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Sarah Alice Taliaferro (Thornton)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Gloucester Courthouse, Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
Death: 1757 (66-67)
of, St. Mary's Parish, Essex County, Virginia, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Col. Francis Thornton, Sr. and Alice Thornton
Wife of Col. Lawrence C. Taliaferro
Mother of William Taliaferro; Sarah Waugh; John Taliaferro, Sr; Francis Taliaferro of Epsom; Elizabeth Buckner and 2 others
Sister of Elizabeth Gibson; Margaret Strother; William Thornton, Sr.; Col. Francis Thornton, Jr.; Martha Catlett and 3 others

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About Sarah Alice Taliaferro

Sarah Thornton

  • Birth: 17 Aug 1679 (1) / 14 DEC 1680 in Gloucester County, Virginia
  • Parents: Francis Thornton, Alice Savage
  • Married: 31 Aug 1706 in Richmond County, Virginia to Lawrence Taliaferro (1)
  • Death: AFT 1726 in St. Mary's Parish, Essex County, Virginia

7 children, born in St. Mary's Parish, Essex, Virginia, listed in order named in father's will written 1726

  1. John (b abt 1710 - d abt 1750). Did not marry.
  2. Francis (b abt 1711 - d 1758). Married Elizabeth (mostly seen as Hay but "more likely" Battaile)
  3. William (b abt 1712 - d 1778). Did not marry. (noted as "idiot" in brother Francis' will & arrangements for care)
  4. Alice b: AFT 1710.
  5. Sarah b: AFT 1710. Married William Brooke.
  6. Elizabeth b: AFT 1711.
  7. Mary (b: ABT 1722 - 1769). Married 1) William Thornton 2) Samuel Donne

Notes

  • There is recorded in Richmond County, a deed, dated 1706, from Francis Thorton of Stafford, conveying land to his daughter, Sarah, wife of Laurence Taliaferro
  • "She was the widow of Henry Fleet" - comment: this reference seems unsupported 23 May 2013
  • Death date of "1757 - Stafford VA" - also seems unsupported

Citations

  1. 115. "Ronda Trounce" source listed on http://thecityobserver.org/cromwell/b12566.htm
  2. Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volumne V, "The Thorton Family". By W. G. Stanard
  3. Family Bible Francis Thornton 1651 - 1726, printed in London 1672

Sources

  1. The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 20 (Google eBook) Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Earl Gregg Swem, Richard Lee Morton. Institute of Early American History and Culture., 1912 - Virginia. Page 270.
  2. 1658-1758 Charles County MD Families "The first 100 years" Rootsweb database last updated 21 May 2013

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Sarah Alice Taliaferro's Timeline

1690
December 17, 1690
Gloucester Courthouse, Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
1706
January 17, 1706
Virginia
1708
1708
King George Co, VA
1708
St. Mary's Parish, Essex County, Virginia
1709
1709
St. Mary's Parish, Essex, Virginia
1711
October 4, 1711
St. Mary's Parish, Essex County, Virginia, United States
1722
1722
St. Mary's Parish, Essex, Virginia
1722
St. Mary's Parish, Essex, Virginia
1757
1757
Age 66
of, St. Mary's Parish, Essex County, Virginia, Colonial America