| Notes |
- In April, 1983, David White a graduate student at Western Kentucky
State University Bowling Green Kentucky from Scottsville in
researching another Taylor Line revealed to me some available
information concerning Moses Taylor's parents in the Kentucky Building
of the University. It had been obtained from records in Craven County
North Carolina by a Bowling Green Genealogist - Nora Young Ferguson -
and published by her in a book called "Family Records" IN 1970.
Securing copies of this information I immediately checked material in
Kentucky Tennessee Indiana North Carolina and Maryland Libraries to
verify its accuracy. The Genealogical Services Branch of the North
Carolina State Library Raleigh N.C. had the records of Craven County
available for study. Also State Land Grants in the period 1728-1800
were at hand as were copies of the Wills of the father and grandfather
of Moses Taylor Senior. It was also established that both of these
ancestors had come from Maryland to North Carolina. Research in the
Hall of Records at Annapolis and in the Maryland Historical Society
Library at Baltimore confirmed this and also revealed that the
great-grandfather of Moses Taylor Senior was Abraham Taylor Senior
(1661-1719). The last three libraries mentioned above were visited
during the week of May 9-13 1983.
From the above information we determined that Robert Taylor, the son
of Abraham Taylor Junior, and Dinah (White) Taylor was the father of
Moses Taylor Senior and the great-grandfather of Alfred Taylor. Robert
Taylor was born on October 13 1709 (St. John Parish Record, p. 18) in
Baltimore County Maryland. He migrated with his parents to the New
Bern area Craven County North Carolina in 1728-1729, where he lived
until his death on April 15 1780. He married about the year 1728
either in Baltimore County Maryland or in Craven County North
Carolina. His wife's first name was Cstherine. Her last name is
unknown. They became the parents of eight children - five sons and
three daughters. Moses Taylor Senior was their first child and eldest
son, being born in 1729. The dates and order of birth of the remaining
offspring are unknown. They are Aaron Taylor, Abraham Taylor, Absalom
Taylor, James Taylor, ______ (Taylor) (who married Robert Green,
________ (Taylor) who married John Slade, ________ (Taylor) who
married Owen Daugherty. The first names of the Taylor daughters are
unknown to me.
Robert Taylor is listed as a "Planter" in deeds.
Abraham Taylor Junior and Dinah White Taylor were the
great-great-grandparents of Alfred Taylor. He was born about 1685 in
Baltimore County Maryland the son of Abraham Taylor Senior and Jane
(______) Taylor. He was united in marriage to Dinah White in the same
county in about 1708. The name of their children together with the
dates and places of their births are as follows:Robert Taylor (b.
October 13 1709), Anne (Taylor) Colton (b. March 29, 1712), Jacob
Taylor (b. October 6 1714), Rachel (Taylor) Beesley (b.October 9
1919), Abraham Taylor III (b. October 20 1723, Isaac Taylor (b.
November 25 1725) and Prudence Taylor (b. 1729). All but the
last-mentioned one were born in Baltimore County Maryland and their
names and births are recorded in the St. John's Parish Register in
that county (See pages 7, 18, 62).
Prudence Taylor was born in Craven County, North Carolina after her
family had migrated there in 1727-1728. Abraham Taylor Junior, died
sometime between the making of his will on April 2 1751 and the
probation of it in Johnston County in December 1751. After 1746 he
lived in that county. It was taken from Craven County. He and his son
Robert had secured extensive acreage in land in the period 1729-1751.
(Courtesy of James Whit Taylor III
http://taylorscastle.com/mosestaylorsparents.ivnu)
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1740 - 1785 (45 years)