Samuel Taylor

Brief Life History of Samuel

When Samuel Taylor was born in 1734, in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Reuben Taylor, was 31 and his mother, Eunice Couch, was 28. He married Eunice on 12 February 1755. He died on 27 January 1805, in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Colonial Cemetery, Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Taylor
1734–1805
Mary Jessup
1729–1815
Marriage: February 1765
Jessup Taylor
1765–1833
Gershom Taylor
1767–1769
Moses Taylor
1769–1850
Patty Taylor
1771–1771
Gershom Taylor
1772–1773
Nancy Taylor
1775–1836

Sources (4)

  • Samuel Taylor, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
  • Samuel in entry for Mary Taylor, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
  • Samuel Taylor, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"

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World Events (4)

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1784

Post office est. July 5, 1784

1789

George Washington elected first president of United States.

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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