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TAYLOR, DANIEL Ancestor #: A112367 Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE Birth: 11-7-1748 NORTH CAROLINA Death: 10-19-1826 PIKE CO MISSISSIPPI Service Source: MURPHY, TWO 1780 DOBBS CO, NC TAX LISTS, P 5 Service Description: 1) PAID SUPPLY TAX, 1782
Residence Created: 2002-03-27 23:23:55.3, Updated: , By: Conversion 1) County: DOBBS CO - State: NORTH CAROLINA
Spouse: ELIZABETH ROUSE Number Created: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, Updated: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, By: Conversion 1)
Daniel Taylor was born on November 7, 1748 in North Carolina. He was the son of Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Stone. His parents were tobacco farmers. He had at least two older brothers; William and Robert.
Daniel joined the church at age 12 and acquired a good education. He was preparing to travel to England where he would study the ministry, when the Revolutionary War came to North Carolina. He joined the Dobbs County Militia and was in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. Upon returning home, he taught school. There he met and married one of his students, Elizabeth Rouse (she was 15 he was 29). They were married on February 6, 1777. They had ten children.
Nancy (1777) and Samuel (1778) were born in North Carolina. Daniel moved his family to Sumner County, Tennessee where his next 8 children were born: Elizabeth (1780), Lucy (1783), Daniel (1785), John (1788), Rebecca (1790), Sarah (1794), Joseph (1797), and William (1804).
When William, the baby, was two months old, Daniel moved the family to Montgomery County, near the Red River in Tennessee. Daniel lived and farmed there for twelve or more years. "Father had a mania for horticulture."
In 1818, Daniel again uprooted his family, sold his farm, built a flat boat and floated down the Mississippi to Fort Adams, Mississippi. He bought property on a creek called Topisaw in Pike County. Eventually he gave this property to his youngest son, William. William and his brother, John, built a grist mill on the creek which failed mechanically.
In 1826, when the United States opened Indian land in central Mississippi, John and William decided to move their families north and acquire some of the patent land. William re-met his first love, Rachel Hamilton, just before pulling up stakes and moving his mother and father to Yazoo County. They were married on August 3, 1826. The trip to Yazoo County with Daniel and Elizabeth in a wagon was their honeymoon trip.
The final days of that trip were very sad. Daniel became over-heated while walking fast to find shelter from a rain storm. He sat in a draft, caught cold and died a month later on October 19, 1826. William recorded his last words: "Do everything right."
William buried his father on his farm. William writes in his journal; "I selected a handsome spot on my farm, around 'nool' to high to plow over, small shade trees, where his bones now remain if not disturbed!"
The family has decided to leave his bones where his son, William lovingly laid them. The headstone in Georgeville Cemetery is the humble attempt to show the respect for the Patriot ancestor, Daniel Taylor.
Note: Direct quotes are from William Taylor's Journal. Sally Knutson has the original journal handwritten in 1884. There are excerpts from the journal posted on several sites.
Year: 1748. Family Data Collection - Births. Edmund West, comp. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
Year: 1780. North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
Year: 1777. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Yates Publishing. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Year: 1790; Census Place: Dobbs, North Carolina; Series: M637; Roll: 7; Page: 463; Image: 590; Family History Library Film: 0568147
Year: 1822. Mississippi, State and Territorial Census Collection, 1792-1866. Claiborne County, Mississippi Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Year: 1826. Death. Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
Wills, Inventories, Guardian and Bond Books, 1797-1818, Montgomery County, Tennessee; Author: Historical Records Project (Tennessee); Probate Place: Montgomery, Tennessee
U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
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