Brief Life History of Reuben
When Reuben Taylor III was born on 28 November 1759, in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Reuben Taylor II, was 28 and his mother, Rebecca Weeks, was 24. He married Celenda Abbott on 27 June 1790, in Plains, Plains Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 24 March 1849, in Scott Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Brown Cemetery, Montdale, Scott Township, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Reuben Taylor, "Find a Grave Index"
- Michael Shoemaker Book (Schumacher)
- A Catalogue of the Names of the Taylor Family Descended from John Taylor, English Emigrant to Massachusetts in 1630, through his eldest son, John Taylor
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. The liberty bell was first rung here to Celebrate this important document.
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
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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