Taylor

"Pioneer Life " Early documents suggest that the Taylor family were some of the earliest immigrants to Delaware.

Taylors are mentioned in numerous court records, deeds, wills, military records etc that date back to the beginning of the settling of the Delaware Colony by early pioneers. Many that came to Delaware at this time came for religious freedom. Ruling kingdoms in Europe killed, tortured and forced many to leave and find a better life where they could worship as they desired.

William C Taylor's relatives in Delaware were settled in New Castle County. There is a little unincorporated community there by the name of Taylors Bridge. It got its name from a local bridge over the Blackbird River. Most of the old Taylor records I have found mention locations close to this area of Delaware especially Appoquinimink hundred. (Delaware does not have townships instead they are called hundreds.)

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There were several William Taylor families that migrated to Pennsylvania and later some of these families migrated south to Delaware which was part of Pennsylvania orignally. In 1682 immigrant William Taylor with his brother Peter, wife Margaretta, son Joseph and daughters Mary and Elizabeth arrived in Pennsylvania. Source "The Real Welcome Passengers" by Marion Balderston (no. 242)pp. 1-26

In the spring of 1725 on board a ship bound to Philadelphia, from Bristol, England and commanded by a Captain Dicks was another William Taylor. The vessel was crowded with 80 passengers. A number of these passengers years later would become valuable citizens of Wilmington, Delaware. The ship arrived in July after two months at sea. Small pox made its presence during the voyage and several passengers died. This alarmed the citizens of Philadelphia and crowds developed as it neared the wharf and the ship was ordered to leave so it went down river and anchored off the Swedes' Church where they were kindly received. After they had recovered from the small pox they were allowed in the city. William Taylor settled at Darby, Pennsylvania just south of Philadelphia and made the first Smith's bellows ever manufactured in Pennsylvania. Many of the passengers of this ship later migrated south to what is now Delaware. We do not have any information if this William Taylor is our ancestor but it is possible.

Another source tells us that a possible immigrant that might be our Taylor ancestor. "The Taylor family in this country descended from Peter Taylor, a worthy follower of William Penn, who came over with the Proprietor's earliest expedition, and settled in what is now Chester county. Pennsylvania. His descendants are numerously represented in the Taylor families of Chester and Delaware counties, Pennsylvania, and of Cecil county, Maryland."

Sarah Ann;s ( William Taylors' wife) parents are John Butler and Sarah Ann Cornwell.. The children of John and Ann Butler are: George W. , Charlotte and Mary, twins, ; and Sarah A. (Mrs. William Taylor) John Butler died and Sarah Ann his wife married John W Jarrell. Their children are: I. Fannie B; II. William 11., died in Indiana; III. Susan, died in Indiana; IV. Charles W.

.Sarah Ann Cornwell's parents are John Cornwell and Sarah Fennimore. John and Sarah were married in September 11, 1790.The Fennimore family, one of the oldest and most honored in the state, is of English descent,

John Cornwell's parents are William Cornwell and Christina Vandegrift. William and Christina were married February 7, 1770 in New Castle, Delaware. Christina was born July 21, 1752 in St. Georges, New Castle county, Delaware. William was born in Sussex, Delaware in October 31, 1743.

Jacob Vandergrift was Christina's father and he was born about 1720 in Bensalem, Bucks, Pennsylvania. He married Ann Atkinson October 5, 1751 in New Castle, Delaware.

William Taylor's family had migrated west to Delaware county, Indiana sometime between 1847 and 1860 as they are in the William C Taylor died January 23, 1880, in Pierce county, Wisconsin, at the age of 63, and was buried in Trimbelle, Wisconsin. Sarah Ann Taylor was born on March 17, 1847, in Delaware, She had one son. She then married Thomas Jay Morrow and they had seven children together. She died on October 30, 1916, in Trimbelle, Wisconsin, at the age of 69, and was buried there.

When Otto Vermillion Taylor was born on February 14, 1866, in Pierce, Wisconsin, his mother, Sarah, was 18. He married Anna Mathia Svensen on March 20, 1892 in Pierce county, Wisconsin. They had nine children in 17 years. He died on February 21, 1939, in Exeland, Wisconsin, at the age of 73, and was buried there. Annie died April 9, 1948 at Exeland, Sawyer county, Wisconsin.

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