Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10410, for John Taylor, New Hampshire

SERVICE
N.H.
Taylor, John Confort
NUMBER
R 10410
CONTENTS

Maine. 17.608
John Taylor,
Oxford co ty in the state of Maine,
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Reed, of the N. Hampshire
line, for the term of three years.
scribed on the Roll of Maine,
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 15. of May, 1818.
ertificate of Pension issued the 31 st of July, 1820.
and sent to Thomas Clark, agt.
Paris, Maine.
Arrears to 4th of March, 1820. $: 173.42
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. Sept r 1820. 18.
21 mo s . 21 } 1820. } 221.42 31. }
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }

certificate of the Clerk of Sanburton John Taylor's Marriage

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Seventeen hundred eighty seven February fifteenth John Taylor of Gilmanston and Comfort Burley of this town were married -
A true copy of Sandbornton record attests H. P. Lane Town Clerk
Sandbornton Feby 18 - 1841
I Henry P Lane of Sandbornton in the County of Belknap & State of New Hampshire hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the records of said town of Sandbornton except the writing in the date instead of figures
H. P. Lane Town Clerk
Belknap ss personally appeared the above named Henry P Lane and made oath that the above is a correct copy of said records as by him certified.
February 18. 1841.
Wah Eastman Justice of the peace
I hereby certify that the above named Henry P Lane is Clerk of said Sandbornton and is a man of truth and veracity
Sandbornton Feby 18 1841
Wah Eastman

13,009.
Comfort Taylor deceased
7 July 1838 & sub sequent acts -
Not entitled
widow died March 1840
102110

State of Maine
On this fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six personally appeared before the Hon. Job Prince Judge of Probate for the County of Oxford Mary S. Kimball one of the children of John and Comfort Taylor deceased a resident of Mexico in the County of Oxford aged forty two years who being first sworn doth upon oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838
And this declarant states that her Father John Taylor was a resident of Gilmanton N.H. in the time of the Revolutionary war. She further declares that her father was a Soldier in the Revolution and she believes served in Capt Bell's company of Infantry in Col Ruds regiment. She also states that her father John Taylor was upon the Pension list Roll of the Main Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month under the Act of 18 th of March 1818, and for proof of her Father's service she refers to his original declaration now on file in the Pension department. And this declarant further states that her father John Taylor intermarried with her mother Comfort Parley on the 15 th day of February 1787. and that her father the said John Taylor died on the 25 th day of March 1840 leaving a widow Comfort Taylor who died on the 25 th day of March 1841. This declarant therefore in her own

behalf and in behalf of her surviving sisters and brothers makes this declaration for the Pension and their mother from the 25 th of March 1840. to the 4 th of March 1841.
Abigail D. Kimball
State of Maine
Oppord ss. Subscribed and sworn to, the day and year first within written, said Declarant being unable from bodily infirmity to attend court Before Me Job Prince Judge of Probate for said County

State of Maine
Oxford ss. Be it known that satisfactory evidence has been produced before me to prove that John Taylor was a Pensioner of the U.S. and died on the 25 th  day of March 1840. and left a widow Comfort Taylor and that she died, a widow on the 25 th day of March 1847. And that she left William Taylor George W Taylor, Stephen B. Taylor Abel W Taylor, Comfort Bradbury Abigail P. Kimball Rebecca Badger and Sophronia D. Taylor as her only surviving children.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this sixteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty six
Job Prince Judge of the Court of Probate for said County
State of Maine
Oxford County ss. I the Subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in & for said County, hereby certify that Job Prince whose genuine signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate & before whom the foregoing proceedings were had in Judge of the Court of Probate aforesaid, and that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Abigail P. Kimball for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this twenty third day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & forty six.
Geo. F. Emery Register

17197 John Saylor Plantation, No 7. Maine Oxford County, Maine 15. May, 1818. Thos. Clark,
agent
Paris, Maine.
rec d 28 July 1820.
Col o Geo o Reed's reg t . N. Hampshire line, 1777 — 3 years.
found on the rolls.
Adm d
Thomas Clark, agent. Paris, Maine, Rec d 28. July, 1820.

STATE OF MAINE.
Oxford ss. Maliseet Court of Common Pleas begun and holden at Paris within and for the county of Oxford on the second Tuesday of June A.D. 1820 before the Honorable Benjamin Green  Judges of said Court. Judah Dana
On this 13th day of June in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said county of Oxford , John Taylor aged fifty seven years, resident in plantation N o seven in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Mesheck Bell in the Regiment commanded by Colonel George Reed in the line of the State of New Hampshire on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 16th day of May A.D. 1818 , such as which said declaration is Certificate of Resides, numbered and given 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," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: 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 my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particu- larly described below, also subscribed by me.
Sworn to and declared, on the 16th day of June A.D. 1820.
Benjamin Green Judah Dana } Judges of said Court.
BEFORE
SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:—
five sheep—
John Taylor—

SCHEDULE of the family residing with me John Taylor — who by occupation am a farmer — which I am un able to pursue by reason of  great debility —
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Sumner, wife of said John — 54 years unable to do anything being in a consumption —   Abel W. Taylor — 20 " does what he can —   Abigail Taylor — 16 " do — do —   Rebecca Taylor — 12 " do — do —   Ephrona Taylor 10 " do — do —  
John Taylor
Oxford ss. I Thomas Clark Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said county of Oxford do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 five dollars and  $5,000
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 24th day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty
Thomas Clark { Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said county of Oxford —

I, John Taylor, a resident citizen of the United States of America, an inhabitant of an unincorporated plantation called "number seven" in the County of Oxford and State of Massachusetts, do testify and say, that on the last of March, in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy seven, at Gilmanton in New Hampshire, I enlisted into the army of said United States on the continental establishment for the term of three years as a private soldier in Capt. Meshack Bell's company, Col. George Reed's regiment, number two, Gen. Pavis' brigade, in the New Hampshire line; which term of three years I fully served in a great number of places in the States of New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, &c. I was in the battle of Hubbardton; of Bunker's Hill, previous to the surrender of Burgoyne, and of Monmouth; besides many of less magnitude. At the expiration of said term of three years, I received, at Newtown in Connecticut, an honorable discharge, which I have since accidentally lost.
I further testify, that I am fifty six years of age, am not borne on any pension list of the United States, and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of assistance from my country for support.
Wherefore I, the said John Taylor, pray, that this declaration may be transmitted to the Secretary of War, to the end that I may be placed on the pension list of the United States agreeably to an act of Congress passed March 18. 1818 entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
John Taylor

Commonwealth of Massachusetts I John Clough of Phillips, District of Maine on oath do testify & say, that I am well ac- quainted with John Taylor of Plantation Number Seven, District of Maine, and have been well personally acquainted with in the year 1777 & was at that time & before his fellow townsman we then both living in Gilmanston in the State of New Hampshire. Said Taylor enlisted in the war of the revolution, for three years years, at Gilmanston in the month of April 1777, at the same time I enlisted. Said Taylor served in the Second Regiment of the New Hampshire forces, he went from Gilmanston to Tyconderoga, from thence to the taking of Burgoyne, & from thence to Valley Forge and was at the battle of Monmouth in 1778, and at the White Plains, and went with Genl. Sullivan up the Susquehanna River. All this I am knowing to, as I served in Third Regiment of the New- Hampshire forces, and I saw him at the several places before mentioned, and know that he served three years. Said Taylor was discharged a few days before I was, & I have since seen his dis- charge. I verily believe that he served faithfully, and did his duty as a good soldier, and the Regiment he served in was for the most of time commanded by Col. Reed — John Clough
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Connebec Is.
April 27. 1819. Then personally appeared the above named John Clough, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed.
Before me Nathan Cutler Justiciary Public de

I Ebenezer Walgren, of Augusta aged fifty four years, upon oath do testify and declare, that being myself, a Sergeant in Capt. James Gann's company, Col. George Read's regiment, well knew that John Taylor, served as a private in Capt Bell's company, in the same regiment with myself, in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for the period of three years. The said John Taylor now resides in Plantation No 7. in the county of Oxford (Me) - I am now a pensioner under the law of March 18th. 1818 -
Ebenezer Walgren
Subscribed and sworn to June 17. 1820. (The deponent being known to me as a credible witness) Before me. Nathan Wentworth M.P. C.C.C. Phm.
To The Honorable Judge Davis this may certify that John Taylor of town Ship 29 in the County of Oxford is a man in reduced circumstances having neither lands or other property sufficient or convenient for his support & family having no other means of supporting himself & family but by his hand labor being a soldier in the revolutionary war, need the portion allotted allotted by the Congress of the United States for the release of such persons above described. Rumford April 30 A.D. 1818
Abel Wheeler } Selectmen Aaron Riggin } Rumford
6 my this one is do

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the fifteenth day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came John Taylor the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence the depositions of John Blough and Ebenezer Waldron taken before Nathan Gutter and Nathan Worton, respectable magistrates, duly authorized; also the certificate of Abel Wheeler and Aaron Virgin, municipal officers of the corporation to which said applicant belongs relative to his circumstances in life; all which are hereunto annexed.
And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said John Taylor the applicant, served as a private soldier in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my Official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
Alcison H. Parrish
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.
And I do further certify that it has been proved to my satisfaction that the said John Taylor , in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his country for support.
Alcison H. Parrish
U.S. Dist. Judge

November 4, 1932
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BA-J/AWF John Taylor R. 10410
Memorial Branch Office of the Q. M. General War Department Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to John Taylor, a soldier of the War of the Revolution.
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 10410, based upon the Revolutionary War service of John Taylor.
He enlisted the latter part of March, 1777, while residing in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, and served as a private in Captain Meshech Bell's company and in Colonel George Reid's New Hampshire Regiment, was in the battles of Hubbardton, Bemis Heights, Monmouth and several smaller engagements, length of service three years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 15, 1818, while a resident of "Plantation Number Seven, Oxford County, Massachusetts (District) of Maine), then aged fifty-six years.
He died March 25, 1840.
The application for headstone for John Taylor and all correspondence relative to same are returned herewith.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator
Tombstone data only all slips returned

Sept. 5: 1908. To M. D. Taylor, St Cloud, Minn. (Copy inside case) not there Feb. 25: 1914 P.M. 1914 Feb 25 - Fish to Miss Alice Ex. trucks V.P.M. 1932 - Nov 4 - Tombstone data to new Br. Genl.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
10,411
P. O. Comfort Taylor Service: John.
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
REJECTED
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: C 17668
P. O. 300 Road 21H
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Robert Taylor More de. Walston, 4/18/90 rejected July 1. 1838. 1000.

North Pownal State of Maine August 25 th A. D. 1846
Asi Waterhouse Attorney in the cause accompanying Claim of the Children of John and Comfort Taylor Deceased Abigail P Kimball Declarant
Hon
J. L. Barrows Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Your Obt. Servt Asi Waterhouse N. Pownal Maine

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, John Taylor, of Oxford County, Maine, # _____ late a Private — in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Maine # _____ Agency, at the rate of Eight — dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of May , — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this thirtyfirst day of July , — one thousand eight hundred and twenty .
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

John Taylor
Payable on the 4th March and 4th September of each year, by the Cumberland Bank in Portland, Maine. No pension is payable until the arrival of one or the other of the above dates, after the issue of a Certificate.
Payable up to the 4 th March, 1820. Before any payment there- -after, a schedule of property must be exhibited.
Registered, by Clerk, in book B, volume page 95.
J. H. Ken

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John Taylor -
Last Will & Co. of Antigua Col. Rec. Reg. resides in No. 7 & has resided there for the space of 20 years Past (Sept 6, 1832) - in Belfort Main, before
John Taylor Occd. March 25, 1840

War Department,
PENSION OFFICE,
Nov r 22 1820.
17.668
SIR:
You are hereby informed that the Schedule of your property has been examined; and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
You will be paid at the next semi-annual payment in March next. Funds for that purpose will be transmitted at that time; but no arrearages will be paid previous thereto.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr.
John Taylor Plantation N o 7. Oxford County Maine
EM

Revolutionary Power of attorney From the heirs of Comfort Taylor Maine Rejected 1838 - Maine rejected act 1838
Filed 11 March 1837 J. E. Hassler Washington
Col. Anderson Mar 11/54

Know all Men by these Presents that I, Abigail P. Kimball, of Mexico, Oxford County, Maine, one of the heirs of Comfort Taylor, late of Roxbury, County & State aforesaid, do appoint F. E. Hassler of Washington, D. C. my lawful Attorney, for me and in my name, to apply for and receive whatever arrear of pension may be due me as one of the heirs of said Comfort, from the United States of America, and to do all other things necessary in the prosecution of said claim as fully as I myself might do. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty second day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Signed, sealed, & } Abigail P. Kimball delivered in presence of me. } C. W. Walton.

John Taylor
N o 17.660.
July '20
Sep. '20
Con

STATE OF MAINE.
Oxford ss.... At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, begun and held at Paris within and for the County of Oxford on the first Tuesday being the third day of October and by adjournment from day to day, on the fifth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable Benjamin Green Chief Justice Judah Dana & Justices William Wedgey
ON this fifth day of October in the year 1820, personally appeared John Taylor in open Court
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, aged fifty eight years, resident in Plantation No 7 in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Messers Bello - in the Regiment commanded by Colonel George Reed in the line of the State of New Hampshire on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration made on the fifteenth day of May A. D. 1810, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 17,668 was granted. 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," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: 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 hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is herein particularly described, also subscribed by me.
John Taylor
Sworn to and declared, on the 5th day of October A. D. 1820. } Benjamin Green
BEFORE
William Wedgey
One of the Judges of the said Court
SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Four Sheep.
John Taylor -

SCHEDULE of the family residing with me John Taylor — who, by occupation am a farmer — which I am unable to pursue by reason of great debility —
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Comfort my wife 55 years unable to do any thing — being in a consumption   Abigail — a daughter 17 " does what she can   Rebecca — do 13 " — do — do —   Sophronia — do 10 " — do — do    John Taylor
STATE OF MAINE.
I, Morris Clarke Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Oxford — do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 four — dollars $ 4.00 In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this tenth day of October A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Morris Clarke
Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Oxford

ALLEGAN CHAPTER. ALLEGAN, MICH. OFFICE OF REGISTRAR.
133 Crescent St. Feb. 13, 1914.
Department of the Interior. Bureau of Pensions -
Will you kindly tell me whether or not John Taylor of Gilmanton, N.H. received a pension for his services in Revolutionary War.
Yours respectfully,
(Miss) Alice M. Weeks.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
R. 10.4.10
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of John Taylor a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     "East St." March 14 1777 3 yrs. Pvt. Nathaniel Russell George Reid N.H.                                                                 
Battles engaged in, Hubbardston, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Bennington, Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Plattsburgh, and many smaller engagements.  Residence of soldier at enlistment, vs - Gilmanstown N.H.  Date of application for pension, July 5 '77 - Sept 15 '77 June 28 '78  Residence at date of application, Benton Harbor, Mich. Oxford Co. Me.  Age at date of application, 66 years old
Remarks: He married Mary 15-1787 Comfort Burley and died March 25 1841. She died March 25 1841 leaving the following children: Abigail P. Kimball, William, Sedrac H., Stephen B., Abel H., Comfort Bradbury, Rebecca Badger and Scholastica D. Taylor.
1820 sol's from res. wife - Lewis as for  Abel W. Taylor 20 yrs.  Abigail " 16 "  Rebecca " 12 "  Scholastica " 10 "  miss
Respectfully,
Commissioner.