Person:Edward Taylor (8)

Wife might be Catherine de Carteret.

!SOURCES: 1. Family Records

          2. Manuscript of Edward Taylor is in his own hand
          3. 1984 IGI N.J. N-0470

!NOTE: Edward immigrated in 1692, bought land at Garret's Hill, N.Jersey

This is the Immigrant Taylor

was of the Brigge House, York County, residing in London

Matthew Taylor, said to have been a distant connection of Sir George Carteret, came to New Jersey

          to speculate in lands, and dying in New York in 1687 without issue devised his lands to his brother
          Edward, then living in London. The latter came to America in 1692, and bought an additional tract of
          about 1,000 acres at Garret's Hill, Middletown, and settled on it. He died in 1710, leaving four sons
          and one daughter. George, one of his sons, resided at Garret's Hill, and died there, leaving three
          sons--George, Edward and John.--Hist. Monmouth Co., by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, 1885, 524.
          The John Taylor just mentioned, son of George, son of Richard, was born in 1716, and was known
          as 'Squire John. He lived at Upper Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey. There was a John Taylor High Sheriff of Monmouth
          County in 1753, doubtless the same man, although the writer just quoted says the Sheriff was the son
          of Edward, and nephew of 'Squire John, which is obviously improbable. In 1754 he was an
          unsuccessful candidate for the Assembly.--N. J. Archives, XIX., 382. Being a man of large wealth,
          and presumably of influence in the community, he was selected by Lord Howe, when he came to
          America to offer terms to those in arms, to be "His Majesty's Lord High Commissioner of New
          Jersey." This arrayed his patriotic neighbors against him, and he was compelled to join his British
          friends in New York, while his property was applied to the uses of the Continental forces. His lands
          in Monmouth County were advertised to be sold in 1779. After the war he returned to New Jersey.
          He died at Perth Amboy, aged 82 years. His daughter Mary married Dr. Absalom Bainbridge, and
          two of her sons distinguished themselves in the War of 1812, in the United States
          Navy--Commodore William Bainbridge, and Post-Captain Joseph Bainbridge. The early education
          of the future Commodore was superintended by his maternal grandfather, John Taylor.--Old Times in
          Old Monmouth, 48; Life of Commodore Bainbridge, 3.

1. ↑ Stillwell's Miscellany.