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The Taylor Family
1. John Taylor is the first generation of our Taylor line that I have researched. He came from Lancashire, England and may have died in England or possibly in Virginia. He had several children and married someone named Dorothy. He was born about 1600.
2. Andrew Taylor, John and Dorothy's son, married someone named Ann Jordan and they lived and died in Norfolk Co., VA. Andrew's will named several items and people as well as some grandchildren.
3. Richard Taylor, son of Andrew and Ann Taylor, was the next generation. It is known that he had a sister but there could have been other children. They lived in Norfolk Co., VA. Richard had at least six children.
4. William Taylor, Sr., son of Richard Taylor, married Liscomb Jones, dt of Rev. Walter Jones and possibly a Miss Linscombe. They were from Maryland and Rev. Walter Jones removed to North Carolina as a missionary for the Church of England. William and Liscomb's daughter, Liscomb Taylor, married John Haddock, Sr. and they lived in Pitt County, NC. William Taylor Sr., was named in his grandfather's will and other documents of Norfork Co., VA.
5. William Taylor, Jr. was a son of William and Liscomb (Jones) Taylor, Sr. William Jr. married Dinah Deale, dt of Henry Deale, Jr. and his wife Mary Ballentine. The Deale family lived in Norfork Co., VA. Dinah was named in her father's will and her father was named in his father's will. The Ballentine and Deale families lived near the Taylor family in Norfork. William Taylor, Jr., deeded land and cattle to Dinah's bastard child, John, and named her his wife and a Deale.
6. Rhoda Taylor, dt of William & Dinah (Deale) married John Haddock, Jr. She married her first cousin. They lived in Pitt County, NC.
The Taylor files consist of several hundred pages. Listed below are some of the resources that I used to study the first four generations of the family. Donna Haddock Cooper, 2003
Resources
1. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, Mary Taylor.
2. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, Andrew Taylor.
3. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, Ann Taylor.
4. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, Thomas Taylor, 1744.
5. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, Richard Taylor, 1679.
6. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, Margaret Taylor wife of William Brown, 1744.
7. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, Thomas Taylor, 1744.
8. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, Richard Taylor, inventory, 1734.
9. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, Thomas Taylor.
10. Norfolk Co., VA, Deeds, William Taylor and wife Mary, 1728.
11. Norfolk Co., VA, Deeds, Thomas son of Thomas Taylor.
12. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, Thomas Taylor.
13. Norfolk Co., VA, Deeds, Richard Taylor.
14. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, Richard Taylor, 1729.
15. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, Owens family connections mentioned in wills and deeds.
16. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, James Taylor.
17. Norfolk Co., VA, Deeds, William Taylor.
18. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, William Taylor.
19. Norfolk Co., VA, Deeds, 1723, William Taylor, Sr..
20. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, Thomas and William Taylor, grandchildren of Andrew Taylor, Thomas and his brother William were mentioned as grandchildren in their grandfather Andrew's will of 1717. Since they are the only two grandsons mentioned they may be the oldest of Thomas' children.
21. Norfolk Co., VA, Deeds, William Taylor, Sr., Norfolk County, VA, Deed Book, 20 Pages pages 178 and 179: The abstract reads: 1762, date recorded Dec. 14, 1762,.
22. Pitt County, NC, Deeds, 1793, William Taylor, William Taylor, 1764, Pitt County, NC, applied for a patent.
23. Pitt County, NC, Deeds, 1793, William Taylor, Sr., William Taylor, Sr., Pitt County, NC, makes gifts to John Haddock in May 1793; William Taylor for love and affection granted on 4 May 1793.
24. Pitt County, NC, Obituaries, Oct 1794, William Taylor, Sr..
25. The Connector, Newsletter of the Tar River Connections Genealogical Society, Vol. 2, No. 4, William Taylor, dies age 114.
26. History of Pitt County, North Carolina, Liscomb Taylor, daughter of Walter Jones.
27. History of Pitt County, NC, Walter Jones, minister, Walter Jones, Liscomb's father, minister of the Anglican Church in NC.
28. Pitt Co., NC, Sworn chain carrier (SCC) in Jan 1763, William Taylor, Jr..
29. Patent #7033, Patent Book 17, Page 35, Pitt County, NC., William Taylor, Jr..
30. Patent #7032, Patent Book 17, Page 35, William Taylor, Jr..
31. Pitt County, NC, William Taylor sold 200 acres for L120 to John Haddock, Jr., 22 Jan 1767, William Taylor, Jr..
32. Pitt County, NC, deeds 1795, William Taylor, Jr., William Taylor Pitt County, NC, land mentioned in Jan 1795: Pitt County, NC, 24 Jan 1795.
33. Pitt County, NC, Deeds Apr 1799, William Taylor, Jr..
34. Pitt County, NC, 1762, William Taylor, Junr.
35. Letter from Colonel John Simpson, Chairman of Safety Committee in Pitt County, to Colonel Richard Cogdell, Chairman of Safety Committee in Craven Coun, William Taylor, Jr..
36. County Records, Deeds of Pitt Co., NC, 1751, My wife, Dinah Deale, bastard child John Deale..
37. Microfilm, 1790 and 1800 Federal Population Schedules, US Census, Pitt Co., NC, Taylor deeds.
38. Microfilm, 1790 and 1800 Federal Population Schedules, US Census, Pitt Co., NC, Liscomb Taylor & John Haddock.
39. Reprinted in The Connector, Newsletter of the Tar River Connections Genealogical Society, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Fall Issue of 1998), p. 18: "Halifax, dated, Obituary of Liscomb's father, William Taylor.
40. State and County, Pitt County, NC, Land and Deeds, John Haddock, Sr., [Microfilm, (index county), per Judy Haddock Swan].
41. Microfilm, Beaufort County, NC, Tax Records, 1762, John Haddock, Sr., John Haddock, Jr., William Haddock, Sr. & William Haddock, Jr..
42. Pitt County, NC, Deed - Book DD page 175.
43. Cemetery, Pitt County, NC, Buck Cemetery Inscriptions, birth & death dates.
44. State of Maryland & Maryland Archives, Maryland Probates and Estates.
45. Crown and the Royal Governor Josiah Martin of the Colony of North Carolina.
46. Beaufort Co., NC, Deed & Patents.
47. Craven Co., NC, Deeds & Patents.
48. Prerogative Court Records, Saint Mary's Co., John Haddock, administrator - Pickering estate.
49. Compiled by Jane Baldwin (1904), Maryland Calendar of Wills, 33.45, Cuthbert Fenwick, Jr. - John Haddock.
50. Microfilm, Beaufort County, NC, Tax Records, 1762, Holland, Waine, Haddock.
51. Norfolk Co., VA, Deeds, John Taylor and Judith.
52. Norfolk Co., VA, Wills and Administrations, John Taylor, witnesses.
53. Norfolk Co., VA, Deeds, John Taylor, mentioned deceased father, Richard.
54. Norfolk Co., VA, Deeds, Judith Bowers, wife of John Taylor.
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