James Taylor (1738 - 1799)

Born 16 Dec 1738 in Orange County, Virginia

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Died 1799 at about age 60 in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Sergeant Major James Taylor served with Virginia Line during the American Revolution.

James Taylor is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A112620.

James was born 16 Dec 1738, the eldest son of George Taylor and Rachel Gibson. He succeeded his father as Clerk of Orange County, Virginia, serving from 1772 to 1798. He served during the Revolution as a Sergeant Major in the Continental Line, received a 200 acre land grant in Kentucky after the war. He married his third cousin, Ann Pendleton, daughter of Colonel James Pendleton, and they migrated to Kentucky after the Revolution.

Name: James Taylor Gender: Male, 3 year term, Military Date: Aug 1778 etc. and 3 Nov 1775-1783 Military Place: Virginia, USA State or Army Served: Virginia Regiment: 3d Regiment and 7th Regiment Rank: Sergeant under Lt Col He(a)th's Company Heth-30, Capt Fleming's Company. ^[1]

Their children were: ^{[2] [3]}

1. Elizabeth, b. abt. 1767, m. John Pendleton
2. John Gibson, b. 30 Jan 1768, m. Elizabeth Lee Taylor
3. Mary Jane, b. 28 Sep 1769, m. Thomas T. Barbour, d. 23 Apr 1851
4. James Francis, b. abt. 1773, m. Frances Catlett Moore
5. Ann Pendleton, b. abt. 1774, m. Thomas Crutchfield, d. abt. 1807
6. Harry, b. 10 Apr 1786, d. 09 Jan 1792
7. Nathaniel Pendleton, b. 09 Apr 1790, m1. Elizabeth Catherine Martin, m2. Ellen Hart Clay, m3. Matilda Christy Walker, d. 10 Sep 1849

In a letter dated 21 Apr 1798 from James's brother Francis Taylor to James's nephew Richard Taylor, Jr., Francis wrote, "Your uncle James will start in a few days to take a view of his land on Harrod's Creek, and says if he can make things answer, and he likes the Kentucky country, he intends to have a house built there to remove to--" ^[4] Harrods Creek drains the area between the towns of La Grange and Pendleton, and empties into the Ohio River near the current Interstate 265 Lewis and Clark Bridge. ^{[5] [6]}

Enslaved Africans

James owned at least four enslaved Africans given to him by his father:

1. Rachel, named in his father's will
2. Daphne, named in his brother Francis's diary
3. Judy, age 11, named in Francis's diary
4. Clara, age 9, named in Francis's diary

Research Notes

Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/), "Record of TAYLOR, JAMES", Ancestor # A112620. NO SERVICE CAN BE FOUND AT THIS TIME IN ANY ACCEPTABLE SOURCES not the one on the page of "rosters of revolutionary soldiers..." proposed on FS

Sources

1. ↑ U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 by subscription on ancestry.com
2. ↑ Introduction to Francis Taylor Diary, 1786-1799, by Taylor historian William Kyle Anderson, 1900
3. ↑ James Taylor I Descendants Association, scan of the Taylor family tree on linen
4. ↑ Francis Taylor letter dated 21 Apr 1798 at Orange County, Virginia in the Philip Fall Taylor collection at Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky.
5. ↑ Wikipedia entry for Harrods Creek, Louisville, accessed 20 Oct 2022.
6. ↑ Harrods Creek Park, Prospect, Kentucky, accessed 20 Oct 2022.

See also:

• Lineage Book, Volume 29, by National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, p. 331
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/), "Record of James Taylor (b. 1738)", Ancestor # A112620.
• Francis Taylor Diary, 1786-1799. Original on file in the Library of Virginia, Richmond. Copies available from Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky and University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill.
• Donald Robertson and his wife Rachel Rogers of King and Queen County, Virginia, etc., by William Kyle Anderson. Detroit: Winn and Hammond, printers, 1900, pp. 239-243
• Genealogy of the Lewis Family in America: From the Middle of the Seventeenth Century Down to the Present Time, Volume 1, by William Terrell Lewis, Courier-journal job printing Company, 1893, p. 377
• Virginia Genealogies: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia, etc., by Horace Edwin Hayden. Wilkes-Barre: E. B. Yordy, Printer, 1891, pp. 673-674
• History & Families of Oldham County, Kentucky: The First Century, 1824-1924, by Oldham County Historical Society, Turner Publishing Company, 1996, p. 45
• Our Family Tree: James Taylor and Ann Pendleton
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/), "Record of TAYLOR, JAMES", Ancestor # A112620.

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