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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

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
  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.
  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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