Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 24392, for John Taylor, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
PA.

Taylor ,John

NUMBER

Dis.
S.24392
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 no number

Illinois
West Tennessee

John Taylor, an
Invalid, inscribed
on the roll under the
act of July 5. 1812.

Certificate issued
7 June 1820.

Increased from $3.75/100
to 6$ per month, by the
act of the 24th April 1816.

Oct. 14,1825. Increased to $8 per month commencing 23rd Sept. 1824. Certificate, with increase noted thereon, issued 14th Oct. 1825 & sent to Thos. {illegible}

See letter to Hon. Jos. Duncan 30 Dec. 1828

Transferred to Illinois
March, 1829, to take
from and after {illegible}
1829. Notification {illegible}
to the care of Hon. Joseph Duncan,
Brownsville, Jackson County, Illinois

see letter to {illegible} & Pension Agt. Illinois
West Tennesee {illegible}

See letter to T.J.V. Owen
23 May 18 {illegible}
 letter to Grimes
{illegible} 1851
not found
 Let. same Jun 3/54{crossed out}
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West Tennessee
John Taylor, Pri.
In the army U. States

Inscribed on the roll of Tennesee
under Law of 5 July 1812
at $3.75/100 per mo: comm.
12 March 1812.

Cert. issued 7 June 1820
sent to care of Stephen
Cantrell, Esq. {illegible} of
Nashville & Nashville
Tennessee

Invalid Certificate
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State of Tennessee
 Davidson County ss
Be it known on this 17th April 1820 personally appeared John Taylor before me William A Anderson One of the acting Justices of the Peace for the County and state aforesaid and after being sworn saith that he is the Identical John Taylor an Invalid Pensioner that was placed on the pension
list of said state commencing on the 12th
March 1812 @ $3.75 per month and
 afterwards raised to $6 per month, that he
was wounded
at a place called the Crooked Billet near Philadelphia in Captain Dennys
Company in the American Service, that he
has Recd. $212.45 a part of his pension from
Mr. Charles T. Porter in East Tennessee & was
afterwards by S. Cantrell at Nashville paid
$144 which latter papers have been returned
for want of evidence of Identity, and that
he never has recd. any Pension certificate
from the War Department placing him
on said list, and asks of the secretary
at War one, as it's inconvenient from
him at all times to procure the proof
of Identity and that he now resides in
Humphries County Tennessee.

John Taylor

Sworn to before me
the date above
test.
Wm Anderson JP
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State of Tennessee Davidson County SS
I Nathan Ewing Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County do hereby certify to whom it may concern
that William Anderson Esquire whose name is signed to the foregoing certificate was at the time his name appears to have been signed to the same one of the acting Justices
of the Peace in and for said County and of said Court duly commissioned and qualified, as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his official acts in Courts of
Justice and thereout.

In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in Nashville the 15th day of April
1820 & 44 year of American Independance.

Nathan Ewing
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Nashville 18th April 1820

Sir
If the within is deemed
sufficient evidence
to procure Mr. John Taylor the applicant a pension certificate you will please to forward it to this office.

Respectfully
Yr. Obd. Sert.,
Stephen Cantrell
Pension Agent


fees paid to be paid to S. Cantrell
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25th Feb 1854
Canni White Co
{illegible}

Sir,
William Taylor executor of John Taylor deceased (Rev. soldier) and son together with his 2 only sisters Sophia Baker & Elizabeth Taylor only surviving children (or heirs at Law) of the late John Taylor, Employ
me and order me to investigate their claims vs.US for " Ballance {balance} due said John Taylor at his death"
said John Taylor was pentioned & drew his first Pension probably about 1817 to 20. His father was drafted & he went as a substitute in his place, was in the horse Co.,
wounded in his 16th year, (they think) at the siege of Little York
he was regularly drafted (or his father) & served till carried off the field ({illegible} application Papers for Pension) that was as
near serving till the end of the war -as may be- They therefore make application for Bounty land (or if it has been set apart please report the Numbers or Bearings).
They also make application for a ballance  {balance} of pension due between the time he was wounded and the time
he drew his first Pension after being put on the Pension Roll. At the time he was pensioned he drew no back {illegible}
 his pension only commenced for that date (did not draw from the time he was wounded). At the time he was wounded there was a draft made to bear his expences {expenses} home (or for a wagon & horses to take him home)- between that time & time he drew his first Pension, the Ballance {balance} between these 2 times-- which he should should have drawn
is the amount which the heirs claim. Then wounded he was litterly {literally} cut to pieces: Right arm nearly cut off in 3 places, head badly wounded - in fact so wounded that he remained during life a cripple- on his children's hands. If ever money were won as Pension by the "Tug of War" it was this case- If ever heirs deserved Ballance {balance} due "twas this.

S. P. Waldo Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

 Your obt. Sert.
Jno Grimes
 Attorney for applicants
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Cumberland County Ss.
 At an Orphan Court held at Carlisle for said County of Cumberland the 23rd day of May 1781 before James Oliver, John Agnew and James Kennedy Esqrs. Justices
of the same Court & on application of John
Taylor Jun. a wounded militia man praying
 the Court to give him an order on the
{illegible} of the County for his pension awarding to law from the end of his last order untill {until} such time as Court shall think proper. To direct the Court order that the said {illegible} Abraham Smith Esqr. pay unto John Taylor Jun. the sum of two shillings and one penny per diem from the nineteenth day of August 1780 being the end of his last order untill {until} the Nineteenth day of August next being-thirty Eight pounds and five pence for one year or three hundred and sixty five Days.

By the Court
Willm. Lyon Clk. of Orphan

The above is a copy of the
pension having as he says
lost the order given him at
the time of application of {illegible}

Jany. 7th 1785
Willm. Lyon of Clk. of Orphan
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within is a true copy or {illegible}
as {illegible}
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W. Lenans War {illegible} to a pension




Newport Ten                          Free
31st October 1808

Hon. Joseph Anderson
Senator in Congress
Washington City
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 {illegible} 30th October 1808 -
Sir after returning you my
Complements
This will give you a
Small Relation of Mr. John Taylor's
Business concerning what I informed
you before you left home (Viz)-
his Captains name was Denny who was
killed in the same battle when Taylor
got wounded. sent {illegible} Cornel Smith
and Col Watts, General Losey Commanded
the regiment- said Taylor was discharged
by Col Watts & Taylor was shot through
the left arm and his right arm
was hacked and cut with a sword so
much that he is disabled and
not able to work also but on the
Head in several places -he was
Several years under the Doctor
after he left the Hospital. Mr. Taylor is a man that always was under an honest carretor {character?} since he was known in this County.
Now has a wife and a large family
 of Children and not able
To maintain them by any kind
of Labour {labor} and as for any proof of
any more should be a wanting he
Says he can go to where the battle
and get proof as much as necessary
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The battle was {illegible} with
in 15 miles of the
City of Philadelphia at a Town Called Crooked Billet  which I suppose was about
thirty years ago, however the year
Mr. Taylor cannot recollect at present.
But by the return of your answer I will
endeavor to find out some more concerning the same &
Sir there is nothing new happened
In the settlement since you left
this Country. I saw Mr. William Hogain
this evening from {illegible} who
says the people are all well in that
Settlement. No more only your
Humble Servant

Daniel M Lennan
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April 16, 1932
BA-J/AWF
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
John Taylor --{ Dis. crossed out}
S.24392
Mrs. C. T. Lord
Enfield
Illinois                    land?
Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter requesting
information in regard to John Taylor, a Revolutionary War pensioner from White County, Illinois.
From the records of this office it appears that
John Taylor served as substitute for his father, whose name is not given, in Captain Denny's company in Colonel Watts' Pennsylvania regiment, and in the battle of
Crooked Billet, received a gunshot wound in his left arm, two sword wounds in his right arm and several sword wounds on his head. He stated that his captain was killed in this battle.
The soldier, John Taylor, was allowed pension
from March 12, 1812, on account of disability resulting from the above mentioned wounds.
In 1808 his wife and family of children were referenced, in 1820 he was living in Humphreys County, Tennessee, and in 1824 he referred to his four motherless children.
It was stated in 1824 that the soldier was then
between the ages of sixty-five and seventy years.
In 1829 he had moved to White County, Illinois.
In 1854 he was referred to as deceased, but no
definite date of death was given.
The following were the only surviving children in
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1854 -- William Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, and Sophia Baker.
The name of the soldier's wife was not
stated, and there are no further data as to children.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Phillipstown, Ill.
May 22nd

L. P. Waldo Esq.
Commissioner
of Pensions
Washington

John Taylor
Ill. @ invalid
Cole
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Carmi, Ills.
18th May A .D. 1854

Sir
Yours of May 3rd/54. In answer to
the claim of the heirs of John Taylor decd.
Rev. Sol. stating that nothing is due; that
"Invalid Pensioners only commence from
the date of their last paper"
That he was a Pa. Militia soldier- therefore no
Bounty land due."
Sir there can be no doubt about the correctness of Your honor's decision as far as it goes-
But I must have neglected presenting to your
Honor the points on which I rest in this case
1st- It is admited {admitted} he was a Rev Sol. who served
2ndly -He ( nor heirs) have never drawn only {for-crossed out} an Invalid pension.
Then
1st-are there any laws prohibiting this invalid
pensioner from Receiving the benefits of the
Acts of 15th May 1828 and other acts granting
(2 year & 6 month soldiers pensions.) at the same time he received the Invalid Pension?
2ndly- could he not have drawn a pension prior to the commencement of his invalid pension?
3rdly-if that right was in him then- when was it forfeited?
If your honor should decide that he cannot draw 2 pensions at once-
4thly- Can he not legally draw under the Acts of May 1828 & others up till the time his Invalid Pension commenced?
Lastly- Have not his children a right to demand that Ballance {balance} which would be due? He was a burden all his life on the heirs- and this case Truely {truly} demands all
the Levity your honor can extend.

I am Respectfully
Your obt. serv.
Jno. M. Grimes Atty for Heirs

His. Hon L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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Tennessee
John Taylor
private
Continental Army
(Original)
Tennessee
to com: 12th March, 1812
{illegible}26 Nov. 1808
Not to be reported on
until further evidence
is furnished.
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Application for a Transfer
State of Illinois County of White ss.

On this seventh day of February 1829, before me, the subscriber, a justice of the peace for the said County of White personally appeared John Taylor who, on his Oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Denney in the regiment commanded by Colonel Watts in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension Roll of the State of Tennessee from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State of Illinois where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable in future; and that his reasons for removing to the State of Illinois were to render his situation in life better.

John Taylor

Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid
John Graw J. P.
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State of Illinois County of White ss
On this seventh day of February 1829 before me, the subscriber a justice of the peace for the County of White personally appeared James Taylor whom I hereby certify to
be a person of veracity, and on his oath declares that he well knows John Taylor, (who this day made oath before me that he is the same person who formerly belonged
to the company commanded by Captain Denney in the regiment commanded by Colonel Watts, in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Tennessee from whence he has lately removed, that he now resides in the State of Illinois where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable in future, and that his reasons for removing to the State of Illinois, were
to render his situation in life better) to be the
person described in said oath, and no other
than the identical person to whom the said
Pension was originally granted.

James Taylor

Sworn and subscribed to before
me, the day and year aforesaid
John Graw J.P.
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State of Illinois
White County ⎬ss.

I James Ratcliff Clerk of the Circuit Court in
and for White County aforesaid do certify that
John Graw Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits of John Taylor and James Taylor were made now is and was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace within and for said County and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of said Court at Carmi this seventh
day of February 1829

Jas. Ratcliff
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Pension Office
June 3, 1854.

Sir,
In reply to the questions propounded
 in your letter of 18 {illegible}:
I {illegible} generally that an invalid pensioner
should be eligible to a pension for his service
 in the war of the Revolution
provided it could be {illegible} that he served at least six months. The law which {illegible} that  {illegible} is the law of June 7,
1832, but the party must be living
at that date to be eligible.
The Act of May 15, 1828 provides {illegible}
for those soldiers of the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution who entered 
and served to the end of the war
 in pursuance of the Resolution of the
Continental Congress of Oct 21, 1780. It did not embrace the {illegible} of
John Taylor who was serving 
in the militia when wounded.  It therefore follows
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that, unless Taylor was alive on the 7th of June
1832, and six months service be established, there are no arrears of pension due.  See the {illegible} under the Act of June 7,1832 enclosed.



John M. Grimes
June 3/54

John M. Grimes ,Esq.
Carmi ,Illinois
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Bungay Ill
Dec 10

Free
Sent

Joseph  Duncan
Member of Congress
from Illinois
City of Washington
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To the Hon. Secretary of War
The Petition of John Taylor of the State of Illinois {illegible} of the State of Tennessee. Your Petitioner would state that he now is
inscribed on the Pension list roll of the West Tennessee Agency at the rate of Eight Dollars per month commencing on the 28th day of
September in the year eight hundred and twenty four {1824?} The certificate
 for which issued the 14th day of Ad 1825. That whenever his pension becomes due he is put to the trouble and expense of traveling  from the State of Illinois to Nashville Tennessee which is a very great inconvenience as well as absorbs in expenses nearly one half the pension. He therefore prays that in future his pension may be directed to be paid by the agent for the State of Illinois and your petitioner{illegible}

John Taylor

Bungay White County Illinois

Witness
George Noble
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Bungay 10th Dec 1828

Dear Sir

 Mr. John Taylor of this neighbourhood {neighborhood} who is an invalid Pensioner applyed {applied}to me to get him placed on the Roll of the Agent for this state, this thing though I know is {illegible}
not having paid any attention to these things I was entirely at a loss to know how it was to be done and therefore drew a petition to the Secretary of War which he has signed
and I have witnessed and now enclose it to you to attend to for him. If the mode taken is not the proper one or if it does not contain sufficient certainty or other informality. If you will immediately write me giving me the {illegible} information how to do it, I will have it done and sent on immediately for he {illegible} the going to and returning from Nashville to receive the cash payment costs him  twenty Dollars .
With sentiments of esteem I am your friend

Geo. Noble
your find &
Geo.
cler.
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Mr. Duncan refers the enclosed letter
to the Hon. Secretary of War
and respectfully requests his attention
to its contents, and to the petition
of John Taylor a pensioner
5th Dec 1828
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WE, the subscribers, Practising Phisitions {physicians} in the town of Nashville,
Tennessee, do hereby certify, that, after a careful examination in the case of
John Taylor who is now on the Pension Roll of the State of Tennessee, we are of opinion that his disability does continue.
His disability is created by a gunshot wound in the left fore arm and two wounds in the right arm by sword also a sword wound on the head.
And further, that the degree of disability, under which he labors at present is
entire being nothing less than the original degree of disability for which he was placed on the Pension Roll. 

Martin W. B. Armstrong M.D.
Boyd  Warainy M.D.

Sworn and subscribed to before me, this
26th day of Sept 1825.
Robt Hewitt

I certify that I am acquainted with the Phisitions {physicians}, who have signed the
above certificate; and that they are reputable in their profession.
Robt Hewitt, Justice of the Peace
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James Barbour Esquire
Secretary of War
Washington City


John Taylor for increase

Thos. Crutcher Esq.
Nashville, Tenn.
Rec'd 13 Oct. 1825
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This Pensioner very much disabled and certainly a very {llegible} man
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Nashville 26th Sept 1825

Dear Sir,
Inclosed {enclosed} you will find the papers relative to the case of John
Taylor Pensioner - You will find his
Pension Certificate as required by a
letter addressed to me by the P.  Agent.
I hope you will have return
made of the necessary papers addressed
 to Thomas Crutcher in Nashville Tenn.

I have the honor to be your most ob. serv.
Sam Houston



Hon J Barbour
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Hon. John Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City


see letter 18 Feb. 1825
to Hon S. Houston, H. R.
Taylor letter returned to Hon. S.
Houston Feb. 21, 1825
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District of West Tennessee
This may certify that John Taylor,
(who appears to be placed upon the pension list of the United States by a certificate dated the 7th day of June 1820) came before me, and
made oath that he is much more incapable
of obtaining his livelyhood {livelihood}, than he was when he first obtained his pension, that he has four motherless children to support. Therefore prays that his pension may be increased to the sum which others
receive who are not less able to support
themselves than he is.
Therefore I do hereby appoint
and authorise {authorize} you, (confiding in your integrity and ability as physicians,)
to examine the said John Taylor upon
Oath touching his wounds, and upon said
examination and your own inspection
you will report in writing and upon
Oath the increased extent and injury of
said wounds, and in what degree
the said John Taylor is disabled from
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obtaining his livelihood by manual
labor or whether he is totally disabled.
Given under my hand this 22d day
September 1824

John {Illegible}
District Judge

This may certify that the said John
Taylor was sworn to the statement of
facts set forth in the foregoing part of
the preceding writing
John  {illegible}

To Doctor James Roane and Boyd
{illegible} of the Town of Nashville
Tennessee
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Nashville 23d Sept 1824

 In pursuance of the foregoing appointment, we have examined John Taylor aged between sixty five and seventy years, the person within mentioned, touching the wounds and disabilities he received in the service of the
United States during the
Revolutionary War, and find that he received
several wounds-one in the right wrist, one in
the elbow joint which has stiffened it, so that
it has no motion, one behind the left shoulder
which several wounds in our opinion totally
disables him from obtaining his living
by labour. {labor}
 J. Roane M.D.
Boyd {illegible} M. D.


Sworn to before me

J. Norvell
Justice of Peace

Therefore the said John Taylor Prays
his pension may be increased.

John Taylor
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Enfield, Ill
March 5, 1932.

Veterans Administration
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

 Dear Sir,
 I find in the White County (Illinois)
History that John Taylor was a Revolutionary
soldier and was wounded at Camden.
He was drawing a pension of $8 a month
at the time of his death in 1837.
I also find in the White County Court
records that Edward {illegible} applied
for a pension from White County, Ill
about 1833.
I would be very grateful for
any information about these men.
Very truly yours,
Margaret D. Land
(Mrs. C. J.)

Registrar Wabash
Chapter D.A.R.
Carmi, Ill.


Edmond {illegible}
R. 3474
reply in there also
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{stamp}
Received Mar 7 1932
Receipt Section
Pension Files Division
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24392
INVALID.
 No. 24.392
John Taylor
Pri.
Rev. War
Act:
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 412

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1932 April 16 hist. to Mrs . C J. Land aux.