Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Lee 1709-1750

Parents: Hancock Lee, I c. 1652-1709 and Sarah Allerton 1671-1731

Husbands: m1 Swan Jones (died 1734) m2 Zachary Taylor, Sr. 1707-1768

Children with Swan Jones

1. John Jones before 1734

Children with Zachary Taylor, Sr.

1. Zachary Taylor, II 1735-1815
2. Hancock Taylor 1736-
3. Elizabeth Taylor 1740-
4. Richard Taylor 1744-1829

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Birth: 1709 Westmoreland County Virginia, USA Death: Apr., 1753 Orange County Virginia, USA

Elizabeth Lee was a twin; her twin brother was Hancock Lee. They were both born in 1709 in Northumberland County, Va. Her twin, Hancock, married Mary Willis in Virginia. Elizabeth also had a sister, Anne, and brothers: Willoughby, Richard and Isaac.

Elizabeth was married first to Swan Jones and there is no record of any children from this union. [sic: they had a son John Jones]. She married second to Zachary Taylor in 1737 in Northumberland County, Virginia, by whom she had at least 4 children. The only one not listed below is Hancock Taylor, whose birth year is unknown.

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Parents:

• Hancock Lee (1650 - 1709)
• Sarah Elizabeth Allerton Lee (1670 - 1731)

Spouse:

• Zachary Taylor (1707 - 1768)

Children:

1. Zachariah Taylor (1735 - 1815)*
2. Elizabeth Taylor Bell (1740 - ____)*
3. Richard Lee Taylor (1744 - 1829)*

Sibling:

• Hancock Lee (1709 - 1762)*
• Elizabeth Lee Taylor (1709 - 1753)
• Calculated relationship

Inscription: IN MEMORY OF THE FIRST MASTER AND MISTRESS OF MEADOWFARM WHO ARE BURIED HERE

ZACHARY TAYLOR ELIZABETH LEE 1707 – 1768 1709 – 1753 SON OF JAMES TAYLOR II DAUGHTER OF HANCOCK LEE OF BLOOMSBURY – KNIGHT OF DITCHLEY AND GRAND – OF THE GOLDEN HORSESHOE DAUGHTER OF RICHARD LEE

THEY WERE THE GRANDPARENTS OF PRESIDENT ZACHARY TAYLOR THE GREAT AUNT AND UNCLE OF PRESIDENT JAMES MADISON THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS OF SARA KNOX TAYLOR – WIFE OF PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS OF THE CONFEDERACY

Note: Distant cousin to Dave Peck who entered this memorial in 2009.

Burial: Taylor Family Cemetery (Meadow Farm Estate) Orange Orange County Virginia, USA

Maintained by: J B Williams & T Slaydon... Originally Created by: P Fazzini Record added: Oct 21, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 43365993

From Wood, Trist. “Taylor and Jones Families.” (1921)

Sources

• The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, Part 1, Generations 1 through 4, Barbara Lambert Merrick, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth MA, 2014, p. 342
• https://archive.org/stream/jstor-1915269/1915269#page/n9/mode/2up
• http://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I02422...
• Wood, Trist. “Taylor and Jones Families.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 4, 1921, pp. 287–289. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1915338. Accessed 23 Apr. 2021.

1. The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, Part 1, Generations 1 through 4, Barbara Lambert Merrick, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth MA, 2014, p. 342