John Taylor

Not the same as John “the immigrant” Taylor

John Taylor

• b. 10 Aug 1607, Carlisle, Cumberland Co., England - Pennington Castle
• d. Jan 1651/52, Lancaster Co., Virginia
• Father: Thomas TAYLOR b: 15 MAR 1573/74 in of Hadleigh, Middlesex, England
• Mother: Margaret SWINDERLY b: ABT. 1578 in Copenhagen, Cophenhagen, Denmark

John Taylor 1st and his sons were prominent men in England. They operated the Merchant Taylor Cloth Making Guild and the Merchant Taylor School. John Taylor 1st is listed in Greer's Immigrant List, 1648.

Records in Northumberland and Lancaster Counties, Virginia indicated that in 1648 John Taylor 1st, James Jones, and John Ellis patented 500 acres of land. On April 28, 1651 John Taylor patented 950 acres and 1,400 acres to Francis Morrison. In 1652 he patented two tracts of land in Lancaster County 440 acres and 450 acres which passed to John Taylor 2nd.

Notes:

Col. John Taylor Sr. is described sometimes as having had two wives. But the research shows that the second wife didn't exist. Widow Elizabeth Taylor went to court in 1663 for her orphans. ??? She was not Elizabeth Horton, as is sometimes portrayed. This is due to a likely mixup with Elizabeth (Flowers) Taylor HORTON Hughes, and confusion with another John Taylor of Lancaster, a younger man dying around the same time as this John Taylor, unfortunately.

This is also the proof that Thomas of Wicomico is the same person as Thomas of Lancaster. Thomas of Wicomico had brothers Lazarus & John who married Vezey sisters:

"O.B. 1699-1713. John Taylor and his brother Lazarus, sons of John and Alice Taylor, married sisters, Ann and Mary Veze or Vezey, daughters of George Vezey of Lancaster Co. Their brother, Thomas Taylor, married Elizabeth Therriatt, daughter of William, and granddaughter of Dominick Therriatt, also of Lancaster Co. (Note by L.H.D. These are the parents of Ana who married Ball.)"

Family

from http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tthompson... & http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kece&id=P...

Marriage

1. Elizabeth [JONES] b: ABT. 1607 in England

Their Children

1. Sarah Taylor b: 1625
2. Richard Taylor b: 1625 in England
3. John Taylor b: 1627 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England
4. Robert Taylor b: 1630 in England
5. William Taylor b: 1632 in England
6. James Cary Taylor b: 1635 in (Earl Hare, Carlisle, England)
7. James Taylor b: 12 FEB 1634/5
8. Thomas Taylor b: 1637 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England

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Notes

Immigrated from Carlisle, Cumberland, England to Virginia in 1648.

John Taylor was born in England 10 August 1607 in Pennington Castle. He was of the Earls of Pennington. He and his entire family were immigrants to America. They were all transported under the 'Headright System' by John Rosier of Northumberland Virginia, reaching american soil on 7 February, 1650. John Taylor died about two years later.

John Taylor was born on 10 Aug 1607 in Pennington Castle, Cumberland, England. He died in Jan 1652 in Lancaster County, Virginia.

He married Elizabeth in 1637 in Flintshire, Wales.

Children 6. Sex Name

• 1. F Elizabeth TAYLOR
  • Born: 1631 Place:
  • Christened: 14 May 1631 Place: Worthenby, Flint, Wales

Origins

Pennington Castle, birthplace of John Taylor (1607)

Earthwork remains of a Medieval ringwork, comprising a rampart and outer ditch on the slopes of Pennington Beck. The defended quadrant-shaped enclosure measures 156ft by 132ft. (PastScape)

Pennington Castle Hill is an interesting little earthwork about two miles west of Ulverston, and situated just about the place where the Fumess Fells drop down to meet Low or Plain Furness. It is therefore fairly close to the ancient road which came oversands from Cartniel to Sandside, and crossed through Low Fumess into South Cumberland. The situation is rather striking, being on the edge of Pennington Beck, which here runs in a deep ravine ; and the makers of the Castle Hill have chosen a sharp elbow of cliff on the east bank, isolating it for defensive purposes by a semi-circular ditch and rampart, which thus took in a quadrant shaped area. The ward thus formed measures 156 feet by 132 feet, and the ditch is about 45 feet wide measured from the rampart top to the outer edge. As the site slopes to the south, and the ditch is about the same depth all round, its level at the south is lower than at the north, and it has, of course, never been meant to hold water. The rampart on the north is now perhaps twelve feet above the ward level, and there is only one entrance through it, that on the south-east, which is probably ancient. (Cowper)

Supposed precursor to Muncaster. Held by Penningtons as late as 1318, though they moved to Muncaster c. 1242.

• Something to note: This John Taylor is Dame Elizabeth Taylor's 8th Great Grandfather (yes, the movie star)

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Research Notes

The lineage of John Taylor was investigated by a professional genealogist, Nathaniel Lane Taylor, PhD, who found that a link to Rev. Rowland Taylor and two sons named Richard to be baseless. Two of his articles published in "The American Genealogist" magazine include:

• "The False and Possibly True English Origins of Richard Taylor [7]
• "An American Taylor Family: Descendants of Richard Taylor (d. 1679) [5] Another widely-circulated amateur work by Brewer alleges a completely different ancestry for Richard Taylor of North Farnham, Virginia, [8] asserting that this Richard was a son of John Taylor of Lancaster County, Virginia at the mouth of the Rappahannock River and died before 1653. This John was in turn, stated to be a descendant of Reverend Dr. Rowland Taylor, [5] chaplain to Archbishop Thomas Cranmer and rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk County, England, who was burned at the stake in Feb 1555 as a Protestant under the persecutions of the Catholic Queen Mary ("Bloody Mary") and who was enshrined as one of the heroes of early Protestant martyrology. Rowland Taylor’s imprisonment and execution were glorified in maudlin detail in the famous "Protestant Martyrology Acts and Monuments" by John Foxe.

The Brewer book also links to other early TAYLORs of Virginia to the same stem namely [5]:

- Andrew Taylor of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, as well as - the immigrant James Taylor of New Kent County, Virginia (later King and Queen) County, ancestor of President Zachary Taylor. Brewer presents NO evidence for any of these three claimed filiations.

Grave Memorial ID 21929427, Added and Maintained by Arlis Grave ID 49703418.
Colonel John William Taylor (1607-1652) - Find A Grave Memorial

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/219294247/colonel_john-william-... Colonel John William Taylor

• BIRTH: August 10, 1607, Hadleigh, Babergh, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom;
• CHRISTENING: August 10, 1607, Hadleigh, Babergh, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom;
• DEATH: January 16, 1652, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America;
• BURIAL: January 17, 1652, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America;
• MARRIAGE: 1626, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Elizabeth Horton, (1610~1659);

CHILDREN:

• 1. Richard Taylor, 1625~1650,
• 2. Sarah Taylor, 1626,
• 3. Captain John Taylor, 16278~1702,
• 4. Robert Taylor I, 1630~1700;
• 5. Elizabeth Taylor, 1631~1679;
• 6. James Taylor I, 1634~1698;
• 7. Thomas Richard Taylor, 1637~1687;

PARENTS: Cap. Thomas John Taylor, 1574~1618, Marriage: 9 October 1599, Kobenhavn, Kobenhavn, Denmark, Margaret Swinderby, (1578~1672); SIBLINGS:

• 1. Robert Taylor, 1601~1689;
• 2. Margaret Taylor, 1603~1689;
• 3. Jane Taylor, 1609~1610;
• 4. James Taylor, 1610~1654;
• 5. Dr. James Taylor, 1610~1655;
• 6. Ann Taylor1611~1612;
• 7. Zachary Taylor, 1612;
• 8. Argyle Taylor, 1613~1614;
• 9. Richard Bartlett Taylor, 1615~1652;
• 10. George Taylor, 1615~1683;
• 11. Thomas Taylor, 1618~1686;
• 12. Nicholas Taylor, 1619 ;

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Disputed Origins

https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/VWD4Sj_G0mw?pli=1

Gens. 4-5. Here is another one, and this is the crux of the problem of Brewer's book for all the various Taylor lines. She makes the
identifiable originators of *several* known Virginia Taylor families
sons of John Taylor, whose estate was inventoried in Lancaster Co. in
1654 (earliest Taylor probate in the Northern Neck). Yet the only
concrete kinship data Brewer can show is the daughter Elizabeth, who m.
Simon Sallard, the son Richard Taylor (a minor in 1667, but who d.s.p.
1668 with sister Elizabeth Sallard as his heir); and another son John,
who passed his sister Elizbeth Sallard land in March of 1667 (and was
possibly dead by 1668, to have no part in disposition of brother
Richard's estate). Of the others, many are simply early settlers of
other parts of Virginia with no known connction. No known connection.
NO KNOWN CONNECTION.

Finally, gens. 4 and above:

A. Gen. 4: England to America. As with almost all alleged Enlglish
origins, this is a guess. There is no known data on John Taylor of
Lancaster Co., VA, to identify him with any specific John Taylor of
English origin. Look in the IGI, and you will see dozens of authentic
parish register extracts of births of an English John Taylor of the
right age to be the immigrant. Enough said.

B. the English genealogy of alleged descendants of Rowland Taylor:
There seems to have been widespread circulation of this genealogy,
especially in connecion with James Taylor of Caroline County, Virginia,
in the later 20th century, to judge from the number of independent
entries in the IGI corresponding to the English baptisms given in Brewer
(many taken from patron submissions from the 60s & 70s, suggesting a
widespread early source for this which I have not located).

References

• http://carolinagenealogy.org/all/pafg2205.htm
• http://www.geocities.com/snooky_first/Taylor.html (source)
• http://www.generationsgoneby.com/getperson.php?personID=I17267&tree=1
• http://webspace.webring.com/people/cs/snooky_first/Taylor.html
• http://www.gurganus.org/ourfamily/browse.cfm/John-Taylor/f140171
• http://www.multiwords.de/genealogy/gascoigne02.htm#JohnTaylor1607
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/219294247/colonel_john-william-...