Elizabeth Hughes

• Not the same as Elizabeth Horton, daughter of William Horton, of Gumley and his wife Isabel Freeman.
• Not the same as Elizabeth Taylor
• Sometimes seen as Elizabeth Wilson?

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Elizabeth [Flower?]

• Birth say 1615 in England
• Death: AFT 1673 in Lancaster County, Virginia

Marriage

1. William Winterbourne Married: est 1632
2. John Taylor b: BEF 1626 / abt 1590 Married: est 1637 in Virginia Colony
3. Tobias Horton b: BEF 1634 Married: BEF 2 OCT 1654 in Lancaster County, Virginia
4. Robert Hughes b: BEF 1640 Married: 13 MAY 1673 in Lancaster County, Virginia

Children with 1st husband (born at Virginia Colony)

1. Mary Taylor [SIC] b: BEF 1646. Married Uriah Angell.

Children with 2nd husband (born at Elizabeth City or Isle of Wight)

1. Richard Taylor b: ABT 1649 d: 1668, unmarried
2. Elizabeth who married Simon Sallard, Thomas Baker [died 1698], and John Brown.

Children with 3rd husband (born at Lancaster County)

1. Robert Horton b: ABT 1654
2. Tobias Horton b: 1654 in Lancaster County, Virginia
3. Rebecca Horton b: ABT 1655 in Lancaster County, Virginia. Married 1) Thomas Martin 2) Allen Cleland 3) Abraham Currell 4) Edward Gibson

Children with 4th husband

1. [Thomas Hughes b: before 1673 in Lancaster County, Virginia ??]

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Notes

John Taylor also soon died in January 1652, [4] leaving his widow Elizabeth to care for their youngest children including daughter Elizabeth, aged seven and Richard, aged two. This John Taylor’s estate is the earliest probated estate, which survives from the Northern Neck, for an individual with the surname of Taylor.

Probate and court records confirm John Taylor of Lancaster County, Virginia and his wife Elizabeth had at least [5] [6]

• a son Richard Taylor, who died as a teenager, and
• a daughter Elizabeth Taylor, who married Simon SALLARD.

By October 1654 his widow Elizabeth had remarried to Tobias Horton and they undertook a settlement inventory of John Taylor’s estate. The lot was valued at 9,590 pounds of tobacco (the common medium of exchange) and included “three old Bibles and seventy other books”, evidence of John’s education in England. Five years later in 1659 Horton paid off the last of John Taylor’s debt of 6,173 pounds of tobacco.

"In the same year [1654], Elizabeth Horton, wife of Tobias Horton, and relict of John Taylor, deceased, asks for her dower in her deceased husband's estate". [6]

His son Richard Taylor was mentioned in the October 1668 Will of his step-father, Tobias Horton.

The last Will of Tobias Horton, in Lancaster County, Virginia mentioned:

• - wife, Elizabeth
• - son, Tobias
• - daughter, Rebecca
• - son-in-law, Richard Taylor
• - witness: Fortunatus Snydor.

This Richard Taylor died intestate before 22 May 1669, when his sister Elizabeth (Taylor) SALLARD was found to be his sole heir and took administration of his estate and inherited his land.

Elizabeth, widow of Tobias Horton, married Robert Hughes:

1670-1674 Lancaster County Order Book; Antient Press: pg 260 Lancaster County Court 13th of May 1673

- Upon the peticon of ROBT: HEWS, who married (blank) the Widd: & Relicte of TOBIAS HORTON (deced), for his third part of the Estate of the sde. HORTON, hee in right of his saide Wife, shee relinquishing her right of the Last Will &Testamt. of the saide TOBIAS HORTON. It is ordered by this Cort: that FORTUNATUS SYDNOR, JOHN SKELSON, RICHARD SAMPSON and JOHN REDDOCK doe upon their Oathes to bee administered by the nexte Justice. devide the whole Estate of the saide HORTON (deced), accordinge to the Inventorie exhibited into this Cart: into three equall partes and after devision thereof that the saide HEWS bee possessed of one third parte of the sde. Estate in the right of his saide Wife, and that the other two partes bee equally devided into three partes and after devision thereof, one third parte bee delivered to THOMAS MARTYN, who married REBECCA, Daughter to the saide TOBIAS HORTON (deced), wth: costs.

1670-1674 Lancaster County Order Book; Antient Press: pg 266
Lancaster County Court 10th of September 1673

Upon the peticon of TOBIAS HORTON for his parte of the Estate of his Father. TOBIAS HORTON (deced), due to hym accordinge to the tenor of the sde. Will. It is ordered by this Cort , that Mr. FORTUNATUS SYDNOR, JOHN SKELSON, RICHARD SAMPSON and JOHN REDDOCK, formerly apprizers upon the saide Estate, doe forthwth: finish their apprizemt and see that the pte. of the sde. TOBIAS bee delivered unto hym wth: costs als exed , It is further ordered that Mr, FORTUNATUS SYDNOR, SYMON SALLETT, JOHN REDDOCK and ROWLAND LAWSON doe upon their Qathes to be administered by ye nexte Justice, doe devide the houses, plantacon & Lande whereon ROBT: HUGHS now liveth (the dwelling house excepted) into three equall partes and after a juste devision thereof that ROBT. HUGHS in right of his Wife, the late Widd: of the sde. TOBIAS HORTON (deced) bee possessed of one third parte and that the sde. TOBIAS HORTON bee possessed wth. the other two ptes; for his p:sent use till hee shall arrive of full age.

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Disambiguation

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.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L6FH-N6L Claims:

There are three different families:

• 1st. John Taylor and Mrs John Taylor from Flintshire, Wales.
• 2nd. Elizabeth Horton born 1610, (l6fh-n6l) and Col John William Talor born 1670 (ly9w-wn5) from Carlise, Cumberland, and Leicestershire, England and
• 3rd. Tobias Horton (9q56-ts6) from Virgnia and Elizabeth Nunne 1610-1659 (l22z-6xr) from Suffolk England.

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Records

LANCASTER COUNTY COURT ORDERS, pp. 175-176

"By a deposition to this Court by the now wife of Toby Horton, the orphans of John Taylor & Wm. Winterborne (long since decd.) cattle belonging to their Estates in the possession of Toby Horton, & he to deliver for the use of said orphans."

From http://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I02735...

ELIZ: HORTON, Widd, & Relict of JOHN TAYLOR (deced) doth in Cort. give unto URIAH ANGELL, her Sonne in Law, the thirds of ye lande due to her as Relict of ye sde, TAYLOR. To have and to holds to hym ye sde. URIAH duringe ye n:rall life of ELIZ: onely ye rent wch: shalbe due this yere to her for her thirds out of ye sde. Lande shee reserves to her owne disposal, The thirds of ye sde. lande are ordered to be assigned & layde out by he heire to ye sde, Lande

1670-1674 Lancaster County Order Book; Antient Press: pg 260 Lancaster County Court 13th of May 1673

Upon the peticon of ROBT: HEWS, who married (blank) the Widd: & Relicte of TOBIAS HORTON (deced), for his third part of the Estate of the sde. HORTON, hee in right of his saide Wife, shee relinquishing her right of the Last Will &Testamt. of the saide TOBIAS HORTON. It is ordered by this Cort: that FORTUNATUS SYDNOR, JOHN SKELSON, RICHARD SAMPSON and JOHN REDDOCK doe upon their Oathes to bee administered by the nexte Justice. devide the whole Estate of the saide HORTON (deced), accordinge to the Inventorie exhibited into this Cart: into three equall partes and after devision thereof that the saide HEWS bee possessed of one third parte of the sde. Estate in the right of his saide Wife, and that the other two partes bee equally devided into three partes and after devision thereof, one third parte bee delivered to THOMAS MARTYN, who married REBECCA, Daughter to the saide TOBIAS HORTON (deced), wth: costs

notes

Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia Wills 1653-1800; {Ida J. Lee} TAYLOR, John. Administration granted Eliza, relict. Rec. 10 Jan. 1652. W.B. 1, p. 24.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 3; Pg 288
TOBY HORTON, 350 acs. Lancaster Co., 1 Feb. 1653, P. 266. Betwixt two maine creeks issueing out of Fleetes Bay, next to land of John Taylor, decd., bounding S. W. upon one of the creeks deviding this from land of Eppy. Bonison, etc., and bounding N. E. upon the one towards the Indian Towne. Trans. of 7 pers: Ann Thorp, Mary Parr, Susan Moor; Wm. Abbott, James Allen, Morrice Tirrall, Robert Massey.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 4; Pg 343
MR. GERVASE DODSON, 600 acs. Lancaster Co., 3 Mar. 1656, p. 81, (119). On S. side of Corrotomen Cr., issueing out of Fleets Bay, being the next creek Nly. to Haddywayes Cr., S. Ely. upon land surveyed for Toby Horton by some called Mr. Wetherleys land & S. Wly. upon land of Jno. Taylor, decd. Trans. of 12 pers: Jno. Glandfeild, Jno. Newman, Tho. Blackborne, Walter Sparr, Wm. Greenhoure, Wm. Watts, Wm. Smoocker, Elia. Hopkins, Abra. Watson, Tho. Priors, Jno. Bunch, Tho. Habe (or Hake).

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 4; Pg 382
GERVASE DODSON, 500 acs. near the head of Chesticond or Corrotoman Cr. which issues out of Fleets Bay, S. Ely. upon his own land & land of John Taylor, dec'd. 29 Nov. 1658, p. 238, (337). Trans. of 10 pers: Mary Parrott, Jno. Mason, Eliz. Attkeson, Edward Harris, Barnaby Lowe, Ann Evans, Leonard Singlton, James Garrett, Thomas Morris, Peter Hughes.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 4; Pg 437
JOHN TAYLOR (Taylour), 100 acs. Lancaster Co., 18 Mar. 1662, p. 129, (634). E. upon a Cr. of Fleets bay, S. towards his own plantation &c. Renewal of pattern dated 17 Nov. 1652. SAME. 400 acs., same Co., date & page, (635). N. side of Rappa. Riv. upon the head of Fleets neck Renewal of pattent dated 29 Nov. 1652. SAME. 450 acs., same Co. & date. Page 129, (635). S.W. upon a main Cr. of Fleets bay & N.W. upon the path between Wiccocomico & Corrotoman. Renewal of his pattent dated 17 Nov. 1652.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 4; Pg 343
MR. GERVASE DODSON, 600 acs. Lancaster Co., 3 Mar. 1656, p. 81, (119). On S. side of Corrotomen Cr., issueing out of Fleets Bay, being the next creek Nly. to Haddywayes Cr., S. Ely. upon land surveyed for Toby Horton by some called Mr. Wetherleys land & S. Wly. upon land of Jno. Taylor, decd. Trans. of 12 pers: Jno. Glandfeild, Jno. Newman, Tho. Blackborne, Walter Sparr, Wm. Greenhoure, Wm. Watts, Wm. Smoocker, Elia. Hopkins, Abra. Watson, Tho. Priors, Jno. Bunch, Tho. Habe (or Hake).

Please note: not to be confused with Col. John Taylor, Sr, it is believed there were two John Taylor’s in the same area with wives named Elizabeth, this John Taylor evidently had a wife with a maiden last name of Horton. We need documentation of this fact to back this profile information and lineage. Since it links to Ambrose Powell should have some documentation. The GEDCOM sources could be actually the other John Taylor as the Birthdate and info seems to match.

References

1. "Early Virginia Immigrants 1623-1666" by Greer citing "Immigration List of 1648".
2. lImmigration List of 1650" by Greer.
3. Jouett Taylor Prisley family history and genealogy.
4. Find A Grave: Memorial #43365261 as burial unknown for John Taylor b.10 Aug 1607 England d.1652 VA.
5. “An American TAYLOR Family: Descendants of Richard Taylor (d. 1679) of North Farnham Parish in the Northern Neck of Virginia, for Seven Generations" p4 by Nathaniel Lane Taylor, FASG (1992-2015).
6. “The Taylor Family of Northumberland and Lancaster Counties, Virginia" published in 1927 in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 35(2) p211-218.
7. "The False and Possibly True English Origins of Richard Taylor of Old Rappahannock County, Virginia", The American Genealogist 83(2009):161–73, 278–91
8. "From Log Cabins to the White House: a History of the Taylor Family" by Mary Taylor Brewer, published in 1985 Wooton, Kentucky.

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