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Note: Grandfather Rohert Taylor was born, as before mentioned, at Londondeevy, New Hampshire, April 11th, 1759. and was buried in the Truro church graveyard in the rear of the Truro church March 17th, 1828. He was forty-nine years old when he came to live in the new house, and sixty-nine years old at the time of his death, so that he occupied the house and exercised his energies in developing his lands surrounding it for more than twenty years. He was truly a pioneer of Franklin County, and when Truro Township was established in 1810 he had the honor of naming it, and named it after the town of Truro in Nova Scotia from which he came. He was a large, strong and energetic man, and well fitted to contend with the hard conditions of pioneer life. He led a useful and upright life and exercised a beneficial influence over the community in which he hvcd and died. He was Scotch- Irish in blood anil a Presbyterian in religion. TRURO TOWNSHIP Truro Township was established and organized in 1810 In the first division of the county into townships it was embraced in and formed a small part of Liberty Township Its first settlement commenced in 1805 In 1806 Robert Taylor and his sons Abiather Vinton Matthew James and David removed from Nova Scotia to Chillicothe and from thence to this township in 1808 where they settled on Walnut Creek At this time they found ten families that had settled in this wilderness before them namely in 1805 Thomas Palmer from Maine and John Medford Charles Med ford George Powell and Charles Chaney from Pennsylvania in 1806 John Edgar and John Lynch from Pennsylvania and William Connell and Benjamin Con nell from Virginia in 1807 John Long from Chillicothe originally from Nova Scotia subsequently in 1808 Robert Wilson from Pennsylvania and Daniel Ross with a large family of sons from Nova Scotia in 1810 Zachariah Paul from Virginia and William Thompson from Pennsylvania in 1812 John Cam hridge from Pennsylvania and Captain John Hanson from Virginia and in 1814 Elias Chester and Jeremiah Nay from New York When the township was organized in 1810 the Taylor family had the pleasure of naming it Truro after a township in Nova Scotia from whence they had removed But little more than ordinary farm improvements were made until after the location of the national road. History of Franklin County: a collection of reminiscences of the early ... By William T. Martin The Township Book of St. Mary's Settlement(14) states that the settlement of Saint Mary's River "began in the year 1800 by Robert Taylor, William Taylor and David McKeen and their families" from Truro, Nova Scotia. Robert and William Taylor were sons of Matthew and Elizabeth (Archibald) Taylor, a grantee of Truro township, while David McKeen had come from Connecticut as a boy in 1762 to Truro with his father John McKeen.(15) David was married to Jennet Taylor, a sister of Robert and William, and had eight sons and three daughters, all born in Truro. Robert and William Taylor did not remain long at St. Mary's for in September 1806 Robert and his family removed to the United States and two years later William moved nearer to Halifax, to Chezzetcook Groom's Name: �Ctab�DRobert Taylor Groom's Birth Date: �Ctab�D Groom's Birthplace: �Ctab�D Groom's Age: �Ctab�D Bride's Name: �Ctab�DMehitabel Willson Bride's Birth Date: �Ctab�D Bride's Birthplace: �Ctab�D Bride's Age: �Ctab�D Marriage Date: �Ctab�D06 Dec 1781 Marriage Place: �Ctab�DOnslow,Colchester,Nova Scotia Groom's Father's Name: �Ctab�D Groom's Mother's Name: �Ctab�D Bride's Father's Name: �Ctab�D Bride's Mother's Name: �Ctab�D Groom's Race: �Ctab�D Groom's Marital Status: �Ctab�D Groom's Previous Wife's Name: �Ctab�D Bride's Race: �Ctab�D Bride's Marital Status: �Ctab�D Bride's Previous Husband's Name: �Ctab�D Indexing Project (Batch) Number: �Ctab�DM58421-1 System Origin: �Ctab�DNova_Scotia-ODM Source Film Number: �Ctab�D928972 Reference Number: Ancestral File Record �C Back to search results name: �Ctab�DRobert TAYLOR gender: �Ctab�DMale birth: �Ctab�D1759 Apr 11 Londonderry, Rockingham, Nh death: �Ctab�D1828 Mar 28 , Truro, Franklin, Oh AFN: �Ctab�DH29L-VJ Parents father: �Ctab�DMatthew TAYLOR (AFN: CCV7-1X ) mother: �Ctab�DElizabeth ARCHIBALD (AFN: 3RXR-M1 ) Marriages (1) spouse: �Ctab�DMehetabel WILSON (AFN: H29M-7D ) marriage: �Ctab�D1781 Dec 6 Chiganoise, , Nova Scotia �Ctab�DHide children (9) �Ctab�D child 1: �Ctab�DElizabeth TAYLOR (AFN: JFCV-3N ) gender: �Ctab�DFemale birth: �Ctab�D1788 May 14 , Onslow, Colchester, Nova Scotia �Ctab�D child 2: �Ctab�DLydia TAYLOR (AFN: JFCV-9P ) gender: �Ctab�DFemale birth: �Ctab�D1810 < <, Chillicothe, Ross, Oh> �Ctab�D child 3: �Ctab�DAbiather Vinton TAYLOR (AFN: JFD7-P8 ) gender: �Ctab�DMale birth: �Ctab�D1783 Mar 25 , Onslow, Colchester, Nova Scotia �Ctab�D child 4: �Ctab�DMatthew TAYLOR (AFN: JFD8-1X ) gender: �Ctab�DMale birth: �Ctab�D1785 Jun 18 , Onslow, Colchester, Nova Scotia death: �Ctab�D1856 �Ctab�D child 5: �Ctab�DMargaret TAYLOR (AFN: JFCV-4T ) gender: �Ctab�DFemale birth: �Ctab�D1790 Dec 18 , Onslow, Colchester, Nova Scotia �Ctab�D child 6: �Ctab�DJames W TAYLOR (AFN: JFCV-66 ) gender: �Ctab�DMale birth: �Ctab�D1795 Nov 25 , Onslow, Colchester, Nova Scotia death: �Ctab�D1855 �Ctab�D child 7: �Ctab�DSusan TAYLOR (AFN: JFD8-0R ) gender: �Ctab�DFemale birth: �Ctab�D1808 Sep 21 , Chillicothe, Ross, Oh �Ctab�D child 8: �Ctab�DJane TAYLOR (AFN: JFD7-V4 ) gender: �Ctab�DFemale birth: �Ctab�D1792 , Onslow, Colchester, Nova Scotia death: �Ctab�D1827 Bef �Ctab�D child 9: �Ctab�DDavid TAYLOR (AFN: JFD8-5M ) gender: �Ctab�DMale birth: �Ctab�D1801 Jul 24 , Onslow, Colchester, Nova Scotia death: �Ctab�D1889 Jul 29 �Ctab�D Source Citation FamilySearch�L Ancestral File v4.19 Transcription of the will of Robert Taylor, (1759-1828) By Pat Taylor Jennings 06/15/2013 In the name of God, Amen- I Robert Tayor, of the township of Truro in the County of Franklin and State of Ohio, being weak in body but of sound and deposing mind and memory, do make, ordain, and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say- First. It is my will and desire that my body should be decently interred after my decease and that my just debts and funeral expenses be paid out of my personal estate by my executors hereinafter appointed.- Second. I will and bequeath to my beloved wife, Mehitabel, all my personal estate except my wagon and gears and farming utensils after the payment of my just debts and funeral expenses as aforesaid to be hers and at her free disposal forever- Third. I will and bequeath unto my said wife the use of seventy one acres of land, the farm on which I now live with all the buildings and appurtenances thereto belonging to hold and enjoy the same during the time of her natural life which shall be in lieu and full satisfaction of her right of dower and of all claims which she may have against my estate- Fourth. After the decease of my said wife, I will and bequeath my said farm with its appurtenances to my son David Taylor charged with the pecuniary duties hereinafter mentioned- Fifth. I will and bequeath unto my sons Matthew Taylor and James W. Taylor, and unto my daughters, Elizabeth Long, Peggy Long, and Susanna Taylor, each the sum of fifty dollars, to be paid by my son David out of the property hereby devised to him, in three equal annual payments after the decease of my wife. Sixth. I will and bequeath unto the children of my daughter, Lydia Taylor, the sum of thirty-two dollars to be equally divided between them and to be paid by my said son, David, out of the property hereby devised to him, after the decease of my said wife, and as they shall respectively arrive at full age- Seventh. All the rest and residue of my estate both real and personal after the decease of my said wife and after the payment of my just debts, funeral expenses and legacies as aforesaid, I will and bequeath unto my said son David, and unto his heirs and assigns forever- Lastly- I do hereby appoint my sons, David Taylor and James W. Taylor executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other and former wills heretofore by me made and I do hereby authorize and direct my said executors to collect all debts due to me and to apply the same on such part thereof as may be necessary to the payment of my just debts and funeral expenses as aforesaid and in case the same should be insufficient for that purpose, then my said executors at their direction may sell such part of my personal property as my be necessary to discharge the residue of my debts and funeral expenses aforesaid and the residue of my personal estate except the wagon gears and farming utensils shall be delivered over by my said executors to my said wife, Mehitabel. Signed, sealed, published and declared(?) as the last will and testament of Robert Taylor before us whose names are hereunto subscribed as witnesses this 6�Csup�Dth�C/sup�D day of March A.D. 1827. Witnesses P. B. Wilcox Jeff Crosby�Ctab�D�Ctab�D�Ctab�D�Ctab�D�Ctab�D�Ctab�DRobert Taylor�Ctab�D�Ctab�D(SEAL) Meadowvale This settlement is located on the South Branch Stewiacke River. It was so named before 1866, probably because of its proximity to the south meadow of the middle Stewiacke River valley. Robert Taylor and John Blair owned land in this area before William Grant's land was laid off in 1792. Settlement probably began in the 1790's and the village was evidently part of the Goshen settlement until it was renamed. Population in 1956 was 104.
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Note: (Research):Matthew Long, from Nova Scotia, also joined the settlement in 1806. He located in section twenty-two, and subsequently erected a saw-mill and a grist-mill, which he operated until 1825, when he died. He left a * For the facts concerning many of the early settlers herein mentioned, the writer has relied upon the recollections of Mr. David Taylor, now of Columbus, but one of the earliest pioneers of Truro township. wife and four sons. Robert, Edward, and George were raised by David Taylor, and Henry by A. Vinton Taylor. Henry Long is now engaged in business in Groveport, and Edward and George reside in Portland, Oregon. Robert is deceased. John Long, a brother of Matthew, was also a pioneer of Truro. Prominent among the pioneers of the township were the Taylors. Robert. Taylor, of Truro, Nova Sciotia, having entered or purchased lands in this township, removed with his family in the fall of 1806, to Chillicothe. He resided there until the spring Of 1809, when he came and settled on Walnut creek, having, the previous summer, erected his dwelling� the first framed house in the township. The old structure is still standing, and is in a pretty good state of preservation. Robert Taylor died in 1828. His children were Abiather Vinton, Elizabeth, and Margaret (both of whom married into the Long family), Lydia (who married her cousin,Matthew), Jane (afterward Mrs. Thompson), James W., David, and Susan, who married Gilbert.Green. The only survivors are David and Mrs. Green, the. former residing in Columbus, and the latter, who is now .a widow in Truro. William McIntire, now living a short distance from Reynoldsburg, has been a resident of the township since 1808 or 1809. His father came from Virginia: with his. family, in the above year, and settled on the old Hebron road, where William Ashton now lives. He had a large family of children, of whom eight are yet living. William, the oldest, married, for his first wife, Mary Frazer, who died, of cholera, in 1834. In 1840 he was again married, to Sarah Longshore, who died in the year 1857. He has three surviving children, and two deceased. Mr. McIntire purchased the first lot in Reynoldsburg alter the town was laid out. David Taylor was born in the town of Truro, in the Province of Nova Scotia, on the twenty-fourth day of July, 1801. His ancestors were Puritans. Matthew Taylor, his great-grandfather, emigrated from near Londonderry, Ireland, in 1721, and settled in Londonderry (now Derry), New Hampshire, in 1722. The emigrants who settled that town of which Matthew Taylor was one--were Presbyterians of the John Knox school, and are called Scotch-Irish, being the descendants of a colony which migrated from Argyleshire, in Scotland, and settled in the province of Ulster, in the north of Ireland, about the year 1612. Matthew Taylor was the father of six sons and two daughters. His second son, Matthew, was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, October 30, 1727. He married Miss Archibald, of Londonderry, and had six sons and two daughters born to that marriage, the birth of Robert, the fourth son, being April 11, 1759. Soon after the "old French war" and the evacuation of the Province of Nova Scotia, by the French, about the year 1763, Matthew Taylor, with a number of other families, moved from New Hampshire to Nova Scotia, and settled in the town of Truro, at the head of the bay of Fundy. At this time Robert was in his infancy. On December 6, 1781, he was married to Mehetabel Wilson, and had born to that marriage four sons and several daughters. The oldest son, Abiather Vinton, was born March 25, 1783. The second son, *Matthew, was born June 18, 1785. The third son, James, was born November 25, 1795, and the fourth son, David, the subject of this sketch was born on the twenty-fourth day of July, 1801. In the autum[n] of the year 1806, Robert Taylor came to Ohio with his family and settled in Chillicothe. Prior to leaving Nova Scotia he had purchased some lands in what is now Truro township, Franklin county, and in the summer of 1808, while living in Chillicothe, he determined to remove to said lands, and in that year built thereon the first frame house ever erected in the eastern part of the county. David, then seven years of age, assisted the workmen in th construction of the house, living with them in camp while the work was going on. In the spring of 1809, Robert Taylor removed with his family into the new house, where he resided until March 28, 1828, when he died. http://www.genealogybug.net/FrankPic/taylor.htm From: History of Franklin County, Ohio By: Opha Moore Historical Publishing Company Topeka - Indianapolis, 1930 DiscountMags.com TRURO TOWNSHIP. Truro lies in the middle tier of townships in the eastern part of Franklin County. It is bounded on the north by Mifflin and Jefferson Townships, on the east by Licking and Fairfield Counties, on the south by Madison Township and on the west by Marion Township. It is traversed from east to west by three great highways, the Columbus and Granville Road, the National Road (the Main Street of the nation) and by the extension of Livingston Avenue, all wide and paved with permanent hard surface material. The Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad also passes through it. Alum Creek touches its southwest corner and Big Walnut and Black Lick flow through it from north to south. Until recently the Ohio Electric Railway had a line along the National Road, but this means of travel, after serving a purpose in building up the rural community through which it passed, has been abandoned. The soil is not so uniformly productive as that in Madison Township, immediately south, but for the most part it is fertile and in the creek bottoms is as rich as can be found anywhere in the state. Two prosperous villages are located within its limits - Reynoldsburg, on the National Road where it crosses Black Lick, with a population in 1930 of 569, and Brice, on the T. & O. C. Railroad, whose population was not recorded by the census takers, as the village, although it lies on a railroad and has a grain elevator, is not incorporated. The travel on the National Road and the Columbus and Granville Road is so great as to give those highways the appearance of city streets, and the National Road is building up with residences so as to be almost a continuous street from the city limits to Reynoldsburg. On Broad Street, as the Granville Road is called, the residences are becoming more and more numerous and they are all of a high grade. Just east of Reyrioldsburg is a state farm on which serums for men and animals is prepared, and on Broad Street, just east of Black Lick, in Jefferson Township, the Columbus Railway, Light and Power Company has a power plant to reenforce the lines which stretch throughout the territory. Broad Street and the National Road have the advantage of electric lighting throughout their course and are as well illuminated as city streets. The township, organized in 1810, was named after a township in Nova Scotia, from which the Taylor family, to whom was given the privilege of naming the new political division, originally came. This family, members of which owned land in Jefferson Township also, was one of the foremost in the county and furnished several distinguished lawyers to the bar at Columbus, one of them representing the district in Congress for several terms. There is a peculiar jog in the southeastern corner of the township, which was caused by the transfer of a number of half sections between Franklin and the next county east in 1858. The surface of the township is generally level. The Pugh family, another family that has been prominent in the county and city's political and social life, descended from an original settler of Truro Township, David Pugh. The first settlement in Truro Township was made in 1805, and the following were among the first arrivals: John and Charles Medford, Thomas Palmer, John Edgar, John Lynch, Benjamin Cornell, Matthew Long, Robert Taylor, William McIntyre, Zachariah Paul, William Thompson, Captain John Hanson, Daniel Ross and his six sons, Richard Rhoads, David Graham, John Cambridge, George Powell, David Pugh, John Enlows, Daniel Whetsel, Jacob Wolf, Benjamin V. Lunn, William E. Bulen and Basil Batchelor. A school was built of logs on the east bank of Big Walnut as early as 1820, and grist and saw mills were constructed on Big Walnut just south of Broad Street and at Livingston Avenue and on Black Lick near Reynoldsburg, besides a steam power mill in the village itself. All of these water power mills have long since been abandoned and there is hardly a vestige of them remaining. A valuable stone quarry near Reynoldsburg was discovered and opened by Henry Besse and stone from it was shipped to many parts of the state. It is a free stone, twenty inches to two and a half feet thick, and is used for bridge and building purposes. Most of the abutments on Broad Street and National Highway bridges were formerly made of this stone, but its use has been naturally largely displaced by concrete construction. Mr. Besse sold the quarry to William A. Forrester, who in the seventies built a mill for the sawing of the stone into proper dimensions for building purposes. Members of the Besse family are found along the National Road and Broad Street from Columbus to Pataskala in Licking County. A tile factory in Reynoldsburg was owned by Hiram Dysart & Company, but it has not been running for some years. Reynoldsburg was laid out in 1831 by John French, who named it Frenchtown in honor of his own family. Later, however, there arrived in the village from Zanesville a young man, James C. Reynolds, who became the foremost citizen of that part of the county and, being interested in military matters, arose to the rank of a general in the militia. He had a store and prospered through the patronage of the laborers on the National Road, which was then in course of construction. The local people did not like the name of their town and they changed it to Reynoldsburg in honor of their new and popular fellow citizen, who subsequently moved to Fairfield County. Other stores were opened by B. B. Bronson, Rhoads and Clendenning, Metler and Clendenning, Rhoads and Hutson and Elias Weaver. A postoffice was established in Reynoldsburg in 1833, with General Reynolds as the first postmaster, and a long line of physicians settled there. The village was incorporated as a municipality in 1839, the first mayor being Abram Johnston. An effort was made to establish a village on the National Road where it crosses Big Walnut Creek, but it never progressed far, although a hamlet at that point is known as Hibernia. The Columbus Railway, Light and Power Company has built a power "booster" plant here, which reenforces the many lines of light and power wire that extend over the country. The United Presbyterian Church was the first formally organized in the township, although, as was usual in pioneer communities, there had been meetings for religious service at the homes of the more pious settlers. A Baptist Church was formed five years later, in 1823. The Methodists followed with organization two years later and in 1836 a Presbyterian congregation was formed in Reynoldsburg through the missionary activity of Rev. James Hoge. Their church was built in 1840 and was burned in 1861, but the congregation put up a new building. The First Universalist Church of Reynoldsburg and the Disciple Church came later. Truro Township, like other territroy lying within the influence of the Capital City, is fast succumbing to the suburban residence habit and much of its old farm land is being broken up into allotments for homes where city workers can enjoy the advantages of country freedom and large gardens. The city limits are reaching out steadily in its direction and it would not be surprising to see part of this one time purely agricultural community become a part of the state's capital. The influence of the city is seen in the building of handsome residences on East Broad Street and the extension of the city limits beyond those of the suburban city of Bexley. The Columbus Country Club, an exclusive social organization, owns a beautiful tract, with fine buildings and a good golf course, on the south side of Broad Street at Big Walnut, and just east of Big Walnut, on the line between Truro and Jefferson Townships, a new cemetery for the use of the city of Columbus has been laid out and already contains a number of graves. Norton Field, the first aviation field in the vicinity of Columbus, is situated on Broad Street, in this township.
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