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Meredith Baxter

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Richard Taliaferro

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Meredith Baxter — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 94 
  • Father:
  • Peter Taliaferro 
  • Mother:
  • Ann Hackley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Sep 1762 
  • Birth Location:
  • Culpeper County, Virginia 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Jan 1837 
  • Death Location:
  • Stonelick, Clermont, Ohio 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Riddle
  • Marriage Date:
  • Aug 1800 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bourbon County, Kentucky 
  • Child:

  Elizabeth S. Taliaferro (Ahnentafel No:47 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    D.A.R. #A112552

    Richard Taliaferro served under George Rogers Clark during the expedition against Vincennes and Kaskaskia in 1778.

    Published sources disagree on whether Richard's first wife was a Miss Davis or Sarah Jones.

    Richard Taliaferro's surname is also seen as Toliver.

• Additional marriages for Richard Taliaferro

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Jones
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1786

• Sources for Richard Taliaferro

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A112552.
  • ² History of Clermont County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Philadelphia: Louis H Everts (1880), 519-520.
  • ³ Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954, Marriage record for Richard Toliver and Rebecca Ruddle.
  • ⁴ Sherman, Nell Cadle (Watson), Taliaferro-Toliver Family Records, Peoria, Illinois: Typed manuscript (1960), 98-108.