James Patton Taylor (1792 - 1833)

Born 5 Nov 1792 in Elizabethton, Carter, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Cocke (Carter) Taylor — married 22 Aug 1816 in Carter, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 12 Jan 1833 at age 40 in Elizabethton, Carter, Tennessee, United States of America

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Biography

• Fact: Burial Old Taylor Cemetery , Elizabethton, Carter County, Tennessee, USA

Birth: Nov. 5, 1792 Death: Jan. 12, 1833

Family links: Parents: Nathaniel Greene Taylor (1771 - 1816) Mary Polly Patton (____ - 1853)

Spouse: Mary Cocke Carter Taylor (1799 - 1853)*

Children: Nathaniel Green Taylor (1819 - 1887)*

• Calculated relationship

Burial: Taylor Cemetery Elizabethton Carter County

"The general's son James Patton Taylor (1794-1833) died even younger, and though he was a lawyer who served as district attorney, his major contribution to the family was his marriage into one of the most distinguished of Tennessee families.

In 1816, he married Mary Cocke Carter. Her grandfather, Colonel John Carter, was a leader of the Watauga Association, chairman of the committee that in 1772 drafted the first written laws west of the Allegheny Mountains, and Secretary of the State of Franklin (1784-1789), the ill-fated attempt led by John Sevier and Carter to secede from the Colony of North Carolina. This John Carter, about whom almost nothing is known before his appearance on the Watauga, is reputed to have been of the family of Robert "King" Carter, the Virginia dynast. John, who left the largest estate west of the mountains at his death in 1781, did give a son the name Landon, one used recurrently in that Virginia dynasty. General Landon Carter (1760-1800), a soldier of the Revolution educated at Liberty Hall in North Carolina, served the State of Franklin as member of the Council, secretary of state, and Speaker of the Senate. In 1796, he was a delegate to the convention that framed the Constitution of the State of Tennessee. At the time of statehood, Carter County was named in his honor, and the county seat, Elizabethton, in honor of his wife, Elizabeth Maclin, member of another distinguished founding family, one of whom was Tennessee's first secretary of state. General and Mrs. Carter lived in the Carter Mansion in Elizabethton (built in 1772 by his father), a plain frontier dwelling on the exterior with fine woodwork in the Virginia manner within. In a strange turn, at the time of his son's marriage into the Carter family, General Nathaniel Taylor built his own mansion near Elizabethton and named it Sabine Hill, apparently after Sabine Hall, the estate of the distinguished Revolutionary figure Landon Carter of Virginia. Tennessee"

'Peter Taylor'

By HUBERT H. McALEXANDER

Published  : September 30, 2001

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Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Allan Thomas.

• James Patton Taylor, Sr (1792-1833) on Find A Grave: Memorial #137790834 retrieved 03 April 2018

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Ancestral File Number

Ancestral File Number: JS22-6P

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Footnotes

Acknowledgments

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