Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24667, for Thomas Taylor, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Taylor, Thomas Brown, Abigail
W. 24667
Former Widow
CONTENTS

1206
Name
Abigail Brown Daughter widow of Thomas Taylor who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private & matross
Reported
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 40
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of August 1848 and sent to
Mrs A. W. Holapp Pittsburgh Pa
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 2, Vol. 1

13.041
Massachusetts
Thomas Taylor
of Gloucester in the state of Mass s who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Tupper of the Mass s line, for the term of 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of July 1819 and sent to William Wetmore Esq. Judge Boston Mass s
  Arrears to 4th of March 1819  $88.49    Semi-ann. all ce ending Sept. .  48.    10 m 128 / 30 4/31  $136.49  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
(Continued)
Notwithstanding the fact that the said Thomas Taylor was not entitled to a pension under the act of 1818

State of Maine
County of Cumberland ss. On this twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty five personally appeared before the Hon. Barrett Potter judge of Probate within and for said County Abigail Brown a resident of New Gloucester in the County aforesaid aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth upon her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows, and for the benefit of the subsequent acts of Congress pass d March 3 rd 1843 and June 17 th 1844.
That her husband Thomas Taylor for whose service she claims a pension removed from the Town of Gloucester in the County of Essex State of Massachusetts in the year 1829 and that he was placed upon the pension roll for the state aforesaid under the Act of 1818 at the rate of 8 dollars per month. She believes that her said husband served eight months in a company of Matross in 1775 under Capt Joseph Chadwick - That he served in Capt Stephen Dana's company 17 days and in in Capt David Goodwin's company 23 days.
She also believes that he served in Capt Dimes company in the years 1779 & 1780 nine months and also served under Ensign Blasdale & Capt Champney in 1780 & 1781 believing nine and ten months. She has no doubt that her

former husband the said Thomas Taylor performed all the Service set forth in the Certificate herunto appended from the Secretary of State Mass
And she refers the Commission of Pensions to the Declaration of her said husband Thomas Taylor made as aforesaid for the benefit of the act of 1818
She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Taylor on the 14th day of March 1789 and that her husband the aforesaid Thomas Taylor died on the Second day of April 1829 and that she was afterwards married to Joseph Brown who died on the twenty third day of March — 1838 and she is now a widow and has remained a widow ever since the death of her last named husband as will appear by the evidence herunto annexed
Abigail J Brown mark
Signed and sworn to before me by the above said Abigail Brown the day and year first above written.
Barrett Potter { Judge of Probate for the County of Cumberland
I Barrett Potter Judge of Probate within and for said County of Cumberland do further certify that I have this day administered the oath to the aforesaid deponent at her residence in New Gloucester in said County and that by reason of bodily infirmity

She is unable to attend court.
Barrett Potter
Judge of Probate
And I also further certify that it has been satisfactorily proved, by credible witnesses produced before me, that the said Priscilla Brown is now a widow as set forth in her declaration aforesaid — Barrett Potter Judge of the Court of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
March 11. 1846.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Thomas Taylor of Charlestown, is borne as a matross, upon a Roll of Capt. Joseph Chadwick, Col. Richard Gridley, in the 8 months service of 1775 dated at Charlestown, where said Camp y was then stationed, Sept r 30; — upon the Coat Roll dated Nov r 21 st Upon a Muster Roll of the same, dated Dec r 11, it is shown that he enlisted May 13 th ; — the name of said Taylor is also borne upon a pay Roll of Capt. Stephen Dana, Col. McIntosh, in service at the lines in Boston, from March 31 to April 16, — 17 days; — the year is not stated upon this roll, but in Council, June 17. 1778, it was ordered to be paid; — his name is further borne upon a pay Roll of men detached from Capt. David Goodwin's Camp y in Col. Samuel Thatcher's Reg t to guard the Convention troops on Bunker Hill, from Jan y 4. to 26, 1779 — 23 days; — Also upon several Lists or Rolls of the 9 months men, service from

To the Secretary of State, Massachusetts Abigail, widow of Thomas Saylor a soldier in the war of the Revolution and a pensioner, requests evidence of the services of her late husband — Said Saylor was a native of Charleston Mem. and enlisted while residing in Gloucester in said State, and served, as this applicant believes at least two years as a soldier in the Revolution- ary war, but in what Company she is unable to state. This applicant has been advised that proof of all the services of said Saylor is necessary to enable her to obtain a pension as widow of Thomas Saylor — She therefore requests that an examination of the rolls be made and a certificate granted of the length of her late husband's service in the Revolutionary war.
Abigail her  mark Saylor
Cumberland ss Feb 3 rd 1845 signed by making a cross in my presence, Jacob Herrick just. peace.

July 17. 1779 to April 17. 1780; or Major Capt n Sterns, Col n Goodwin, — Upon a Descriptive List of the 37 th division of the six months men marched from Springfield under the care of Ensign Wardale, Aug. 19. 1780 — arrived there the 18 th — enlisted Aug. 19 & served to Feb y 17. 1781, including allowance for 220 miles travel, 6 months 18 days; — And the name of Thomas Taylor is borne upon a pay roll of Capt n Caleb Champney's Comp y . in Maj r Nath l Heath's guards in and about Boston, from May 6. to Aug. 2. 1780, 2 months 28 days — but this roll does not show the town to which either
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
of the men be- longed. On all the preceding named rolls, except the first said Taylor is entered as a "private"
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Taylor Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office Boston February 24 th 1845.
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Henry Phelps, was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned: and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
7
John G. Sleeper
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

"Mr. Thomas Taylor & Miss. Abigail Griffin, both of this Town, were married by Rev. Mr. Forbes March fourth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine."
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the Record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible characters as follows
"March 4 th 1789."
William Saville Town Clerk of Gloucester.
I William Saville do testify and say, that I am the Town Clerk of Gloucester, County of Essex, State of Massachusetts, duly chosen, and sworn, and that all the Records of said Town are in my possession, that the foregoing certificate was taken from said Records, and is a true and faithful copy of the same.
William Saville Town Clerk of Gloucester.
Essex ss. February 11 th 1815.
Subscribed & sworn to before me
Henry Phelps, Jus. Pacis.

11826 Abigail Brown former mother of R d March 29. 1845. Hannah Taylor
Me
act 7 July 1838
m 84 @ 29
1775. Nov 17 @ Nahant
4. 13. 1 m.
24 - 100
Freeman Bradford Portland. Maine

"Mr. Joseph Brown Died March twenty third One thousand eight hundred & thirty eight." I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is express'd in fair legible characters as follows "March 23. 1838." Thomas Johnson Town Clerk of New Gloucester
"January Twenty seventh One thousand eight hundred and thirty one Mr. Joseph Brown of Pownal was married to Mrs. Abigail Taylor of this town by Rev. Benjamin Rice." I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is express'd in fair legible characters as follows "January 27. 1831." Thomas Johnson Town Clerk of New Gloucester
I Thomas Johnson do testify and say that I am the Town Clerk of New Gloucester, County of Cumberland and State of Maine duly chosen and sworn and that all the Records of said Town are in my possession that the forgoing certificates were taken from said Records and are a true and faithful copy of the same. Thomas Johnson Town Clerk of New Gloucester

Cumberland Jo March 24 th 1845 personally appeared Thomas Johnson and made oath that the within certificates and affidavit by him sign- ed were true before me
Jacob Herrick Justice of the Peace

State of Maine.
Cumberland County ss
I John Appleton, Register of the Probate Court for Said County, hereby certify that Barrett Potter, whose name is affixed to the foregoing declaration of Abigail Brown and to the certificate following the same, is Judge of Said Court - That he is duly qualified to act as such according to the laws of Maine - That the several signatures attached to said declaration and certificate purporting to be his are genuine - and that said Court is a Court of record - I further certify that Jacob Herrick, whose name is attached to a request of said Abigail Taylor on page 7 - was at the date of said certificate a Justice of the Peace for Said County, duly appointed & qualified - That his commission as such was dated March 13 th 1838 and expired March 13 th 1845 -
Witness my hand and the Seal of Said Court This Twenty Sixth day of March A. D. 1845 -
John Appleton

✓ Thos. Taylor Know us? pg 6 - 147 Suppers. Map. 15 Reg. 9 m. 1779-1780
Adm. S. 11
✓
Further evidence certified June 30 1819. →

State of Massachusetts
I Thomas Taylor — a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Gloucester in the County of Essex — in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the month of April in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & seventy five
I entered and was engaged in the service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the month of April in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & eighty — in the Massachusetts line of the army as a private in Capt. Merrill's company, in Col. Knowlton's regiment of artillery for one year & nine months and to the month of January 1780 I was in Capt. Merrill's company in the same regiment for one year for which year I have no proof of service and that I left the service in the month of April being honorably discharged
and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty two years the discharge is lost by lapse of time & I have no other evidence to offer than is herewith exhibited for my eight months service from April 1775 to December following which was in Col. Knowlton's regiment of artillery, on account of my infirmities, I cannot collect the evidence for my year service in 1776, Capt. Merrill's book, who was paymaster of the company are here produced as evidence for my service in Col. Tappan's regiment & the Major's company, which was nine months from July 1775 to April 1776 for which term I enlisted to reinforce the Continental army, the books in the Secy's office will show it. And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Thomas Taylor
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me the Subscribers One of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit, within the State aforesaid & Presiding pro hac vice
the abovenamed Thomas Taylor and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the matter aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony
Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of said Court I also certify that the within named Deponents are credible witnesses & have been duly sworn & are disinterested.
Wm Wetmore

I John Oliver of Charlestown in the State of Massachusetts do testify & say that I was a private in Col. Knox's reg t ment of Artillery, & Capt Eliphalet Newell's company in the year 1776. & well knew the within named declarant Thos. Taylor & that he served in s d company with me during the whole year, our enlistment being for a year, at one continued period, without interruption. I now also have examined the original book of Capt Newell of the names of his company, & find my own & Thos. Taylor's among others, & of the payments to us by him I have no doubt it is original & correct. John Oliver
Sworn to before me
W m Wetmore the Judge within named
June 30. 1819. I now further certify, that the book of Capt Eliphalet Newhall, now deceased, who appears thereby to have been the Captain of a company in Col. Knox's reg t ment of Artillery in the year 1776, on the Continental establishment, to have been paymaster of that company, being produced to me, by one of his heirs it appears to be an original book of accounts, against all the officers of s d company, and the several private soldiers therein to the number of 52. and of his payments to them respectively settlement of their accounts for their service, in for the year 1776, in s d company, among the privates therein named is the said Thomas Taylor, who I have no reason to doubt is the within named declarant, & that he served therein during the year 1776, the s d Book appears to be of old date & writing & without any appearance of fraud or fraudulent interpolation or insertion but of too great bulk to be transmitted to Washington by mail. I also certify the supplementary evidence of the further service of the declarant for nine months, from the Secretary's office of this Commonwealth. Witness my hand & the seal of the Court aforesaid as within affixed. I also certify that the declarant is in the same poverty, & stands in need of subsistence from his country for support. W m Wetmore

We the subscribers inhabitants of the town of Gloucester depose & say that we are acquainted with the within named declarant & believe him to be in his circumstances in life reduced & indigent & we never heard his character for veracity called in question.
Isaac Elwell Charles D. Roberts
Sworn to before me
Wm Wetmore the Judge within named

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,
June 30 th 1819
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that Thomas Taylor served as a Soldier in Capt.  the Major's Company, and Col. Tufts's Regiment. (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from July 17 th 1779 to April 17 th 1780 , being nine  nine months, the time for which he enlisted -
Alden Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

13041
Thomas Taylor
23 July 1819
Concl'd Sep 25. 1820
Em

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Thomas Taylor resident in Gloucester in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 13,041 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Thomas Taylor late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the third day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ***** “Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty third day of July , one thousand eight hundred and nineteen ” ***** L. S. ***** J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War.”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
Real estate - Half of an old house, out of repair, two stories high, one room on the floor, 20 feet by 18, not tenantable 3 years past - $75.00
Personal estate -
Three old tables 1.50, 1 doz: old chairs & broken 1.32, Little crockery 1.00 - 3.82 1/2 doz. knives & forks 20c Small shovel stones 20c And irons 25c bellows 25c - .90 Old bureau 4.00, 2 old trunks 1.00, Pot. 2 kettles, skillet, sea-irons 1.75 - 6.75 Looking glass 1.00 Tin ware 1.00 - 2.00 Sundry small articles which his wife sells, viz: 100 begars, 4 doz: bottles, 1/2 doz. brooms, 1 lb peppermints, 7 lb ginger, spice, pepper, snuff thread, needles, pins, many other trifling articles, whole value 15.00 } 15.00
$28.47
Has no income nor debts due to him -
He owes to sundry persons - $44.00
He is sixty six years of age next August, a baker, general debility, cannot get employ in his trade and unable to do a days work for some time past - Has no family residing with him except Abigail his wife aged 50 years, who is too feeble to do any labor, and

all that she contributes to her support is by selling the small articles above mentioned -
He served as a private in the Revolutionary war in Capt. Eliphalet Newhall's company, in Col. Knox's Regiment of Artillery, in the Massachusetts line, all of the year 1776
Thomas Taylor
Sworn to & declared before Wm Wetmore Judge within named

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Thomas Taylor do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner 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," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Thomas Taylor
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Thomas Taylor took and subscribed the aforesaid Oath before me
Wm Wetmore
Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do 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 fifty nine — dollars forty seven cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

Thos Taylor was pensioned from Massachusetts Served in the rev. under Capt. Alpheus Sewell of Mass line. He has been dead upwards of 20 years. His widow Abigail Brown, (which was her name from a second marriage) was pensioned Maine, & paid at Portland. She died about two years since.
H. C. Spalding

N 11826 Abigail Brown formerly Widow of Thos. Taylor Me act 7 July 1838
Adm o .
19 mo 17 cays interest $81.70 4 " 13 " int. 14.76 $96.46
Adm o . acts March 1843 and 17 June 1844 $96.46 per ann
Freeman Bradford Portland Me

Portland 26 March 1845
Sir
I herewith transmit the papers in the case of Abigail Brown formerly widow of Thomas Taylor for the benefits of the provisions of the acts of July 7 1838 March 3 d 1843 & June 17 th 1844.
I am very respectfully
Your O bt . Servt
F. Woodford
J. G. Edwards Esq Comm r . of Pensions Washington, D. C.

Portland May 6th 1845
Sir
On the 26th of March last I forwarded to your Department the declaration and other proof connected with the claim of Abigail Brown formerly the widow of Thomas Taylor who was a soldier in the Revolution. The Certificate of the Register of Probate did not show that Jacob Herrick was a Magistrate on the day he administered the oath to some of the witnesses in the case. I herewith forward a Certificate of Court showing that Jacob Herrick was qualified to act as a justice of the peace at the time the affidavits were sworn to - Please file the Certificate in the above case
I am very respectfully
Your Obt Servt.
H. Brainerd
J. S. Edwards Esq., Commr. of Pensions Washington D.C.

Jacob Merrill
State of Maine.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
I — Charles Cobb — Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, certify that, _____
Jacob Merrill esq. is a Magistrate
as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is duly qualified to act as such; that his Commission bears date September 24. 1841 and will expire September 24. 1848 _____
and that the — above — signature purporting to be his — is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the — Supreme Judicial — Court for said State, this — Sixth — day of May Anno Domini 1845.
Charles Cobb CLERK.

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, ss:
CLERK'S OFFICE, JUDICIAL COURTS, }
Portland, June 28th A. D. 1845 }
I, Charles C Harmon CLERK of all the JUDICIAL COURTS in and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Chas C. Grose is an acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is Duly qualified to act as such; that the Commission of the said Grose is dated June 26th is dated A. D. 1846, and will expire June 26th A. D. 1853
and that the following SIGNATURE purporting to be his is Genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, the day and year first above written.
Chas C. Harmon CLERK.

State of Maine:
County of Cumberland
On this twenty sixth day of June A.D. 1848. personally appeared before me the Subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for said County. Abigail Brown a resident of said Gloucester aged Seventy nine 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 the 2 nd day February A.D. 1848. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Thomas Taylor who was Mustered in the Army in Capt. Elihu Merrill's Company, from the town of Cumberland, Massachusetts, that said Th: Taylor died December a day of April 1839.
She further declares that she has received the benefits of the acts of Congress passed 7 July 1838. 3 rd March 1843 & 17 June 1844. at the rate of Ninety Six dollars per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow & has not intermarried since the decease of Mrs. Brown her last husband. Witness - Otis C. Greely Mrs. Mary Bradbury
Abigail X Brown
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before me Otis C. Greely Justice of the Peace

6901.
Maine
Abigail Brown, formerly widow of Thomas Taylor who was a private & Matrop in the Revolution.
Ref 25 Certificates Act 1838 " 1843. § 44.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 46. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of May 1845. and sent to
Freeman Bradford Esq Portland Maine.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book G. 2 617 June 1844 Vol. 1. Page 1.

Rey
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24667
Abigail Brown formerly  Wid of Thomas Hayden Prin Rev war
Act Feb 2 d  1848
Index: Vol A , Page 92
[Arrangement of 1870.]

9. B 10.
Maine
Abigail Brown, formerly widow of Thomas Taylor who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818. and who died on the 2 d April 1829 of Cumberland in the State of Maine who was a Matross in the commanded by Captain of the Re 2 commanded by Col Tupper in the Mass'tts line for 19 Mo. 17 days. Matross " " 4 " 13 " priv
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 96. Dollars 46. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of May 1845. and sent to Freeman Bradford. Portland Maine
Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. S. Evans Clerk, Book N. Vol. 1. Page 2.