REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - DANIEL TAYLOR Contributed by: Brenda Collins Dillon [bj04@attbi.com] ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Pension application of Daniel Taylor (1) Pension Application dated May 15, 1833 signed by Judge P.H.McBride & Jacob L. Sharp State of Missouri / County of Montgomery/ , On this ___ day of May in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty three, personally in open court, before the judge of the Circuit Court of the County of Montgomery aforesaid now sitting Daniel Taylor, a resident of Lewiston Township in the said county and state, aged about eighty four who being first duly sworn according to law doeth make the following statement in addition to the one which he has heretofore made in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress dated 7th of June, 1832 for the relief of soldiers of the revolution. That he was, he thinks, in the year 1774 in a battle which was fought near the mouth of the Great Kanawha between the colonial forces under the command of General Lewis and the Indians, that he was then a married man, that he was born in Jersey about forty miles from the City of New York in the year 1748 on the 18th of September according to the record of his birth which was in his father's Bible from which he copied it, that his father when this affiant was still quite young removed to Frederick County, Virginia, near Winchester, that this affiant remained there until he had become a man and there learned his trade of house carpenter, that he removed from there to Greenbrier River to a settlement _____ there and remained there 12 years, having married there and it was some few years after his removal to this settlement that the revolutionary war broke out, the settlement on Greenbrier at this time was small and could not produce more than thirty or forty men and was far from its distance from the interior and the proximity to the wilderness extremely exposed to danger from the Indians inhabiting to west and south who were generally Hostile to the Americans in this situation. The inhabitants of the settlement were organized into militia under the command of one John Cook and this affiant in conjunction with the rest of the command of Captain Cook erected a fort a place called the little levels within one mile and a half of Greenbrier River and gave it the name of Fort Defiance, that the fort was built in the year seventy six and from the time of its erection this affiant was engaged during nearly the whole every summer for six years under the command of Captain Cook in spying, guarding the fort, and ranging during this time several of the men were killed by the Indians but the fort was not attacked, being on an ______ in open ground, the Indians, its seemed, were unwilling to expose themselves to the dangers of an open attack. A Fort within about 14 miles from Fort Defiance was attacked by about 300 Indians but was successfully defended, this was Fort Donaldson----during the six years that this affiant was engaged in guarding and defending Fort Defiance and the neighboring settlement, he assisted on several occasions to equip young men of the settlement who were desirous to partake in the defense of their country against the British invaders, though he never went himself and ____it was the desire of the government that the fort and the settlement on Greenbrier should be maintained and the people of the settlement accordingly received a message said to come from the board of war requesting them to maintain their position and promising them that their services rendered in its defense and protection should be accounted as service rendered the government in the line of the Continental Army. This affiant after remaining at Fort Defiance _____ years or thereabouts returned to the neighborhood of in chester where he remained some three or four years and then moved back to Greenbrier and after a couple of years moved to Kentucky where he resided part the time near Bardstown in the_______ and after remaining there some twenty years he removed to this county where he has remained since and expects to die- -It is impossible for this affiant to state the number of months or years that he was engaged in active service in defense of his county, but he thinks that this ought not to preclude him from receiving something from his government with which to smooth his way to the grave. And in his circumstances anything would be much better than nothing at all----his extreme age has affected his memory but he believes he is very safe in saying he must have engaged in actual service under Captain Cook for at least one year, as the greater part of each summer for six years was occupied by him in the summer for six years was occupied by him in ______ or at the fort as he before said----this affiant states that the other officers of the company were George Clendenon Lieut. and John McNeil Ensign---- that he himself a private for the greater part of the time acting as a spy---- that he was a volunteer in all of his service and never got a discharge but each one went his ways when the war was over----this affiant does not know of any one living by whom he is able to prove the services mentioned above----he is known to several persons who are now in this state and many in Kentucky, who have known him for many years, but they are out of his reach and he is obliged to resort to his neighbors in this county for the only testimonials of his character and reputation of his revolutionary services which he is abler to produce amongst these he named Nathaniel Dryden, Amon Kibbe, and Jacob L Sharp this affiant further states that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or of the United States and that he has never made any application for a pension ____ present---and hereby relinquishes all claim to pension or annuity for or on account of revolutionary services Save what he seeks by this petition and which may be granted him under the law of the seventh of June last----this affiant believes that he has stated all that he knows material in this application and further said not.