Ancestry of
Meredith Baxter

TV and Movie Actress

Richard Taliaferro

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Meredith Baxter — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 376 
  • Father:
  • John Taliaferro 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1705 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rose Berryman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Jun 1726 
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  Peter Taliaferro (Ahnentafel No:188 )

  • Notes: 

  • The identity of Richard Taliaferro's parents as John Taliaferro and Sarah Smith comes the will of John Taliaferro which names his wife and children.

    Family tradition states that Richard died about 1748 while crossing the Potomac River with some of his men in a flat-bottomed boat.

• Sources for Richard Taliaferro

  • ¹ Dorman, John Frederick, ed., The Virginia Genealogist, 2003, Vol. 47, p. 172.
  • ² Sherman, Nell Cadle (Watson), Taliaferro-Toliver Family Records, Peoria, Illinois: Typed manuscript (1960), 15, 40-42.