James Taylor was born on 30 January 1804, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States. He married Eleanor Moody on 17 June 1824, in Champaign, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 10 March 1884, in Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Westville, Mad River Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Concord Township was organized in 1811.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
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