When Capt. Thomas Taylor Jr. was born on 14 December 1757, in Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, Col. Thomas Taylor, was 25 and his mother, Martha Woodward, was 20. He married Nancy Lee in 1780, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 29 March 1811, in Darlington Corners, Thornbury Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Taylor Family Burying Ground (Defunct), Westtown, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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