Benjamin Taylor (1759 - abt. 1810)

Born 11 Nov 1759 in Orange, Virginia

Ancestors

Died about 1810 at about age 50 in Kentucky, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Midshipman Benjamin Taylor served with Virginia Navy during the American Revolution.

Benjamin was born 11 Nov 1759 in Orange County, Virginia, the youngest son of George Taylor and Rachel Gibson. He became a navy midshipman 10 Oct 1777 at the age of 17 and served in the Revolution with his brother Richard aboard Tartar. He never married, ^[1] received 2,666 acres of land in Kentucky, and removed there after the war. ^[2] His brother Francis's 1799 will bequeathed the Orange County family home Midland to Benjamin, but Benjamin sold it the following year to Colonel Lewis Willis of Spotsylvania County. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ The history of Virginia's navy of the revolution, by Robert Armistead Stewart. Richmond: Mitchell & Hotchkiss, printers, 1934, p. 254
2. ↑ Donald Robertson and his wife Rachel Rogers of King and Queen County, Virginia, etc., by William Kyle Anderson. Detroit: Winn and Hammond, printers, 1900, p. 245.
3. ↑ Historic Taylor Family Homes in Orange County, Virginia, 1722-Present

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