Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Richard TAYLOR
Colonel Taylor, with his brother Hancock, made the first recorded trading voyage down the Ohio and Miss. from Pittsburg to N. O., 1769, returning home by sea. He served in the Revolutionary War. He entered the service as Captain, Va. State Line; promoted Feb. 4, 1778, Major 9th Va. Reg., and Dec. 7, 1779, Lieut. Colonel. (Hamersly.) He rec'd, Sep. 8, 1783. from Va. 6,000 a. land for 3 years service; Apr. 20, 1799, 1,000 a. for the 7th year; Aug. 1, 1799, 1,000 a. for the 8th year, and Feb. 12, 1808, 166 2/3 a. for 2 months service. (Va. Doc. 30.) Land warrant 7628 for 2,000 a. for his services as Captain was issued to his heirs in 1834. (Doc. 4, 23d Cong., 1834, p. 63.) Major Richard Taylor, Jefferson Co., Ky., of the 1st Reg. Va. Line, was placed on the U. S. pension rolls July 29, 1828, at $600 per ann., to commence Mar. 3, 1826. In 1835 the amount of the pension paid him or his heirs was $5400. (U. S. Pension Rolls, III., Ky., p. 149.) In the 14th Congress he petitioned for the fourth time for compensation for his Revolutionary services. In the 19th Cong., 2d Sess,, 1826-7, his heirs applied for the arrears of pension due him, which claim was granted Mar. 2, 1827. He died therefore 1827. (List of Private Claims, III., 453.)
Colonel Taylor's civil record was equal to his military record. He removed to Jefferson Co., Ky., near Louisville, in 1785. He was elected a mem. Ky. Conv. May, 1785, and the Const. Conv. of 1792; also of the 2d Const. Conv., Aug. 17, 1799. He was a mem. Ky. Leg., 1792, under the 1st Constitution, and was elected one of the Judges of his county. He was a Presidential Elector for Ky. 1813, 1817, 1821 and 1825. He was also U. S. Collector for Ky. After his removal to Ky. he was engaged in many of the conflicts between the frontier settlers and the Indians, and was severely wounded, 1792, near Eton, O., in the battle between Gen. Adair's command and the Indians under Little Turtle.
"Col. Taylor was engaged in many of the most fiercely contested and bloody battles of the Revolutionary War, and particularly at Trenton, where he rendered distinguished and valuable aid to Washington in that brilliant achievement." (Montgomery's Life of Z. Taylor.)
"He was distinguished for his intrepid courage and imperturbable coolness in battle, and possessed the faculty, so invaluable in a military leader, of inspiring his followers with the same dauntless spirit that animated his own terrible and resistless charge." (Collins' Ky.)
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