Genealogical Record: Zachary Taylor

Self Parents Grandparents GGParents GGGParents
Zachary Taylor

*1707 04 17 Orange Co., Virginia
+1768 Washintgon, D.C.

11697

James Taylor

*1673/74 03 14 New Kent Co., Virginia
+1728/29 01 23 Hare Forrest, Orange Co., Virginia

JC 11675 says he also had sons named George and Erasmus, and daughter Tabitha (m. ? Wild), Hannah (m. ? Battaile), Molly (m. ? Pendelton).

11673 <274:11

James Taylor
Colonel, Lawyer, surveyor, vestryman, member of the "40's" militia.

*1634/35 02 12 "Pennington", (20 miles from) Carlisle, Northumberland ENG
+1698 04 30 New Kent, Virginia

RFU 14107 lists five children with Frances: James (1668 12 27 Virginia - 1668 12 29 Virginia), Martha (b. 1669/70 03 14), James II (1673/74 03 14-1728/29 01 23), Sarah (b. 1676 06 30), Jane (b. 1678 12 27); also eight children with Mary Gregory: John (b. 1684), Anne (b. 1684/85 01 12 at Hare Forest, Orange Co., Virginia, m. Edward Eastham 1701 at New Kent Co., Virginia, d. 1731 St. George's Parish, Spotsylvania, Virginia), Elizabeth (1684/85 01 12 Hare Forest, Orange Co., Virginia - bef. 1686), Mary (b. 1685/86 01 21), Mary Bishop (1668 06 29 Glochester Co., Virginia - 1770 06 10 Culpeper Co., Virginia, m. Henry Pendleton and Edward Watkins), Edmund Taylor (b. 1690, m. Sarah Brooking), Elizabeth (b. 1691/92 01 12), John (1696 11 18 Orange Co., Virginia - 1780 03 22 Granville Co., North Carolina, m. Catherine Pendleton 1715/16 02 14, King and Queen Co., Virginia).

1650 02 27: transported to America for headright by John Rosier of Northumberland Co., Virginia.

1676: listed in Northumberland Co. Parish Register.

1687 04 15: inherited 480 acres on south side of Rappahanock River, listed in Virginia Land Patents Book 7 p. 625.

1690: Sheriff of New Kent Co.

1702: Burgess of King and Queen County

11781

John Taylor
11785
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Mary Gregory
1665-1747
11786
John Gregory
11787 <278:14
Elizabeth Bishop
11788 <278:14
Frances Walker

*1645 Warwick ENG
+1680 09 23 New Kent, Virginia

11782

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Martha Thompson

*1679 Orange Co., Virginia
+1762 11 19 Greenfield, Orange Co., Virginia

TC 15785 quotes MKL 15788 as saying that Martha's mother was also named Martha.

11674 <274:11

William Thompson
Colonel

11783

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SpouseChildrenChildren-in-LawGrandchildren
Elizabeth Lee

*1705

Possibly born 1714.

11698


m. 1736/37 02 23 Northumberland Co., Virginia
Zachary Taylor

*1735
+1815

11687

Alice Chew
1739-1796

RFU 14107 lists four children: John (m. Parthenia Dawson; children: Richard, Mary Ann, Parthenia, Catherine), Samuel (m. Mary Ann Price; son: William, m. Mahala Cromwell), Sarah (m. Richard Woolfolk), Elijah (m. Della Walker).

11686 <44:20


m. 1771 07 20 Orange Co., VA
John Taylor

12763 >5:5

Richard Taylor
Lieutenant-Colonel, farmer.

*1743/44 03 22 Orange Co., Virginia
+1829 01 19 Lexington, Kentucky

11699

Sarah Dabney Stother
1760-1822

11700


m. 1779 08 20 Orange Co., Virginia
Zachary Taylor

11701

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