Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30729, for Ebenezer Taylor, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Thurs.
Mr Taylor, Obergeiger
S. 30 729
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27479 Massachusetts
Ebenezer Taylor
Yarmouth in the State of Mass who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain Hedges of the Regt commanded by Colon Freeman the line for
19 Months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 63 - Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of June 1834 and sent to Hon. John Reed the Representative
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834 $189 99 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Sep 31 99 $221 98
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk, Book C Vol. 2 Page 85

Ebenezer Dyer 31267 Yarmouth Mass.
Admitted
19 Months since Last Heirs Colo Freeman
Hn. J Reed

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
C 8 No.
County of Barnstable ss.
On this Eighth
day of January
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Judge of the several courts of the Commonwealth now sitting at Yarmouth in and for said County, Christian Taylor a resident of Yarmouth in said County, aged nearly  seventy two years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, A. D. 1832.
THAT he was born at Yarmouth in said County on the twenty first day of November A. D. 1760, and that there is a record of his birth in said Yarmouth which he exhibits that he was in the United States service from the first day of April A. D. 17 78 , to the first day of July A. D. 17 78
: that he served with of the regular troops; and were known to him: that he was in no battle regular officers and at the end of his service received a discharge : that he left the service on and that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the about  1st day of April A. D. 17 78 , to the about  the 1st day of July A. D. 17 78 as a private in the Militia that he was residing at Yarmouth aforesaid when he entered the service; that he enlisted for three months and served for the period aforesaid under the command of he does not recollect what Captain - Butts 1st Lieut. Van Maanen 2nd Lieut. : that he marched from Yarmouth to Cambridge was employed in guarding Burgoyne's army then captive : that he served with none (as he recollects) of the regular troops; and
He says no regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle that at the end of his service he received no written discharge as he recollects the service on or about the first of July 1778 and left
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the last of June or first day of July A. D. 17 78 , to the last day of December A. D. 17 78 as a private in the Militia that he was residing at Yarmouth aforesaid when he entered the service; that he enlisted for six months and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Capt. John G. Brown
: that he marched from Yarmouth to Rhode Island then to Salem and thence to Dorchester . Gen. Sullivan was in command Rhode Island - Col. Jackson of the Regulars had a skirmish with the French & British then in the service of Sullivan : that he served with none of the regular troops; and
He says no other regular officers were known to him; that he was in no battle that at the end of his service he received no written discharge as he recollects the service on last day of December 1778 and left

I hereby certify that Ebenezer Baylor is the son of Daniel & Elizabeth Baylor & that he was born in Yarmouth co. of Barnstable & state of Massachusetts, Nov. 21. 1760 as appears by the records of the town Page 53. Yarmouth Aug. 16. 1832
By Matthew J. Bower Clerk

that he enlisted in the United States Service some time in September A.D. 1775 as he recollects for one month as a private in the militia. He went to Rhode Island on a secret expedition. That he was residing at Taunton aforesaid at the time he entered the service & remained for the period aforesaid and two weeks longer (the object of the expedition not having been accomplished) under the command of Capt. Elisha Dyer as he thinks & Col. Freeman - He knew no regular officers or troops - was in no battle & received no written discharge as he recollects & left the service for that time at the expiration of six weeks from his enlistment & has since ever resided in said Taunton - Although brother & son's still here with him & he recollects no others who are living -
Also in 1775 he with others was pressed into the service of the United States to aid in transporting provisions from this county to the U.S. Troops at Cambridge & went to Belfield in this county. Pressed boats took in flour & transported it to some town north of Taunton in this state (Dartmouth I think) & landed it, near which place wagons were in readiness to take it to the army at Cambridge - That in this service he was detained one month. The officer by whom he was pressed was a Capt. Dyer he thinks from Plymouth. Also that in A.D. 1776 in the fall (though he is not certain as to the year) he entered the United States Service as a private eight months thereafter in the militia under Capt. Elisha Dyer - That he marched to Newton in Rhode Island State to a place called Hardlands Ferry & did service in protecting the coast at that place & Full River & a place called the Four Corners during said term - knew no regular officers or troops - had no written discharge as he recollects - left the service at the expiration of his enlistment

Then that at another time, what year he does not recollect but recollects that it was in the spring of the year he was in the United States Service three months. That he was residing at said Farmouth when he entered the service and served that period under command of a Captain whose name he does not recollect. He came as he thinks from Falmouth - Rowland Goshorn was his Sergeant - That he was sent from Farmouth to Howlands Ferry before named & with five others was immediately employed on board a boat or craft in transporting bread & other provisions & military stores from Fall River to the Ferry & Saccumnet Point & other places along shore where the troops were stationed & were thus employed during the whole of said term - That he knows not that he served with any Regulars & knows no Regular officers - that he received no written discharge as he recollects & left the service at the expiration of his said enlistment.
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.
Ebenezer Taylor
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
Albion Davis Reg.
We Nathaniel Gaspell a clergyman residing in the Town of Falmouth and Joseph Haines residing in said Falmouth hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Taylor who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be about seventy two 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.
Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.
Albion Davis Reg.
Nathaniel Gaspell Joseph Haines
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certify that it appears to them that Nathaniel Gaspell who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the said Falmouth; and that Joseph Haines who has also signed the same is a resident in said Falmouth and a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nymphaus Mansfield Judge
I Albion Davis Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Taylor for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Albion Davis Reg.

I Mark Hance of Dennis in the County of Barnstable Commonwealth of Mass- sights of lawful age testify & say that I was in the United States Service at New- ton Rhode Island & Falmouth in this Coun- ty and at Dorchester in this State from the last of June or the first of July AD 1878 to the last day of December of the same year being six months in all and that during all said period Ebenezer Taylor of Yarmouth was a fellow soldier with me in said service having entered the service & been discharged at the time when I was - I know him during the whole of said term he was honorably dis- charged.
Mark Hance
I James Taylor of Dennis Barnstable County Massachusetts of lawful age testify & say that I was in the United States Ser- vice during the time mentioned in the above deposition and during all that time was acquainted with Ebenezer Taylor of Yarmouth & know that he served as a soldier in the same service at the places and during the term of six months men- tioned in the above deposition and that he was honorably discharged.
James Taylor

Barnstable ss.
Probate Court at Barnstable in said County August 16 th AD 1832 -
Personally appeared Noah Hovey & James Taylor and made oath to the truth of the within depositions by them severally subscribed in open Court. And I certify that in the opinion of the Court the said Noah & James are credible witnesses. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court the day & year aforesaid
Almon Davis, Reg.

I Isaac Hall of Yarmouth in the County of Barnstable Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify that I was acquainted with Ebenezer Taylor of Yarmouth aforesaid (who is an applicant for a pension) during the revolutionary war and have been ever since and perfectly recollect that during the war though I can not with certainty state the time I went with my father to carry the packs & baggage of a company of soldiers who had enlisted or were drafted from this Town to go to Rhode Island to join the United States forces there - Elisha Dyer I recollect was Captain & Isaac Matthews 1 st Lieutenant & Joseph White 2 nd Lieutenant of said Ebenezer Taylor and many others who are now mostly dead were privates We went with them to Scituate in the State of R.I. and thence to a place called Howlands Ferry where having broken our cart we were obliged to leave them & return - I know not for what length of time he served but only that he was one of the soldiers that went into the service at Rhode Island at the time aforesaid which from circumstances I judge to have been fifty three or more years ago
Isaac Hall
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable ss on the twenty seventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two the above named Isaac Hall person ally appeared before the subscribers and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true - I further certify that I am well acquainted with said Ebenezer & believe him to be a man of good character & truth. Timothy Reed Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable ss.
I Almon Davis, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of record in the County of Barnstable do hereby certify that Timothy Reed Esquire, before whom the within Deposition was executed is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Barnstable. And that I believe his name thereunto subscribed to be his true & proper signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas at Barnstable this twenty fourth day of May A. 1833
Almon Davis, Clerk

30729 INVALID. Pay
File No. 80,729
Ebenezer Taylor Rev Rev
Act: June 1 st 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 418
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, April 15 th 1834.
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 Eben P r Taylor, as a private, is borne on a Roll of Capt. Elisha Hodge's Company, in Col. Nath l Freeman's Regt. where he is allowed from Sept 27 th 1777 one Month. m do 1=
Eben P r Taylor's name is borne on a Muster Roll of Capt. Job Crocker's Company, in Col. Nathan Sparkhaws Regt. where he is allowed from July 1 st to Decem r 12 th 1778 for services and travel five months and nineteen days. 8=19 6=19
Ebenezer Taylor claims for further services under Captains Hodge and Crocker, but the rolls which he describes are not found in this Office except those above mentioned.
Edward Bangs Esq
ex 1 L

I Joseph Haver of Yarmouth in the county of Barnstable & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged about seventy four years I say that during the revolutionary war I was well acquainted with Ebenezer Taylor of said Yarmouth who is an applicant for a pension and have been acquaint- ed with him ever since his being my nearest neighbor, and I well know that he was in the United States Service as a private soldier at Cam- bridge three months, in the year 1778 as I think, from as near as I recollect from some time in March or April till about the first of July - I well recollect that some of the foreign soldiers were preparing the gardens for some of the residents of the town - Mr Taylor & myself were in the same company and were employed in guarding Burgoyne's army who were pris- oners there - I do not recollect any Captain but well remember that a Mr Butts was at first Lieutenant & Isaac Matthews & Lusk were our Lieutenants we were both residing at Yarmouth when we entered said service & marched from this town to Cambridge - Joseph Haver

Commonwealth of Massachusetts ss. Formidable B. - On this 28 th Sept. A.D. 1832 the within named Joseph Ames personally appeared before the subscriber and made oath that the within deposition by him subscribed is true - and I further certify that I am well acquainted with said deponent & know him to be a man of good character & of truth
Timothy Reed Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable ss.
I Abner Davis, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of record in the County of Barnstable, do hereby certify that Timothy Reed Esquire, before whom within Deposition was executed, is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Barnstable and that his name thereto subscribed, I believe to be his true & proper signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas this twenty fourth day of May A.D. 1833 at Barnstable aforesaid
Abner Davis Clerk

I Elkanah Crowell of Yarmouth in the County of Barnstable & State of Massachusetts aged seventy six years depose & say that during the revolutionary war I was well acquainted with Ebenezer Taylor of said Yarmouth who is an applicant for a pension and have been intimately acquainted with him from that time to the present - That in the fall of the year 1776 or 1777 I cannot certainly determine which said Taylor & myself (with others) enlisted into the United States Service at said Yarmouth as privates in the militia for one month to go to Rhode Island on a secret expedition - were both in the same company in that commanded by Capt. Elisha Dudgeon & marched together to Rhode Island & joined the Regiment under command of Colo. Greene & served for the period of enlistment and some days over at Rhode Island and were then discharged and returned at the same time.
Elkanah Crowell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable 8 Nov 24 th 1832
Then the above named Elkanah Crowell personally appeared and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true - before me Timothy Read Justice of the Peace. I further certify that I am acquainted with the above deponent and believe him to be a man of good moral character & truth Timothy Read his Honor