Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14650, for Azariah Taylor, Connecticut

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SERVICE   Conn.
Taylor, Azariah
NUMBER  S. 14650
Carded

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3059 
Connecticut 
Azariah Taylor 
of Glastonbury in the State of Connt who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Elderkin of the Regt commanded Col Swift in the Connt line for 18 mos 3 days 
Inscribed on the Roll of Connt at the rate of 60 Dollars 31 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Decem 1832 and sent to George Merrick Esq.South Glastonbury 
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832   $90.46 
Semi-an. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 30.15 
$120.61 
{Book Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by Eras. D. Bullock Clerk
Book D Vol. 5 Page 69

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No 4,460
En’d April 27, ‘77
Dis’d Janu’y 8 ‘78
Rolls
A.  Taylor

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State of Connecticut 
County of Hartford } ss  On this 21st day of Aug AD 1832 Personally appeared in open Court before County Court for the County of Hartford now sitting at Hartford in said county, Azariah Taylor a resident of Glastonbury in Hartford County and State of Connecticut aged seventy four years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. 
1st Service. In August 1776 I was drafted for two months, and immediately went in a vessel to New York and then crossed to Long Island and was driven off the Island in the night to New York, and was then stationed at Horns Hook now “Hall Gate" till my time was out & I was verbally discharged. I served under Col. Talcott, but do not know what command he had at that time. David Taylor is the only person being that I know of that served with me. 
2nd service 27th day of May 1777 I was drafted into the United States Service and soon after joined the army at Peekskill barracks.   I served in Swifts Regiment, Lt. Col. Starr, Major Sedgwick,  Adjutant Converse, Capt. Elderkin & Lieut Grover.  
At Peekskill I had the small Pox. After I recovered I volunteered under Lt. Grover and went to Elizabeth town N. Jersey and to what was then called the English neighborhood. Upon our return to Peekskill we found our Regiment had gone into the Jerseys. I followed on and joined our Regiment in Jersey: before the battle of Germantown. I was present in that battle.  Our battalion was compelled to retreat to a breast work where we kept the Brittish off a while, and then we retreated back to our encampment. Previous to the battle our baggage was sent to Reading & I lost my great coat there. I continued with the army till my time was out, and was there marched under the command of Lieut. Baldwin to Peekskill or Kings ferry where I was discharged. I do not know any person living who served with me there. I had no written discharge. I served at this time Eight months & three days.

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3rd Service 
I was drafted and went to New Haven as Doct Coleman's waiter.   Col. Talcott was there, & Samuel Price was his waiter.  They are now all dead. Served two months. Do not recollect any other particulars, nor the year 
4th Service - I was afterwards in the year 1781 drafted and went to New London & Groton as Doct Coleman's waiter, George Talcott was quartermaster Sergeant, served two months, and went home eight or ten days before the Massacre at Fort Groton.   
5th Service same year was drafted and went to Old Milford and served two months under Ensign Elisha Goodrich.   Goodrich commanded the party & is now dead. I come home in January 1782 in a deep snow.   
6th Service In the year 1782 I was again drafted for two months, and went to Middle Haddam to cut Facines for Fort Groton. From there I went to Mohegon by way of New London and Norwich, where I was discharged.   
Thomas Brooks was orderly Sergeant and commanded the party. He is now dead. Thomas Tryon of this place was one of the party and is living.  I served at this time two months. 
And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.   That he has no documentary evidence to prove his service or knows of no evidence except what he has stated above.   
Azariah Taylor 
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid

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We Samuel H. Riddel a clergyman residing in Stirling said and Pardon Brown Esq residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Azariah Taylor who has subscribed and sworn the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion, and that he is a man of truth & veracity.
Samuel H. Riddel
Pardon Brown
Hartford County ss Glastonbury   
On this 18th day of August 1832 Personally appeared Samuel H. Riddle and Pardon Brown and subscribed and made oath to the above certificate 
Before me George Merrick Just. Peace  
And to the interrogatories put by the Court answers 
1st That he was born in Glastonbury County of Hartford and State of Connecticut on the 6 day of July 1758 
2d I know of no record of my age. 
3 I lived in Glastonbury aforesaid when called into the service where I have had ever since except when absent on business 
4th For an answer to this question he refers to his general statement above 
5th For an answer to this question he refers to his general statement above, and recollects no other offices than what he has named, and he has also stated there the general circumstances of his services so for as recollected. 
6th I never received a written discharge, but when the term of service was expired was discharged by order

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7th I am acquainted with the Revd Samuel H Riddel and Pardon Brown Esq. who can testify as character for truth and veracity and their belief services as a soldier of the revolution.   
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, after putting the interrogatories proscribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, & served as he states. And the Court further certifies it appears to them that Samuel H. Riddel has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in Glastonbury in said County, and that Pardon Brown, who has signed the same, is a resident in said Glastonbury & is a credible person, & that their statement is entitled to credit. 
The Court further certifies, that said Sam H. Riddel & Pardon Brown could not be produced in Court without too much inconvenience & expense to the said Azariah Taylor.   
I, Jared Griswold, Clerk of the County Court the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court, in the matter of the application of said Azariah Taylor for a Pension. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of first day of August AD. 1832 
Jared Griswold, Clerk C. C. M. G. Connecticut
Azariah Taylor 
Declaration of Service

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I David Taylor of Glastonbury in Hartford County depose and say that I am Seventy six years old and am well acquainted with Azariah Taylor - he is my brother.   
In the year 1776 I was drafted and went to Long Island, my brother Azariah Taylor aforesaid was in the same company, we were driven of Long Island in the night.  My brother aforesaid served at this time two months or more.   
I am also knowing to my said brother going to the army on the North River in the year 1777.   He was gone at this time about nine months & I have no doubt he served about that time. 
Said Azariah also went into the service to my knowledge a number of times, after that term, two or three terms.  I recollect of his being waiter to Doct Coleman now deceased.  My said brother is seventy four years old. And further the deponent saith not.   
David Taylor  
Hartford County Glastonbury 
On this 13th day of August 1832 personally appeared the above named David Taylor and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed, and I also certify that he is a man of truth and veracity and his statements entitled to credit
George Merrick Just. Peace

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State of Connecticut 
County of Hartford } ss  
I Jared Griswold Clerk of the County Court for said County do hereby certify That George Merrick before whom the foregoing affidavit of David Taylor was taken was on the 13th day of August 1832 a Justice of the Peace for said County of Hartford, & I believe that the signature, purporting to be his is genuine.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twenty first day of August AD. 1832.   
Jared Griswold Clerk of Co. Ct. Hd Co Connecticut

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Rev.&1812 Wars Section. MMHF  
March 6, 1929
Dr. Arthur K. Harris, 
Colfax, Washington. 
Sir:  
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 14650, it appears that Azariah Taylor was born July 6, 1758 in Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut. 
While a resident of Glastonbury, Connecticut he enlisted in August 1776 and served two months as a private under Colonel Talcott in the Connecticut Troops. 
He enlisted May 27, 1777, served eight months and three days as a private in Captain Elderkin's Company, Colonel Swift's Connecticut Regiment and was in the battle of Germantown.
Afterwards, he served two months at New Haven as waiter to Doctor Coleman, and in 1781 served two months as waiter to said Doctor at New London and Groton. 
He enlisted late in 1781 and served two months under Ensign Elisha Goodrich, and in 1782 two months under orderly Sergeant Thomas Brooks in the Connecticut Troops.

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He was allowed pension on his application executed August 21, 1832 while a resident of Glastonbury, Connecticut.   
There are no data on file as to his family, except the following reference to his brother, David Taylor, who was living in Glastonbury, Connecticut in 1832 aged seventy-six years and made an affidavit in support of said Azariah Taylor's pension claim, stating that he (David) enlisted in 1778 and went to Long Island in the same company with his brother Azariah, but it does not appear that said David ever made a claim for pension. 
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Daniel Andrews, or other spelling, who served in the Connecticut Troops or who was pensioned from that state. 
Respectfully, 
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

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[Revolutionary &] 1812 Wars Section 
July 14, 1926
Miss Marion Standish 
South Glastonbury, Conn. 
Madam;  
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 14850 it appears that Azariah Taylor was born July 6, 1758 in Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut. 
While a resident of Glastonbury, Connecticut, he enlisted in August 1776 and served two months as a private under Colonel Talcott in the Connecticut Troops. 
He enlisted May 27, 1777, served eight months and three days as a private in Captain Elderkin's Company, Colonel Swift's Connecticut Regiment and was in the battle of Germantown.
Afterwards, he served two months at New Haven as waiter to Doctor Coleman, and in 1781 served two months as waiter to said Doctor at New London and Groton. 
He enlisted late in 1781 and served two months under Ensign Elisha Goodrich, and in 1782 two months under Orderly

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Sergeant Thomas Brooks in the Connecticut Troops. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 21, 1832 while a resident of Glastonbury, Connecticut . 
There is no data on file as to his family, except the following reference to his brother, David Taylor, who was living in Glastonbury, Connecticut in 1832 aged seventy six years and made an affidavit in support of said Azariah Taylor's pension claim, stating that he (David) enlisted in 1776 and went to Long Island in the same company with his brother Azariah, but it does not appear that said David ever made a claim for pension. 
Respectfully, 
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

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Please to make return to the order of George Merrick South Glastonbury Connt

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South Glastonbury Conn 
May 2, 1926 
I am writing to ask for the record of service of David and Azariah Taylor of So. Glastonbury, in the Rev. War. 
I noted in the Record of Ct. men in the Rev. War it stated Act of 1832  they were pensioned. Also in 1840 a census was taken and Azariah was found to be still living and receiving a pension, being 83 years old. 
I understand they were in active militia in Capt. Johnathan Wells Co. I believe they fought all 4 years of the war but am not sure. I shall need this date to fill out my papers to become a D. A. R. Was the pension just from 1832 till their death? 
David Taylor born -- 1756 died Sept. 19, 1837 
Azariah Taylor --  1757 died Feb. 15, 1843 
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At the same time I should like the record of Capt. Johnathan Wells' term of service and his pension period. Mr. Wells is my grandfather on my father's side. The stones which have been erected do not state the term of service. 
I am enclosing stamped return envelope for the above information. It is a wonderful thing to have records kept of these things. I have been searching all available records not only for myself but two cousins out west.

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[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE S MAY 7 1926

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I thank you for assisting me in this work. It certainly means a lot to me. 
Very truly yours, 
Marion J. Standish
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE S MAY 7 1926

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1926  July 14 Hist. to Miss Marion Standish MMHF
1929 Mch. 6. Hist. to Dr. A. K. Harris MMHF  
Glastonbury 
Rev War
14650
File No. 14650 
Azariah Taylor 
Pri Rev. War 
Act: June 7”, 1832 
Index -- Vol. 1, Page 370 
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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[stamp]   REVOLUTIONARY & 1812 WARS SECTION FEB 2 1929 BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Colfax, Washington, Jan. 28, 1929.
U. S. Department of Interior, 
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sirs: 
I am in receipt of a letter from Marion Standish of South Glastonbury, Conn. stating that she had received a letter from the Bureau of Pensions to the effect that one David Taylor of Glastonbury,  Conn, served in the Revolutionary War but never applied for a pension, but his brother Azariah Taylor applied for and received same. The following statement follows in quotation marks: "David, who was living in Glastenbury Ct. in 1832, aged 76 years made an affidavit in support of said Azariah Taylor's pension claim stating that he (David) enlisted in 1776 and went to Long Island in the same company with his brother Azariah." I would like to have confirmation of the above statement. Also, I would like to know if Daniel Andrews or Andrus from Glastonbury, Conn, applied for a Pension. He took the oath of fidelity in 1777 in Glastonbury and served in 2nd Co. 5th Regiment as militia. Any information will be greatly appreciated. 
Sincerely yours, 
Arthur K. Harris M.D. 
Arthur K. Harris M.D.
OWN Section
Conn Trps who was [unreadable]