General Notes

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Continued from John Taylor the father.
Book B, p. 76, Northern Neck Grants
John and Thomas Taylor of Northumberland C. in 1704 receive a grant (ordeed) of certain tracts of land, 1st, 200 A. granted to James Jones bypat. Sept. 27, 1660, and by him sold to John Taylor, deceased father ofsd Thomas and John, and 699 A. granted to John Taylor, father, by pat.1666, joins land possessed by William Therriatt, and now in possession ofThomas Taylor, Branch of Corotomon River, joins Thomas and GeorgeEverett, Isaac Wall, and John Webb, also joins Lazarus Taylor, EdmondBaysey's land, Richard Condit, and joins some land formerly belonging toWilliam Therriatt.
O. B. 1699-1713, Northumberland Co.
Edmond Basie brings suit vs. John Taylor for share of land - and this waslaid off accordingly, 1702.
In will of Edmond Basie Sr. of Wicomico Parish, Northumberland Co.written Oct. 2, 1714, he named, brothers, John and Thomas Taylor.
O. B. 1699-1713
John Taylor and his brother Lazarus sons of John and Alice Taylor,married sisters, Ann and Mary Veze or Vezey, daughters of George Vezey ofLancaster Co.
Their brother, Thomas Taylor, married Elizabeth Therriatt, daughter ofWilliam Therriatt, and granddaughter of Dominick Therriatt, also ofLancaster Co.
Lancaster Co. Book 7, p. 21
*Taylor to Taylor, deed Nov. 13, 1689. Lazarus Taylor of Wicomico Parish,Northampton Co. planter, and Mary his wife to John Taylor Jr. land inParish of White Chapel, Lancaster Co. granted by patent unto George VezeySept. 2, 1663, one tract. Other tract pat. by George Vezey Sept. 18,1665. Sd land was given by will of George Vezey to only son Thomas Vezey,who deceased without will or issue, so land descended unto Ann, wife ofJohn Taylor, and Mary wife of Lazarus Taylor, in co-partnership; the sdAnn and Mary being sisters of the whole blood unto the sd Thomas Vezeydeceased. Edwin Conway, Sarah Conway, witnesses.
The exact date of the death of John Taylor II of Wicomico Parish is notknown, but it is between Oct. 11, 1714, when his will is written andApril 10, 1717, when the following deed is made in Lancaster Co., Vol.11, p. 74, April 10, 1717.
John Taylor & Moses Taylor, Executors of the last will and testament ofJohn Taylor deceased, late of Northumberland Co. Gent. dec'd slaves tecto Daniel McCarty of Westmoreland Co. and John Taylor of Richmond Co.Gent.
Lancaster Co., May 1, 1717
In a transaction, Barbara Tayloe, widow of Joseph Tayloe, mentions slavesbought of John and Moses Taylor, executors of last will of John Taylordeceased of Northumberland Co., & 300 A. of land in Christ Church Parish,Lancaster Co. bought of John and Moses Taylor of Joseph Tayloe, latehusband of Barbara.
Lancaster Co., April 12, 1745
Deed from Shapleigh Neale to George Conway, 250 A. of land lately boughtby sd Neale of James Taylor Nov. 11, 1742, and given to James Taylor bywill of his father John Taylor, between lands of Moses and LazarusTaylor, and the land lately sold to Edmonds and Selden which did belongto Benjamin and Thomas Taylor brothers of sd James and Moses Taylor.Isaac Taylor a witness.
The book containing the will of John Taylor II is missing as in the caseof his father, but from the preceding citations of his will, we know thatJohn Taylor and wife, Ann Vezey, had sons John, Moses, Thomas, James andBenjamin.
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*Eva Taylor was daughter of James Ball.
Until the decease of his father in 1702, John Taylor was termed JohnTaylor, Jr., and occasionally it was John Taylor, merchant.
Northumberland County Records show that John Taylor, Jr., brought inlinen cloth of his own manufacture, 50 yards, in 1683.
John Taylor, merchant, vs Bartholomew Schrever and wife Mary, lateexecutor of Capt. William Lee, 1703.
In Bruce's Economic History of Virginia, we see where "John Taillerbrought over supplies in early times." Could this be the p