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WILL OF COL.FRANCIS TAYLOR and DOCUMENT of HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES.
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At a Court held for Orange County at the Court house on Monday the 23rd day of December 1799-this last will and testament of Francis Taylor dec'd was present-ed into the Court and there being no subscribing withesses thereto Robert Taylor and Charles P. Howard being sword, diposed that they are well acquainted with the dec-dents handwriting and verify believe the said will and the name thereto subscribed were wholly written by the said decedent-whereupon the same in ordered to the re-corded. And on the motion of Charles Taylor & Reuben Taylor two of the Executors herein named who made oath thereto according to Law. Certificate is granted then for obtaining a probate thereof in due form without giving Security, the will di-recting that the same Should not be required. Liberty being reserved to the other Executors named in the said will to join in the probate when they shall think fit.
teste
Geo.C.Taylor,C.C.
A Copy teste, P.L.Fry, Clk Orange County Court
September 25, 1848
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25th CONGRESS, [Rep. No. 127.] HO. OF REPS.
2d Session
FRANCIS TAYLOR.
[To accompany bill H.R. No. 145]
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December 22, 1837.
Adopted by the Committee, and ordered to be reprinted
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March 25, 1836.
Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made the following REPORT:

The Committee on Revolutionary Claims have examined the petition of Robert Tay-lor, on behalf of himself and others, as distributors and heirs of the late Francis Taylor, deceased, and the evidences in support thereof, and now report:

That Colonel Francis Taylor commanded the regiment raised to guard the convention prisoners as they were called, and in the caacity served, as it satisfactorily appears to the committee, until June 17, 1781. The regiment he commanded was dispanded upon the removal of the prisoners from Winchester, Virginia, where they have been kept; and by the discharge of the troops, Colonel Taylor became supernumerary, for it does not appear that he ever resigned. He had been an officer of inferior grade be-fore his appointment to command the regiment of guards. Thr [sic] regiment he XXXXX hemmanded [sic] had been repeatedly recognised as belonging to the conti-nental line. The committee are of the opinion that Colonel Taylor was entitled to commutation,a nd report a bill in favor of his legal representatives.