William Taylor (1746 - 1806)

Born 17 Mar 1746 in Middletown, New Jersey, U.S.

Husband of Elizabeth (van Cortlandt) Taylor — married 6 May 1791 in Cowley St Mary's, Gloucestershire, England

Descendants

Died 16 Aug 1806 at age 60 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

The second son, William Taylor, who was born at Middletown on 17th March 1746, took an active part in favor of the British Government during the American war, and lost a considerable property, beside the emoluments arising from his professional pursuits as a barrister. He was eventually appointed Chief Justice of Jamaica, but retired from that high office upon his marriage with Eliza, dau. of Col. Philip Van Cortlandt. After the war he repurchased his estate at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and died there on the 16th August 1806, aged sixty years, leaving

I. John-William, born at Halifax in 1792; d. in the military service of the East India Company in command of the Dacca Provisional Battalion, s. p.

II. Pringle, the present Major Pringle Taylor, of Pennington.

III. Cortlandt, Captain in the Madras artillery, married at Bangalore in the East Indies 2nd October 1826, Emily, daughter of Lieut.-col. Peter Latouche Chambers, C.B. of his Majesty's 41st regiment, by whom he has issue, - Emily-Eliza, born at Nagpore.

IV. George-Elliott, m. at New York 16th October 1828, Laura, daughter, and co-heiress of William Jephson,” Esq. of the same city; d. 2nd February 1833, leaving issue, 1. William Jephson, b. 15th September 1829. 2. Cortlandt Mulcaster, b. 8th February 1833. 1. Maria Farquhar.

I. Catharine-Eliza, m. in 1814, Clement Clarke Moore, son of Benjamin Moore, Bishop of New York, by Charity Clarke, sister of Maria-Theresa, Viscountess Barrington, (who, with her husband Lord Barrington, was lost at sea), and of Mary, the wife of Sir Gilbert Affleck, bart, the mother of Elizabeth, wife of Lord Holland, and d. 4th April 1830, having had issue, 1. Benjamin, b. 24th August 1818. 2. Clement, b. 3rd January 1821. 3. William-Taylor, b. 8th Oct. 1823. 1. Margaret-Elliott, m. in 1835, to Dr. Ogden. 2. Charity-Elizabeth, d. 14th December 1829. 3. Mary-Clarke. 4. Catherine Van Cortlandt. 5. Maria-Theresa Barrington.

II. Susan-Helen, s. p.

Arms-Ermine, a lion rampant guardant azure, on a chief embattled gu. a fleur-de-lis or between two boars' heads couped erect argent. Crest-A dexter arm embowed in armor the hand in a gauntlet grasping a javelin, all ppr. pendant from the rist by a ribbon, az. and resting on a wreath of the color, an escutcheon gu. thereon a boar's head couped erect argent. Motto - Consequitur quodcunque petit. Estates- Pennington, near Lymington Hampshire, England

Hordley in Jamaica, and Cortlandt in King's County, Nova Scotia. Seat- Pennington House, near Lymington, Hants

Sources

• A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, page 241