Office
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Annapolis June 7 1858
To the Commission of Pensions
Sir
Application was made and a pension obtained for Leggy Taylor of Anne Arundel County [illegible] under a power of attorney from her to myself
She was the widow of a deceased private in the Army of our Revolution and married subsequent to the first of January 1880.  A certificate of pension granted to her by the Secretary of the Interior was dated the 22nd day of June 1853 at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum and by his construction of the law to take effect from the third day of February 1853 proof of which will be found on file in the department. The pensioner has since died but left two children

I have seen by the [illegible] that a law has been enacted by the present Congress declaring that the payment of pensions granted under the Act of 1853 shall begin on the 4th of March 1848 and this letter is written respectfully to inquire whether any additional proceedings are necessary and if so what to obtain the arrears of pension due to Leggy Taylor from March 1848 to Feb 1853. Also if agreeable to the rules of your department would request the favor of a copy of said Act and have the honor to be [illegible]

[illegible] Claude
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To what time was John Taylor, Maryland, Act March 1818, last paid?
March 31, 1836
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[Envelope with notes]

[Illegible circular mail stamp]

[Written vertically left margin]
Md
220
Recd. 1 Nov. 1820

Jno. Taylor

[Address]

FREE
The Honl
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington

[Written vertically right margin]
[Illegible]
Nov
17, 1820
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Baltimore 30 October 1820

The Honl
John C. Calhoun
Secy of War

Sir

Enclosed is a new 
declaration made in conformity with the late 
law of Congress on the subject of Revolutionary 
Pensions and which I hope will obtain for 
me a continuance of my pension.

Your decision in the case you will please 
communicate to Mr. Isaac Owens of Ben residing 
in this City
Your humble servt

Witness
Isaac Owens of Ben  John his X mark TaylorBaltimore 30 October 1820
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John Taylor
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I certify that it appears by the Musters of Maryland Troops that John Taylor a private in the 2nd Regiment enlisted on 20th March 1779 and was discharged on 1st Nov 1780. 

[illegible]
Auditors Office Annapolis the 5 May 1898
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[illegible] P. [illegible] esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.
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To 
The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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April 13, 1853

No 1101

Appl of Leggy 
Taylor widow of 
John

Maryland
_______
S.18

Act 3d Feby. 1853

Admitted $96 per annum
commencing 3d Feby 1853
Revy:
_____

[Stamped vertically right margin]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Pension Office, Official Business

Wm Tell Claude
Annapolis
Md
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6449

160 acres
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No. 5-5-788
Act of March 3 1855.
Received April , 1855
John Taylor
Rev. War
Warrant-6447-160-5-5
James H. Hyde
Annapolis
Md.
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 9514
Leggy Taylor
Wid
John Taylor
Privt Rev War

Act: Febry 3d 1853

Index:--Vol. M, Page 263

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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No. 1040

Leggy Taylor
widow of John 
Maryland 

Let to W T. Claude
June 11/53

Act Febry 3/53.
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56.861

1812

160 acres
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Pen: Act /53 Md.
Boynton
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Know all new by these presents that I Seggy Taylor of the City of Annapolis in the County of Anne Arundel and State of Maryland do hereby nominate constitute and appoint Wim Tell Claude esq of Annapolis City in Anne Arundel County and State of Maryland my true and lawful attorney for one and in my behalf to prosecute any claim that I may how against the Government of the United State and to review such certificate of pension as may be issued , hereby revoking any power of attorney which may 
have been heretofore given and confirming all things that my said attorney Wm. Tell Claude esq may
lawfully do in the premises.
(signature of Owen M Taylor)
(mark of Seggy Taylor)

State of Maryland
[illegible illegible] County Ss
Be it known that on this eleventh day of 
April A.D. 1853, personally appeared
Seggy Taylor before me the subscriber a
Justice of the peace in and for said
County and acknowledged the foregoing
power of attorney to be her act and deed
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for the purposes therein mentioned
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal the day and 
year above written.
(signature Owen M Taylor J.P.)

State of Maryland

I hereby {illegible] that Owen M Tayler Esquire 
before whom the written acknowledgement appears to 
have been made was at the time of doing [illegible] the 
[illegible] of Maryland Justice of the peace in and for {illegible]
County duly commissioned and sworn 
In testimony whereof I hereto set my name
and affix the seal of the Circuit Court for
Anne [illegible] County this Eleventh day
of April eighteen hundred and fifty three
(signature N W Greenlee )Circuit Court
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John Taylor
834
Sept 1818

Con

Sent to
Isaac Owens of Ben
Baltimore
Nov. 17. 1820
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES | Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Form VAM-52
12-5-41 | BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Taylor, John | GRADE Private | LINE Massachusetts
| | "Invalid"

WARRANT
NUMBER 5131 | ACREAGE 100 | ISSUED July 11, 1791
and Wt. No. 13840 | |to Isaac Bronson, assignee

_____
*The information concerning the issuance of warrant carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are 
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subse
quent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.