Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19119, for John Taylor, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Taylor, John
NUMBER _____
S. 1911.9
Scared
CONTENTS

74 Barnstable
27.357 Massachusetts
John Taylor 2 a Orleans in the State of Mass a who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Fowler of the Reg t commanded by Col. Reed in the Mass a time for 10 mos & 20 days Private 10 days Corporal
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 66- Dollars - 88- Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of April 1831 and sent to John Dea House of Representatives arrears to the 4th of March 1831 $201.64 Semi-ant. allowance ending Oct 4 " 33.44 $234.08
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. H. Johnson Clerk, Book C Vol. 2 Page 85

I Certify that John Taylor was born at Earham now Orleans July 13 th 1760
true Copy as of Record
attest Gideon S Snow Town Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Barnstable ss.
On this eighteenth
day of September
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Stephen of the Barnstable County of Dukes now sitting at Harwich in and for said County, John Taylor a resident of Orleans in said County, aged 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 Eastham (now Orleans in said County)
on the thirteenth
day of July
A. D. 1760, and that there
is a record of his birth an extract of which is annexed : that he was in the United States service from the twenty fifth day of April A. D. 1775, to the twenty sixth day of October A. D. 1775 as a private in the Massachusetts Militia
: that he was residing at Eastham when he entered the service; that he was a volunteer and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Colonel Hamilton of Chatham Stephen Grippett of Harwich Lieut
: that he marched from was stationed at  different places on the coast of Eastham to protect and guard the coast and to prevent the invasion of the enemy and was several times called to other places in vain : that he served with none
of the regular troops; and there were no
as he meant which
regular officers
were known to him: that he was in no battle
and at the end of his service received his discharge
in writing, October 1775
: that he left the service on the twenty sixth day of
and that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at Eastham now Orleans
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the fifteenth day of February
A. D. 1776, to the first
day of April
A. D. 1776
A. D. 1776
as a private
in the Massachusetts Militia
that he was residing at Eastham
when he entered the service; that he entered the service as a substitute for his brother Benjamin Taylor who intended to serve as a volunteer and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Colonel Ruggins first Lieut. Rankin second Lieut.
: that he marched from  joined the company at Roxbury in Massachusetts
: that he served with none the other troops there were none of the of the regular troops; and as none as
that he can remember regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle
that at the end of his service he received a discharge but not in writing
and left
the service on the first day of April 1776, having served six weeks.
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the fifteenth
day of April
A. D. 1778, to the first
day of July
A. D. 1778
as a private
in the Massachusetts Militia
that he was residing at Eastham
when he entered the service; that he was a volunteer
and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Colonel Follen Davies first Lieut. Rankin second Lieut.
: that he marched from Eastham to Barnstable then went in a vessel to Boston and put in to Coburn's cove from thence marched by land to Cambridge in Massachusetts where the company was stationed to guard Brimfield's Army
: that he served with none
other of the regular troops; and
that there were none of the other troops at that time in the vicinity of Cambridge to guard said Army regular officers were known to him; that he was in no battle
that at the end of his service he received a discharge but not in writing
and left
the service on the first day of July 1778

Also that on the evening of July 1770 he enlisted as a substitute for a person by the name of Gault at Cambridge and marched from Cambridge to Rutland in Massachusetts and when there was sick until the morning and on the evening of October 1770 at said Rutland was discharged by being sick most of the time while at Rutland he did not have an opportunity to get acquainted with the officers of the company also that he has no documentation of said service that he knows of no person whose testimony he can obtain who can testify as to his service, except at Cambridge.
Daniel Kendrick and John Doane are his neighbors and will testify as to the truth of his character and belief of service as a soldier of the Revolution.
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.
John Taylor
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
Attest, Abner Davis, Regt of the Court of Probate.
We Daniel Kendrick and John Doane
residing in the town of Haverhill residing in Orleans
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Taylor who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a man of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
David Kendrick
Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.
Attest Abner Davis, Regt of the Court of Probate.
John Doane
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 David Kendrick who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the town of Haverhill; and that John Doane Esquire who has also signed the same is a resident in Orleans and both credible persons; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Agreeable to the foregoing
I Abner 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 John Taylor for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Abner Davis, Regt

I Richard Smith of Shattuck in the County of Barnstable being of lawful age to give evidence do testify and say that John Taylor of Orleans in the County of Barnstable was a servant of the Rev. Jonathan Dyer at the time and season then at Cambridge in Massachusetts as he has stated in the within deposition as I was with him in the same company during said time
his Richard R Smith mark
Barnstable ss
Probate Court at Sandwich in said County Sept. 18th. 1832
John Taylor
30. 6. 97
Personally appeared the above named Richard Smith in open Court and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed in court And I certify that the said Richard is, in the opinion of the Court a credible witness. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court the day & year aforesaid
Alvan David Register

John Taylor of Orleans 30. 697
Private Hemoes & Da day Corporal — 10 "
Adm'd
Capt. Fowler Col. Rec'd Rg. Mtn Line
63.33 2.22 1.33 66.88 200.64
Am John Reed H. H. Reks

I 19119
INVALID.
File No. 11111
John Taylor born...
Act: June 7th 1891
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 388
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Certificate of John Taylor

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, April 1. 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 John Taylor is borne on a "Pay Roll of Capt. Lincoln Fowler's Company in Col. Jonathan Reed's Regiment of Guards at Cambridge in the service of the United States, from the second day of April 1778, to the eighth day of July 1778 at 40/ per Month" where he entered a Private and allowed from the 2 d of April, 1778, for service three months and five days: whole pay £ 6. 6. 8 d.
Also the name of John Taylor is borne on "A Pay Roll of wages and mileage due to Capt. Elisha Hedges Company of Militia in Col. Freeman's Regiment on the Alarm at Falmouth, in the service of the State in September A.D. 1778" where he is allowed nine days in service, the whole amount of wages £ 2. 8.
Also the name of John Taylor is borne on "A Pay Roll of Continental wages and mileage and subsistence money due to Capt. Elisha Hedges Company of Militia, detached to do duty at

Falmouth, upon alarm in September 1779." where he is entered a Corporal , and allowed five days in the service, wages per month three Pounds, miles marched fifty two, total due 13 L . 16 d .
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Also the name of John Taylor is borne on "a pay Roll of the additional State wages and mileage due to Capt. Elisha Hedges Company of Militia detached to do duty at Falmouth upon alarm in September 1779. Col. Freeman's Regiment. where he is allowed five days in the service wages per month, as Corporal , £ 8. number of miles 52.
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Also the name of John Taylor is borne on "a Pay Roll of Capt. Micah Hamlin's Company of Militia in Lieut Col. Hallett's Regiment detached from the Massachusetts State to reinforce the Continental Army, for the term of three months according to an Act of the General Court of the 22 d of June last, which service has been done in the State of Rhode Island by Order of the Council of the Massachusetts State of July 27 th 1780: where he is entered a Private , and allowed from July 15 th "the whole time in service, including days to return home two months and twenty one days." distance from home, 60 miles, pay per month £ 2:
2. 21
I further certify that there is no

Roll found in this office of Lieut Thomas Hamilton's Company, from the 25 th of April 1775 to the 25 th of October 1775. The only Roll of said Thomas Hamilton's Company on file being "a Pay Roll of Lieut Thomas Hamilton's from the day of their enlistment to the last of December 1775, stationed in the County of Barnstable" on which roll the name of John Taylor is not borne.
I also certify that there is no roll found of Lieut Solomon Higgins Company from the 15 th of February 1776 to the 1 st of April 1776, at Roxbury, there being but one Pay Roll of Lieut Solomon Higgins found which is dated in 1775, stationed at Eastham.
Edward D Bangs Esq

Barnstable P. Orleans April 16, 1834
Personally appeared before the subscriber, Judge of Probate for the County of Barnstable, John Taylor, who made a declaration for a Pension in Probate Court on the 18th of Sept. 1832. and now further deposeth & saith, that he cannot from memory swear more particularly as to the precise time of the commencement & termination of his several services in the Revolutionary War than he has already stated in his declaration aforesaid, but he well recollects and now re-states, that he served not less than the following periods, & in the following grades. - viz. I For six months in 1775 under Capt. Hamilton in Barnstable County 6. - 0 " six weeks in 1776 under Capt. Solomon Higgens at Roxbury 1. 15 - Also three months in 1778 under Capt. Simeon Fowler at Cambridge 3. 00 Also three months 1778 at Rutland, Officers not recollected 3. 00
He further states that he was called out & marched to Falmouth on alarms three different times, first being about sixty miles from his home. - He cannot state precisely at what times these services were performed performed, but that he thinks they, were all at times subsequent to his services above stated in 1778: but that the amount of these services he thinks could not have been less than eighteen days — 18 Making in all, for which he claims a pension, at 14 - 3 the least, Fourteen months & three days and he thinks that the services at Falmouth were probably more
He further states, that he does not now recollect who was the Colonel or that there was a Colonel in Command over over Capt. Hamilton's company in which he served in 1775, as it was a single company, stationed at Eastham. - And That he cannot now recollect who was his Colonel when he was in Capt. Solomon Higgens Company at Roxbury, but he recollects of seeing Genl. Washington there. - He cannot state with certainty who was the Colonel under whom he served at Cambridge, but he thinks it was Colonel Reed.
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And the said John Taylor further states, That he cannot state who were the officers under whom he served at Rutland. He was sick most of the time while at Rutland, with the measles, which left him nearly blind for some time afterwards, to which cause he attributes, in part, his want of recollection of his officers while there. — He also further states that when he marched to Falmouth on alarms, he was under the command of Capt. Elisha Hodge in two of the services he was a Corporal; — When he made his former declaration he well recollected the services at Falmouth, but the prospect of being allowed for those services being thought to be doubtful, he omitted to make a declaration of them; but he now wishes to be considered as claiming a pension for those services. —
S.
John Taylor Lyman Hasbrouck Judge Subscribed & sworn to in open court The day & year first aforesaid Sherman Davis, Reg
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