Francis Taylor III born 1705, King and Queen Co., VA

Francis Taylor III, b. 1705, King and Queen County, Virginia - died about 1774, King and Queen County, Virginia married ? ca. 1730's to perhaps Elizabeth (Betsy)
children: 6 children were listed in his will, however, at least one of them was not, there may have been more whose names were omitted as well.  Those who were named in his will were Ann, Mary Ann, William, John, Samuel, and Frances.  It is believed he also had a son Benjamin.  All four sons received land grants on Coldwater Creek in what is now Elbert County, Georgia, after the Revolutionary War.  They were later joined by some of their sister, Ann's family.  All Francis' children are believed to have been born in King and Queen County, Virginia.
Something that was hard to learn and sometimes hard to remember is that it was not John Taylor, son of Francis Taylor III that lived on Coldwater Creek, but that John's son John.

Taylor Family History; from England to Virginia to Georgia to Tennessee and beyond

Francis Taylor I, (an ancestor of mine and son of immigrant George Taylor)

Mostly Descendants Of George Taylor, b. 1615, England (Our Immigrant)

from Ardie's Vol. IV beginning p. 52
Children of George Taylor and Rebecca
George Taylor, b. 1615, Carlisle England - d. Mar. 7, 1682/83 Rappahannock
      m. ca. 1634 to Rebecca
      children: at least 7; James, George, Jr., Francis, Martha, Richard, John, and Thomas
1.  James Taylor was born about 1635, perhaps in Carlisle, England, and had the benefit of an education.  In about 1666 he married Frances Walker, daughter of Col. John Walker of Great Hunting Creek in Lancaster County(, Virginia)
Frances Walker Taylor died in 1680 and married Mary Gregory in 1682.  She was the daughter of John Gregory, and the younger sister of Richard Gregory, Burgess of Essex County, Virginia.  James died in 1698.
(This is the James of Carlisle who was the ancestor of James Madison and Zachary Taylor, both presidents of the United States.  There are innumerable genealogies concerning him and his family.  After searching through some of them we found that most did not agree with each other.  Again much controversy over this and I (Ardie) have no opinion on this matter.
James Taylor, b. 1635 - d. 1698
      1st. m. 1666, New Kent, Virginia to Frances Walker, b. 1648, in Great Hunting Creek, Lancaster County, Virginia - d. September 22, 1680
daughter of Col. John Walker
      children: 4, Jane, Martha, James and Sarah
      A.  Jane Taylor, b. December 27, 1668 -- sp. George Eastham
      B.  Martha Taylor, b. March 14, 1669/70
      C.  James Taylor, Jr., b. March 14, 1674/75 - will June 23, 1729 in Orange County, Virginia - d. January 23, 1730
            m. February 23, 1698/99 to Martha Thompson, b, 1679 in New Kent County, Virginia -                d. November 19, 1762
            children: 9, Frances, Martha, James, Zachary, George, Tabitha, Erasmus, Hannah and Mildred
      D.  Sarah Taylor, b. June 30, 1676 - sp. Robert Powell
      2nd marriage (of James Taylor 1635) August 12, 1682 to Mary Gregory, b. 1665 in Rappahannock County, Virginia
      children: 9 is listed (5 died young) ones that lived - Ann, Mary Bishop, Edmond and John

2. John Taylor, born about 1689, was bound out as a servant by his father.  He married Eliza Lawson about 1689.  Later as foreman for Thomas Goodrich in 1676, when seventy-one of the Rappahannock plantations had been reduced to eleven by Indian depredations, he fought back and was banished from the colony as a Bacon Rebel.

3. Richard Taylor, born about 1644 married Sarah Baxter about 1665.  like John, he was bound out.
      children: at least 3, Constance, Richard and Simon

4. George Taylor, Jr. born about 1646, first married around 1870.  In 1680 he married Martha Mosley, and thirdly, Martha Tomlin, sister of Robert Tomlin, before 1693.  His fourth wife was a lady named Susannah, last name unknown.  George was a Burgess in Virginia and a Captain.  (For those of you who didn't know, as I didn't, what a Burgess was, "Before the Revolution a representative in the popular branch (House of Burgesses) of the legislature of Virginia - now called a delegate.  From Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, copyright, 1953.)
      children by first spouse: possibly three; Martha, John and James
      (At this time we do not know if he had any children other than those by his first wife).

5. Martha Taylor, b. ca. 1647
      married about 1669 to Bernard Gaines, b, 1648
      children: number unknown
      A.  Mary Gaines,
                  married John Taylor, born 1676

6. Francis Taylor, (our ancestor) who was born about 1648 was married twice, first to miss Dudley about 1673
Francis Taylor died 1698, his will was written June 1, 1698 in Richmond County, Virginia and there is a record of his estate in 1698 in Richmond County also.
Francis had one child with his first wife - James, b. 1674 - d. after 1729, was coroner of King and Queen County. married Ann Muse
     children of James, 1674
     William, Charles, James, Muse and Samuel

2nd. marriage in 1680 for Francis Taylor, Sr., born 1648 to Elizabeth Snead, b. 1650- d. 1698
children: number unknown, but at least, Francis, Thomas, Charles and Jane
I.  Francis Taylor, Jr. b. 1880  (our ancestor) - died after 1742 - moved to King and Queen County, Virginia - married in 1703 to Eliza Snead
      children: number unknown but at least two, Francis Taylor III b. 1703/05 (our ancestor) and Charles b. ca. 1720, moved to Orange County, Virginia, listed there in 1785

Philisha White Taylor Cash
from A Few More Taylors, Volume IV, beginning middle of p. 461
                        An extended family tree of Philisha Taylor Cash
Philisha White Taylor, b. 1819, GA - d. after 1880
      m. February 11, 1836 to Moses Reuben Cash, b. 1814, Elbert County, Georgia
      d. 1881, Cleveland County, Arkansas, son of Nancy Hudson and Moses Cash, b. 1783, Virginia
      children: 12, the first 8 born in Elbert County, Georgia (from 1850 census) only two children were living with parents on the 1870 census, Nancy, aged 30 and Sarah 21.
      A.  Mary Frances Cash, b. 1837
      B.  Nancy Elizabeth Cash, b. 1838
      C.  John Seborn Cash, b. 1840
      D.  Virginia Ann Cash, b. 1841
      E.  Filicia Jane Cash, b. 1843
      F.  James Wesley Cash, b. 1845
      G.  Francis Marion Cash, b. 1848
      H.  Sarah Permelia Cash, b. 1849/52
       I.  Reuben Tinsley Cash, b. 1851, Bradley County, Arkansas
       J.  William Henry Cash, b. July 27, 1852, Elbert County, Georgia
            d. December 3, 1915, Rison, Cleveland County, Arkansas (?or 1912?)
            m. October 1, 1874, to Sarah J. Overton, (a Cherokee Indian)
            children: 12 (??The 1880 census included a son, George, b. 1876 and not Cora??)
            (1)  Susan Augusta Cash, b. August 16, 1875
            (2)  Cora Cash, b. July 17, 1877
            (3)  Rosa Jane W. Cash, b. December 29, 1878
            (4)  Elbert Cash, b. November 24, 1880
            (5)  John Reuben Cash, April 26, 1882
            (6)  Thomas William Davis Cash, b. January 15, 1884
            (7)  Marion Cash, b. February 21, 1886
            (8)  Minnie Mariam Cash, b. July 11, 1888
            (9)  Russell Dowe Cash, b. March 14, 1891
           (10) Mabelle Clara Cash, b. March 13, 1893
           (11) Roy Cash, b. July 1895
           (12) Ray Cash, b. May 23, 1897, Cleveland County, Arkansas
                   m. August 18, 1920 to Carrie C. Rivers
                   children: 6 (actually 7 are listed)
     

Ardie > I basically have very little interest beyond our immigrant Taylor and no way of proving or disproving any of the above information.  Parts of the following were written by George Taylor of Kansas in 1990 and recently sent to me with permission to quote from it or to use his information in some manner.  Mr. Taylor's entire article is on file in the Virginia State Library.  George is not positive concerning the ancestry of George Taylor, born 1615.  He believes that since John Taylor was his near neighbor on Croataman River in Lancaster, Virginia, in 1650, that he was either his younger brother or a cousin.  All of the material and information that I have received from Mr. Taylor is very well documented.

Thomas Taylor, Jr. of Carlisle, England, had a son John, born in 1607, who eventually migrated to Nothumberland County, Virginia.  Another son, James, born 1610, migrated to Surry County, Virginia.  In August of 1635, John and George Taylor, then approximately twenty years of age, booked out of London on the Elizabeth which was bound for Virginia.  The voyage was apparently canceled, as George also shows up on the next sailing to Virginia on a ship called George and John Taylor on the Bonaventura sometime later in 1635 along (p. 50) with Henry Lee.  It is believed that both George and John returned to England for a time until they eventually remained in the Colonies and built homes in Virginia.

Skip to bottom of p. 54 the sixth child of George Taylor, the Immigrant.

6.  Francis Taylor, who was born about 1648 was married twice, first to Miss Dudley in about 1673 and second to Elizabeth Sneed, daughter of Charles Snead of Cliff Creek in Essex County, Virginia, sometime before 1680.  He was an illiterate planter who lived in Christ Church Parish and was a member of Christ Church.  In 1682 Francis sold a farm he had purchased from J. Farmer to Samuel Dudley of Richmond County.  In 1693 Francis, who signed with an "X", entered  (p. 55) into an agreement with Charles Snead, Jr. over the division of land that was left to them by Charles Snead, Sr.  Elizabeth, his second wife was a daughter of Charles Snead, Sr.

Francis Taylor, b. 1648 - d. 1698, his will was written June 1, 1698 in Richmond County, Virginia, and there was a record of his estate in 1698 in Richmond County also.
      1st. m. ca. 1673 to _____?_____ Dudley
      children: 1
      1. James Taylor, b. 1674 - d. after 1729
(skip to p. 57)
2nd marriage for Francis Taylor, Sr. b. 1648 to Elizabeth Sneed b. 1650 - d. 1698
children: number unknown, but at least Francis, Thomas, Charles, and Jane.
1.  Francis Taylor, Jr., b. 1680 - d. after 1742 - moved to King and Queen County, Virginia.
      m. 1703 to Eliza Snead
      children: number unknown
      A.  Francis Taylor, III, b. 1703/05 - will written, January 15, 1766, probated March 14, 1774
            marriage date and wife's name unknown
            children: at least 7, born probably in King and Queen County, Virginia
            (1)  Ann Taylor, b. ca. 1730's
                         m. ca. 1762-65 to Joseph Lumpkin
                         children: at least 6
            (2)  Mary Ann Taylor, b. ca. 1738 - d. after 1826
                         1st. m. ca. 1757 to Henry Micklebuary
                         children: 11 or 12
            (3)  William Taylor, Sr., b. 1730's or 40's - d. 1820's Tennessee
                         sp. Martha 'Patty' _____?_____
                         children: 11
            (4)  John Taylor, (Sr.), b. ca. 1742 - d. ca. 1824, Georgia ((some information on this John Taylor (Sr.) needs to be revised)
                         children: John Taylor, Jr. - d. ca. 1824, Elbert County, Georgia (and others)
                         John Taylor, Jr.
                               m. ca. 1780's to Elizabeth White
                               children: number unknown: the three youngest were John, James and Philisha
                               John B. Taylor, b. 1813 - d. ca. 1849 Georgia
                               James Taylor, b. 1816, Georgia - d. Arkansas
                               Philisha White Taylor, b. 1819, Georgia, m. Reuben Cash, Elbert County, Georgia - d. Arkansas




                 

Vol. IV, p. 48
The ancestry of George, born 1615, is not completely clear.  It is believed that he is either a younger brother of John and James Taylor or their cousin.  All three men came to Virginia at about the same time.  In attempting to trace the descendants of John, who was born in 1607 and James, born in 1610, we find many differing opinions.  There is an abundance of information concerning this family, on the Internet, from the files of Latter-Day Saints, and from several books.  All of this only adds to the confusion since so much of it is not documented and appears to be only speculation from various individuals.

In attempting to summarize some of the material which can be found concerning these men, most agree that they were sons of Thomas Taylor, Jr. of Carlisle, England and his wife, Margaret Swinderby.  In tracing further back there seems to be no definite agreement other than Thomas, Jr, (born March 15, 1574 - died 1618) was a son of Thomas Taylor, Sr. (born September 19, 1548, Hadley, England - died 1576) and his wife, Elizabeth Burwell.  There are those who believe Thomas Taylor, Sr. was a son of Rowland Taylor (born 1510 - died February 5, 1555) and Margaret Tyndale.  Rowland's father was reported to have been John Taylor, born about 1478 and whose wife was Susan Rowland.

Rowland Taylor, born in Rothbury, England, was an English Protestant martyr who was burn at the stake in 1555 by the order of the Roman Catholic Bishop Stephen Gardiner.  Rev. Taylor was preaching from the Bible that had been translated into English by his wife's uncle, William Tyndale who had suffered the same fate for his pains in 1536 as the Rev. Rowland Taylor did nineteen years later.

Under examination by Dr. Henry Harvey on April 2, 1554, it was learned that he had married Margaret in the house of John Tyndale in 1525.  Rowland Taylor was but sixteen years of age at the time of the marriage, his bride only fourteen.  Also during this examination he stated there had been nine children.  While he was in prison he gave his son, Thomas, a Latin Book, containing the notable sayings of the martyrs...etc, 1 (1 The Life of Rowland Taylor, by William James Brown, 1959; Published in England.

From Rowland Taylor's will he stated "I go to the rest of my children, Susan, George, Ellen, Robert, and Zachary:  I have bequeathed you to the only Omnipotent." 2 (2 ibid.)  We have not found the names of his three other children.

p. 49

As was mentioned previously the Internet has much in the way of "information" concerning Rowland Taylor, none of which seems able to be proven.  Recently a fellow researcher ran across the following story on the Internet.  Your guess is as good as mine as to its validity.  However I thought it was more interesting than any of the other so called histories of Rowland Taylor that I have found or read.

The parents of John Taylor, who was Rowland father, were William and Joan Taylor.  William was a game warden in the forest of Needwood, name of county not given.  In 1471, William and his wife, Joan, held a copyhold on a cottage northeast of the church in Barton-under-Needwood.  (A copyhold in the laws of England and Ireland, means the holding of land by right of being recorded as holder in the court of the manor).  The Taylor family had lived in this area since 1345.

William and Joan had four children, a daughter and three sons who were triplets, born about 1478.  The triplets were John, Rowland, and Nathaniel.  The forest of Needwood was a hunting area for the king and after the birth of the triplets William and Joan presented the three boys to the king and asked for his blessing for them.  As a result of this meeting the decree was made that the crown would provide for the education of all triplets born in the kingdom.  The decree stayed in effect until the 20th century when Queen Elizabeth II revoked it.

For those researchers who read this story and want to believe it I strongly suggest you prove it before adding it to your own lineage.  I assume that the martyr, Reverend Rowland Taylor, born 1510, was named after his father's brother, Rowland.  To me it is simply an interesting and unique story that I enjoyed reading.

From Ardis Taylor's A Few More Taylor's Volume IV p. 47 The Immigrant
In many ways I am reluctant to include anything concerning William Taylor, Sr.'s ancestors.  When I first started corresponding with the Taylor researcher who was finally able to put all the information together that I am including here, I really didn't believe any of it could be possible.  I had all sorts of reasons why I didn't think this could be William, Sr.'s family.  However, bit-by-bit the pieces of this puzzle started to come together and it appears that this may indeed be the lineage of our William, Sr.  I cannot take credit for putting any of this together.  It is the work of George Taylor, a highly respected Taylor researcher, who started his research with the early immigrant Taylors who settled in Virginia.  He has traced their migrations and lineage, stopping by the year 1850.  (?His work will eventually be made public in the form od a CD?)  Question marks mine, Clem!

For many years we have tried repeatedly to determine just which of the many Taylors who came to the United States was the ancestor of our family of Taylors.  Hopefully the search may finally be over.

In recent years I have been fortunate enough to come in contact, via the telephone and the U. S. mail, with a different type of genealogical research than I ever had been aware of previously.  The people involved in this type of research, most of whom had started years ago, were not just interested in finding names and dates of various Taylors, but in the history and migrations of the various early day Taylors and in the records which could be found concerning thses families or clans.  Consequently, they have compiled numerous legal documents, wills, information from tax rolls, court records, church records, and any other type of record where the names of these men were mentioned.  Many of these researchers who gathered this information worked mainly by thenselves, others published and/or shared records with other researchers.  Some have lived in areas where early records were readily available but remain inaccessible to many of us.

Unfortunately some of these people are no longer with us and are greatly missed.  Others are still in the process of attempting to compile all the material that they have amassed over the years.  I feel very fortunate to have had the privilege of corresponding with some of these researchers and to be the recipitent of so much of their research.

Most of what I am including here concerning our Taylor immigrant has been given to me by George Taylor of Lawrence, Kansas.  He was introduced to me by Bill Linder a number of years ago as the grandfather of all Taylor researchers and I must say that I agree with Bill.  Bill, who was from Arlington, Virginia, passed away in June of 2000.  He had volumes of information, several hundred pages of which he put on his website under "Family History House".  He was also author of several books, both on family history and how to do genealogical research.

George of Lawrence, Kansas, is a descendant of the immigrant George Taylor, born 1615, and the man who is responsible for finding that our William Taylor, Sr. was a descendant of this same George Taylor.  My knowledge of this George, born 1615, and his family is very limited.  He was born in Carlisle, Cumberland County, England in 1615.  Cumberland along with Northumberland County are the two most northern counties in England.  both bordering Scotland.  Carlisle is the capital or "county town" of Cumberland.  It is one of the two gateways to Scotland as it is located only ten miles from the Scottish border.