Frances Taylor

Captain Thomas Taylor was born in England in 1607 and died in Warwick County, Virginia in 1657. He was a mariner who traveled between England and the Americas.

Family

Parents unknown.

He married Francis ???in 1626 in Warwick County Virginia.They had at least 10 children:

• Robert Taylor Sr. b. 1648 Warwick Co. m. 10 Feb 1701 Elizabeth Hudson
• Thomas Taylor a Minister in Elizabeth Parish, New Kent & James City 1680[1]
• Capt. Daniel Taylor a Minister in Blissland Parish, New Kent & James City 1704
• Henry Taylor
• Jeremiah Taylor a Minister in Elizabeth Parish (1667-1677)[2]
• Ann Taylor married Miles Carey of Warwick Co. Va.
• Mary Taylor married Capt. Thomas Gardiner of Warwick Co.
• Martha Taylor married Thomas Merry of Warwick Co. Va. They may have been the parents of Thomas Merry

Biography

Probably a Bristol sea captain long engaged in the Virginia trade who retired from the sea in Warwick;" "Burgess for Warwick 1646 and as late as 1652 was in the commission of the peace. In the patent of 1643 he is styled 'mariner.'"

"No evidence has yet appeared to identify this Taylor family definitely. Thomas Taylor was one of the original patentees in Elizabeth City in 1626 (Hotten, 273) and in 1643 took up 600 acres in Warwick. In 1646 and he sat as Burgess for Warwick and as late as 1652 was in the commission of peace. In the patent of 1643 he is styled 'mariner'. He was probably a Bristol sea captain long engaged in the Virginia trade who returned from the sea in Warwick. His relation to Miles Cary suggests that he may have been of the family of John Taylor, alderman of Bristol, who is mentioned in relation to the Bristol Carys in the 1652 will of the Bristol clergyman, Robert Perry (P.C.C. Bowyer, 243. See Va Mag, xi, 364). We have seen that there had already been a Taylor / Cary marriage in Bristol."

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• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Taylor-18816