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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Biographical History of
Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania,
and
Early Settlers and Eminent Men of the county -
by Alex. Harris
Lancaster, PA:
Publ. Elias Barr & Co.
1872
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TAYLOR
FAMILY. * Isaac Taylor, sr. , was among
the early settlers of Lancaster county, and according to his
family tradition, was the son of Christopher Taylor,
who emigrated from England in 1682, and purchased 5000 acres
of land from William Penn before his arrival in the
province of Pennsylvania. Penn'a
Archives, vol. i., p. 41. He was a member of
William Penn's first council in 1682. Isaac
Taylor was born soon after the arrival of his parents.
He was a surveyor, a magistrate, and a member of the
assembly for the county of Chester, prior to the year 1722.
He was arrested and imprisoned by the authorities of
Maryland while surveying lands near the Maryland line.
Colonial Records, vol. iii., p. 212. He was
again appointed by the Executive Council, in the year 1726,
to be a justice of Chester county. He was also
appointed by the council, in the year 1718, one of the
commissioners to lay out the old Philadelphia road from
Conestoga to the Brandywine. He made the original
surveys of a large portion of the land in the eastern and
southern sections of Lancaster county. He surveyed the
Christiana tract of 800 acres, in Sadsbury township, on the
27th of August, 1709, as appears by the records of the
Surveyor General's office. He was the original
patentee of a tract of land directly in the Gap, partly in
Salisbury and part in Sadsbury. He erected the first
stone house at the Gap, about the year 1747, which was built
three stories high, and is standing to the present day.
It is now owned by George H. Rutter, and kept as a
hotel. He was a worthy and serviceable member of the
society of Friends, and departed this life at an advanced
age, in the year 1756.
ISAAC TAYLOR, JR., son of
Isaac Taylor, sr., was united in marriage in the year
1761 with Mary, the daughter of Thomas Bulla, sr.,
of Chester county. He resided many years at the
residence of his father at the Gap, and was an esteemed
minister of the gospel in the society of Friends, and served
also as the clerk of the monthly meeting at old Sadsbury.
JACOB TAYLOR, grandson of
Isaac Taylor, sr., was appointed by the yearly meeting
of Friends in Philadelphia, about the year 1800, to
superintend the civilization and education of the
Cattaraugus Indians, in western New York, which office he
filled with credit to himself and to the society for about
forty years.
A daughter of Isaac Taylor, sr., was married
about the year 1745 to Nathaniel Newlin, of Chester
county, some of whose descendants in the fifth generation
are: Isaac Walker, esq.; and Mary,
the wife of Samuel Slokom, of Sadsbury; Deborah,
the wife of Henry Pownall, of Bart; and Asahel
Walker, of Lamborntown, Chester county, and their
descendants.
Source: Biographical History of Lancaster Co., PA -
Publ. by Elias Barr & Co. - 1872 - Page 608 * Contributed by Isaac Walker, of Sadsbury. |
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ANDREW
THOMPSON, was elected a member of the Legislature in
1842.
Source: Biographical History of Lancaster Co., PA -
Publ. by Elias Barr & Co. - 1872 - Page 609 |
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