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Catherine (Taylor) Penn (1719 - 1759)

Catherine Penn formerly Taylor
Born in Rapidan, Orange, Virginiamap
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Wife of — married 1739 [location unknown]
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Died at age 39 in Townsville, Granville, North Carolinamap
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Biography

Catherine Taylor was born on 30 Dec 1719 in Rapidan, Orange, Virginia to parents John Powell Taylor and Catherine Isabella Pendleton. She married Moses Penn on 4 Jul 1739 in Caroline, Virginia. Children: John (Signer of Declaration of Independence). She died on 4 Nov 1759 in Townsville, Granville, North Carolina.

Taylor Plantation Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Machpelah Section number 8 Page 16 Vance Co., N.C.:

"When the Roanoke River Railroad came through Lyneville, a village north of the farm in 1855, Edmund Townes donated land to the railroad for their local station. The village incorporated in 1857, changing its name from Lyneville to Townesville in his honor; the spelling was later changed to Townsville. Edmund Townes’s acreage decreased by seventy-three acres by the time of the 1860 census, but Machpelah’s profitability apparently skyrocketed. The cash value of the farm—which maintained its five hundred improved acres—shot up to sixteen thousand dollars. Machpelah produced the same crops and products as it had a decade earlier, and in roughly the same proportions. Townes slaughtered more livestock and produced slightly less tobacco, but the statistics for production at Machpelah in the agricultural schedule of the 1860 census are roughly the same as those in 1850. Thirty-two people are listed under Edmond Townes’s name in the 1860 slave schedule, which also shows that Machpelah had nine “slave house” dwellings. None are extant today and their location in relation to the main house is not known.6

In 1860, Machpelah’s 850 acres qualified it as a very large plantation in a county known for large plantations. Still, several neighboring plantations were substantially larger. Of ninety-eight farms comprising more than a thousand acres in the state, thirteen were in Granville County. Eleven of those were near Machpelah in the Nutbush Township, part of which eventually became Vance County. However, Townes’s five hundred improved acres matched or topped the improved acreage of five of those larger farms. By far, the wealthiest planter in Nutbush Township was James M. Bullock, whose thirty-seven-hundred-acre farm was valued at $35,050.

Captain Joseph Townes, son of Edmund and Elizabeth Townes, inherited Machpelah after 1860. The economic collapse of the plantation economy is apparent in the agricultural census statistics of 1870: Machpelah was now only 280 acres, valued at two thousand dollars, and produced an estimated twelve hundred dollars worth of farm products. Joseph Townes paid five hundred dollars for labor, including the value of boarding in tenant houses on the land. In the Townesville Township, which replaced Nutbush Township in the census delineation, farms were worth anywhere between 114 thousand dollars.

Samuel Thomas Peace, Zeb’s Black Baby (Henderson, N.C.: 1956), 364-365; Heritage of Vance County, 22; Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, Granville County, Agricultural and Slave Schedules, microfilm, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh. 7 Andrew J. Carlson and Marvin A. Brown, Heritage and Homesteads: The History and Architecture of Granville County, North Carolina (Charlotte: The Granville County Historical Society, 1988), 37; Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, Granville County, Agricultural Schedules, microfilm, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh. 8 Ninth Census of the United States, 1870, Granville County, Agricultural Schedule, microfilm, North Carolina State."

COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE Southern States of America, TAYLOR FAMILY page 510 JOHN TAYLOR, (2--11), of Orange Co., Va., b. Nov. 18, 1696; d. March 22, 1780; m. Feb. 14, 1716, Catherine Pendleton, b. Dec. 8, 1699; d. July 26, 1774; dau. of Philip and Isabella (Hart) Pendleton, of New Kent Co., Va. Issue: COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE Southern States of America TAYLOR FAMILY page 510 3--1. Mary, b. May 30, 1718; d. Sept. 13, 1757; m. Feb. 3, 1735, Joseph Penn, and had issue: 1. George; 2. Joseph; 3. Catherine; 4. Philip; 5. Moses; 6. Elizabeth; 7. James; 8. Thomas. COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE Southern States of America TAYLOR FAMILY page 510 3--2. Catherine, b. Dec. 30, 1719; d. Nov. 4, 1774; m. July 4, 1739, Moses Penn, d. Nov. 4, 1759; and had issue: 1. John, b. May 6, 1740; d. Sept. 14, 1788; he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. 3--3. Ann, b. May 10, 1721; d. Aug. 10, 1761; no record, untraced. 3--4. Edmund, b. May 12, 1723; m. Ann Lewis, dau. of Charles and Mary (Howell) Lewis, and had issue: 1. Richard; 2. Frances; 3. Eliza; 4. Howell; 5. James; 6. Lewis; 7. John; 8. Edmund; 9. Mary. (See Lewis lineage.)

COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE Southern States of America TAYLOR FAMILY page 511 [p.511] 3--5. Isabella, b. June 26, 1725; m. Jan. 25, 1750, Samuel Hopkins, and had issue: 1. Samuel; 2. Catherine; 3. James; 4. Elizabeth; 5. John; 6. Mary; 7. Edmund. COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE Southern States of America TAYLOR FAMILY page 511 3--6.John, b. July 17, 1727; d. Oct. 26, 1787; m. Betsy Lynn; noissue.

COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE Southern States of America TAYLOR FAMILY page 511 3--7.JAMES, b. Sept. 7, 1729; of whom later.

COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE Southern States of America TAYLOR FAMILY page 511 3--8.Philip, b. Feb. 17, 1733; d. Sept. 7, 1765; m. Mary Walker, and had issue: 1. Walker; 2. Catherine; 3. Mary; 4. Philip; 5. Ann; 6. John; 7. James.

COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE Southern States of America TAYLOR FAMILY page 511 3--9. Elizabeth, b. July 9, 1737; m. (first) Dec. 25, 1752, James Lewis, son of Col. Charles and Mary, (Howell) Lewis; (second) William Bullock, and had issue by each marriage. Issue by second marriage: 1. Elizabeth, m. James Maclin; 2. Frances, m. William Boyd; 3. William, m. his cousin, Lucy Bullock; 4. Nancy, m. Mr. Mutis.

COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE Southern States of America TAYLOR FAMILY page 511 3--10. William, b. Dec. 19, 1735; d. Nov. 5, 1803; m. July 28, 1763, Elizabeth Anderson, and had issue: 1. Sarah; 2. Anderson; 3. William; 4. John.

COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE Southern States of America TAYLOR FAMILY page 511 3--11. Joseph, b. Feb. 19, 1742; m. April 17, 1763, Frances Anderson, b. March 30, 1743; and had issue: 1. Elizabeth; 2. Mary Ann; 3. Thomas; 4. Joseph; 5. Lucy Penn; 6. Frances Anderson. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume IV (II) Of John Taylor, the first of the name to be born on Virginia soil, we are not in a position to say much. He was born in the year 1696. This we know and some other elementary facts from the old records, which have been preserved in considerable volume by the old parish and court documents, which have found their way into a great number of libraries, both public and private. Of this John Taylor we also know that he married Catherine Pendleton, of the Virginia colony, and that of the ten children born to this union one, George Edmond, was the ancestor of the present Taylor family. IV) Edmond Taylor, son of George Edmond and Anne (Lewis) Taylor, was born August 16, 1741. He was still a young man when the momentous change occurred which changed his native Virginia and all her sister communities from colonies to independent states, which in their new found brotherhood joined to form the greatest confederation of states ever seen in the world, Mr. Taylor married Ann Day, of Virginia, and thus introduced into the blood of his descendants a strain of one of the produest and most distinguished of the Virginia families. Mrs. Edmond Taylor was a daughter of Major Day, a revolutionary officer who conducted himself with great gallantry in that sanguinary struggle, and served on the staff of General Washington himself.

Revolutionary War service dates: Sixth North Carolina Line, Lt. Col. William Taylor, 15th Apr. 1776 to 1st June 1781. Source: ALPHABETICAL LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY BY HEITMAN, page 24 -sister Catherine Taylor Penn Burial: Machpelah Cemetery, Townsville, Vance County, North Carolina.

Mary Taylor also buried there.

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