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Biography Notables Project John Taylor is Notable. 1776 Project Lieutenant Colonel John Taylor served with Caroline County Militia, Virginia Militia during the American Revolution. Daughters of the American Revolution John Taylor is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A112896. Father: James Taylor m. Ann Pollard (her sister Sarah m. Edmund Pendleton). Related to President Zachary Taylor. John Taylor was born at Mill Hill in Caroline county in 1754. Orphaned, apparently, at ten, he was adopted by his maternal uncle, Edmund Pendleton. Privately tutored, with his cousin James Madison as a fellow pupil, he later graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1770. He then studied law in the office of Edmund Pendleton in Bowling Green, and was licensed to practice in 1774. In 1776 he served with distinction in the American War of Independence, rising to the rank of Colonel. The war, however, nearly depleted Taylor’s fortune and the Government partially recompensed him for his services by granting him five thousand acres of land. After the war he turned to the practice of law with such success that he retired in 1792, with a fortune larger than that which he had lost in the war. From 1776-1781 he was a member of the Virginia Legislature, joining the opposition to Washington’s plans ‘for a more perfect union and a more compact nation.’ He was also a member of the United States Senate 1792-4, 1803, 1822-3, and 1823-4, and in considering his political life it is as well to remember the cautionary advice of Marshall Wingfield: to understand the life and activities of John Taylor it must be constantly bourn in mind that he was a Virginian First and an American second. After his retirement from the Virginia Legislature, Taylor bought a large estate called Hazelwood[4] on the Rappahannock river, near Port Royal97 and devoted himself as a gentleman farmer to agriculture. He was the first president of the Virginia Agricultural Society and his agricultural thesis, Arator, published in 1803, was one of the first books on agriculture written in America. (Arator - Latin, The Ploughman, a title reflecting Vergil’s Georgics and the strength of the Classical tradition in Viginian education as well as the character of the readership Taylor had in mind.) The topics it covers include the improvement of soils, housing of slaves, rotation of crops, and conservation of forests. He writes in defence of slavery and calls for the deportation of free African Americans Taylor agrees with Jefferson that the institution of slavery was evil whilst arguing that it was ’incapable of removal, and only within reach of palliation’. In Taylor’s opinion ‘slaves are docile, useful and happy, if they are well managed’ and that ‘the individual is restrained by his property in the slave, and susceptible of humanity’. The blandishments as well as the terrors of religion indissolubly bind together the happiness and misery of both master and slave. In this he anticipated the later arguments that slavery was a positive good. (Source - Eg of John C. Calhoun,1781-1850, ‘the cast iron man’, of South Carolina; Edmund Ruffin, 1794-1865, Virginian farmer and agricultural scientist, George Fitzhugh, 1806-81, lawyer of Port Royal, who maintained that ‘the negro is but a grown up child’.) Hay Battaile sold Hayfield in October 1822 for $17,000 to the Hon John Taylor and it passed to his son, William Penn Taylor, in 1824. Taylor’s closing years were dogged by ill health, two years after purchasing Hayfield he died at the age of 60, at his estate, Hazelwood. John is buried at Hazelwood Farm Cemetery in Port Royal, Caroline County, Virginia. In 1844 Taylor County in West Virginia was named in his honor and in 1924 the centenary of his death was commemorated by his portrait being hung in the Court House at Bowling Green. Cavalry Colonel in the American Revolutionary War. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates (1779–81, 1783–85, 1796–1800) and in the United States Senate (1792–94, 1803, 1822–24). Will of John Taylor In his will, made in January 1824, being ‘sick but of sound mind’, he left Hazelwood to his wife and then to his grandson John Taylor ‘after his grandmother’s interest thereon shall cease’, and to his son William Penn Taylor. His widow, Lucy Taylor, was his executrix, and William Penn Taylor, his son, was his executor. I John Taylor being sick but of sound mind do declare this to be my last will and testament this 7th day of January 1824. 1st I give to my wife Lucy C. Taylor my estate called Hazelwood including all my lands adjoining to it bought of sundry persons and an island in the river during her widowhood. I also give her Phillis the wife of Norment and all the descendants of the said Phillis. Angella another house servant and all her descendants, Judy a cook and all descendents, Charles, Harry, Tom, Matthew, and Eliza husbands and wife of some of these descendants including any born after the date of this will, absolutely, I also give her all the money in the house at the time of my death, the household furniture and liquors, all the stocks, tools, carriages and crops growing or severed in the estate at the time of my death, absolutely, and all the slaves which may be living on it at that time, above those given to her forever, I give to her for and during her widowhood. But I direct that out of the money in the house, should a suit or suits in the Court of appeals a gains my son John on account of some transactions of his brother in law, William Woodford, finally go against him she shall discharge whatever may be recovered. 2nd, I give to my son William my tract of land called Hayfield with all the negroes, stocks, utensils and crops growing or severed thereon at the time of my death to him and heirs forever. 3rd I give to my son Henry all the lands in Westmoreland I bought of Robertson with all the slaves stocks and utensils thereto belonging and all the crops thereon either growing or severed at the time of my death to him and his heirs. 4th I give to my son George my two plantations on Pamunkey river opposite to each other, with all the slaves stocks and utensils to them belonging and all the crops severed or growing thereon at the time of my death and also a tract of land on Mattapony usually called Hoomes’s bought of several persons, all to him and his heirs forever. 5th I give to my grandson John Taylor the estate called Hazelwood after his grandmother’s interest thereon shall cease, together with one moiety of the slaves given to her during her widowhood provided he both attains the age of twenty one years and marries. If both these event should be accomplished, these lands and slaves are to go to him and heirs forever, if either should fail, then, are on his death to be equally divided among my heirs. But I make this devise upon condition that my said grandson shall relinquish to any children or child which his father may have besides the three he now has anything which may fall to him under a settlement relating to the land and negroes of which his father is possessed. 6th I give to my four sons the other moiety of the slaves given to my wife during her widowhood. 7th I give to my grand daughter Lucy P. Taylor ten thousand dollars to be raised out of the debts due to me, a tract of land adjoining Palestine, and a negro girl named Milly, directing my executors to sell the land if they can giving a preference to the Mr. Burks, and to allot the debts of these gentlemen towards the payment of this legacy., whom I wish them to indulge as long as they pay the interest punctually. This legacy is not to become payable unless the said Lucy shall attain to twenty one years of age or marry and in the meantime I direct my executors to accumulate it by receiving the interest and putting it at interest; for I direct that bonds carrying interest shall be appropriated to the object upon my death. If the said Lucy shall neither attain the age of twenty one nor marry then everything given to her is to revert to my estate. 8th I give to my grand son Edmund Taylor all the lands I bought of Spotswood with the slaves Stocks Crops growing or severed and tools except Humphrey and his family intended to be sold and Tom given to his grand mother, upon condition that he both arrives to twenty one years of age and marries, upon the accomplishment of both which events he is to have a fee simple; upon the failure of either and his death, the property hereby devised, is to revert to my estate and go to my heirs. 9th I give my books to my four sons reserving to their mother a power to select and retain such as she may choose for her life. 10th If the surplus of my debts after paying my grand daughter’s legacy should not suffice to pay all demands against me, each of my sons William Henry and George are to pay one fourth of the deficiency, and the Hazelwood estate the other fourth. 11th I direct conveyance to be made by my heirs for any Lands in Kentucky I have given to my relations there by letter. The gifts were only of my title and no warranty is to be made against the claims of others. 12th I give all the rest of my estate real and personal to be equally divided among my four sons. In this residue is included a large tract of land in Kentucky inherited from my son Edmund; 500 acres patented; a 1000 acres entry in the case of Mr Waring and some town lots in the care ofGen’l Taylor. 13th I direct that all the lands and slaves devised by this will shall be bound to guarantee the title of each divisees and that if any eviction or recovery shall take place the same shall contribute in proportion to value to make good the loss. 14th I direct that the possession of Hazelwood for the time being shall provide for William Normont during his life as he has hitherto been provided for. Finally, I appoint my wife Lucy Taylor and my son, William P. Taylor executrix and executor of this my will and direct that neither an inventory appraisement nor sale be made of any part of my estate and that neither of them be required to give security. And I subscribe this paper wholly written with my own hand as and for my last will and testament this 7th day of January 1824. For removing any doubt which might arise from two clauses of this my will, it is my intention that my two grandsons John and Edmund shall have the possession and use of the property devised to them respectfully the former from the termination of his grandmother’s estate and the latter from my death, each for his life though the events may never happen which may make their titles absolute. John Taylor John Taylor 1753-1824, married Lucy Penn, who was the daughter of John Penn, who signed the Declaration of Independence, they were married in 1781. Writer and politician, Jefferson’s chief political lieutenant, born at Liberty Hill. Children listed in DAR record ANNE m. WILLIAM LYTLE JOHN m. LUCY GREGORY WOODFORD, MARION GORDON HENRY m. JULIA DUNLAP LEIPER GEORGE m. HENRIETTA PENDELTON EDMUND m. ELIZABETH 'BETSY' TURNER HORD WILLIAM PENN m. ELIZABETH MOORE The Taylor and Hord families of Liberty Hill, Caroline County My Hore/Hord Malcolm Hoare ancestors who came from Leckhampton in Gloucestershire in 1650 settled at Liberty Hill and intermarried with the Taylor family. The Hord and Taylor families used to take it in turns to hold parties and social gatherings at their estates in Caroline County. John Taylor's son, Edmund married Elizabeth 'Betsy' Turner Hord in 1805, she was the daughter of Major Thomas Hord and Sally Turner. Major William Taylor, son of Colonel George Taylor and Rachel Gibson, married Lucy Norvell Hord in 1786, daughter of William Hord and Agnes Hord. Hancock Taylor, son of Richard Lee Taylor and Sarah Dabney Strother, married Lucy's sister, Elizabeth Hord in 1803. Slave Owner In the 1810 census for Caroline, John Taylor is recorded as having 145 slaves. John Taylor snr. is recorded as having 25 slaves at the time of his death, according to the Fredericksburg Historic Court Records viz: Phillis, wife of Norment under construction Sources ↑ Resigned, vacant May 11, 1794 – December 29, 1794 when successor elected. ↑ Appointed to the United States Senate as a Democratic Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Stevens T. Mason and served from June 4 to December 7, 1803, when a successor was elected. ↑ Died in office, vacant August 21, 1824 – December 7, 1824 when successor elected. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Hazelwood (Port Royal, Virginia)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hazelwood_(Port_Royal,_Virginia)&oldid=1057993319 (accessed January 30, 2022). Find A Grave Memorial# 8299123 John Taylor of Caroline on Wikipedia Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin. Virginia Genealogies, A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia, also of the Families of Ball, Brown, Bryan, Conway, Daniel, Ewell, Holladay, Lewis, Littlepage, Moncure, Peyton, Robinson, Scott, Taylor, Wallace, and Others of Virginia and Maryland. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: E. B. Yordy Printer, 1891, pp 675, 682. DAR record https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A112896 Wingfield, op.cit.,p.193 Taylor’s estate, Hazelwood, is on the National Register of Historic Places Fredericksburg Court. File CRUC-M 372-48 * Fredericksburg Historic Court Records - Taylor vs Taylor. Year Recorded 1855. Collection (CR-CI-H). Record ID (193-001) Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Taylor-26868