Person:John Taylor (4)

Contrary to information published elsewhere, he was not the son of John and Elizabeth Taylor of Isle of Wight and Lancaster Counties, as a probate record indicates that the only child of John and Elizabeth Taylor who lived beyond 1669 was their daughter Elizabeth.^[3]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Carrell, William P. II. A New First Family of Virginia: John Taylor of Elizabeth City, Isle of Wight County, and Lancaster County, Virginia. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (2012-13)
   86:35.

   '.. it was clearly this John Taylor [the one who patented land between branches of the Wiccomico and Corrotoman Rivers in Lancaster County in 1664] who ... patented land in Northampton County, on Virginia's Eastern Shore, in 1648.'

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Carrell, William P. II. A New First Family of Virginia: John Taylor of Elizabeth City, Isle of Wight County, and Lancaster County, Virginia. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (2012-13)
   86:35.

   'Moreover, records reviewed in an article by Mrs. L. C. Anderson on early Taylor families of Virginia reasonably establish that this ... patentee John Taylor lived in Northumberland County, was aged 30 in 1657/8 (as stated in a Northampton County court record ...), ... and left a will proved in 1702.'

3. ↑ Carrell, William P. II. A New First Family of Virginia: John Taylor of Elizabeth City, Isle of Wight County, and Lancaster County, Virginia. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (2012-13)
   86:36.