Thomas Taylor (abt. 1607 - abt. 1657)

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Died about 1657 at about age 50 in Warwick, VA

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Thomas Taylor migrated from England to USA in 1620's.

Thomas Taylor is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society

Thomas Taylor was a Virginia colonist.

Captain Thomas Taylor^[1] was born in England in 1607 and died in Warwick County, Virginia in 1657. He was a mariner who traveled between England and the Americas. He had been given an original Land Grant from the Virginia Company for 50 acres of Land. He later patented an additional 300 acres to his estate at Windmill Point in Warwick County Virginia. The community of Elizabeth City Corporation papers list him and show that his property was planted in 1626.The 300 acres of patented land is shown on record in 23 Oct. 1643, page 923 of the Purse and Persons Co. Papers page 325. He married Francis ??? in 1626 in Warwick County Virginia.They had at least 10 children:

1. Robert Taylor Sr. b. 1648 Warwick Co. m. 10 Feb 1701 Elizabeth Hudson
2. Thomas Taylor a Minister in Elizabeth Parish, New Kent & James City 1680^[2]
3. Capt. Daniel Taylor a Minister in Blissland Parish, New Kent & James City 1704
4. Henry Taylor
5. Jeremiah Taylor a Minister in Elizabeth Parish (1667-1677)^[3]
6. Ann Taylor married Miles Carey of Warwick Co. Va.
7. Mary Taylor married Capt. Thomas Gardiner of Warwick Co.
8. Martha Taylor married Thomas Merry of Warwick Co. Va. They may have been the parents of Thomas Merry

"Probably a Bristol sea captain long engaged in the Virginia trade who retired from the sea in Warwick;" "Burgess for Warwick 1646^[4] and as late as 1652 was in the commission of the peace. In the patent of 1643 he is styled 'mariner.'"

"No evidence has yet appeared to identify this Taylor family definitely. Thomas Taylor was one of the original patentees in Elizabeth City in 1626 (Hotten, 273) and in 1643 took up 600 acres in Warwick. In 1646 and he sat as Burgess for Warwick and as late as 1652 was in the commission of peace. In the patent of 1643 he is styled 'mariner'. He was probably a Bristol sea captain long engaged in the Virginia trade who returned from the sea in Warwick. His relation to Miles Cary suggests that he may have been of the family of John Taylor, alderman of Bristol, who is mentioned in relation to the Bristol Carys in the 1652 will of the Bristol clergyman, Robert Perry (P.C.C. Bowyer, 243. See Va Mag, xi, 364). We have seen that there had already been a Taylor / Cary marriage in Bristol."

Harrison,Fairfax, "The Virginia Carys: An Essay in Genealogy", NY, 1919, p.35

Cary's plantation, "Magpie Swamp" in Warwick County was devised to him by his father-in-law, Thomas Taylor.

Harrison, Fairfax, "The Virginia Carys: An Essay in Genealogy",NY, 1919, p. 164-8

Reserchers are likely to find many erroneous references on the internet that Ann/Anne Taylor was the daughter of the Thomas Taylor who married Margaret Swinderby, but as that Thomas is documented as having died in England in 1618 it is impossibly that he was the father of Anne who married Miles Cary.

THE WINDMILL POINT PROPERTY: The first settlements on Warwick (then known as Blunt's Point) River, below Martins Hundred, were made after the Indian massacre of 1622. From the patents it appears that John Baynham (spelled also Bainham and Burnham) had an 'ancient patent' dated Dec 1, 1624, for 300 acres 'adjoining the lands of Captain Samuel Matthews and William Claiborne, gentlemen' (Va. Mag., i, 91. ) This was Windmill Point and there John Baynham was living in 1625. (Brown, First Republic, 622) A Richard Baynham 'of London, goldsmith,' was a shareholder in the London Company in 1623 and one of the Warwick faction, Brown, Genesis, ii, 904, 982, and an Alexander Baynham was burgess for Westmoreland in 1654.) This John Baynham's daughter, Mary, married Richard Tisdale, who succeeded to the property, and from him Captain Thomas Taylor purchased it, taking out on Oct 23, 1643 [Va Land Register, i] , two patents, one calling for 350 acres known as Magpy Swamp. In the first of these patents Windmill Point is described as butting upon Warwick River, vounded on the S side with Potash Quarter Creeke and on the N side with Samuell Stephens his land'. The Stephens place (patented 1636 'adjoining the land of John Bainham,' Va Mag, v, 455) was "bolthrope," which passed through the hands of the governors Harvey and Berkely (Va. Mag., i, 83) was afterwards long the home of the Coles (Hening, ii, 321), and eventually the property of Judge Richard Cary5. In his will the immigrant Miles Cary describes Windmill Point as 'the tract of land which I now reside upon,' refers to Thomas Taylor's patent, and says that a resurvey shows it to include 688 acres, exclusive of the Magpy Swamp. We trace the title through eight Carys to 1837, when the senior line became extinct and Windmill Point passed to the Lucas descendants of the youngest daughter of Captain Thomas Cary5, one of whom Mr G. D. Eggleston found in possession in 1851. In 1919 the site of the original house is marked by a grassy cavity. A modern house stands nearby, the residence of J.B. Nettles, who is now the owner of the small surrounding farm. the property is sometimes referred to as 'Cary's Quarter.' This Windmill Point must be distinguished from Sir George Yeardley's Windmill Point (originallly Tobacco Point) on the south side of James River in Prince George, where, it is supposed, the first windmill in the United States was erected. "

Harrison,Fairfax, "The Virginia Carys: An Essay in Genealogy", NY, 1919, p.32

Sources

1. ↑ Taylor, Thomas - A7902; died ca. 1656, Warwick Co.: 1646 (Burgess). accessed 30 October 2021
2. ↑ http://www.jstor.org/stable/4244522
3. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/historyofhampton00tyle#page/24/mode/2up/search/Taylor
4. ↑ McIlwaine, H. R. and J. P. Kennedy, Editors. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia. 13 Volumes. Richmond, Virginia, 1905-1915. Editors: vols. 1-9, H. R. McIlwaine; v. 10-13, J. P. Kennedy. page xviiii