THE TAYLOR FAMILY

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WILLIAM AND PETER TAYLOR, both of Sutton, in the County Palatine of Chester (England), husbandmen, purchased from William Penn, by lease and release, March 2d and 3d, 1681-2, 1250 acres of land in Pennsylvania, for œ25. They arrived in Pennsylvania in 1682, and took up 350 acres each in Upper Providence township, at the present site of Media. Margaret, the wife of William, died on the 3d of the 1st mo., 1682-3, and her husband three days later. He made his will on the day of his death, in which he mentions his son Joseph "and other children." The witnesses were Peter Taylor, Mary Stevenson and Allen Robinett. As executors he appointed John Simcock and Thomas Minshall.

At a court held at Chester the 6th of 11th mo., 1684: "Ordered that Peter Taylor and Robert Vernome be received into the Grand Jury in the Roome of John Child and Thomas Minkshaw, And Thomas Colborne in the Roome of John Sharply."

Peter Taylor and Sarah Houlston declared their intentions of marriage at Chester Meeting, 1, 2, 1685, and 2, 6, 1685, and were married soon after the last date. Her sister Elizabeth "passed meeting" on the same date, with James Swaffer, and another sister, Rebecca, with William Gregory. They were the daughters of John Houlston, of Upper Providence. In 1712 Peter Taylor removed from Upper Providence, leaving his eldest son, of the same name, at the homestead, and settled in East Caln, where he was a member of Goshen Meeting. He died 9, 15, 1720, and of his will, dated 5, 4, 1720, appointed his wife and son Peter to be executors.

Children of Peter and Sarah Taylor:

    PETER, b. 3, 20, 1686; d. 1739-40; m. Elizabeth Jerman. 
    JOHN, b. 12, 1, 1687; d. 8, 25, 1720, unmarried. 
    SARAH, b. 5, 6, 1690; m. Robert Thornton, 1718. 
    WILLIAM, b. 4, 19, 1694; m. Mary Atherton. 
    SAMUEL, b. 12, 13, 1696-7; m. Ann (???), 1720-1. 
Taylor, Jr., was married 2, 28, 1712, to Elizabeth, dau. of John and Margaret Jerman, of Haverford. They settled at the homestead in Providence, where he died 1st mo., 1739-40. His widow m. 4, 15, 1743. Edward Woodward, of Newtown, and, having survived him, died at the residence of her daughter, Elizabeth Smedley, in 1784, aged nearly 94 years, being born 9, 16, 1690.

Children of Peter and Elizabeth Taylor:

    MORDECAI, b. 12, 7, 1713; d. 1747; m. Esther Sharples, 3, 18, 1738. 
    NATHAN, b. 1, 29, 1715; d. 1801; m. Ruth Evans, 9, 5, 1746. 
    SARAH, b. 12, 2, 1718; m. 7, 19, 1739, John Heacock. 
    MARGARET, b. (???); d. (???); m. 12, 14, 1742, Peter Thomas. 
    PETER, b. (???); d. 1802; m. 2, 17, 1746, Elizabeth Hall. They had several children, 
        of whom Mary m. Ambrose Smedley. 
    JOHN, b. (???); d. (???). 
    JOSEPH, b. (???); d. (???). 
    ELIZABETH, b. 1731; d. 2, 22, 1789; m. William Smedley.