Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33782, for Joseph Taylor, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental New Jersey
Taylor, Joseph.
833782 - B.L.Wt. 2097-100
CONTENTS

11,251 (10) Q
New Jersey
Joseph Taylor
of _____ in the state of N Jersey who was a private in the legion regiment commanded by Colonel Cummings of the N. Jersey line, for the term of 4 years  WM
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 of June 1819 and sent to Hon: Joseph Bloomfield Burlington, Burlington Co. N.J.
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 10 mos \frac{4}{5} \cdot \frac{4}{5} , 82.9 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 9 1819 48 - $ 130.9
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Contested
See letter to Hon. W. Dr. Shinn H. R. Jan. 23 rd 1835
Joseph Taylor See letter to Hon. W. Dr. Shinn H. R. Jan. 23 rd 1835

Joseph Taylor N o . 2097.

Two vols.
N o March 18 1835

Department of War
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Registration for the officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary War who acquired a right to land from the United States but have not received it.
By an act of congress of the 16th of September 1776, it is provided that the officers and soldiers who engaged for and continued to serve during the war or until discharged by congress shall receive land in proportion to their ranks. N.B. Those who engaged for three years or for any other period than during the war are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration must be filled up and given to the Agent.
State of New Jersey County of Burlington
I, Joseph Taylor, aged 81, do hereby make a solemn affirmation, testify and declare that I entered the services of the United States on the day of _____ in the year 1777 for the term of _____ during the war and that I served in the campaign commanded by Michael Rudolph after by James Mott in the regiment known commonly by Colonel Hovey. See of the horse lines and was honorably discharged on the coming of peace in the year 1783 from the regiment commanded by Colonel Hovey.
I further declare that I have never received the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States, nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever; that I received a warrant for my Bounty Land and my discharge at the same time.

that there were placed in a chest in the house of the defendant which house in the absence of the defendant took fire and was consumed together with the above mentioned chest and all its contents Therefore
I now all men by these presents that I Joseph Taylor of the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey do hereby constitute and appoint William H. Wells to be my true and lawfull attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of land due me as aforesaid and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed
Attest
Ebenezer M. Wells
his Joseph Taylor Mark
I William Stockton aged Eighty four years do upon solemn affirmation declare that I have been long acquainted with Joseph 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 do believe that he did perform the Military Service there in States
Attest
Ebenezer M. Wells
William Stockton
In fore me Ebenezer M. Wells one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Burlington in New Jersey and also one of the Judges of the inferior Court of common pleas of said County personal appeared the above named Joseph Taylor subscribed to the foregoing declaration and in my presence acknowledged the

power of attorney thereto subscribed to be his free act and deed and likewise personally appeared William Stockton who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth and made solemn affirmation to the truth of the assertions by them respectively subscribed this eleventh day of the 3rd month, 1835
Zebedee M. Wells
In testimony that the above written Zebedee M. Wells at the date of the foregoing, was a Justice of the peace of the State of New Jersey, in the county of Burlington also one of the judges of the inferior court of common Pleas of said county duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgments &c — and that his name then subscribed appears to me to be his true signature — I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the said court of common Pleas of the said county of Burlington, at Mount Holly this fourteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five.
John N. Stock
Clerk of the county of Burlington in New Jersey

Joseph Taylor -
Evesham
11,251
ipd. 2 June 1869.
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New-Jersey District ss. On this thirteenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common pleas, of the County of Burlington, in the state of New-Jersey, being a Court of record, proceeding according to the course of the Common Law—having jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping records of its proceedings. Joseph Taylor aged seventy five years, resident in Evesham township in the said County, who, being first duly affirmed according to law, doth, on his affirmation declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:— I enlisted in Capt. Rudolph's company of light horse in Lee's legion at Woodbury N.J. in the fall of 1778 from thence I was marched to Burlington where I spent the winter. from thence I went to East Jersey in the neighbourhood of Sandy Hook where I was engaged in a number of skirmishes. I was at the storming of Stony Point under Gen. Wayne - after which I went to the Southern and was at the battle of Parker's in South Carolina at the Congaree and at the Eutaw Springs at the storming of a fort on the Congaree river and at the Eutaw Springs where I received a wound in my leg. I was discharged at Charleston S. Carolina - I made my original application on the 15 th April 1818 and my certificate is dated the 2 nd June 1819 & numbered 11.257
And I do solemnly affirm — that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18 th 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 18 th 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 following, and by me subscribed. Two - two chests four chairs one axe beadle and mallets coal rake and shovel floating fork scythe and sickle some old tubs and barrels a spinning wheel two old benches one straw bed and some book debts amounting to about twenty dollars - I have a wife and one son living who is unable to support me having a large family of his own I am a collier by trade but am from infirmity able to do but little for my support -
Sworn to, and declared, on the thirteenth day of July 1820 before Joseph Budd President of the said court -
his Joseph X Taylor mark
I, JOSEPH MILVAINE , Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Burlington, in the State of New-Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing affirmation and the schedule thereunder written, 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 thirty dollars and  cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this thirteenth day of July 1820.
J. Milvaine

found on Lee's Legion The Judge must certify to the reduced circumstances of the applicant or the the credibility of those testifying to the same.
[Signature]
Admitted

New Jersey Washington County
(1)
On this twenty eighth day of April 1818 before me William D. Russell Esq. one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Justice in and for the State of New Jersey personally appear- -ed Joseph Taylor aged seventy four years, residing in said State, who being first sworn  sworn  sworn  sworn according to law doth on his Oath  affirmation make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provi- -sion 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 Joseph Taylor enlisted in New Jersey in the State service, in the company com- -manded by Captain John H. Cumming of the Second New Jersey Regiment, some time in the summer of 1777 that he served in that company near two years when he enlisted in the troop of Hays commanded by Captain Michael Rudolph of Col. Henry Lee's Legion in which last Corp. he served to the end of the Revolutionary war; when he was discharged in Charleston South Carolina and that he was in the battles of Red Bank against Count Donop, then of taking a block house at Pauls Hook, then at taking several Waps at Sandy Hook under Col. Lee, then at taking Stony Point, then at Camden and other places in South Carolina, then taking a fort on Long Island then at the taking a fort on Santee River, next at the battle of the Santee Springs, and lastly at the siege of Charleston which was surrendered to General

Green shortly after which he was discharged And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Sworn Affirmed to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid
his Joseph Taylor mark
I William Russell second justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey do certify that it appears to me that the said Joseph Taylor did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term above stated on the continen- tal establishment and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the aforementioned act of Congress
W. Kelly April 28. A.D. 1818 William Russell
I certify that the above subscribed William Russell Esq. is second justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New Jersey - Attestimony whereof I Zachariah Russell clerk of said Court have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed, this twenty eighth day of April in the year of our Lord 1818.
Russell Clerk

State of New Jersey Burlington County ss.
Be it known that on the 26 th day of February eighteen hundred and nine two persons appeared before me John Blackwood one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Burlington as William Braddock & Isaac Stokes of the township of Evesham in the County aforesaid and being severally duly affirmed as the law directs do declare that they are well acquainted with Joseph Taylor within named, and that the said Joseph Taylor is aged & infirm very poor and in reduced circumstances and really stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support that they say not affirmed the date above
before me John Blackwood
Wm Braddock Isaac Stokes
John Blackwood one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Burlington do certify that it appears to my satisfaction as well from the affidavits of the within named Joseph Taylor as that of the said Isaac Stokes and William Braddock that the said Joseph Taylor is old, poor, and in necessitous circumstances and really stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support - And that the said Joseph Taylor did serve in the Revolutionary war against the Common Enemy and as now trades with the testimony of proceedings taken in this case to the Secretary of the Treasury And I do further certify that William Russell Esq. a Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the said State is now absent from his home and is at Trenton attending to his official duties & that by reason thereof the said Joseph Taylor could not procure his certificate of the named circumstances of the said Joseph & that in consequence of the advanced age and poverty of this old veteran of the Revolution I have in the absence of Justice Russell given this my certificate being well satisfied of the good character and indebtedity of the said Isaac Stokes and William Braddock who are to me personally known and are worthy of credit - Given under my hand this 26 th of February 1819.
John Blackwood
State of New Jersey Burlington County ss.
Joseph H. Haines Clerk of the Superior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Burlington do make known & certify that John Blackwood Esq. who hath signed the above certificate and before whom the affidavits of Isaac Stokes & William Braddock were taken now is and at the time of taking the same was a Judge of the said Court and that from forth thereof is and ought to be given to his Official acts - In testimony whereof have I set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Mount Holly in the County aforesaid this twenty-seventh day of February eighteen hundred and nine
John Blackwood

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
Regulations for the Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary War who acquired a right to Land from the United States, but have not received it.
By an Act of Congress, of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve, during the War, or until discharged by Congress, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration must be filled up and sworn to by the claimant :
State of New Jersey }
County of Burlington }
I, Joseph Taylor aged 86 years, do upon solemn Affirmation I entered the service of the United States on the day of in the year 1777, for the term of During the war and that I served in the company commanded by Michael Rudolph after by James Heard in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Lee of the Horse line, and was honorably discharged on the coming of peace in the year from the Regiment commanded by Colonel Lee
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 in any manner whatsoever: therefore, that I received a warrant for my Bounty Land and my discharge at Brown all men by these presents, that I, Joseph Taylor aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint William S. Wills 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, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed.
Attest,
H. Braddock
Joseph Taylor
Solemn Affirmation. William Stockton aged Eighty four years do upon declare that I have been long acquainted with Joseph 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 do believe, that he did perform the military service therein stated.
Attest,
H. Braddock
William Stockton
Before me, William R Braddock one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Burlington in New Jersey personally appeared the above named Joseph 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 William Stockton who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn Affirmation to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this Twenty eighth day of February 1835
H. Braddock Justice of the Peace.
In testimony that the above-written was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of 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 this day of
The same time that the above was filed in a chest in the office of this department which here in the absence of this department took and was consumed together with the above mentioned chest and all its contents

I Do Certify that Joseph Taylor enlisted in the Legion Commanded by Lt Col Henry Lee at the time it was first organized & continued to serve as a faithfull soldier untill the conclusion of the revolutionary war -
Trenton Sept 17th 1821
James Sparks Late Capt of the 2 d Troop of Dragoons Lee's Legion

Hon. W. N. Severy
Summ. business 1 st July 99 - 3 rd Last business 21 st July 80 Same business
Rec d Jan y 23 rd 1835

Mt Hall N.Y. Jan 3 Joseph Taylor Esq. Recd from Mrs. Russell Jan 5th 1835. Recd of Mr. Gordon Jan 23. 1835.
Free Mr. R. Shinn Esq.
Williams & Shinn Esqrs
In Congress Washington
Joseph Taylor - joined 4th Troop 1st Cav 1779 - N.Y. 80 80,495

W Holsy January 1. 1835 (7)
Joseph Taylor to me well known personally appeared before me the subscriber and on oath duly administered by me does declare that the United States are justly indebted to him for five years and nine months pay as a soldier in Colonel Henry Lees Legion of Light Dragoons for which he had a certificate and also a certificate that he was justly entitled to at the one hundred acres of Land that these certificates were in the possession of this Deponent in a chest with other papers and property that more than fifty years ago this Deponent being absent from home on his return found that his House and all in it were burned to ashes that he has never received his Land or any part of the wages due to him as arrears that he is now eighty five years of age and is now lame from a wound he received at the Utaw Springs the marks of which remain, and is an infirm old man —
Joseph Taylor his mark
Taken and subscribed before me this 1 st day of January 1835
W. Roselee Judge of the U.S. for the District of N. Jersey
Sir The enclosed papers were handed me by Taylor some years since and were mislaid I afterwards found them and sent word to him but he says my message miscarried until the last a few days since when he came here and took the affidavit above — I know Judge Harrison of Gloucester county before whom Cooper was qualified & he was a Judge & Magistrate I also knew Cooper and think it probable you did He kept a Tavern in Trenton near Wallenheads and afterwards in Woodbury — If this mans claim is found on examination to be just I suppose there is no doubt of his success I spoke with Mr. Brown on the subject he did not recollect the mode of application under the old law but said he would hunt it up when he had leisure — Will you please to interest yourself on this subject in justice to an old soldier. I have no right to but you will. As ever with due respect Your humble Servt W. Roselee

33 782 Rev INVALID.
(11)
File No. 33 782
Joseph Taylor Rev Rev Mr
Act: 18 th March 187
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 51/2
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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City of Philadelphia ss
in the Commonwealth of Penn (5)
It is remembered that on the 24 th day of August A.D. 1821 Personally appeared unto me John Thompson Esquire One of the Justices of the peace, for said Commonwealth by Captain James Cooper of U.S. Navy yard at Philadelphia, (Who being by me called) Sworn According to Law, Depose and Say, that he was well acquainted with Joseph Taylor in the revolutionary War, that he enlisted in the service of the U.S. Some where in the year of 1776 or there abouts, to serve during the war, as a private in the 2 d Company Commanded by Captain Rudolph. In Col. Henry Lees Legion Mary and afterwards in Capt. James Armstrong in the same Legion & after the battle of Stony Point Fort, was marched to South Carolina, and was afterwards discharged at Charlestown, at the close of the war by Captain James Armstrong. That this deponent enlisted as a trooper in the same Legion under Col Henry Lee to serve during the American revolutionary War, and continued to serve as a trooper in the same Legion until the close of the war. Where this deponent & Joseph Taylor

Taylor were both Respectively discharged at Charleston South Carolina, and further this deponent saith not
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Glendale B. State of New Jersey (3) Be it remembered that on the 4 th day of August Anno Domini Eighteen hundred & Twenty one 1821 Personally appeared before me William Harrison one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Gloucester Daniel Smallback who upon his Solemn oath did say that he was Joseph Taylor at the commencement of the Revolutionary War that he the said Joseph Taylor enlisted in Lieut. Leigins at the commencement of the war and served during the same and until the close of the same and was Regularly discharged and further the deponent did not
Given and Subscribed before me the day & year first written William Harrison
Daniel Smallback (4)

State of New Jersey
I, Jeremiah J. Foster Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Gloucester do certify that William Harrison Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, and that the signature of the said Justice subscribed to the within affirmation is truly such
Witness my hand and seal this fourth day of August A.D. One thousand eight hundred and twenty one
J. J. Foster Clerk