Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6200, for John Taylor, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Taylor, John
S. 6200
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CONTENTS

11 Franklin
15728 Massachusetts John Taylor of Franklin Co in the State of Mass o who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain ————— of the ————— commanded by Col Smith in the Mass o line for 9 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 50 — Dollars — — Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of July 1833 and sent Hon. Mr. General J. D. Greenfield Mass a Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $100.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 Sept. 15.00 $115.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. } Recorded by W. H. Atkinson Clerk, Book 5 Vol. 2 a Page 64

Rev. 1882
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File No. 6200
John Taylor
Priv. Mass. title
Act: June 8th 1832
Index: — Vol. Mr , Page 369
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John Taylor Hawley
22358
Plant 9 Months 600. Smith-Reg Miss
John Taylor
Wm. Geo. Grinnell Jr. Greenfield Miss

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN COUNTY ss.
ON THIS sixteenth day of October A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Chairman Court of Common Pleas of the Probate said Commonwealth now sitting at Greenfield within and for the said County of Franklin,
John Taylor a resident of Hawley in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, aged eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. I enlisted into the United States Service as a volunteer of the resolution in July 25 th A. D. 1774 for nine months and served that time. I left the service in April following 25 th in A. D. 1780 . The service was done in the Leitch Col's company whose name was Colin Smith . Our Maj's name was John Porter . The name of the ensign of our company was Baker . I resided in Hatfield in the County of Hampshire , Massachusetts . I went to Springfield . Mr. Treene we went direct to the highlands on the Hudson r. - when we joined the Regt. then to West Point . Staid there for a while - then went to Roberson Farms to Brooklyn , New Jersey . and to Fort a N. J. and to Pickskill where I was dismissed & returned home. I had a written discharge signed by Major Porter but it is lost & can not find it. No documentary papers as evidence of my services. This term of service was performed in the continental line . and I presume my name will appear on the continental roll in War Department for this period of duty. I herewith transmit the certificate of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as evidence of my service.
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. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
R. S. Mearns Judge of Probate  Jonathan Grant  Edmund Langley Jr. WE, Jonathan Grant clergyman and Edmund Langley Jr.
residing in Hawley 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 eighty 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 the day and year aforesaid.
R. S. Mearns Judge of Probate  Jonathan Grant  Edmund Langley Jr.
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 above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Jonathan Grant
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the town of Hawley ; and Edmund Langley Jr. Esq. who has also signed the same is a resident of said Hawley and is a Justice of the Peace and a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
R. S. Mearns Judge of Probate
I, ELIJAH ALVORD , Clerk of the said Court, 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 have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, this sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
E. Alvord. Reg. Prob. Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, July 10 1833.
* 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 Roll of "the Lt Col. Company, 8th regiment of the nine months men, 1779-1780" — and is therein stated to have entered service July 25. 1779 — and to have been discharged April 25. 1780 — Edward D. Bangs. Secy