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Title: Genealogy of the Lewis Family in America, from the Middle of the Seventeenth Century down to the Present Time
Page: p. 376-378.
Author: William Terrell Lewis of Perryville, Winston County, Miss.
Publication: Louisville, KY: The Courier-Journal Job Printing Co., 1893.
Text: THE TAYLOR FAMlLY IN PART. A 1. James Taylor, Sr., came from Carlisle, England, in 1658, and settled near the Chesapeake Bay, in Virginia, where he died in 16SI8, leaving five sons and several daughters:
B 1. Jane Taylor, born December 27, 1668. B 2. Mary, born in 1670; married H. T. Pendleton and Ei Watkins.
B 3. James, Jr., born in 1675; married Martha Thompson, in 1699. They raised four sons and five daughters in part, as follows:
C 1. Frances, born in 1700; married Ambrose Madison, father of James Madison, Sr., and grandfather of James Madison, Jr., President of the United States.
C 2. Martha, born in 1702; married Larkin Chew. C 3. James, born in 1704; married Alice Thornton and Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis,' nee McGrath, the widow of John Lewis, the youngest brother of David Lewis, Sr., of Albemarle county, Virginia, who married her sister, Mary McGrath, as his third wife.
C 4. Zachary Taylor, the grandfather of President Taylor, was born in 1707. He married Elizabeth Lee, and left posterity, in part as follows:
D 1. Hancock, son of Zach., of 1707, was at Pittsburg, Pa., in 1769, in company with his brother, Colonel Richard, and was killed by the Indians not far from where Frankfort, Ky., now stands.
D 2. Edmund, was also in Pittsburg in 1769. D 3. Colonel Richard Taylor, was born in 1744; married in 1770, Sarah Strother, in 1779, and was the father of President Zach. Taylor, et al., viz.:
E 1. Hancock, married Miss E. Hord and Hannah Lewis. E 2. General Zachary, President of United States, was born in Orange county, Virginia, in 1784. He married Miss M. Smith, by whom he had four children, viz.:
F 1. Ann, married Dr. Robert C. Wood. F 2. Sarah K., married Jeff Davis, President of Southern Confederacy.
F 3. Elizabeth, married Colonel Bliss. F 4. Richard, was a General in the Confederate Army.
C 5. George Taylor, son of James and Martha Thompson, was born in 1711; was twice married; first to Rachel Gibson, by whom he raised eleven sons, seven of whom bore commissions in the Revolutionary Army. His second wife was Mrs. Conway.
C 6. Tabitha, daughter of James and Martha, born in 1713; married Mr. Wild.
C 7. Hannah, daughter of James and Martha, born in 1718; married R. Thomas.
Issue of George Taylor and Rachel Gibson, marked D.:
D 1. Lieutenant James Taylor, born in 1739; married Ann Pendleton, and was the father of Nathaniel Pendleton, who married Eliza Catharine Martin.
D 2. George, born in 1741. D 3. Lieutenant Jonathan Taylor, Sr., born in 1742; married Ann Berry, in 1766, and died in Clark county, Kentucky.
E 1. Major Jonathan Taylor, Jr., son of Lieutenant Jonathan and Ann Berry, was a Major in the United States Army, and was in the battle of St. Clair's defeat, and was also in General Wayne's last campaign against the Indians.
F 1. Elizabeth, daughter of Major Jonathan Taylor, Jr., married Dr. Sam D. Martin, son of Major John Martin, a Revolutionary soldier, and grandson of Thomas Martin, of Albemarle county, Virginia.
D 4. Edmund, son of George Taylor and Rachel Gibson, born in 1744; married Sarah Stubbs.
D 5. Colonel Frank Taylor, born in 1747. D 6. Commodore Richard Taylor, son of George and Rachel, born in 1749; married Catharine Davis, and was the father of Colonel Richard Taylor, who married Mrs. Mary Ann Buckuer, daughter of Major John Martin.
D 7. Lieutenant John Taylor, born in 1751; was taken prisoner during the Revolutionary war, and died on board of a British prison-ship, in the Harbor of New York.
D 8. Major William, born in 1753; married Miss Hord and Miss Coats.
D 9. Dr. Charles, born in 1755; married Sarah Conway. D 10. Lieutenant Reuben, born in 1757; married Rebecca Moore.
D 11. Captain Benjamin, born in 1759, and D 12. George Conway.
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