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Sarah Rachel (Taylor) Moseley (abt. 1704 - 1789)

Sarah Rachel Moseley formerly Taylor
Born about in Goochland, Goochland County, Colony of Virginiamap [uncertain]
Daughter of and
Sister of [half]
Wife of — married [date unknown] in Virginia, United Statesmap
Wife of — married about 1725 in Henrico County, Virginiamap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , and
Died at about age 85 in Buckingham, Virginia, United Statesmap [uncertain]
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Biography

The Birth and Death Dates are a rough estimate. See the text for details.
This person may not belong in the family group. See the text for details.
This person's spouse is uncertain. See the text for details.

Birth

Sarah Rachel Taylor[1][2][3][4] was born about 1704 in Bristol Parish, Henrico County, Virginia.[5][6][7]

Marriages

Sarah Rachel was married to Robert Moseley[5] in 1725 in Henrico County, Virginia.[8]

They had supposedly 10 children, however a previous profile manager has commented it is unlikely given the marriage lasted 9 years unless some children were from another marriage. They also probably lived in Henrico/Goochland County, Virginia according to the profile manager previously. Five children appear below:

  1. Arthur Moseley (1726-1808)
  2. Robert Peter Moseley
  3. Sarah (Moseley) Thomas (14 Feb 1732-30 Jan 1804)
  4. Ann (Mosley) Jeter
  5. Francis Moseley (1729-1783)

Residences

Robert Moseley's will was dated 12 April 1734 in Henrico Parish, & was recorded in Henrico County, Virginia, June 1734, naming wife Sarah, and three sons, Francis (by a previous wife), Arthur and Robert (Sarah's sons). Sarah got the remainder of the estate after specific bequests were made to the sons & she was the executrix.

In the Henrico Co. Court Orders 1737-46, p 64, in the Feb 1738/9 court meeting, Arthur Moseley chose Thomas Moseley (brother of father Robert) as his guardian, and Robert Moseley chose William Moseley (also a brother of his father Robert) as his guardian. We believe the event prompting this was possibly Sarah's death. On p 296 of this same volume, William & Arther Moseley appeared before the Feb. 1744/5 court to charge the widow of their grandfather Arthur Moseley, Martha, & her husband Edward Friend, of wasting their grandfather's estate. In 1748, Arthur Moseley is in King William Parish of Goochland Co., & sells 150 acres of land that belonged to his father Robert to Christoper Bass of Dale Parish, Henrico Co., for 20 pounds.

Death

Sarah Rachel (Taylor) Moseley died in 1789 in Buckingham County, Virginia, United States.

Research Notes

  • Blomfield-390 comments on 19 May 2023.

Noted below are comments from previous pm. Also Acknowledgements removed as changes can be seen on changes tab. Removed reference in BIO on Bondurant family and inserted below in Reference Notes until checked with primary sources. Also; A note in caps on the profile has been removed and placed here : This long accepted marriage is not true. It has been proved with land records that Sarah Rachel Taylor Moseley did not marry John Bondurant I (son of Jean Pierre Bondurant and Ann Tanner). See the Bondurant Family newsletter #128 (Dec 2020) on the Bfa website [9] for details & sources. The children in bio have been taken out of main body of BIO from above and placed in Research Notes until proven otherwise.

  • From prior PM: After her first husband's death in 1734, Sarah Rachel married John Bondurant[5][6][8] probably in 1735. They had at least four sons.[5][10]
  1. Jane Bondurant (1734-1761) married William Guillaume Sallee Jr. (1734-1820)
  2. John Peter Bondurant Jr., born 1 Oct 1737, married Pauline Marshall Alen ca. 1758, died 1810 King William Co., VA
  3. Richard Bondurant Sr, (22 Aug 1740-Nov 1831) married Cecelia Hall
  4. Joel Bondurant (22 Aug 1742- abt. 1784 Bedford Co., VA)
  5. Sarah Rachel Bondurant born abt. 1743, married Arthur Humphrey Moseley
  6. Thomas Miles Bondurant (abt.1744-1829) married Rhoda Frances Agee
  7. Obediah Bondurant (abt. 1746-aft. 1813 Green Co., KY)
  8. Darby Bondurant (1 Jan 1749 Buckingham Co., VA-11 Nov 1828 in Buckingham Co., VA) married first Ruth Payne Agee, married second Lucy Hall
  • From prior PM: "This claimant goes on to state: Her parents are given variously as":

Thomas Taylor; Francis Taylor and Judith Ann Leake; Richard Taylor and Rebecca Cocke.[5][6][7]

  • From prior PM: Her birthplace is given as Manakintown, Goochland County, Virginia[1] which was not created until 1727-1728. It is also given as Manakin, Virginia.[3]
  • From prior PM: One source gives her birth as 1710 and other records gives 1711.[3][1][2][4]
  • From prior PM: The Bondurant Family Association Newsletter reprinting information from The Huguenot Magazine, Vol. 25, page 173 gives the marriage date with John Peter Bondurant as 1736 but indicates date and place not proved.

[Note - this was a long-accepted lineage which was proven to be false by Amy Warren Sanders, published in the Bondurant Family Association newsletter #128 (Winter 2020), pp 8-16.

  • From prior PM: One source says she died in 1762. Note that this has no citation to support this statement.
  • From prior PM: Sarah was born in 1711. She passed away in 1762.

Also from previous PM:

  • See BFA newsletter #128 (Winter 2020), pp 8-16 re marriage of John Bourant to the widow Sarah Rachel Taylor Moseley. Removed website as already included this above. Further comment from previous PM: This said he did have a wife Sarah who relinquished her dower about the time he traded land with Thomas Turpin in 1759 (Cumberland Co. VA Court Orer Book 4 1758-62, p 123).
  • 'This Sarah Bondurant was also a witness to the will of Richard Epperson in 1757 in Cumberland Co., VA Court Minutes 1755-59, p43.
  • Her parentage is in question. She may have been born at Moseley Junction, Bristol Parish, Henrico County, Virginia.

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Heritage Consulting Millennium File Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, Utah, USA; Date: 2003
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Find A Grave Index, 1700s-Current Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, Utah, USA; Date: 2012
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, Utah, USA; Date: 2000
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1700s-Current Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, Utah, USA; Date: 2012
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Hoops, Len, Address: 1704 Glenn, Ft. Worth, Texas
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Bondurant Family History; Bondurant, Herbert
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Huguenot Publication #5
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
  9. ↑ [www.bondurant-family.org]
  10. ↑ Margaret Elizabeth (Kreher) Fox Records, letter from Ervil Norton 16 September 1976, copy shared with Margaret Ann (Kepner) Kerns, 729 NW 1101 Road, Urich, Missouri 64788

See Also:

  • Jem Genealogy; [1]
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3ZD2-G8H : accessed 2016-09-09), entry for Sarah Rachel /Taylor/.
  • The Descendants of William Moseley 1605/1606 - 1655 of Norfolk, Va, compiled by Leila Eldridge D'Aiutolo, et al, 2000, volume one, page 68-69.




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Fetterling-18 Kirt Fetterling
Taylor-13812 and Taylor-81715 appear to represent the same person because: During a GEDCOM match this came up as a possible match to these two people. Seems she married both men Bondurant and and Mosley. Birth date may be off a little, but same death date and place.

One profile has mother and no father and the other a father and no mother.

This needs a CAREFULL look to see if it is possible she married both men and her set of parents need to be brought together!

posted on Taylor-81715 (merged) by Kirt Fetterling
Dominick-41 Thomas Dominick
Hi Margaret,

This record is open and you are a WT member. Feel free to make any changes you consider appropriate.

posted by Thomas Dominick
Kepner-132 Margaret (Kepner) Kerns
In the second paragraph of the biography, I believe a typographical error has occurred, or the statement belongs to another couple. Sarah Rachel Taylor was born in the early 18th century, but the quotation shows her married in 1836. She is said to have married John Peter Bondurant in 1736.

Also, her father was not plain Francis Taylor. He might have been Thomas Francis Taylor. Thomas Taylor left a will written 26 Jan 1722, recorded May 4, 1724, and re-recorded Sep 3 1798, because the original was desroyed by the enemy. Henrico County, Va. will Book # 2, 1787-1802, p.454: Will of Thomas Taylor of Henrico Parish, Planter. He left no wife's name, but gave property to his daughter, Elizabeth Perkins, Sarah Taylor and Mary Taylor his daughters. His daughter Mary left a legacy to her sister Sarah Moseley, in her will proved Apr 3 1727 Henrico county, mentions "my sister Sarah Moseley". It was witnessed by John Hancock who also witnessed the will of Robert Moseley, husband of Sarah Taylor. The biography doesn't agree with her profile information above it, as the profile shows her father as Thomas Taylor.

Her birthplace is incorrect. It should be Henrico County, VA. Goochland Co. did not exist yet. Also, their son Darby Bondurant could not have been born in Buckingham County, VA as it didn't exist until 1761. Will one of the profile managers please make these corrections if they agree with them?

posted by Margaret (Kepner) Kerns
[Living Horace]
Taylor-41569 and Taylor-13812 appear to represent the same person because: 41569 should be married to Moseley-241, died 1734, but has been abducted by another Robert, more likely a cousin than a duplicate.

Bondurant is said to have married Moseley's widow.

posted by [Living Horace]
Sabot-3 Michael Sabot
Taylor-38098 and Taylor-13812 appear to represent the same person because: Clear Duplicate
posted by Michael Sabot

Unmerged matches › Sarah Rachel (Taylor) Bondurant (abt.1704-abt.1762)
Rejected matches › Sarah Ann (Taylor) Jasper (1692-1749) › Sarah (Cornett) Taylor (1645-1688) › Rachel Irene (Nuttall) Taylor (1868-1895) › Rachel (Taylor) Burgan (1832-1885) › Sarah Jane (Taylor) Barnum (1857-1921) › Sarah Ann (Moseley) Warren (abt.1863-) › Sarah Rachel (Bondurant) Moseley (abt.1743-)

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