Mary Waters Taylor was born in Kentucky 6 days before portions of Green County, KY were made into Adair County, KY of December 11, 1801. Adair County Kentucky was named after Major General, Revolutionary & Indian War veteran, Kentucky constitutional convention delegate, & Kentucky House of Representatives member John Adair (1757 SC-1840), with whom the Taylor family was acquainted.
Mary's parents were George Taylor (1761 Albemarle Co, VA - Schuyler Co, IL 1834) & Ann Waters (1765-1836).
Her grandfather Zachariah Taylor (1739-1794) served in the Revolutionary War.
President Zachary Taylor's great great great great grandfather Thomas Taylor (1574-1618) was also her father's great great great great grandfather, so she was the President's 5th cousin once removed. Genealogists think the wife of Thomas Taylor (1574-1618), named Margaret Swinderly (1578-1672) was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The FTDNA Taylor surname project, with over 1050 participants, has had a person test whose lineage coincides, at R-M269, with our lineage's Rowland Taylor (1510 Northumberland-1563 Suffolk). There are 100 genetically distinct subfamilies of R-M269 in the Taylor project, as well as same R1a men (R-M269 is R1b), & haplogroups A, E, G, I, J & Q. https://www.familytreedna.com/public/taylorfamilygenes/default.aspx?section=ycolorized
She married Moses Wright 1826 & had 10 children; 4 boys. Moses died 1860 but she lived till 1885.
Her parents moved to Illinois in 1828.
of Clark County, Missouri
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