|
|
in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, ca. 1699.
MARRIED first, (first name unknown), widow of
William Cocks. MARRIED second, by 1707/8, Au-
drey, widow of John Llewellin (?-1698). CHIL-
DREN. STEPSON: Richard Llewellin. PRIVATE CA-
REER. EDUCATION: literate, had clerical skills.
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican. SOCIAL STA-
TUS AND ACTIVITIES: served in a series of minor
clerkships in the early 1680s; Gent., by 1683/84;
bought a printing house in St. Mary's City, 1694;
described by Philip Clarke (?-1699) as "being
poor and Indigent and for an Imploy would doe
aney thing," 1698. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE:
placeman; clerk-attorney, admitted to the follow-
ing courts: Provincial Court, 1695, Anne Arundel
County, 1702/3; land speculator. PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, St. Mary's
City, 1697/98-1700 (Aggrievances 1; Laws 1, 3;
Elections and Privileges 3; resigned during the
4th session of the 1697/98-1700 Assembly to be-
come clerk of the Lower House). OTHER PROVIN-
CIAL OFFICES: clerk, Prerogative Office, 1685-
1687, 1700-1708; clerk, Secretary's Office, 1689-
1694, 1699-1703; clerk, Lower House, 1700-1707,
1709. LOCAL OFFICES: clerk, St. Mary's County,
1689-1692; clerk, Anne Arundel County, 1699-
1702/3; St. Anne's Parish Vestry, Anne Arundel
County, 1704-1705. STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE
ISSUES: active support of the Protestant Associ-
ators' Revolution brought Taylard profitable pa-
tronage in 1689; was an opponent and rival of
Thomas Lawrence (ca. 1645-1714) in the early
1690s; he was arrested for perjury and for with-
holding public records, 1697; probably regained
favor with Francis Nicholson (1655-1727/28) by
helping to expose the alleged conspiracy of John
Coode (ca. 1648-1708/9) and Philip Clarke (?-
1699) in 1698. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: at least 100 acres in St. Mary's
County. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN
FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: acquired by patent
and purchase ca. 1,000 acres in Anne Arundel,
St. Mary's, and Baltimore counties. WEALTH AT
DEATH. DIED, between November 8, 1711, and
January 26, 1711/12. PERSON AL PROPERTY: TEV,
at least £58.1.8 (including 4 servants and books).
LAND: ca. 1,000 acres in Anne Arundel, St. Mary's,
and Baltimore counties; his will mentioned prop-
erty in Pennsylvania and England.
TAYLOR, IGNATIUS (?-1807). BORN: in St.
Mary's County. NATIVE: at least second genera-
tion. RESIDED: in St. Mary's County until the early
1780s; possibly Charles County for a short time;
|
then Washington County by ca. mid-1780s. FAM-
ILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: possibly Ignatius Tay-
lor (1708-1761) of St. Mary's County, a planter,
son of Thomas Taylor (?-1718). MOTHER: pos-
sibly Ann. BROTHER: possibly Juniper. SISTER:
possibly Ann. MARRIED first, ca. 1764, Ann Wilk-
inson, widow of Nathaniel Parran (?-1760) of
Calvert County. MARRIED second, in 1790, Bar-
bara Bowie (?-1805). Barbara was the widow of
Thomas Henry Hall (1744-1788), the son of Henry
Hall (1702/03- 1756) and Elizabeth Lansdale. She
was the daughter of Thomas Bowie of Prince
George's County and wife Hannah Lee. Her first
cousin was Margaret Lee Clark (?-1795), who
married John Rogers (?-1789). CHILDREN. SON:
Francis. STEPSONS: John Parran; Thomas B. Hall,
who married Ann Buchanan Pottinger, daughter
of Dr. Robert Pottinger and wife Mary. DAUGH-
TERS: Ann, who married Joseph Sprigg (1760-
1821), son of Joseph Sprigg (1736-1800); Hannah
(1791-1832), who married on October 29, 1807,
John Chambers, who was later appointed gov-
ernor of the Iowa Territory by President Harri-
son; Jane (1793-?), who married Judge Samuel
Treat of Missouri; and Lucretia (?-1875), who
married on June 14, 1814, Arthur Fox of Mason
County, Kentucky. STEPDAUGHTERS: Mary Ash-
comb Parran; Hannah Washington Hall; Eliza-
beth Bowie Hall, who married in 1800 Gen. Otho
Holland Williams, nephew of the Revolutionary
War general of the same name; Barbara Bowie
Hall; and Letitia Sprigg Hall, who married (first
name unknown) Stull. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCA-
TION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican,
St. John's Parish, Hagerstown. SOCIAL STATUS
AND ACTIVITIES: Esq., by 1790. OCCUPATIONAL
PROFILE: planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE
SERVICE: Lower House, Washington County,
1787-1788, 1788. LOCAL OFFICES: justice, St.
Mary's County, 1773, 1777-1780, 1782, Wash-
ington County, 1789, 1791-1795, 1797, 1799-1800;
commissioner of the tax, St. Mary's County, 1782;
justice, Orphans' Court, Washington County, 1789,
1791, 1792, 1796, 1800 (chief justice, 1801); St.
John's Parish Vestry, Washington County, elected
1798, 1802. MILITARY SERVICE: captain, St. Mary's
County Militia, 1776; major, Lower Battalion of
Militia, St. Mary's County, 1777. WEALTH DURING
LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: assessed value
£34.0.0, Charles County, 1783; 54 slaves in 1790.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: possibly inherited land
from his father. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND
BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: purchased
250 acres between 1794 and 1799 in Washington
803
|
|
