Lemuel Taylor1

#2087, (11 February 1749 - 28 July 1834)
Relationship3rd great-granduncle of William David Lewis
Father*Capt. Othniel Taylor1 (1719 - 1788)
Mother*Martha Arms1 (1728/29 - 1802)

Family

Abigail White b. c 1751, d. 1834
Children 1.Rebecca Taylor4 (1774 - )
 2.Abigail Taylor4 (1778 - )
 3.Levi Taylor4 (1780 - )
 4.Lemuel Taylor Jr.4 (1782 - )
 5.Tirzah Taylor4 (1784 - )
 6.Lucinda1 Taylor4 (1786 - 1794)
 7.Rowena Taylor4 (c 1788 - )
 8.Minerva Taylor4 (c 1788 - )
 9.Othniel Taylor4 (1791 - )
 10.Erastus Taylor4 (1793 - )
 11.Lucinda Taylor4 (1795 - )
Birth*11 February 1749He was born on 11 February 1749 at Charlemont, Franklin Co., MassachusettsG.1,2 
Marriage*February 1773He married Abigail White, daughter of Col. Jonathan White and Esther Wilder, in February 1773 at Leominster, Worcester Co., MassachusettsG.3,4 
Probate1 April 1789He witnessed the probate of the estate of Capt. Othniel Taylor on 1 April 1789.5 
Death*28 July 1834He died on 28 July 1834 at Buckland, Hampshire (now Franklin) Co., MassachusettsG, at age 85.4 

Citations

  1. [S267] Massachusetts Town Birth Records, 1620–1850, online Ancestry.com, Charlemont Births, pp 75- 76.
  2. [S1026] Massachusetts Town and Vital Records: Charlemont 1765–1899, Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook), compiler, Provo, UT and Oxford, MA, Town Records (script), p. 9, img. 8/285. Capt. Oth. Taylor was born April 27th 1717; Martha wife to Capt. Oth. Taylor was born Feb. 3 172_.
    Samuel, b. 22 Sep 1744; Mary, b. 23 Jun ____.
    Lem., b. 11 Feb 1749.
    Enos, b. 3 Feb 1751.
    Othniel, b. 10 Jan 1753.
    Tertius, b. 25 Jul 1754.
    Martha, b. 21 dec 1756.
    William, b. 27 Jan 1758.
    Lydia, b. 16 Mar 1760.
    Rufus, b. 3 Apr 1763.
    Lucinda, b. 26 Nov 176_.
    Tirzah, b. 2 jann 1769.
    Dolly, b. 7 dec 1779.
  3. [S955] Systematic History Fund, compiler, Vital Records of Leominster, Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1911), p. 273 (intentions recorded 8 Dec 1772).
  4. [S595] Fannie Smith Shaw Kendrick, Mary Lyon and Lucy Jane Cutler Kellogg, compilers, The History of Buckland 1779–1935 (Buckland, Mass.: The Tuttle Publishing Co., printer, 1937), pp. 643-644, entry for Lemuel Taylor.
  5. [S1710] Othniel Taylor probate record, Box 77470, Probate Court (District of Bennington), State Archives, Montpelier, Vermont, Hampshire Co., 22 Apr 1789. Personally appeared Martha Taylor, Samuel Taylor, Mary Taylor, Lemuel Taylor, Othniel Taylor, Tertius Taylor, William Taylor, Rufus Taylor, Martha Johnson, Josiah Johnson, Lydia Taylor, Zeeb Taylor, Tirzah Holbrook, Dolly Hastings, Jonathan Hastings, and on the 23 Apr 1789, appeared Enos Taylor and Silas Holbrook, all subscribers to the foregoing covenant and agreement. Before me Eleazar Porter, Judge of Probate.
    Bennington Co., 24 May 1789. Personally appeared Lucinda Hawley and Joseph Holley and each of them acknowledged the foregoing covenant and agreement.