Notes from Private User
3 December 2024
Hi. I have a new update for you. I was researching Jeremiah Taylor in Amherst County and in Henry County, Virginia. I found a couple of documents placing Jeremiah and James 'the sadler' Taylor together. They obviously are in the same family. Jeremiah isn't in James will nor any documents after 1791 in Henry/Patrick County. He was living in Amherst County until after 1815. Jeremiah lived North of Lynchburg and south of Amherst. Attached to the profiles is the 1786 Henry County, Virginia Personal Property Tax listing James and Jeremiah together. Jeremiah is listed in the 1786 Amherst County, Personal Property Tax listing as only 1 male above 21, with no males between 16-21 and 4 slaves over 21 and 3 below 21, and 2 horses and 3 cows. I'll add that picture later. I cannot find any land deeds in Henry or Patrick County for Jeremiah. There are no other property tax lists for him in that county other than in 1786.
The indebtedness deed lists land acquired from James Eckton/Acton. I added this document to the profiles. I believe this to be Jeremiah's first wife's father. I've seen a deed from James that lists James Eckton/Acton as a person he received land from. In the deed listed under their profiles is Zadock Smith James's brother in law.
It looks like that Jeremiah is Jame's son. But why isn't he listed in his will? Is it because he got indebted and sold his land that his father may have been using? Could James have disowned him? Jeremiah's first record is in 1782 in a land deed purchase from John Ownbey in Amherst County. He is listed in the Personal Property tax records from 1783-1815 in Amherst County. He had land sales in 1815 and 1816 there until 1819 when there is a Jeremiah listed with only 1 male over 21 with no slaves or cattle or horses.In 1820 Jeremiah is listed in the 1820 Census of Amherst County with 1 male 16-21 which may be Alfred Taylor and 1 male over 45 and 1 slave. In 1821 Personal property tax there is only one male in his household over 21 and no slaves. That was the last year he was in Amherst County. He is not in the Patrick, Henry, or Franklin County Tax lists after this date.
My Ancestry Thru lines now has 2 other descendants of Jeremiah Taylor, and I found another one of one of the 2 other lines that is not listed in the Thru-Lines. That makes me believe that I am on the right track. I just wonder if Jeremiah had a son Jeremiah Jr that we are descended from instead of the Jeremiah. I question this as there is a 1788 deed of a Jeremiah Taylor in Amherst County with a wife named Nancy.
I'm going to keep checking surrounding counties tax lists and deed lists.
From this evidence do you think that Jeremiah is James's son or a younger brother?
4 December 2924
don't think James the Sadler Taylor lived on Eastern Shore. I'm not sure sure what his fathers name is.
My earlier research was wrong about James Taylor the Sadlers birth place. I was using the Miles Files birth years to place James. I had assumed that the Smiths lived on the Eastern Shore incorrectly.
James Taylor the Sadlers wife’s family is well documented as to be from St John’s Parish, Prince George County, Maryland. The daughter of James the Sadler said she was born near Belle Haven, Virginia.
The problem is that there are 2 Belle Haven’s one on the Easter Shore and one in the Northern Neck of Fairfax County next to Old Alexandria. The Belle Haven of Fairfax County borders Prince George’s Country, Maryland where Eleanor and her brother Zaddock Smith were born as well as where their parents were married.
I believe that descendants assumed that Belle Haven that they lived on was incorrectly on the Eastern Shore. James and his family may have been from Belle Haven, Fairfax County bordering Prince George’s County, Maryland.
James wife's Smith family seemed to have been early land speculators in the now counties of Franklin, Henry and Patrick. The document of deed listed states that Zaddock, brother of Eleanor(James the Sadlers wife) moved after selling to Jeremiah and James. This would be about the time he removed to Burke Co. NC.
There are 2 other early James Taylor’s who may all be unrelated who lived in the area at that time. There is a James Taylor who lived on Marrowbone Creek in south western Henry County with a deed dated 1779 who purchased land from George Rowland and witnessed by Daniel Taylor. George had a daughter named Jane who married a Daniel Taylor who was born in 1761. This lines up with the James Taylor and Nancy Owens family. James of Marrowbone Creek moved to Tennessee in the 1800’s. I had James the Sadler and James of Marrowbone mixed up until i read a Rev War land bounty warrent that indicated it was James of Marrowbone who was Rev war soldier as her had moved to Tennessee.
There also is a James of Peters Creek, Patrick county. He may have been the same James of Marrowbone.
I’ve been searching Pittsylvania, Henry and Patrick county records for all Taylor’s. Pittsylvania was formed in 1767 from Halifax County and Henry was formed from it in 1776 and Patrick from Henry in 1792. Pittsylvania records show an Ensign James Taylor with a 3000 acre warrant in northern Pittsylvania County in 1775. There was also an Ensign Edmund Taylor. They may have been brothers. Both and lived and sold land East of Chatham in Pittsylvania County. Neither of the 2 purchased or lived in Patrick County as far as I have seen.
A Richard Taylor was the first to purchase land in Patrick county, then Halifax County in 1755. He lived on Horse Pasture creek not too far from where James the Sadler would later settle. I’m not sure if he is related to James the Sadler. Richard Taylor may have lived near what would become Taylorsville, which is suppose to be Stuart but it not in the same area. I found an old map that lists Taylorsville in Western Henry county next to Horsepasture Creek.
James the Sadlers wife’s family is critical to understanding these Taylor’s and their migration from the Maryland to southern Virginia. I assume that they came down the Great Wagon road from northern Virginia in the 1760-1770’s possibly settling shortly in Amherst County where Jeremiah remained. It was formed from Albemarle County in 1761. South of that was Bedford County, which I have yet to search the deeds and property tax of that county.
I eventually would like to tie in the related Taylor’s of Tocca/Habersham Counties of Georgia that share a recent common Y-DNA ancestor of 200 years. I have seen Amherst County residents taking the exact same route as these Taylor’s of Georgia.
Jeremiah seems to be a family name of James the Sadler and the related Taylor’s of North Georgia.
A 1788 document of deed in Amherst County of a Jeremiah and Nancy Taylor may be the Jeremiah of Tocca, Georgia. My Jeremiah was still married to Ann Mitchell in 1791, they were married in Amherst County in 1783 so the deed could not be the Jeremiah married to Ann Mitchell as she was listed in the deed of indebetedness,
I plan on posting surveys, deeds, and personal property list images on James the sadler and Jeremiah.
I do think Jeremiah is James the sadlers son. I do think he was disowned by his father. His birth dates seem to line up with his siblings. I still researching and plan to do work on Eleanor Taylor family. As for the DNA. I think AtDNA matches that link James the sadler to Cornelius Taylor are from other than Y-DNA lines. Jeremiah being listed on the 1786 Personal Property Tax list with James the sadler is good enough for me to think that he is a son. The posted 1791 deed further proves it.
There is the remote possibility that James the sader was his brother, but I don't see that happen in the property tax records.
