Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30730, for John Taylor, Virginia

SERVICE
Taylor, John
NUMBER
S. 30730
CONTENTS
Born Amherst Co. Va.
Applied from Washington Co., Ky.

30730 Rang INVALID.
File No. 30730
John Taylor Dis Rec Mr
Act: June 7 th 89 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 413
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Kentucky 30. 490
John Taylor
of Washington in the State of Kentucky who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Simmore of the Regt. commanded by Col. Lewis in the Virginia line for 10 months
Entered on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 30 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of Mar. 1836 and sent Year 1836  Martin  Log  Rep
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1836 $166.66 Widow's allowance ending Sept. 4th 16.66 $183.31
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. H. Adams Clerk, Book E 2 Vol. 7 Page 49

31.960
John Taylor Declaration
con?
10.000
33 33 1/3
cond
10.000
33 33 1/3
Wm B. Ward H.R.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress of the 7 th June 1832.
State of Kentucky } Washington Circuit } I swear
On this 14 th day of August 1834 personally appeared before the Honorable William L. Kelly sole Judge of the Circuit Court for Washington County in the state aforesaid in open Court John Taylor a resident of said County estate aged eighty two years the 15 th day of last April 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 7 th June 1832. That he was born in Amherst County Virginia and lived there till he was grown when he removed to Albemarle where he lived at the commencement of the Revolution. That early in the Revolutionary War but the precise date he does not remember he volunteered under Colonel Lewis in Albemarle County also under the command of an Doctor Gilmore who was a captain or Major in

does not recollect which and served on a tour of duty in the United States Service the length of time he was in the service at this time he does not recollect but believes it was from a month to six weeks. He was marched to Colonel Nelson's in Hanover where they remained a while but no fighting was done at that time. Some time after he returned home he was drafted into the service and served three tours of one month each at the Albemarle Barracks under Colonel John Higginbotham as captain and Colonel Taylor He was afterwards drafted for a service of three months in the 7th division of Virginia Militia under Colonel Hugh Rose Major Galt Payne and James Franklin captain. on this tour he was marched to Norfolk on James River and from there to Moore's tavern in Prince Edward where he remained a while and was marched to Guilford where he reached just after the battle was over. The next night after the battle the British began to retreat and the division pursued them till they took shipping near the mouth of Hock River from this place he was marched back home. The British sailed around and landed at Jamestown upon

which he was again drafted into a service of three months under Colonel Pope and Captain John Bloodworth and marched to a place called Drinking Spring near Williams- burg where he joined the main army under Lafayette & other Generals. a large portion of the army including his division was marched from there to a place called the Warrenton and from there he was marched home  Some time afterwards he was again drafted  into a three months service under the states that he served the full time of nine months as above detailed besides the first tour which was from one month to six weeks. He knows of no witness by whom he can prove these facts in detail but so far as he can prove is by Henry Taylor and John Clarke and Turner Smith whose testimony will be annexed here- to. He was a soldier and never held a pension since. He removed from Virginia to Kentucky about 40 years and has lived in this county ever since. He hereby renounces every claim to an annuity or a pension except the present and asserts that his name is not on the pension roll of any agen- cy in any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
(his mark) John Taylor
At the same time and place personally appeared Henry Taylor who being sworn states that he is now about 66 years of age that when he was a small

boy living in Amherst County V. a that John Taylor the present applicant was for some time gone from home and he the said Henry was told by his parents and it was said in the neighborhood that said John Taylor was in the revolutionary army
He is a sister's son of said John Taylor and has known him all his life and knows that he has always been reputed a Revolutionary Soldier
Sworn to and subscribed as above
Henry Taylor also personally appeared John Clarke who being sworn states that he was in the army of the Revolution at Guilford the time John Taylor speaks in his decla- ration of being there that he has been acquainted personally with said Taylor for a great many years and from their conversations on the subject no doubt remains on his mind that said Taylor served that term of duty as he has declared and he has lived a neighbor to said Taylor for 36 years during which time he has always been reputed a Revolutionary Soldier and the said Clarke fully concurs in that opinion and believes that the foregoing declaration is true. He states that said Taylor is a man of good charac- ter and entitled to credit on oath or otherwise
John E. Clarke
also personally appeared at the same time Spence Turner Smith a minister of the Gospel who being sworn states that he lives

and for many years has lived a neighbor to John Taylor the present applicant. That said Taylor as long as he has known him has been generally respected & he lived in his neighborhood to have been a Revolu- tionary soldier and that he concurs in in that opinion and believes the foregoing declaration to be true. He also states that said Taylor is a man of good character and considered by his acquaintances and particularly by said officer as entitled to credit on oath or otherwise. Sworn to and subscribed
James Smith -
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories proposed by the ward department that the above named John Taylor was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he has stated and the court further certifies that it appears to the Court that Henry Taylor John Colclure & Turner Smith who have subscribed the foregoing affidavits are all resi- dents of this county credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit also that said Turner Smith is a minister of the Gospel

Charles C. Kelly clerk of the Washington Circuit Court in the State of Kentucky certify that the foregoing five pages (the fourth concluding with the three first lines of Turner Smith's affi- davit and the fifth commencing with the first page of this sheet) contain the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of John Taylor for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 14 th day of August 1834.
Chas C. Kelly