Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36335, for Elijah Taylor, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
SERVICE Conn. Continental
Taylor, Elijah
S 36335 B.Y. N o 1485-100.
CONTENTS

new certificate issued to John Deham, Colchester Conn. Feb 7: 1833. 1833 March 31 Mr. S. D. Dadda found
Returned with Asig. Prob. Aug. 16, 1833
650
Connecticut.
Elijah Taylor Capt. Elliz Connecticut Line Private
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 st of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of May 1818 and to the Pension Bureau of Col. Goddard Esq. V. Judge of the Dist. Connecticut
Arrearages to 4. 11. 1832 $44.32 to 5. 5. 32 $4.32
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
Six years
C 3. 68-

N o . 1485
Elijah Taylor
Pris
Martha
to Hon J. Baldwin
Conn.

Elijah Taylor good -

State of Connecticut County of New London - ss Colchester February 5 th 1825
I, Elijah Taylor of P. Colchester aged 66 years, a citizen of the United States, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven I enlisted in the army of the Revolution, against the common enemy of my country, for the term of "during the War," and served in the company commanded by  first by Capt John Barnard afterwards by Colonel Myles and in the regiment, No. 3 - after No. 1 under command of Col. Samuel Myles & then Governor of the Connecticut line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, in seventeen hundred and eighty three, when I was regularly discharged from the Irish regiment commanded by Colonel Nicholas
My discharge is now lost or mislaid, so that I cannot produce it to corroborate the above statement. I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim to that gratuity in any manner whatsoever, therefore, Know all men by these presents that I Elijah Taylor aforesaid, do hereby constitute and ap-
point Ichabod Ward of the county of New London and state of Connecticut to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States or of such other person as is duly authorised to issue and deliver the same, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid, and to sign a receipt or acquittance therefor; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Attest, John Isham  Elijah his Taylor mark
I, John R. Watson aged seventy years, a citizen of the United States, do, upon oath, declare that I have been long acquainted with Elijah Taylor who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and, further, I know that he did perform the military service therein stated.
Attest, John Isham  John R. Watson
Before me, Benjamin Greenleaf Esquire , a justice of the peace for the County of New London , personally appeared the above named Elijah Taylor subscriber to the foregoing declaration,
and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed; and likewise, personally appeared John R. Watson who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this fifth day of February 1825
Benjamin Greenleaf Justice of the Peace. New London County ss.
In testimony that the above written Benjamin Greenleaf Esquire was a magistrate authorised to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the state of Connecticut at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county  seal and subscribed my name and quality, at Dorchester this 14 th day of February A D 1825. in Norfolk County
C. Clerk, &c.
Charles Lathrop Clerk of the County Court of New London County

Elijah Taylor
650 Golderton
May 18
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State and District of Connecticut, ss.
ON this 30th day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court, before the County Court held at Hartford within and for the County of Hartford in said State, on the 30th day of June 1820, the same being a court of record, proceeding according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having power of fine and imprisonment, Elijah Taylor aged sixty one years, resident in the town of Colchester in said State, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: That he the said enlisted for the term of on the day of in the year in the State of in the company commanded by Captain John Barnard in the regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Wyllys in the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment: That he continued to serve in the said corps until when he was discharged from the said service in in the state of That he made a declaration to obtain a pension under the law of the 18th of March 1818, as nearly as he can recollect, having no minutes, on the 31st day of March 1818; and had transmitted to him a certificate for a pension from the Secretary for the Department of War, No. 650.
And I 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 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," 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.
That I am by occupation a labourer with a lame hand caused by the loss of two fingers. therefore can't obtain but small wages I have a wife named Abigail Taylor, a weakly person, and one daughter by the name of Sophia who is wholly incapable of supporting her self. I have not any property except a small parcel of a house built by the charity of my Neighbours worth say $15.00 1 Small iron pot. 50 6 old knives and forks & threads & chains 25 $76.25 Elijah Taylor Mark

Signed Sworn to and declared on the 30th before said County Court
day of June 1892
Charles Lathrop Clerk
I, Charles Lathrop Clerk of the County Court for New-London County, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is
16 dollars and 25 cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 30th day of June
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Charles Lathrop
Clerk of the County Court for the County of New-London.

State of Connecticut ss. County of New London
I James Steadman Clerk of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut for the County of New London do hereby testify that Amherst D. Scovell Esq r and Nathan Minard Esq r are Justices of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified. That their Commissions bear date June 4 th AD 1834 and will expire on the 20 th day of June AD 1835 and that the signatures of the said Amherst D Scovell and Nathan Minard to the certificates on the following Pages num- bered 2, & 3 are genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 29 th day of January Anno Domini 1835.
James Steadman Clerk of Superior Court New London County

Application for a new Certificate
County of New London ss Colchester Jany 28 th 1835
On this 28 th Day of Jany 1835 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of New London personally appear d Elijah Taylor of S t Colchester who on his Oath declares that he is the same Person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Ellis and in the Regiment commanded by Colonel W h Hys, in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the Pension roll of the State of Connecticut, that he receiv d a Certificate of that fact under the Signature and Seal of the Secretary of War, which Certificate on or about the 17 th Day of November 1833 at or near the Hartford & New London Turnpike Road in the Town of Salem in S t New London County, by means of a Fire which consum d the Store of one Russell B Rathbone, in the S t Elijah Taylor lost his S t original Pension Certificate which was burnt with the S t Store
Elijah Taylor mark
Sworn and subscribed to before me the Day and year aforesaid
Richard D. Luce Justice of the Peace

2 I John Sham of Litchfield, County of Litchfield State of Connecticut depose & say that I am well acquainted with Elijah Taylor of S. Ber- who hath subscribed the within affidavit, and know him to be the identical person therein described Jany 28 th 1835 John Sham
State of Connecticut New London County 3 rd ss. Colchester Jan. 28 th A.D. 1835. Personally appeared Col. John Sham, subscribed to the above Deposition in my presence, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same. The said Deponent is a person of veracity and his character unimpeachable. Subscribed and sworn to. Before, & Certified the day & year of our Lord
By me Richard D. Sewell Justice of the Peace

J L Edwards Esquire Commissioner of Pensions City - Washington

Goshute Conn. Jan'y 31 st 1895
Lt Edward B. Off Comm d of Pension
Sir - Yours of the 22 nd instant enclosing Elisha Taylor's Petition for a new Pension Certificate. But you return for correction after the Proof was duly received. and has been attended too, and I hope will prove satisfactory, am very sorry for the extra trouble it has caused. The Petition was drawn by a lawyer who I supposed understood the business, I barely looked it over, and found the facts correctly stated, and by Taylor's request forwar- ed it to the War department. Taylor is very poor & destitute & has nothing but his Pension to support a sick Wife & daughter - you'll therefore see why for a favor on him by having it attended to soon.
Very respectfully Your obed t serv t .
John Scham

Colebrook Conn. Jan'y 10. 1835
Hon. Lewis Cass Sec'y of War
Sir - In request in behalf of Elijah Taylor . He is an inhabitant of this town, and a Priv. Pensioner of the United States, under the Act of Congress of March 1818, and who was unfortunate as to have his Pension Certificate burnt in Nov. 1833. - I enclose you Sir. a Petition signed by him stating the circumstances together with the deposition of Mr. Ruel B. Rathbone a respectable Person, & who it appears had the Certificate at the time, praying your Dep't. Department to issue, or cause it to be done, a new Certificate & grant him relief in some other way - I consider Sir. that there is not the least doubt, but that the facts set forth in the Petition are truly stated - and having assisted indirectly, in making the application of S r . Elijah Taylor & others in March 1818 for a Pension & having been well acquainted with him for some time before & since know him to be the identical Elijah Taylor whose name was entered in the original Certificate - show. The department will fit to issue a new Certificate. & will forward it to me care, being one of the Select Men of the town & having charge of the Poor - I will see that it is handed over to him
Very respectfully - Your obed. Serv.
John Isham

I, Ruel B. Rathbone of Salem, County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, do depose & say that in the night season following the 17 th day of Decr. A.D. 1833, my store was consumed with fire; that at the time, I held the Pension certificate of Elyah Taylor then of sd Salem, but now of Colchester which I kept in my Packet Book with my own papers, and secured in a trunk, that my Packet Book trunk and papers were burnt and also the Pension certificate of said Taylor, all being in the store & consumed with it, and further the deponent saith not. Dated at Salem aforesaid this 5 th day of January 1835.
Ruel B. Rathbone
State of Conn.
Signed before me this 5 th day of Jan. 1835
Then personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace within & for the County of Litchfield, Mr. Ruel B. Rathbone, subscribed to the foregoing Deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same. The said Ruel B. Rathbone is a credible witness, and that the above is true as above stated, is a fact within my own knowledge.
John D. Litchfield
Clerk. Justices of the Peace

Elijah Saylor of Colchester in the County of New London State of Connecticut, a resident citizen of the United States - declares & testifies on Oath, that he enlisted as a Soldier in the year 1775 and serv d in the Army against the common Enemy near Boston and afterwards at New York Long Island and White Plains and was discharg d at P'keepsill in Nov. 1778 - at which time he again enlisted for during the War on Continental establishment - and was Mas d in Col o John Barnard's Company 3 d Connecticut Reg t . commanded by Col o Sam l Buelly and serv d in the same at Morris Town, Newark & Elizabeth Town, New Jersey etc. against the common enemy till about the year 1780 when he was on acct t of ill health transfer d to the Corps of Invalids commanded by Col o Nicholas, and remain d in 8 th Reg t till the close of the War in 1783 when he was honorably discharg d that he is now fifty nine years of age, has a large family, and is in very indigent circumstances, and  stands in need of assistance from his country for support is by reason of his indigent circumstances in life in need of assistance from his country for his support - that he hereby relinquishes all title to any pension ex- cepting by virtue of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engag d in the land & Naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War & to substantiate his claim thereto he makes this declaration - Dated this 31 st day of March A.D. 1818 State of Connecticut ss - 18 th March 1818 -
Elijah Saylor
I am satisfied the day & year aforesaid Before me Calum Goddard a Judge of the Court

I John Patterson on oath declare that I knew the above named Elijah Taylor in the revolutionary war & hereby declare that he served according to his affidavit. I also know him to be poor —
John Patterson
March 31. 1818
sworn before Calvin Goodard Judge of Probate
I Calvin Goodard Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Elijah Taylor did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy & is now transmitted the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me with the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant the direction of the aforesaid act of Congress
State of Connecticut 31 st March A.D. 1818
Calvin Goodard Judge of Probate

To all people to whom these presents shall come — Greeting Whereas Elijah Taylor of the town of Litchfield, County of New London State of Connecticut, by his power of attorney, did constitute me his attorney for the purpose for which the powers in the same contained, which said power of attorney is lodged in the Land Warrant Office at the city of Washington, which said power of attorney empowers and authorises me to receive the land warrant of said Elijah Taylor for county lands, Know ye that I the said Ichabod Ward, by virtue hereof of the power of substitution, in said power of attorney appearing, have substituted and deputed the said John Baldwin the Honble John Baldwin Esq a representative in Congress from the State of Connecticut from the city of Washington, to be the lawful sufficient attorney of the said Elijah Taylor with all & every power and author- ity of acting in the name, stead & to the use of the said Elijah Taylor, granted to me by said power of attorney, which I can lawfully exercise and delegate. Hereby ratifying confirming whatever the said John Baldwin Esq shall

lawfully do in the name of the said Elijah Taylor or in my name as attorney to the said Elijah Taylor, by virtue of those presents for the power of substitution in the said letter of attorney contained. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 27 th day of Feb y A.D. 1829
Signed sealed in presence of
Geo. Hill
Ichabod Ward
State of Connecticut, New London County Ss. February 27 th 1829, Personally ap- peared Ichabod Ward before me and acknowledged the foregoing instrument acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed before me Geo. Hill Justice of Peace
Washington March 3 rd 1829 I certify that the above signed George Hill is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of New London State of Connecticut and I believe his name above written to be in his own proper hand writing John B. Baldwin

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File No. 86885-
Elijah Taylor Dis Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 51/5
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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