Daniel Taylor (1748 - 1826)

Born 7 Nov 1748 in Dobbs, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Rouse) Taylor — married 6 Feb 1777 in Dobbs County, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died 19 Oct 1826 at age 77 in Lowndes County, Mississippi, United States

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Biography

Daughters of the American Revolution information:

TAYLOR, DANIEL Ancestor #: A112367 Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE Birth: 11-7-1748 NORTH CAROLINA Death: 10-19-1826 PIKE CO MISSISSIPPI Service Source: MURPHY, TWO 1780 DOBBS CO, NC TAX LISTS, P 5 Service Description: 1) PAID SUPPLY TAX, 1782

Residence Created: 2002-03-27 23:23:55.3, Updated: , By: Conversion 1) County: DOBBS CO - State: NORTH CAROLINA

Spouse: ELIZABETH ROUSE Number Created: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, Updated: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, By: Conversion 1)

• Child son: WILLIAM TAYLOR, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] CATHERINE JANE CAMERON

• Child daughter: NANCY TAYLOR, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] EDWARD MORGAN

• Child son: JOHN TAYLOR, [Spouse #] Spouse: [2] NANCY COOPER

Daniel Taylor was born on November 7, 1748 in North Carolina. He was the son of Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Stone. His parents were tobacco farmers. He had at least two older brothers; William and Robert.

Daniel joined the church at age 12 and acquired a good education. He was preparing to travel to England where he would study the ministry, when the Revolutionary War came to North Carolina. He joined the Dobbs County Militia and was in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. Upon returning home, he taught school. There he met and married one of his students, Elizabeth Rouse (she was 15 he was 29). They were married on February 6, 1777. They had ten children.

Nancy (1777) and Samuel (1778) were born in North Carolina. Daniel moved his family to Sumner County, Tennessee where his next 8 children were born: Elizabeth (1780), Lucy (1783), Daniel (1785), John (1788), Rebecca (1790), Sarah (1794), Joseph (1797), and William (1804).

When William, the baby, was two months old, Daniel moved the family to Montgomery County, near the Red River in Tennessee. Daniel lived and farmed there for twelve or more years. "Father had a mania for horticulture."

In 1818, Daniel again uprooted his family, sold his farm, built a flat boat and floated down the Mississippi to Fort Adams, Mississippi. He bought property on a creek called Topisaw in Pike County. Eventually he gave this property to his youngest son, William. William and his brother, John, built a grist mill on the creek which failed mechanically.

In 1826, when the United States opened Indian land in central Mississippi, John and William decided to move their families north and acquire some of the patent land. William re-met his first love, Rachel Hamilton, just before pulling up stakes and moving his mother and father to Yazoo County. They were married on August 3, 1826. The trip to Yazoo County with Daniel and Elizabeth in a wagon was their honeymoon trip.

The final days of that trip were very sad. Daniel became over-heated while walking fast to find shelter from a rain storm. He sat in a draft, caught cold and died a month later on October 19, 1826. William recorded his last words: "Do everything right."

William buried his father on his farm. William writes in his journal; "I selected a handsome spot on my farm, around 'nool' to high to plow over, small shade trees, where his bones now remain if not disturbed!"

The family has decided to leave his bones where his son, William lovingly laid them. The headstone in Georgeville Cemetery is the humble attempt to show the respect for the Patriot ancestor, Daniel Taylor.

Note: Direct quotes are from William Taylor's Journal. Sally Knutson has the original journal handwritten in 1884. There are excerpts from the journal posted on several sites.

Records

Year: 1748. Family Data Collection - Births. Edmund West, comp. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.

Name: Daniel Taylor

Father: Robert Taylor; Mother: Elizabeth Stone

Birth Date: 7 Nov 1748

City: Dobbs; State: NC; Country: USA

Year: 1780. North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.

Name: Daniel Taylor

State: NC; County: Dobbs County

Year: 1780; Database: NC Early Census Index

Year: 1777. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Yates Publishing. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

Name: Daniel Taylor; Gender: Male

Birth Place: NC; Birth Year: 1748

Spouse Name: Elizabeth Rouse; Birth Place: NC; Birth Year: 1760

MarriageYear: 1777

Marriage State: NC

Number Pages: 1

Year: 1790; Census Place: Dobbs, North Carolina; Series: M637; Roll: 7; Page: 463; Image: 590; Family History Library Film: 0568147

Name: Daniel Taylor

Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 3

Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 1

Free White Persons - Females: 6

Number of Slaves : 3

Number of Household Members: 13

Year: 1822. Mississippi, State and Territorial Census Collection, 1792-1866. Claiborne County, Mississippi Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

Name: Daniel Taylor; Census Date: 1822

County: Claiborne

Line: 57; Roll: v229_1

Year: 1826. Death. Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

Name: Daniel Taylor

Spouse: Elizabeth Rouse

Parents: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Stone

Birth Place: Dobbs, NC; Birth Date: 7 Nov 1748

Marriage Place: Dobbs, NC; Marriage Date: 1777

Death Place: Monroe, Now Lowndes, MS; Death Date: 19 Oct 1826

Wills, Inventories, Guardian and Bond Books, 1797-1818, Montgomery County, Tennessee; Author: Historical Records Project (Tennessee); Probate Place: Montgomery, Tennessee

Name: Daniel Taylor

Probate Place: Montgomery, Tennessee, USA

Inferred Death Place: Tennessee, USA

Item Description: Wills, Inventories, Guardian and Bond Books, 1797-1818

U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Name: Cpt Daniel Taylor

Birth Date: 7 Nov 1748

Birth Place: Lenoir County, North Carolina, United States of America

Death Date: 19 Oct 1826

Death Place: Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States of America

Cemetery: Georgeville Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place: Holmes County, Mississippi, United States of America

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Spouse: Elizabeth Taylor

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Sources

• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A112367

• Year: 1748. Family Data Collection - Births. Edmund West, comp. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.

• Year: 1780. North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.

• Year: 1777. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Yates Publishing. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

• Year: 1790; Census Place: Dobbs, North Carolina; Series: M637; Roll: 7; Page: 463; Image: 590; Family History Library Film: 0568147

• Year: 1822. Mississippi, State and Territorial Census Collection, 1792-1866. Claiborne County, Mississippi Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

• Year: 1826. Death. Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

• Wills, Inventories, Guardian and Bond Books, 1797-1818, Montgomery County, Tennessee; Author: Historical Records Project (Tennessee); Probate Place: Montgomery, Tennessee

• Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154232684/daniel-taylor