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Note: Groom's Name: Robert Taylor Groom's Birth Date: Groom's Birthplace: Groom's Age: Bride's Name: Mehitabel Willson Bride's Birth Date: Bride's Birthplace: Bride's Age: Marriage Date: 06 Dec 1781 Marriage Place: Onslow,Colchester,Nova Scotia Groom's Father's Name: Groom's Mother's Name: Bride's Father's Name: Bride's Mother's Name: Groom's Race: Groom's Marital Status: Groom's Previous Wife's Name: Bride's Race: Bride's Marital Status: Bride's Previous Husband's Name: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M58421-1 System Origin: Nova_Scotia-ODM Source Film Number: 928972 Reference Number: Collection: Nova Scotia Marriages, 1711-1909 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 �Ctab�D �Ctab�D Name:�Ctab�DTaylor, Mehitable Wilson (1765-1857) Caption:�Ctab�DMehitable Wilson Taylor and her husband, Robert Taylor, settled Ohio in 1805. The couple purchased 637 acres in Truro Township on 7/21/1807 and were the fourth pioneer family to settle in the area Gender:�Ctab�DF Source:�Ctab�DCentennal History of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio, OH 977.13 C72t, v. 1, page 396 opp. CCVC:�Ctab�D095/T244/00/02 Subject(s):�Ctab�DPortraits What will we say of that grand old character Mehetable, his wife and widow, who was born February 19, 1765, and was married to Robert Taylor at Truro, Nova Scotia, November 6th, 1781, and through all the uncertainties attending- and facing- her courageously left her home and birthplace in Nova Scotia for a home in the wildneress of Ohio, then inhabited by a race which we call and which was then called savages? What a sterling and brave character this venture required. We wonder at such courage and devotion to what she deemed a duty to herself and her family increases a hundred fold when it is remembered that she had then living no less than eleven children, five of whom were under twelve years of age. Under those circumstances the long hard journey to Ohio was a most serious undertaking and would, to a wmnan of the present age, be simply appalling. She was at that time forty-one years of age, but lived to see the house built in the wilderness, and the Indians and forests disappear and her children grown to manhood and womanhood, and died at the great age of ninety-four. She was mistress of the old house for more than twenty years before her husband's death, and then continued to live there for a few years afterwards,and when she desired to give up housekeeping, the doors of three good houses and homes were opened to her within half a mile of her house. Her oldest son, Abiather Vinton, then lived in a commodious house within a hundred yards of the old house,and Matthew, the second son. was likewise situated a quarter of a mile away, and David, (my father), at the same distance in the other direction. She chose to come to live with my father. She was honored and respected in a high degree by her children and grandchildren and lived to see all of her own children buried except the youngest son. David, and Susannah, the youngest daughter. When her oldest daughter. Elizabeth (Mrs. John Long)died, she was greatly grieved, for this daughter had been a consolation to her throughout life and during her last years often came to see her and spend the day with her which greatly lightened the days which were hurdening her. Elizabeth. who was always affectionately called "Aunt Betsey," was an intellectual,dignified, kindhearted and altogether superior woman. She preceded her mother to the Truro graveyard, where they both now rest, but a few years, and I somehow have yet in my mind a lingering impression that grandmother was willing and ready, if not anxious, to be relieved of the burden of her long years of life and to be at rest beside her daughter and others of her family who had preceded her. I do not know at what time grandmother came to live in my father's family, but it was several years before I was born. I was eighteen years of age when she died, and it now seems almost strange that I should have lived so many of my early years under the same roof and in the same family with a person born one hundred and forty-two years ago. By this single relation I am carried back to the middle of the Eighteenth Century, almost a hundred and fifty years. What a privilege it was to live for eighteen years in daily contact and association with a person of such unusual intelligence and high character, whose life and memory went hack to such a remote period. She was seventeen years of age when the Revolutionary War was closed and twenty-four years of age when Washington became President of the New Republic. At that time, she had been married and was the mother of three children, all of whom I came to know well, and to meet almost daily in my early years. It seems to me now a strange fact which I can but imperfectly realize that I knew and was so nearly related to hy blood and constant association these four persons who were living when this now great American Republic was born, Grandmother was not only well versed in all the history of her lime, but her information reached far back for two or three generations before her � back to old Ulster and the formative period of the Ulsterman. She often talked about the Siege of Loudonderry and of the life and experiences of her forefathers in Ireland, of which she had a great traditional knowledge. 1 was always a ready and more than willing listener while she talked of those old times and affairs; and I can now see her as of yesterday with her white lace cap on her venerable head and her half knit stocking in her busy hands plying the knitting needles with deftness even at her great age. The spirit of industry and effectiveness seemed to have been born with her and stayed with her and animated her throughout her entire life. When she died (October 8. 1857) I was away at college, and when T received a letter from my mother telling me of her death and burial, there was far more than a film of moisture in my eyes; and when I returned home and went into her old room where she had lived so long (to this day called "grandmother's room") and saw her old arm chair vacant. I felt the full force of the fact that the most venerable and venerated person that I had ever known had passed away. She was buried in the old Truro graveyard by the side of her husband and several of her children, who had preceded her to that resting place, and there she and they still repose. It is now just fifty years since she was laid to rest and but few persons are now living who knew her in life, and they soon will be at rest like herself.
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