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TAYLOR, ZACHARY, President. Letter signed ("Z. Taylor") as President, to Hiland Hall, Washington, D.C., 10 April 1849. 2 pages with integral blank, 4to. FINE.
TAYLOR ON HIS FATHER'S SERVICE IN THE VIRGINIA MILITIA
The President supplies details of his father's service in the Revolutionary War: "...Your statement corresponds entirely with my own impressions except in one particular instance. The rank which he [Taylor's father] held in first entering the service in 1775: I always understood that he was 1st Lieut. of a company raised in the counties of Culpepper, Orange, and _______: Culpepper furnishing the Captain and the two other counties the Subalterns of the company. My father was from Orange. The Richard Taylor whom you speak of as having been an officer in the Va. State Navy was my father's cousin."
Taylor's father, Richard Taylor (1744-1829) ultimately rose to the rank of Lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army and fought at the battles of White Plains and Brandywine.
TAYLOR ON HIS FATHER'S SERVICE IN THE VIRGINIA MILITIA
The President supplies details of his father's service in the Revolutionary War: "...Your statement corresponds entirely with my own impressions except in one particular instance. The rank which he [Taylor's father] held in first entering the service in 1775: I always understood that he was 1st Lieut. of a company raised in the counties of Culpepper, Orange, and _______: Culpepper furnishing the Captain and the two other counties the Subalterns of the company. My father was from Orange. The Richard Taylor whom you speak of as having been an officer in the Va. State Navy was my father's cousin."
Taylor's father, Richard Taylor (1744-1829) ultimately rose to the rank of Lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army and fought at the battles of White Plains and Brandywine.