Thomas Taylor (1757 - 1811)

Born 14 Dec 1757 in Westtown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 30 Mar 1811 at age 53 in Westtown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States

Biography

Captain Thomas Taylor served with Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.

Thomas Taylor is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A215414.

Captain, Pennsylvania and Signed Oath of Allegiance ^[1]

^[2]Captain Thomas Taylor, Jr. was born on the family farm in Westtown Township in 1757. He is reported to have enlisted in the militia in 1777, when in August of that year Birmingham Preparative Meeting brought a complaint against him for entering military service. He was later disowned for doing the same in December of that year.

From 1780 to 1782, Taylor, Jr. captained the Eighth Company of the Seventh Battalion, Westtown Township. Serving under him as a private was his older brother, Titus Taylor.

After the revolution, he served as a tax collector. In 1794, Taylor probably captained a company of Light Dragoons under Major Joseph McClellan against the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania. The service was brief, lasting from October 20 to December 20, 1794. He joined the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1796 and is noted to have freed at least one African-American person — a man named Simon — in 1800. From 1784 through at least 1793, he was a jailer of Chester County.

In 1802, he served in the Pennsylvania legislature as a Democratic Republican, and in 1803 was the Chester County treasurer. From 1807 to 1810 he was the sheriff of Chester County. It is said that during discussions of the coming war with England before the War of 1812, he was considered for an officer’s commission in the militia, but his health became delicate and he died “of a decay” in Westtown, March 29, 1811, and was buried in the Taylor family cemetery.

Previous research information

Thomas Taylor was born in 1757. He passed away in 1811. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ DAR A215414
2. ↑ https://www.westtownpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/FINAL-2020-01-23-WESTTOWN-BOOK.pdf
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124137797/thomas-taylor: accessed 28 October 2022), memorial page for Capt Thomas Taylor Jr. (14 Dec 1757–29 Mar 1811), Find a Grave Memorial ID 124137797, citing Taylor Family Burying Ground, Westtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Flababo (contributor 47225301) .

See also:

• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A215414

Acknowledgements

WikiTree profile Taylor-8516 created through the import of Keller-Freeland-Ferris Family .ged on Feb 27, 2012 by Elizabeth Tapia.