James Taylor

IN the Connecticut Courant, March 17, 1777, James Taylor was so ungernrous, unhumane and abusive as to advertise Deborah his wife as a deserter from his bed and board, which is so abuse to the unfortunate Denborah as to obliger her to declare to the public, that James Taylor never did provide neither bed or board for hsi wife or family, but was for most part of his time absent, but for what purpose I cannot say; he brought nothing home but abusive language for my comfort and the support of his children; and since this unhappy war, he has been inlisted as a soldier, and went to Canada, from whence he deserted, and his unusual return, on the account of the season of the year, he was suspected for a deserter, was the reason I would not find him any longer bed or board, and not now under the necessity of applying to my friends for necessary subsistance for myself and children. DEBORAH TAYLOR. East Windsor, April 16, 1777.