William Taylor Jr. (1737 - 1803)

Born 19 Dec 1737 in Caroline County, Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Anderson) Taylor — married 28 Jul 1763 in Orange County, Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died 9 Nov 1803 at age 65 in Townsville, Vance, United States

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Biography

William Taylor Jr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A113060.

This profile is part of the Taylor Name Study.

William Taylor was born on December 19, 1737 in Caroline County, Virginia, son of John Powell Taylor (1696–1780) and Catherine Pendleton (1699–1774).^[1] His siblings were:

1. Mary (Taylor) Penn (1718 - 1757)
2. Catherine (Taylor) Penn (1719 - 1759)
3. Ann Taylor (1721 - 1761)
4. Edmund Taylor (1723 - 1808)
5. Isabella (Taylor) Hopkins (1725 - >1787)
6. John Taylor (1727 - 1787)
7. James Taylor (1729 - 1756)
8. Phillip Pendleton Taylor (1732 - 1765)
9. Margaret (Unknown) Messer (~1735 - 1784)
10. Elizabeth (Taylor) Bullock (1735 - 1816)
11. Joseph Taylor Sr. (1742 - 1815)

William (25) married Elizabeth Anderson (15) (born on February 6, 1748 in Mecklenburg County, Colony of Virginia) on July 28, 1763 in Orange County, Colony of Virginia.

William and Elizabeth had four children before dying 09 Nov 1803. ^[2]

1. Sarah, b. 05 Mar 1766
2. Anderson, b. 08 Oct 1767, m. Jane Young, d. 1808
3. William Lancaster Taylor (1770-1854), m1. Elizabeth Hunt Smith, m2. Nancy Collins, d. 26 Dec 1854
4. John, b. 20 Feb 1773, m1. Mary Smith, m2. Lucy Ann Lyne, d. 1847

William died on November 9, 1803 in Townsville, Vance, United States, aged 65. He was buried in Machpelah Cemetery, Townsville, Vance County, North Carolina.^[1]

Sources

• [http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/William-Taylor/p271855
• Will of John Taylor. Granville Co., NC, Miscellaneous Wills, no page numbers, written 23 Oct 1787, proved Nov Court 1787. Digital image at Ancestry.com - https://tinyurl.com/mf7ybrdz
• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A113060
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCQB-WQM
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/), "Record of William Taylor", Ancestor # A113060.
• A Crane's Foot (or Pedigree) of Branches of the Gregg, Stuart, Robertson, Dobbs and Allied Families; compiled by E. Stuart Gregg, Jr, 1975, The R. L. Bryan Co., Columbia, SC
• James Taylor I Family Tree (on linen), scanned by the Gerald Ford Center in Omaha. According to Ann Spotswood Dandridge, the Taylor Tree was started around 1750. There were several copies made around 1837/38. This is from the website of The James Taylor I Descendants Association: www.jtiassociation.org
• The William & Mary Quarterly, Vol. 12; edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Richard Lee Morton, p. 129

Notes

William's FindAGrave memorial contains an excerpt from Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, April, 1775, to December, 1783, by F. B. Heitman, Washington, D.C., 1893, pg. 24 detailing William's Revolutionary War service in the 6th North Carolina Regiment.

Other Information:

William Taylor's Last Will & Testament: : Dated Nov 1803. Granville Co NC WB 6, p44. Note due to boundary changes, this part of Granville later became Vance Co. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/L1HH-W53

Notes from this Will: Four children are listed, Sarah, William, John and Anderson.

An alternate Will was mistakenly listed which is actually for William Taylor of Stokes County who was married to Sarah Scruggs: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:2:77TG-L14T?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=LCQB-WQM&i=35

Alternate Name • Birth Name William Taylor Last Changed: March 18, 2020

William's otherwise unsourced FindAGrave memorial ^[3] shows his place of birth as Rapidan, Culpeper County, Virginia; but the John Powell Taylor family is not known to have ever resided in Culpeper County. James Taylor I Descendants Association genealogist and other researchers have him born either in that part of Caroline County formed from King & Queen County where William's parents were known to reside; or in Orange County, where they migrated sometime in the 1730s.

Similarly, William's FindAGrave memorial shows his place of death as Townsville, Vance County, North Carolina; but the James Taylor I Descendants Association genealogist shows his place of death as Lynesville in that part of Mecklenburg County, Virginia that became Granville County, North Carolina, and then Vance County, North Carolina. Both sources agree that he was buried in Machpelah Cemetery.

23 Oct 1787, Granville Co., NC - The will of John Taylor names "my three brothers & two sisters now living, Edmund Taylor, William Taylor, Joseph Taylor, Isabella Hopkins, and Elizabeth Bullock..." ^[4]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=68365334 : accessed 18 November 2017), memorial page for LTC William Taylor (19 Dec 1737–5 Nov 1803), Find A Grave Memorial no. 68365334, citing Machpelah Cemetery, Townsville, Vance County, North Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Earl Munday (contributor 46874433).
2. ↑ [http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/William-Taylor/p271855
3. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=68365334 : accessed 18 November 2017), memorial page for LTC William Taylor (19 Dec 1737–5 Nov 1803), Find A Grave Memorial no. 68365334, citing Machpelah Cemetery, Townsville, Vance County, North Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Earl Munday (contributor 46874433).
4. ↑ Will of John Taylor. Granville Co., NC, Miscellaneous Wills, no page numbers, written 23 Oct 1787, proved Nov Court 1787. Digital image at Ancestry.com - https://tinyurl.com/mf7ybrdz

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Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Taylor-7012 created through the import of Batchelor Family Tree.ged on Nov 19, 2011 by Trevor Batchelor.
• Taylor-21729 was created by Amy Wilson through the import of 2014_MASTER.ged on Sep 24, 2014.