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Taylor Family Tree, 1851 (OM 016), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA.
Nona Press, Forest Hills, NY
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2007.0129
Elizabeth Preston, 9 January 2012
The Taylor family left Devonshire, England in the late 17th century and settled in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Much of the family relocated to Bucks County, PA in the 18th century, and several members eventually moved to Loudoun County, Virginia. Members of the Society of Friends, the Taylors settled in Goose Creek, an established community of Quakers in central Loudoun County. Much of the family is buried in the Goose Creek Burial Ground.
Yardley Taylor (1794-1863) was a son of Bernard Taylor (1771-1848), one of the Taylors that settled in Loudoun County. Yardley Taylor was a surveyor, mapmaker, letter carrier, and nurseryman. In 1851, he compiled a book of genealogical information called Descendants of Benjamin and Hannah (Towne) Taylor, Who Were Married in 1719. As part of that volume, he drafted a family tree that begins in 1719, with the marriage of Benjamin Taylor (1696-1780) to Hannah Towne (1698-1780) in Pennsylvania and continues through six generations. This is a traditional representation of the family as a tree, with the first five generations represented as the trunk and branches, and their children as leaves.
This collection contains one item, a 25 x 19 inch photocopy of the Taylor family tree, drawn by Yardley Taylor in 1851. The tree begins in 1719 with the marriage of Benjamin Taylor (1696-1780) to Hannah Towne (1698-1780) in Pennsylvania and continues through six generations. The original lithograph was published by A. Hoen and Company of Baltimore.
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Yardley Taylor Survey Book, 1832-1884 (M 036), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA; Taylor Family Papers, 1817-1873 (SC 0097), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA; Yardley Taylor Map, 1853, Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA.