Brief Life History of John
When John Taylor was born on 26 February 1773, in Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Thaddeus Taylor, was 28 and his mother, Bridget Walton, was 26. He married Salley Jones on 5 December 1798, in Ashburnham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Lempster, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States for about 30 years.
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- John Taylor, "United States Census, 1830"
- John Taylor, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- John Taylor, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New Hampshire is 9th state.
1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Name Meaning
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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