Dr.
James
Taylor
Born in Carlisle, Cumberland, England
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas Taylor
and Margaret (Swinderly) Taylor
Brother of
William (Taylor) Tayloe, Robert Taylor, Margaret Ellen Taylor, John William Taylor Sr., Jane Taylor, Anne Taylor and Richard Taylor
Husband of
Ursula Kettle
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Elizabeth (Underwood) Butler
— married
about 1652 in Virginia
[children unknown]
Died before
before age 47
in Surry County, Colony of Virginia
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Please do not merge with James Taylor, ancestor of Zachary Taylor, 12th U.S. President and married to Martha Gregory
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Biography
James Taylor was a Virginia colonist.
James Taylor lived in Virginia.
- Father: Captain Thomas Taylor II b: 15 Mar 1573/1574 in Of Hadley, Middlesex, London, England
- Mother: Margaret Swinderly b: 1578 in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Marriage 1 Elizabeth Underwood b: 1632/1633 in London, London, England
- Married: BEF 1652 in Surrey County, Virginia Colony 1
- Children
- John Henry Taylor b: 18 Oct 1653 in , Surrey, VA
Ursulla Kettle b: 1634 in Surrey County, Virginia Colony Never married , but had a child together.
- James Taylor b: 18 Oct 1653 in , Surrey, VA
James Taylor of Surrey County who married Elizabeth Underwood. With the same year of death, Dr. James is possibly confused with the James Taylor of New Kent County, and it may be that Dr. James's reported death is incorrect. According to church records in Carlisle England, a Dr. James Taylor immigrated to America in 1635; and according to The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, 1931, LDS film 476924, the following children of a Thomas Taylor were passengers on the ship Truelove in 1635 [which landed in Bermuda, not Virginia, and returned to England]: James, Ann, William, and Richard Taylor. And according to Rappahannock County records, Dr. James fathered a son James (also a potential source of confusion) by his servant Ursula Kettle, which prompted his wife to divorce him on 06 Nov 1655. Some further claim, without citing primary sources, that Dr. James was uncle to the James Taylor I of New Kent County. [1]
"Elizabeth Underwood married first Dr. James Taylor. Was he a son of Rev. James Taylor who was associated with the family in Isle of Wight County?
First divorce in Virginia
March 26,1654,Edward Skynner , in be half of the commonwealth of England,that James Taylor of Surry County,Virginia,Chrugeon (Surgeon) hath lived in the loathsome sin of adultry with his late servant,Ursula Kettle,and that she deliverd a bastard child,Oct 18,last past(1653).
March 26,1654, There was a deposition of Ursula Kettle age 20 years. On 21 Februaryor 26 March 1653/54 the prosecutor took Ursula Kettle's deposition. In the deposition she said that she was age 20, that she was often urged by her master, James Taylor to lay with him after her was married and she denied him for a long time. Finally after he persisted, she laid with him several times and became pregnant. The child was born on 18 October 1653. After she gave birth, James Taylor released her from her indentured servitude at a time where she only had ¾ of a year left to serve.[2]
He certainly was NOT a kind or faithful husband to her so that she felt compelled to appeal to the Governor and Council for a separation in order that she could return to the home of her mother. The details are such that it would have been impossible for her to have remained with him without being killed or maimed. Before the matter was finally settled the huband obligingly departed this life, according to the first record book of Surrey County. Recorded 26 March 1654.[3]
1 May 1655, the estate account of Mr. James Taylor[4] returned and among other items is where Mr. Slaughter was paid one third of the estate in right of his wife (Vol. 1, 53). 6 November 1655, Francis Slaughter for and in consideration of two cowes with caves and 2000 pounds of tobacco to be paid the 10th of October next and 1000 pounds more to be paid of 1657 by Thomas Culmer of Surrey Countye Chyrurgion all claim (in right of his wife) unto the house and plantation where he now lives. (Page 83)
June 20,1655 Appraisment and inventory of the estate of james Taylor. Surry County,Virginia.(See page 172.)[5]
Research note
1 May 1655. Some Items: paid John Burgess for two coffins; Eustace Grimes for making one grave; to Mr. Slaughter in right of his wife one third of the estate. Returned by Nicholas Hill and Lawrence Baker. Witnessed by James Mason and William Batte. .[6] On March26,1654 the court states that that Ursula was James' late servant, indicating she had passed away, from maybe from child birth. (See above.) He then made provisions that John Burgess got compensated for making two coffins and Eustice Grimes for making one grave. One for him and one for Ursula, James must have known he was going to die.(Maybey?).The child survived as seen below.
On November 6, 1655 Dr. Thomas Culmer, Chyrugon, purchased the house and practice of Dr. Taylor.
5 May 1661 Goods intended by me for Thos Culmer for security for the estate of James Taylor, orphant. 3 Mar 1660.[7]
Dr. James Taylor and Ursula Kettle bore a son James Taylor Jr. James Jr. married Elizabeth Brown 1665, widow of William Brown.[8]
Extra Research Notes
Dec. 26,1676 James Taylor Jr. was a witness to a will for his Father ex-wifes ,husbands brother John Butler seen below.
Butler, John, Westmoreland Co., Planter. 26 Dec, 1676 — 6 Jan., 1676. Son Thomas; daughter Grace; wife to be executrix with Henry Birsy of Rappahannock; witnesses James Taylor, John Thomas. [9]
Sources
- ↑ Notes from Gurganus.org with additions/corrections, by Steve Taylor
- ↑ Surry County, Virginia Court Records, 1652-1663, Vol. 1, page 38
- ↑ Virginia Genealogies #1, Genealogies of Virginia Families V, Underwood Family of Virginia, page 630
- ↑ Wills and Deeds of Surry County, Virginia 1652 - 1907, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9PX-KHXH p. 66, image 50.
- ↑ http://www.ancestraltrackers.net/va/resources/virginia-county-records-v6-p1.pdf
- ↑ Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, Page 27. Page 53.
- ↑ Surry Co., Va court records, pg 165.
- ↑ http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/genealogy/myff/d0040/g0000083.html
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/virginiacountyre61croz/virginiacountyre61croz_djvu.txt
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edited by Robin Lee
It appears the notional sources provided below are incoherent and self-contradictory. For example, claiming both he was born in a Pennington castle, and that such castle doesn't exist. Or that he emigrated to Virginia on a ship that didn't ever go to Virginia.
I am concerned we are publishing info that doesn't rise to WikiTree standards.
Hoping someone with more info can untangle this.