Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36334, for William Taylor, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Taylor, William
S. 36334
{ P.L. Wt. 6569-100- Serf. Issued Sept. 4, 1789 to Ezekiel Bace, assignee no papers.
CONTENTS

copy of W m Taylors discharge & Sergeants warrant sent to him on the 26 Nov 1828
11.070 R Connecticut
William Taylor
of Barkhamsted in the state of Connecticut who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Webb of the Connecticut line, for the term of Six Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 th of April 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of May 1819 and sent to Augustus Dillibone Esq. Litchfield Connecticut
Arrears to 4th of Sep: 1819 39. 19
Semi-ann. all'ce ending June 25 4. 30 31
39. 19
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1918. }

William Taylor Sergeant & Private Colonel's Chats & Saml. Webb N.Y. Connecticut line 1777- war
on file Admitted

State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss April Sixth day of 1819 - Before me Augustus Pitkin Judge of Litchfield County Court in said State of Connecticut personally appeared William Taylor of the Town of Boshamshead in said Litchfield County aged sixty two years who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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 - That he the said William Taylor enlisted in the Town of Simsbury in the County of Hartford in said State of Connecticut in the Month of January 1777 for during the Revolutionary war in a company then commanded by Capt Walbridge and served a part of the time in Col Charles Webb's Regiment and the remainder of his service was in Col Sam l B Webb Regiment as Capt Thaley was his Capt when he was Discharged and that he served faithfully from the time of his enlistment a part of the time a private and the remainder as a sergeant until the termination of the war - As will appear by his Discharge and Discharge Account giving this Application - and he says that for the says and declares that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for Support Sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid
Augustus Pitkin Judge of Litchfield County Court

I Augustus Pitelbone Judge of Litchfield County Court in the State of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Taylor did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the terms therein stated in consequence on the Continental Establishment and from his Declaration (He being a man who sustains a reputable character) I believe he stands in need of the assistance from his country for support - and I now transmit transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the war Department
Augustus Pitelbone Judge
I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut, certify that Augustus Pitelbone Esq. is Judge of said Court, that the above signature is in his hand writing, & that the seal hereunto annexed is the Seal of said Court.
April 7 th 1819.
F. Wolcott Clerk

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Taylor, William GRADE Sergeant LINE Connecticut
WARRANT NUMBER 6569 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Sept. 4, 1789 to Ezekiel Case, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

mmms
November 18, 1924
William E. Baxter Topsfield, Mass.
Sir:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 36334 it appears that William Taylor while a resident of Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut enlisted in January 1777 as a private in Captain Walbridge's Company, Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut Regiment and on April 1, 1780 was appointed Sergeant in Captain John Riley's Company, Colonel Samuel B. Webb's Third Connecticut Regiment and was discharged June 10, 1883.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1819 while living in Barkhamsted, Litchfield County, Connecticut aged sixty-two years.
There is no data on file as to his family.
The above noted is the only William Taylor of Connecticut service found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
Date of death not on file
Commissioner.

u.s. Nov. 24. 1828
Treas. Dept. 22 Nov. Respectfully referred to the Secretary of War.
New Hartford Ct Nov 18 Dec
Hon. Richard Rush Secretary of the Treasury of the United States Washington -

Sir. —
As my discharge and Warrant are probably registered in the War Office, and by a communication from yourself they might be returned to the owners after being registered, this is to request your honor to return mine as soon as you can make it convenient to do it. — I am Sir your most obedient and very humble Servt. William Taylor To the Hon Richard Rush Secretary to the Treasury of the U States Washington.

Adj. Will. Taylor Wagon 3 d Comm t Regiment. James

TAYLOR, William S 36 33 1 CONN

SAMUEL B. WEBB, Esquire, Colonel of the Third Connecticut Regiment, in the Service of the United States:
To
William Taylor.
B Y VIRTUE of the AUTHORITY vested in ME, by the United States in Congress Assembled, I DO by these PRESENTS CONSTITUTE and APPOINT You to be a Sergeant. in the Regiment under My Command, to take Rank as such from the First day of April 1780. You are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as You shall from Time to Time receive from ME, or other Your superior Officers; and diligently to Execute the Duties of a Sergeant for which this shall be Your SUFFICIENT WARRANT.
GIVEN under My HAND, in the GARRISON of WEST-POINT, this
First Day of January  1783.
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Sam. B. Webb Colonel & Commandant.
Joseph Clark Adjutant

HEAD-QUARTERS, June 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Sergeant William Taylor Discharge with Camp of Genl. Howe
IS THE TRUE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL IN THE BOOK
Wm. Taylor Comm. S. 36334

BY HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof William Lloyd a loyalist in the Third Connecticut Regiment, having faithful- ly served the United States from January 1778 to the date hereof and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the South day 9th June 1783.
G Washington
By HIS EXCELLENCY's
Command,
J M'Callum
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Joseph Clark Adjutant.
THE above Lieut. Lloyd has been honored with the BADGE OF MERIT for three Years faithful Service.
Louis A. N. Webb Col.

Revolutionary Claim -
I William Taylor of Barkhamsted in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut, formerly of Simsbury in the County of Hartford & State aforesaid, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for & during the war, & continued in its service until its termination, at which period I was a serjeant in Capt. John Riley's Company in the 3 rd Regiment of the Connecticut line - and I also declare that I received a certificate for the reward of Eighty Dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15 th of May 1778 - And I also declare that I received a Warrant as 1 st or orderly serjeant in said Company signed by Samuel B. Webb Lieut. Col. Commandant of said 3 rd Reg t . & at the close of the war I received a discharge signed by Genl. Washington, which warrant & Discharge were forwarded to the War Department in May 1819 & have never been returned to me - And I further declare that I was not, on the 15 th day of March 1828 on the pension list of the United States -
State of Connecticut } ss. On the 28 th day of June Litchfield County } A. 1828, Personally appeared William Taylor who subscribed the foregoing declaration & made oath to the truth of the same -
before me Wm. G. Williams Just. of the Peace for S d County of Litchfield

Before me Wm. G. Williams one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, personally appeared, this 28 th day of June 1828, Harry Cowles & Tertius Wadsworth both of New Hartford in said County who did severally make oath that William Taylor by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed & believed to have been a non-commissioned officer in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated.
Sworn & subscribed
before me,
Wm. G. Williams Just. Peace
Harry Cowles Tertius Wadsworth
I Frederick Wolcott — clerk of the Court of the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut do certify that Wm. G. Williams, before whom the foregoing affidavits are sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace for said County, & duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court, this 30 th day of June in the year 1828.
Frederick Wolcott Clerk.

36334 INVALID.
File No. 36,334
William Douglas Levy Rev. W.D.
Act: 18 n March 18 7
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 44
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sept. 28/93 Hst. to Walter S. Carter, 96 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 6. 1934 - Nov 18 - Hist. to William E. Butler - MMH.
D V C

TOPSFIELD MASSACHUSETTS
Bureau of Pensions
Request information regarding William Taylor who was a pensioner in 1818
This soldier served in the Revolutionary War, lived in Conn. and was supposed to be a captain
Would like to know in what company and regiment, he served, and what rank
October 31
M rs E Baxter

Carter, Hughes & Dwight, Attorneys & Counsellors at Law, 96 Broadway & 16 Wall St.
Walter T. Carter. Charles E. Hughes. Edward T. Dwight. Arthur C. Rounds. Marshall B. Clarke.
New York, September 14, 1895
Hon. William Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
I desire to join the "Sons of the Revolution", a patric society existing here and in twenty seven other States of the Union, and base my claim to membership upon the services of my grandfather, William Taylor, in the Revolutionary War. It appears from a report of the Adjutant General of the State of Connecticut, with regard to service of men in the Revolutionary War, that my grandfather, William Taylor, enlisted as a private in the company of Captain Abel Pettibone, of Simsbury, and served in the "Lexington Alarm", from May 5th, 1775, to December 18th, 1775, when he was honorably discharged. He enlisted again January 10th, 1777, for three years, and was elected, acted and was paid as sergeant, from February 10th, following, to January 1st, 1780. He wintered at Valley Forge, 1777-78, and fought in the Battle of Monmouth, July 28th, 1778; wintered at Reading, 1778-79, and was engaged in the storming of Stony Point, 25th July, 1779; wintered at Morristown, N.J., 1779-80. The record also states that he received a pension from the United States Government for meritorious services during the war.

2.
I suppose his application for a pension is now on file in your department, and what I desire is a certified copy of the same, to be filed with the officers of the Sons of the Revolution, in support of my application for membership, which kindly forward to me with bill, for which I will immediately remit.
Very truly yours,
Walter S. Carly.

ARSWAL
PPA
J.
Carter, Hughes & Dwight.
Attorneys & Counsellors at Law.
96 Broadway & 6 Wall St.
Walter T. Carter. Charles E. Hughes. Edward T. Dwight. Arthur C. Rounds. Marshall B. Clarke.
New York, September 17, 1895.
Hon. William Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington.
Dear Sir:-
I beg to supplement my letter to you of the 14th inst., in which I asked you for a certified copy of the application of my grandfather, William Taylor, for a pension, on account of his services in the Revolutionary War, with request that in replying you will also state the fact that a pension was granted him, the amount of it, and to what date it was paid.
Yours very truly,
Wallis S. Lake

Ant. 1881.
Settlement
treasury
Court with
Invalid file
# 36,334
Signature
1881

William Taylor.
2 Revolutionary claim, Free Hon. Richard Rush Secretary of War
LITCHFIELD
CONN June 30
Washington City

The Hon d Secretary of war is requested to make returns to Wm G. Williams, New Hartford, Connecticut also to return the warrant & discharge of the applicant mentioned in his declaration & now in the war or pension Office.

It is requested that the papers & returns concerning the enclosed claim may be returned to Wm G Williams Esq: of New Hartford. Litchfield County Conn. — Wm Taylor

440. 360
367
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
No. 1 Original payment 640.00
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
July 26. 1828.
William Taylor, of Berkhamsted, in the County of Litchfield, in the State of Connecticut, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Sergeant , in captain Liley 's company, in the 3d regiment of the Connecticut line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing .
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary, A. Dickinson.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
30 th July 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to William Taylor in the Connecticut line
It further appears that William Taylor is now on the pension list of the  any agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month.
Richd Hagner Aud
James 4164