Major Samuel Taylor served in the revolutionary war from South Carolina. He was also Captain of the 6th Regiment Continental Line and a Member of the 5th General Assembly. His DAR Ancestor # is A112965

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Excerpt from book, "Lost Links," published 1947 [written by Elizabeth Wheeler Frances and Ethel Sivley Moore and originally published in 1947, Nashville, TN. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing CO. Inc.., Baltimore, 1975. There is no copyright on the reprint. Library of Congress CS68.F7 1975 929.373 74-18103, ISBN 0-8063-0648-3. The book is indexed and has 562 pages]

James Taylor (2nd), married Hannah Williams and were parents of but one child, Samuel Taylor (1st), b. 1740, at "Stone House Farm" the home of James Taylor (1st), which is now in the heart of Philadelphia, Penn. Mrs. Hannah ( Williams) Taylor married 2ndly, Mr. Van Swearingen and reared a large family at "Stone House Farm." It is said that some of her brothers and sisters removed to Virginia and S. C. Her son, Samuel Taylor ( 1st) had half brothers and sisters who also lived in N. C. and S. C. They were the families of Swearingens, Thompsons, Pickens, Shantons, Barretts and others. Related to Samuel Taylor (1st) also, were the families of bowens, Lawrence, Sowns and Sharps , of North and South Carolina. Descendants of the marriage of Mrs. Hannah ( Williams) Taylor and Mr. Van Swearingen, through Joseph Van Shanklin, reside in Pendleton , S.C.

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Major Samuel Taylor (1st), married Mrs. Eleanor ( Cannon) Hudgins ( adopted dau. of William Cannon and wife, Ann (Nancy)..........? ( surname unknown) of near Charleston, S. C.) They had the following children, not in order of birth:

1. Taylor, John ( See History of Pendleton Dist. S. C. by Simpson ) later removed to Cahawba ( near Selma), Alabama.

2. Taylor, (2nd) Samuel, b. March 1, 1777; removed to Greene CO. Alabama

3. Taylor, William Cannon, b. 1780; resided Mobile Ala., buried in Georgia.

4. Taylor, Joseph, remained in S. C. ( see the History of Pendleton Dist, S.C. by Simpson)

5. Taylor (1st) Drucilla, b. 1787, m. Robert Hackett of Clarksville, Georgia, who was born 1767.

6. Taylor, Elizabeth, m. Col Eben Bolles; reside in Mobile Alabama

7. Taylor, Sarah ( from data in our possession Sarah is given as Ellen... may have been the same person) m. General John Baylis Earle, b. 1766, Frederick CO. VA. Resided Pendleton Dist. S. C. ( son of Col. John Earle and wife Thomasine Prince, of VA.)

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Major Samuel Taylor (2nd) and wife, Leah Reese, had following children ( not given in order of birth) ;

1. Taylor, Samuel (3rd)

2. Taylor, Harriet b. 1802

3. Taylor (2nd) Drucilla, b. March 9, 1808

4. Taylor, Bacon Reese

5. Taylor, Sidney

6. Taylor, Thomas Reese

(perhaps others; this family removed from S.C. to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 1, 1817, later making their permanent home at Eutaw, Greene CO. Ala. )

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TAYLOR/1998-10/090955...

Will of Samuel Taylor (will found at Anderson) (Typed as it appears in book)

Samuel Taylor, planter , of Pendleton District, S.C............my beloved wife, Eleanor Taylor, negroes and plantation where I now live (on East side if Seneca River )...... sons, John and Samuel Taylor, a tract of land in Abberville on Savannah River, and a tract adjacent to John Baylis Earle's land on west side of Seneca river above the mouth of Seneca branch ( lately purchased from Joseph Sanders) ..........between the two sons, provided said John B Earle makes titles to my son , William Taylor, to the tract of land granted to his wife, Eleanor, adjoining tract of land where I now live, Eastwardly to William's tract of land on east side of Seneca river.......my daughter Dilly ( Drucilla) land........daughter Elizabeth, land.........plantation tools to be kept on plantation for use of children under age..........to my granddaughter, Hannah Earle, all other property not given to sons, John, William, Joseph.... daughters, Dilly and Elizabeth ...... Appointed son John Taylor, Andrew Pickens, William Steel and George Reese, executors of my will.....April 29, 1798

Samuel Taylor ( seal)

Wit:

James Wood

Robert Glenn

Sarah Pickens

Proved by James Wood, Robert Glenn and John B. Wood.

Recorded 27th June, 1798

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Memoir written by grandson, Joseph Taylor · 8 November 2013

"Our Heritage," a genealogy column compiled by the John Foster Chapter of the DAR, published in The Monroe Enquirer, Monroe, NC., issue of Thursday, 8 June 1961, had the following information:

TAYLOR FAMILY

Shreveport, La.

Sept. 19, 1871

Mrs. Virginia Taylor

Mobile, Ala.

My grandfather, after whom you inquire, was known as Maj. Samuel Taylor, commander of Cavalry in the Continental Army, in the first American Revolution, known as the Colonial War. The facts connected with his position and actions in this Rev. can be found midst the public records of the country. He was often with Gen. Sumter, for whom the S. in your husband's name was inserted.

Maj. Sam'l Taylor was the son of James Taylor by his wife Hannah Williams. Sam'l Taylor was born at the Stone House Farm (at the Stone House), then near to, now covered by the city of Philadelphia. This farm was owned by Jas. Taylor, father of Sam'l Taylor up to the time of Jas. Taylor's death when by inheritance it became the property of the only child and infant son left by Jas. Taylor, who was killed by a fall from his horse, leaving Hannah Taylor a widow with her then only son.

This Stone House Farm was never sold by the family. It was occupied by the widow of Jas. Taylor with and after her second marriage where she reared a large family of children by her second husband, a Mr. Swearingen, who was, I believe, the grandfather of Joseph Van Shanklin of Pendleton, S. C.

Sam'l Taylor when quite a boy, for some distinquished actions in the British Army, which I do not recollect, he afterwards, still I believe in his minority, resigned his position and opened the war of the Colonial Rev. in the back country of the Carolinas, which made him a marked man for whose head the British authorities offered a large reward, and ordered that he should not, when taken, be recognized as prisoner of war. Fortunately he was never taken; living through the Revolution he settled in Pendleton Dist., S. C. where he died soon after the end of the war.

In Pendleton Dist., S. C. his bounty land was located, which I suppose the record of the county will show. The inheritors of this bounty land, or the estate of Sam'l Taylor who received this bounty land, will establish who Sam' Taylor was and the records of Philadelphia, I should say Penn., will establish his claim to the Stone House Farm, now the best part of Philadelphia. The records connected with the family estate in the courts of the country will show minor heirs from James and Sam'l Taylor down to the present time except for a short time during the Rev., when Sam'l Taylor could not hold the property of his father, Jas. Taylor of Stone House Farm, near to, now Philadelphia.

Statutes of Limitations cannot run against minor heirs whether the -- original minors or successive minors, as long as no gap is not kep long enough for the statutes of limitations to effect its object. My grandfather's children were: John, Samuel, Joseph, Sara (Mrs. Earle of Pendleton), Druscilla (Mrs. Robt. Hackott of Clarksville, Ga.), Mrs. Elizabeth B. Taylor (Mrs. Belles of Mobile, Ala.). The descendants can easily be traced. Thomas Lewis can trace the Earle family of which he is a desc. Bacon, Reese Taylor's nephew, can tract Sam'l Taylor's family, being a grandson of Sam'l Taylor. John Mitchell Taylor, the son of Gen. Wm. Taylor can trace his father's desc., being a grandson of John Taylor. I heard that my grandfather had some claim in New York, but I never knew what it was. James Taylor of Philadelphia had one brother in American and five sisters. The brother, Charles Taylor, never married -- he was a cripple, I believe. His sisters were married and settled in S. C. One married a Polk (Margaret md. Wm. Polk), one a Reese, one to an Alexander. The names of these descendants are blended with the annals of the state.

Mrs. Hannah Taylor's brothers and sisters removed to Virginia and S. C. Sam'l Taylor's half brothers and sisters removed to N. C., and S. C., and many of their desc. names appear in the annals of these states; they were of males Swearingens; of females if found through their marriages: Thompsons, Pickens, Shanklins, Barnetts and others (not recollected). The Bowans, Laurences, Downs, and Sharps, were related to my father but I cannot tell how they were related.

(signed) Joseph Taylor

(Copied by Memory A. Lester, 606 Pittsboro Road, Chapel Hill, N. C.) (Copied from a letter owned by Mrs. R. L. Francis of Memphis Tenn., Dec. 14, 1942)."