Thomas Taylor, of Wicomico Parish & Lancaster County

Notes:

Col John Taylor Sr. (Thomas Taylor's grandfather) is described sometimes as having had two wives. But the research shows that the second wife didn't exist. Widow Elizabeth Taylor went to court in 1663 for her orphans. She was not Elizabeth Horton, as is sometimes portrayed. This is due to a likely mixup with Elizabeth (Flowers) Taylor HORTON Hughes, and confusion with another John Taylor of Lancaster, a younger man dying around the same time as this John Taylor, unfortunately.

Elizabeth (Taylor) Sallard Baker took care of the estate of her brother Richard b 1650 d 1669 as a minor. That proves their kinship.

This is also the proof that Thomas of Wicomico is the same person as Thomas of Lancaster. Thomas of Wicomico had brothers Lazarus & John who married Vezey sisters:

"O.B. 1699-1713. John Taylor and his brother Lazarus, sons of John and Alice Taylor, married sisters, Ann and Mary Veze or Vezey, daughters of George Vezey of Lancaster Co. Their brother, Thomas Taylor, married Elizabeth Therriatt, daughter of William, and granddaughter of Dominick Therriatt, also of Lancaster Co. (Note by L.H.D. These are the parents of Ana who married Ball.)"

Historical summary (from http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kece&id=P...):

Thomas Taylor died around JUN 11 1718 when his will was recorded. He was the son of John Taylor and Alice (Gascoigne) Gaskins. He married Elizabeth Theriatt 22 OCT 1667. [SIC: after 1688]

Notes

Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia Wills 1653-1800; {Ida J. Lee} TAYLOR, Thomas. 7 Feb. 1718. Rec. 11 June 1718. Wife's name not given. Sons: Thomas, plantation in Wiccocomoco Psh, and Theriatt Taylor. Daus: Martha, Elizabeth, Ann and Sarah. Wits: Rich. Cundiff Jr. and Rich. Ball. W.B. 10, p. 265.

Mrs. L.C. Anderson, 'The Taylor Family of Northumberland and Lancaster Counties, Virginia, Genealogies of Virginia Families from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,' Indexed by Thomas L. Hollowak, (Baltimore, Gen. Publ Co., Inc., 1981) Volume V pp. 399-416.

p. 402 -403, Lancaster Co., Va Vol 9:189, 13 Nov 1705. Thomas Taylor of the Parish of the Great Wicomico in the county of Northumberland, planter, and Elizabeth, his wife, one of the daughters of William Therriatt, late of Lancaster Co., Gent, decd. to Ellen Heale, 500a of land being part of the 850 a given in copartnership to Ann and Elizabeth by deed of gift Feb. 11, 1688 by William Therriat, father of sd Ann and Elizabeth. Land joins Richard Ball and called Therriat's headlands. Wit. Jos. Tayloe, Dan. McCarty, Richard Buckroe. Signed Thomas Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor.

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From page 20 of The Dameron-Damron genealogy: the descendants of Lawrence Dameron of ...

"O.B. 1699-1713. John Taylor and his brother Lazarus, sons of John and Alice Taylor, married sisters, Ann and Mary Veze or Vezey, daughters of George Vezey of Lancaster Co. Their brother, Thomas Taylor, married Elizabeth Therriatt, daughter of William, and granddaughter of Dominick Therriatt, also of Lancaster Co. (Note by L.H.D. These are the parents of Ana who married Ball.)

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