Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,463, for Prince Taylor, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)

Service: Mass

Taylor, Prince

Number: S. 42.463

Contents:
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[vertically situated on left side] Notif^n sent Dec^r 8th, 1820 to Tho^s Stower
Ticonderoga Essex Co. N.Y. k

3386.
New [Hampshire is crossed out] York Roll
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Prince Taylor,  [symbol, looks like interlocking checkmarks]
Capt Pillsbury
Private
Massachusetts Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary Wa[r]
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York - 
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 6th of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of October 1818 and sent to Sam^l H. Wicher
Ticonderoga-
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Arrears to 4th of Sept^r 1818  mo4&29/30--39.73
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819 -- 48.-
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$87.73

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March 1818,}
3 years 1783

[checkmark] Continue
Ticonderoga, Essex Co
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42463
Revy INVALID.

File No. 42,463
Prince Taylor
Pri Rev War
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Act: 18 March 18
Index:-Vo. 5, Page 501

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Prince Taylor
Ticonderoga 3386
Essex Co  6 Oct 18
[faint initials] NY
rc^d

[large, in pencil] C
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STATE OF NEW YORK}
COUNTY OF ESSEX ss:} On this 28th day of September 1820 Personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said County of Essex Prince Taylor of Ticonderoga in said County of Essex who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows:- That in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight in the month of June or July he enlisted in the United States Naval service as a Steward on board the Brig diligence under Captain - Brown, & continued in said service five months when he was discharged, & that on the sixth day of March one thousand seven hundred & eighty one he enlisted as a Soldier in the continental service under Capt. Daniel Pillsbury in the sixth Regiment of the Massachusetts line of Infantry commanded by Lieut Col Calvin Smith & continued to serve therein till the twenty-second day of December one thousand  seven hundred & eighty three when he was discharged from the second line of the said Regiment - that he was in the battle of the White Plains that the date of his original declaration is 6th April 1818 and number of his  certificate 3386

And I [name inserted] Prince Taylor 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 since that time,  by gift, sale, or in any manner [next word inserted] whatever disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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" pass'd on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, And that I am unable to perform manual labour by reason of age & two ruptures which have been of long standing, that [illegible 3 words inserted above] and I have no relations to assist in supporting me nor my family that I am by trade a Taylor
Prince Taylor

Sworn to and delivered in open court on the twenty eighth day of September 1820 before me Thos. Stower Clerk--
I Thomas Stower Clerk of Essex Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court; and I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court; that the total Amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is sixty nine Dollars and forty three Cents - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court on this 28th day of September 1820
Tho^s. Stower Clerk [signature]
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A Schedule of the whole estate and income of Prince Taylor of Ticonderoga in the County of Essex & State of New York, (his necessary clothing & bedding excepted)
One Shoat
One Cow
Two calves
One small old cherry table
One fine table
Ten chairs
One Iron pot - dish - kettle & tea-kettle
One frying pan & one Skillet
One small looking-glass
Six earthen dining plates
Six small plates do.
Five case knives & forks
Two iron candlesticks
One iron fire shovel & tongs
One pair of cast iron [next word inserted] broken and irons
Two old meat barrels
One old flesh fork
One Ax
One hoe
One pitch fork
One hammer
One pair of pinchers
One [illegible, looks like 'quintlet']
One razor strop & box
Two old pine chests
One small sheat iron Stove & twelve feet of pipe
Two [illegible] baskets
one bible one [illegible] Book
Other old Religious books to the value of twelve dollars
4 [illegible] bowls
Value of the whole sixty nine dollars and forty three cents
Due to me in small debts about ninety dollars & no more
I am owing bona fide one hundred and twenty dollars
Prince Taylor
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Prince Taylor
6 April

[faintly written, possibly erased] Correct by me
discharge from
Genl Knox

**refers to the Clerks certificate
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State of New York}
Essex County Ss.}
On this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen before me Ebenezer Douglass one of the judges of the court of Common pleas of the County of Essex, personally appears Prince Taylor aged sixty three years resident in the town of Ticonderoga in the said County of Essex, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,, that he the said Prince Taylor enlisted in the United States service on the continental establishment in the second company of the sixth Massachusetts Regiment & Massachusetts line said company was commanded by Daniel Pillsbury - that he enlisted in the town of Lancaster in the State of Massachusetts for on the fifth day of March in the year seventeen hundred & eighty one for the term of three years - that he continued to serve in the said corps, as in the service of the United States until the twenty-third day of December seventeen hundred eight three when he was discharged from service at West Point on the Hudson's River in the State of New York (as may be seen by his said original discharge here inclosed signed by Major General Knox and that he is the identical person described in & by the said discharge) that he was not in any general Battle and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support & that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. (and hereby relinquishes his claim to every Pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States & wishes the Secretary for the Department of War to place his name on the Pension list of the United States as the law in such case made & provided directs)
Prince Taylor [signature]
Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid
Ebenezer Douglass [signature]- 
One of the Judges of Essex County common Pleas as aforesaid}
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State of New York
Essex County Ss.} 
I the said Ebenezer Douglass one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Prince Taylor did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration & in his inclosed discharge against the common enemy; And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress
Given under my hand & the Seal of the Court
this sixth day of April 1818
Ebenezer Douglass [signature] one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex
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BY THE HONOURABLE
MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX
Commanding the American Forces on Hudson's River.
Prince Taylor Soldier in the second Massachusetts Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States. 

Given in the State of New-York,
the 23^d Day of Decem^r.
1783
By the General's Command,  
H Knox M Gen^l [signature]

REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment, 
A. Tupper Adjutant. [signature]