Ancestry of
Joseph Hancock Taylor

(1836–1885)

Richard Taylor

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• • Grandfather of Joseph Hancock Taylor — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Zachary Taylor 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Lee   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Mar 1744 
  • Birth Location:
  • Orange County, Virginia 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Jan 1829 
  • Death Location:
  • Woodford County, Kentucky 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Dabney Strother
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Aug 1779 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Orange County, Virginia 
  • Children:
  
  

  Hancock Taylor

  William Dabney Strother Taylor

  Zachary Taylor

  Strother Taylor

  George Taylor

  Elizabeth Lee Taylor

  Joseph Pannell Taylor (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  Sarah Bailey Taylor

  Emily Richard Taylor

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Richard Taylor

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A112823.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/07/2011).
  • ³ Publications of the Southern History Association, 1898, Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 167.
  • ⁴ The Mayflower Descendant, 2010, Vol. 59, p. 16.
  • ⁵ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 400, 403.
  • ⁶ Hampton, William Judson, Our Presidents and Their Mothers, New York: The Cornhill Publishing Company (1922), 92-94.
  • ⁷ Pecquet du Bellet, Louise, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Vol. 4, Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Company (1907), 66.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 2.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 229, 315.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 513, 571-572.
  • ¹¹ Tyler, Lyon G., editor, William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 06, Williamsburg, Virginia: William and Mary College (1897), Oct 1897, No. 2, Page 113.
  • ¹² Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 58, 188.
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "Richard Taylor (colonel)", (accessed 08/07/2011).