My husband is a Taylor from VA so I have some on this family which desends to Gerrard Banks Taylor of Butler Co., KY. I have some questions as noted in red, below and welcome responses! Fran Osborn

Suspected Direct Descent

from George Taylor and Martha Brasseur (or Brashear)

to Garrard Banks Taylor, Jr, KY Justice  



1 George Taylor,  b: Abt. 1636 Guesstimate DOB d: in Old Rappahannock/Essex co,VA He was the son of George Taylor and Martha Tomlin who came from ENG on the ship 'George' in 1635

.. +Martha Brashear, m William MOSELEY/George TAYLOR b: 1636 in  Calvert Co., MD?>of Chuckatuck,of Nansemond,VA d: Aft. 1683 in Old Rappahannock/Essex Co?,VA m: Abt. 1675 Daughter of Huguenot Immigrants Robert Brashear/Brasseur and wife Florence of Avignon, France>MD>Nansemond Co., VA

.. 2 James Taylor,  b: 1676 in St peters parish, New Kent Co., VA d: January 25, 1717/18 in of new kent Co., VA

...... +Mary Gaines b: aft 1676 Old Rappahannock Co., VA, d VA daughter of Bernard Gaines (1650 ENG -d 11-18-1747 Richmond, VA ) and Martha Taylor (b 1646-)

...... +Ellizabeth Peasley,  b: Abt. 1685 in Est DOB based on children's birth m: August 11, 1705 in VA? Mother of George Edmund Taylor

...... 3 George Edmund Taylor,  b: March 20, 1708/09 in St Peter's parish, New Kent County, VA d: 1791 in VA

.......... +Lucy Crump, b: March 25, 1711 in St Peter's parish, New Kent County, VA d: Aft. 1744 in VA m: 1730 in New Kent Co., VA-where kids born See:  http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/j/e/m/Cindy--G-Jemsen/GENE16-0005.html

.......... 4 Zachariah Taylor,  b: 1739 in Goochland Co., VA>NC>KY.  A.K.A. Zacharias Taylor is Zachariah's Dad Zachary L or George Edmund Taylor?? d: November 06, 1794 in Washington Co., KY See his will in notes : 2nd LT. in Rev. War and had two land grants in Nelson Co. Ky.(then VA ) for 3036 acres

.............. +Prudence Peter c 1781 b. 1758 Petersburg, VA d . October 22, 1851 Marion Co., KY

.............. +Lauranna Morris,  b: in Albemarle Co., VA AKA Loranah Morris d: 1782 m: March 27, 1794 Daughter of Hugh Rice Morris, d abt 1773 Albemarle Co., VA WB 2, p 312

.............. 5 Mooreman Morris Taylor, b: March 26, 1769 Easter Sunday, North Carolina>Garrard Co., KY (I believe that in his father Zachariah's will, Moorman is called