Sarah Taliaferro

Biography

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/taliaferro/1543/

Richard Taliaferro was a ship captain and was in London at the time Cadwallader Jones was there angling for a position in the Barbados (read Bahamas since Nassau was involved) where be became the Royal Governor. Richard was also, there serving on the Court of that Colony at one time. He met and married Sarah Wingfield about 1694, the only child of Martha and John Wingfield of the islands.

Parents: John Wingfield & Martha Wingfield (____ - 1709)  

Married

1.  Richard Taliaferro (1660 - 1715) known as "the pirate," son of Robert "The Immigrant" Taliaferro & Katherine Dedman AKA Sarah Grymes.   

   Children:

1.  Martha Taliaferro Turner (____ - 1726)*
2.  Sarah Taliaferro Turner*
3.  Richard Taliaferro (1700 - 1721)*
4.  Catherine Taliaferro Hooe (1706 - 1737)*

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Notes

From https://reynoldspatova.org/getperson.php?personID=I18094&tree=reyno...

Genealogy. com, http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/debnam/137/

The children of Robert and Katherine (Debnam) Taliaferro were:

(4) Richard Taliaferro, died 1715, married Sarah Wingfield and died in Richmond County (he lived out of Virginia from 1688 to 1704, during which time he was a ship captain and owner and was Chief Judge and member of the Royal Council of the Bahaman Islands, 1699-1703, during the Bahamian governorship of his step-father Colonel Cadwallader Jones; Richard was in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1704, and returned late that year to Virginia, King George County.

The Wingfields have a world-wide family association that maintains a data base in Dallas TX and a full-time genealogist in England. Some correspondence with them several years ago is partially confirmed by King but, true or not, it's a great story. In brief, a pirate (there are nicer names for it) arrived in Nassau with a cargo said to have been captured from the Grand Mogul of India's flagship in the Indian Ocean. He negotiated with the Governor of the Bahamas (Jones had left by then) and he and his men were granted pardons and passage to England. The Gov retired shortly thereafter. Subsequent investigation uncovered nothing illegal. Richard T was present at the time.

Richard Talliferro's mother-in-law Martha Wingfield came for a visit in 1709 and traveled on to Boston, with many large trunks, to die there on 23 Jul 1709. Her Will left all her property, located in the Bermudas, Bahamas, Boston and Virginia to her daughter Sarah Taliaferro. Richard died in 1715, his wife in 1718, and his only son in 1721, leaving all the property to their remaining 3 daughters, the oldest being married in 1714 to Thosmas Turner Sr. c1690-1758. She (Martha) died in 1726 and he remarried to her sister Sarah Taliaferro as his second wife. The third daughter married Rice Hooe IV and died without issue.

A widely-circulated story regarding the parentage of Taliaferro (also called "Toliver") Craig, Sr. was that he was the son of Jane Taliaferro and John Craig. Based upon statements of three of Toliver Craig's grandchildren and research by several prominent researchers including Anna V. Parker ("Sanders Family of Grass Hills", pub. 1966), and editor Mary Louise Fricke ("Tolliver Craig - His Notebook and Autobiograpny", 1991), Taliaferro "Toliver" Craig, Sr. was the illegitimate son of Jane Craig and a seafaring Captain named Taliaferro.

Several researchers have identified records of a likely candidate for "Capt. Taliaferro" in Capt. Richard Taliaferro, Master of the LUCANS and part-owner of a ship, the "Joseph and Sarah" of New Providence, who was also called "The Pirate", who was engaged in sea trade and served on the Court of the colony of Barbados. In 1694 he married Sarah Wingfield, daughter of John and Martha Wingfield of Barbados. Richard died in 1715, but not before he supposedly fathered a child with a Jane Craig, sometime abt. 1706. This was further confirmed in "Toliver Craig - His Notebook and Autobiography", a transcription of an autobiographical sketch written by Toliver Craig III (son of Toliver Craig, Jr), which begins as follows:

My grandfather (Toliver Craig) was the illegitimate son of Jane Craig who was from Scotland and he married Mary Hawkins by whom he had Twelve Children."

As the illegitimate child of (perhaps) Capt. Richard Taliaferro, Taliaferro (Toliver) took his mother's name (Craig), which was somewhat more acceptable during those days.

According the genealogy that Sanders had compiled, Capt. Richard Taliaferro had a brother named Robert Taliaferro, who was married twice (one son in first marriage, five daughters and two sons in second marriage).

References

1. George H. S. King's "Marriages of Richmond County," p. 203
2. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=43720636 (memorial was removed)
3. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Richard_Taliaferro_%284%29
4. http://sherrysharp.net/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I88572&tree... Shows death date as 4 Feb 1717
5. http://sharpwriters.com/genealogy/taliaferro.html Richard TALIAFERRO, born in 1665, died in 1712. He married first Elizabeth EGGLESTON and second Martha Sarah WINGFIELD. His home was in settled in Richmond County and he carried the nickname "The Pirate."
6. https://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Virginia%20Early%20Families... Richard Taliaferro (married Sarah Wingfield),
7. https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~lzrslong/genealogy/b4327.htm#P123392 Sarah WINGFIELD3,91 died in 1718 in Boston, Massachusetts.3,91 She was born in Bahamas.3,91 She is reference number 99527.