Zachary
Taylor
Sr.
Born about in King and Queen, Virginia
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of James Taylor II
and Martha (Thompson) Taylor
Brother of
Frances (Taylor) Madison, Martha (Taylor) Chew, James Taylor III, George Taylor, Tabitha (Taylor) Wild, Erasmus Taylor, Hannah (Taylor) Battaile and Mildred (Taylor) Thomas
Husband of
Elizabeth (Lee) Taylor
— married
about 1734 in Orange Co., Virginia
Descendants 
Died before
before about age 60
in Orange, Virginia
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Biography
Zachary Taylor married on 03 Feb 1736 to Elizabeth Lee of Northumberland County, VA and they had four children:
- Zachary, b. abt. 1736, m. Alice Chew, d. 1815
- Hancock, b. 1738, d. 01 Aug 1774
- Elizabeth, b. 1740, m. Thomas Bell, d. 1788
- Richard, b. 03 Apr 1744, m. Sarah Pannill Dabney Strother, d. 19 Jan 1829
Predecessor of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson as Surveyor General of Virginia
Zachary appears as follows in the Orange County Virginia Tithes for the year 1739: "Mr. Zachary Talor [Taylor] ten tithes"[1]
Zachary appears in the list of, The first justices composing the county court of Orange County, Virginia.[2]
Mythical wife Esther Jones
Esther Jones as a first or second wife of Zachary Taylor and records about this person have been proven as "Mythological" [3]
Death Date
Zachary Taylor Sr.'s date of death is "before February 1768" as he died before the 29th of February 1768, based on the deed of Zachary Taylor Jr. to his brother Hancock Taylor for land that had belonged to his father Zachary Taylor Sr. [4] . There is a similar dated deed from Zachary Taylor Jr. to his brother Richard Taylor. The deed from Zachary Taylor Jr. to Hancock Taylor reads in part as follows: "This Indenture made this twenty ninth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & sixty eight Between Zachary Taylor of the County of Orange of the one part and Hancock Taylor of the county aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth that the said Zachary Taylor for & in consideration of the natural love and affection which he hath and beareth unto his Brother the said Hancock Taylor, as also for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings current money of Virginia to him in hand paid by the said Hancock Taylor the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath given granted bargained and sold and by these presents, do give grant bargain sell & confirm unto the said Hancock Taylor his heirs and assigns forever, all that tract or parcel of land situate lying and being in the said County of Orange being part of the land whereon my father Zachary Taylor dec'd lately lived containing by estimation five hundred acres of land more or less and bounded as followeth Begining at three white oaks saplins corner to Thomas Bell on the side of a branch thence down the said branch the several courses there of 54 poles to a poplar and two white oaks corner to Richard Taylor and Thomas Bell thence down . . . to the beginning. . . In Witness whereof the said Zachary Taylor hath hereunto set his hand & seal the day and year first above written [signed] Zachary Taylor Signed Sealed & delivered in the presence of us James Taylor, R'd Taylor, Francis Taylor At a Court held for Orange County on Thursday the 24th of March 1768 This Indenture was acknowledged by Zachary Taylor to Hancock Taylor & is ordered to be recorded Test Geo. Taylor COC."[5]
Inventory of Estate
Zachary Taylors Sr.'s estate inventory was authorized by the court of Orange county, Virginia as follows: "Pursuant to an order of the Court of Orange directed to us the subscribers (being first sworn by Capt Rowland Thomas) we have inventoried & appraised the estate of Mr. Zachary Taylor deceased the twenty ninth day of March 1768 as contained in this and the two following pages viz: [list of items owned by Zachary Taylor Sr. are found on pages 391, 392, 393 & 394] [signed] Robert Terrell, William Bell, Andrew Shepherd At a Court held for Orange County on Thursday the 28th April 1768 this inventory & appraisement of the Estate of Zachary Taylor Dec'd was this day returned & ordered to be recorded Test Geo. Taylor C.O.C."[6]
Sources
- ↑ page 22, Orange County Tithe Lists, Charles Arthur Hoppin, William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 27, No. 1 (July 1918), pp 19-27. Online at: http://.jstor.org/stable/1916107
- ↑ page 351, The Early Westward Movement of Virginia, 1722-1734, edited and annotated by Charles E. Kemper, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 13, No. 4 (Apr. 1906), pp. 351-374
- ↑ Taylor and Jones Families, by Trist Wood, published in The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Oct., 1921), pp. 287-289
- ↑ Orange County, Virginia Deed Book 14 (1765-1768) page 289 & 290
- ↑ Orange County, Virginia Deed Book 14 (1765-1768) page 289 & 290; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B2-SLXR.
- ↑ Orange County, Virginia Will Book 2 (1744-1778) pages 391, 392, & 393; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9PX-X4YB
See Also
- Historic Taylor Family Homes in Orange County, Virginia, 1722-Present
- Mayflower Families Vol. 17 p. 57
- http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/Zachary-Taylor/p60079
- Find A Grave: Memorial #18539956
- Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
- Mayflower Society Application Database: "Community Trees," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:QVQV-NTY : accessed 14 June 2021), entry for Zachary Taylor, cites sources; "Mayflower Pilgrim Genealogies" file (2:2:2:MMXD-DP8), submitted 24 February 2020 by FamilySearch.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Zachary:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Zachary:
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~1.56%
Augusta (Alger) Prince
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch BY3843687 [compare]
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~0.78%
Bob Dill :
23andMe, GEDmatch M115546 [compare]
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~0.78%
Tim Prince :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch TV9165492 [compare], yourDNAportal TIM7b677a40, Ancestry member prince_tim
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch TV9165492 [compare], FTDNA kit #B617103
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~0.78%
Lawrence D. Pool :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T500352 [compare]
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The deed from Zachary Taylor Jr. to Hancock Taylor reads in part as follows: "This Indenture made this twenty ninth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & sixty eight Between Zachary Taylor of the County of Orange of the one part and Hancock Taylor of the county aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth that the said Zachary Taylor for & in consideration of the natural love and affection which he hath and beareth unto his Brother the said Hancock Taylor, as also for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings current money of Virginia to him in hand paid by the said Hancock Taylor the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath given granted bargained and sold and by these presents, do give grant bargain sell & confirm unto the said Hancock Taylor his heirs and assigns forever, all that tract or parcel of land situate lying and being in the said County of Orange being part of the land whereon my father Zachary Taylor dec'd lately lived containing by estimation five hundred acres of land more or less and bounded as followeth Begining at three white oaks saplins corner to Thomas Bell on the side of a branch thence down the said branch the several courses there of 54 poles to a poplar and two white oaks corner to Richard Taylor and Thomas Bell thence down . . . to the beginning. . . In Witness whereof the said Zachary Taylor hath hereunto set his hand & seal the day and year first above written [signed] Zachary Taylor Signed Sealed & delivered in the presence of us James Taylor, R'd Taylor, Francis Taylor At a Court held for Orange County on Thursday the 24th of March 1768 This Indenture was acknowledged by Zachary Taylor to Hancock Taylor & is ordered to be recorded Test Geo. Taylor COC."
edited by Carol Wilder
Taylor and Jones Families Trist Wood The William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 1, No. 4 (Oct., 1921), pp. 287-289 Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture DOI: 10.2307/1915338 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1915338