Angus Taylor

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From Bladen County North Carolina Abstracts of Wills 1734-1900:

Will of John Taylor dated 21 May 1832 (Of Hammonds Creek, Bladen County) Son & Executor, Angus Taylor. Daughters: Flora Taylor, Catherine McNeill. Executor: John Iver McMillan. Witness: Harriet Haills.

From MAX ANDERSON:

Henry Taylor's mother is an Enslaved African named Maisely. She had 7 children whom John Taylor bought from his brother Archibald.

From North Carolina Architects & Builders:

Booker T. Washington, a close associate of Robert Taylor, cited Henry Taylor in The Story of the Negro as exemplifying the numerous individuals who "though nominally slaves, were practically free." Drawing upon information from Robert , Washington stated that Henry Taylor was "the son of a white man who was at the same time his master. Although he was nominally a slave, he was early given liberty to do about as he pleased." According to Robert, Henry was born near Fayetteville, the son of his white owner, Angus Taylor, and an enslaved woman who probably belonged to Angus as well. Angus may have had Henry trained as a carpenter to assure that he could support himself.

from Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington. Ellen Weiss, Robert Robinson Taylor. NewSouth Books, 2012 - Architecture - 282 pages. Page 3:

"Angus Taylor (d 1854) was born to a Scottish family that emigrated before the revolution to Bladen County, between Fayetteville and Wilmington. Most of the men left for the Bahamas after the war because they were loyalists who had lost their land. By 1840 Angus Taylor had moved back to Bladen County. In 1850 he owned $1,600 in property including seven slaves. Perhaps the seventeen year old Henry Taylor was one of them. Another might have been Henry's mother, whose name we do not know."

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From U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

• Name: Angus Taylor Birth Year: abt 1779 Arrival Year: 1850 Arrival Place: North Carolina Age: 71 Source Publication Code: 1639.20 Primary Immigrant: Taylor, Angus
• Annotation: Date of emigration with intended destination, date and place of naturalization, or date and place of first mention of residence in the New World.
• Source Bibliography: DOBSON, DAVID. Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986. 322p. Page: 304

from http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jecain/smit034.htm

Cumberland NC Deed Book 32-320 20 Dec 1819 Sheriff John McRae to Angus Taylor - a judgement against Henry Branson, gdn of the heirs of JOHN SMITH.

Cumberland NC Deed Book 32-322 03 Dec 1819 Angus Taylor to PETER SMITH, both of Cumberland, $200, land in Fayetteville. s/ Angus Taylor. w/ ???? McLeran, ???? McIvor.

Cumberland NC Deed Book 32-324 20 Dec 1819 Angus Taylor to PETER SMITH, both of Cumberland, $275, land in Fayetteville. s/ Angus Taylor. w/ James McLeran, Kenneth McIvor. March term 1820.

From http://www.ncgenweb.us/cumberland/willindx.htm

Will of McLeran, Duncan, Merchant WB: B 65-67 Arch. November 23 1818/Proved January 22

• To my four children: son James, partner; youngest child Maria (under age), and two daughters (not named), to my sister-in-law Jane Sutherland.
• Codicil-”Neither of the husbands of my daughters/”
• Executors: son James McLeran, friends John McLeran, Angus Taylor (merchants of this town).
• Witnesses: David Anderson, Duncan McRae, John Matthews.
• Occupation of deceased: Merchant, Duncan McLeran and Son. Two stores in Fayetteville and one in Lumberton, NC.

From http://www.capefearclans.com/FC_McNeill/FC_GodMcN/FC_GodfreyMcN.html

• 7. John McNeill (hatter) 1767-1786 ? Miss Taylor of Bladen Co., NC. Lived and died near Lumberton, NC. gm7