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The Taylor Families

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The following family trees for the Taylor families concerns the Taylors who settled near Mount Airy, the Taylors who settled on the Cook Tract in Amwell/Delaware Township, a short distance west of the village of Sand Brook, and the Taylor family of Bethlehem Township who were associated with the Taylor Iron Works.

Some of the more prominent related families who appear in previous articles:

Bray, Dunham, Everitt, Gano, Haines, Hoagland, Hunt, Lair, Lambert, Lawshe, Opdycke, Rea, Risler, Rittenhouse, Robins, Romine, Runyan, Sergeant, Sharp, Sine, Sutton, Thatcher, Vandolah, Wilson, and Wolverton

Given the challenge of researching these early Taylors, I will happily entertain any additions or corrections readers may wish to provide.

William & Catarien Taylor of Amwell Township

(1) William Taylor (~1725 – ~1785) & Catarien
Egbert T. Bush discussed this family in “The Bosenbury and Taylor Graveyards”

Second Generation:

|     (2) Catarien Taylor (~1750 – ?) & Nicholas Gano (~1750 – ?)
|     (2) Peter Taylor (~1752 – 1785) & Jerusha Lambert (~1751 – 1823)
|     (2) John William Taylor (1753 – 1833)
.     .   m. 1) Sarah Abbott (1755 – 1839)
.     .   m. 2) Ruth Quick (~1760 – >1839)
|     (2) William Taylor (~1754 – 1838) & Sarah Hoagland (~1755 – ?)|
(2) George Taylor (~1758 – ?)

Third Generation:

|     (2) Peter Taylor & Jerusha Lambert
|     |     (3) Daniel Taylor (~1775 – ?)
|     |     (3) Susannah Taylor (~1780 – ?)
|     |     (3) Elizabeth Taylor (~1783 – 1836)
|     |     (3) Sarah Taylor (1785 – ?)
As you can see, I have no information on the children’s families.

|     (2) John William Taylor & Sarah Abbott
|     |     (3) Benjamin Taylor (~1775 – ?)
|     |     (3) Ruth Taylor (~1780 – ?) & __ Garrison
|     |     (3) Peter Taylor (~1780 – <1830) & Euphemia Haines (~1783 – 1865)
|     |     (3) William Taylor Sr. (~1785 – 1864) & Elizabeth Rea (~1788 – 1841)
|     |     (3) Abraham Taylor (~1790 – ?)
|     |     (3) John Taylor (~1790 – ?) & Rebecca Quick (~1790 – ?)
|     |     (3) Abbott Taylor (1796 – 1872) & Mary Grant (1795 – 1865)|
|     |     (3) Sarah Taylor (~1800 – ) & George Vogle|     |
|     |     (3) Mary Taylor (1800 – 1880) & Samuel Leigh (1792 – 1878)

|     (2) John William Taylor & Ruth Quick
|     |     (3) Moses Abbott Taylor (1790 – 1868) & Mary Stryker (1794 – 1872)

|     (2) John William Taylor & Sarah Quick
|     |     (3) Peter Taylor (1784 – 1856) & Esther Hetty Large (~1784 – >1850)

Loose End: I also have a William Taylor who married Catarien Wagner on Jan. 31 1779 in Hunterdon County. Could these two Williams be the same? The marriage date does not work with the birthdates of the children listed above.

Another Loose End:  William Taylor (c.1745-1807) and Mary Swallow (1749-1818), daughter of Jacob Swallow and __ Barnes. Their children:
|     (2) Jacob Taylor (~1770 – >1827) & Susan Kugler (~1795 – ?)
|     (2) Samuel A. Taylor (~1770 – ~1809)
|     (2) Catherine Taylor (1778 – 1854) & Henry Vandolah (1766 – 1815)
|     (2) Mary Taylor (~1783 – >1815) & Daniel Wilson (~1785 – ?)
|     (2) John Taylor (~1784 – ?)
|     (2) Mahlon Taylor (~1790 – ?) & Jerusha Sine (~1795 – ?)

Children of Catherine Taylor and Henry Vandolah:
|     |     (3) Mary Vandolah (1795 – 1890) & Amos P. Hunt (1798 – 1870)
|     |     (3) Henry Vandolah (~1796 – 1845)
|     |     (3) Garret Vandolah Sr. (1797 – 1877) & Sarah Romine (1806 – 1862)
|     |     (3) William Taylor Vandolah (1799 – 1875) & Maria Sergeant (~1806 – 1890)
|     |     (3) Catherine Vandolah (1802 – 1874)
|     |     (3) John Vandolah (1804 – 1885) & Grace Opdycke (1807 – 1881)
|     |     (3) Elizabeth Vandolah (1811 – 1886) & George W. Sharp (1812 – 1876)
|     |     (3) Cyrus Vandolah (1806 – 1891)
.      .      .     m.  1) Mary Elizabeth Lawshe (1816 – 1863)
.      .      .     m.  2) Elizabeth Ann Hice (1808 – 1884)
|     |     (3) Amy Vandolah (1809 – 1901) & Joseph Lair (1809 – 1886)
|     |     (3) Sarah Vandolah (1814 – 1815)
|     |     (3) Henrietta Vandolah (~1816 – 1903) & Oscar D. Runkle (1818 – 1886)

John & Sarah Taylor of Amwell Township

(1) John Taylor Sr. (~1696 – 1779) & Sarah (dates not known)
This family settled on the Cook Proprietary Tract east of Sandbrook.

Second Generation:

|     (2) John Taylor (1720 – 1805) & Elizabeth Thatcher (~1725 – 1789)
|     (2) Ann Nancy Taylor (~1720 – bef. 1790) & Jeremiah Thatcher (~1710 – ~1790)
|     (2) Margaret Taylor (~1725 – ~1810) & William Thatcher (1716 – 1803)
|     (2) Elizabeth Taylor (~1725 – bef. 1777) & John Robins ii (~1720 – 1802)
|     (2) Edward Taylor (~1730 – after 1786) & Rebecca Stout (1722 – ?)
|     (2) Thomas Taylor (~1730 – ~1760) & Hannah Robbins (~1735 – ?)

Third Generation:

|     (2) John Taylor & Elizabeth Thatcher
|     |     (3) Edward Taylor (1750 – 1833) & Sarah Curtis (1750 – 1852)
|     |     (3) Ann Taylor (~1750 – ?) & Samuel Slater (1795 – 1887)
|     |     (3) Abel Taylor (~1754 – 1835) & Susannah Teeple (~1770 – ?)
|     |     (3) Elizabeth Taylor (~1760 – ?) & Curtis (~1760 – ?)
|     |     (3) Susan Taylor (~1770 – 1841) & Tunis Eick (~1760 – 1830)
|     |     (3) Leroney Taylor (~1760 – ?) & Nathaniel Thatcher (~1760 – 1826)
|     |     (3) Mary Taylor & __ Davis

|     (2) Ann Nancy Taylor & Jeremiah Thatcher
|     |     (3) Rev. Daniel Thatcher (~1740 – 1797)
|     |     (3) Mary Thatcher (~1745 – ?)
|     |    (3) Grace Thatcher (~1745 – bef. 1803) & Richard Opdycke (1740 – 1825)
|     |     (3) Nancy Ann Thatcher (~1750 – ?) & Everitt (~1750 – ?)
|     |     (3) Rebecca Thatcher (1759 – ?) & Job Thatcher (1754 – 1806)
|     |     (3) Rachel Thatcher (~1760 – ?) & George Campbell M.D.
|     |     (3) Edward Thatcher (~1762 – ?)

|     (2) Margaret Taylor & William Thatcher
|     |     (3) Martha Thatcher (1747 – ?) & James Harris
|     |     (3) Isaac Thatcher (1750 – 1839) & Elizabeth
|     |     (3) Jonas Thatcher Sr. (~1752 – 1808)
.     .     .     m. 1) Margaret Trimmer (~1760 – ~1780)
.     .     .     m. 2) Sarah Lake (~1755 – bef. 1818)
|     |     (3) Lavinia Thatcher (~1755 – 1815) & John Roberson (1755 – 1799)
|     |     (3) Margaret Thatcher (1760 – 1804) & Daniel Taylor (1758 – 1844)
|     |     (3) Moses Thatcher (~1762 – 1825) & Elizabeth Eick (~1800 – bef. 1826)
|     |     (3) William Thatcher Jr. (~1765 – ~1810) & Elizabeth
|     |     (3) Bartholomew Thatcher (1771 – 1833) & Rachel Voorhees (1776 – 1861)
|     |     (3) Nancy Ann Thatcher (1774 – 1815) & Nathaniel Rittenhouse (1771 – 1830)
|     |     (3) Lydia Thatcher (~1775 – 1830) & Richard Hillman (~1770 – ?)

|     (2) Elizabeth Taylor & John Robins ii
|     |     (3) John Robins Jr. iii (~1750 – bef. 1802) & Grace Runyon (~1755 – ?)
|     |     (3) Anna Robins (~1755 – 1834) & Samuel Vanaumer (~1755 – ?)
|     |     (3) Job Robins (~1755 – ?)
|     |     (3) Amos Robins (1758 – 1837) & Ruth Barnes (1758 – 1823)
|     |     (3) Jane Robins (1765 – 1834) & Amos Sutton (1765 – 1828)
|     |     (3) Elizabeth Robins (~1768 – ) & Nathan Sutton (1767 – ?)
|     |     (3) Mary Robins (~1768 – bef. 1850) & William Smith (~1765 – ~1823)
|     |     (3) Jonathan Robins (~1774 – ~1867) & Elizabeth Thatcher (~1780 – )

|     (2) Edward Taylor & Rebecca Stout
|     |     (3) Ann Taylor (1758 – ?) & Ralph Schenck (1756 – 1836)
|     |     (3) John Taylor (~1760 – ?) & Sarah Wolverton (~1765 – ?)
|     |     (3) Isaac Taylor (~1770 – ?)
|     |     (3) Mary Taylor* (1776 – 1847) & Jacob Risler (~1770 – 1811)
|     |     (3) Mary Taylor* (1776 – 1847) & Michael Shurts (1760 – 1840)

|     (2) Thomas Taylor & Hannah Robbins
|    |     (3) Daniel Taylor (1758 – 1844) & Margaret Thatcher (1760 – 1804)

Robert & Sarah Taylor of Bethlehem Twp.

(1) Robert Taylor Esq. (1740 – 1821) & Sarah Bartholomew (1763 – 1837)
I found Robert Taylor’s son Archibald S. Taylor very intriguing. I wrote about him in The Town of Clinton is Born and The Ruin of A. S. Taylor.

Second Generation:

|     (2) Archibald Stewart Taylor (1781 – 1860) & Nancy Ann Bray (1781 – 1835)
|    (2) John Allen Taylor (1796 – 1849) & Sarah Middaugh Lawrence (1799 – 1873)
|     (2) Harriet Elizabeth Taylor (1805 – 1834) & Rene Edw deRussy (1789 – 1865)
|     (2) Robert Taylor [no information]

Third Generation:

|     (2) Archibald Stewart Taylor & Nancy Ann Bray
|     |     (3) Robert Taylor (1803 – 1823)
|     |     (3) Emily Caroline Taylor (1804 – 1826)
|     |     (3) John Bray Taylor (1806 – 1866) & Susan Adeline Bray (1811 – 1887)
|    |     (3) Gen. George Taylor (1808 – 1862) & Mary Large King (1813 – 1888)
|     |     (3) Lewis H. Taylor (1811 – 1908) & Jane Crow Johnston (1811 – 1870)
|     |     (3) Sarah Ann Taylor (1813 – 1859) & James R. Dunham (1812 – 1875)
|     |     (3) William Johnston Taylor (1815 – 1881)
.     .     .     m. 1) Jane Taylor Taitt (~1835 – bef. 1881)
.     .     .     m. 2) Ella Knight
|     |     (3) Susan Louisa Taylor (1818 – 1819)

|     (2) John Allen Taylor & Sarah Middaugh Lawrence
|     |     (3) Robert William Taylor (~1836 – 1851)
|     |     (3) Harriet Elizabeth Taylor (~1835 – 1859)
|     |     (3) Joanna Allen Taylor (1837 – 1892)

Currently I have 283 Taylors in my database (not counting their spouses). Not all of them resided in Hunterdon County, but all of them did live in New Jersey.

The Bonham Family

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The Bonham family is huge, because Hezekiah Bonham married three times. This is why I have not gone further to the fourth generation. And as you will see, the tree is incomplete; several members of the second and third generations have not yet been researched by me, especially the families of Hannah Bonham & Job Emmons and Zedekiah Bonham & Prudence Heath.

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The Green Family

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plus Kemp, Bull and Wright

Samuel Green, an English immigrant and a surveyor in Gloucester county, was married three times. His first wife, Margaret Kemp died before Green moved to Amwell Township in Hunterdon County. His second wife Sarah Bull was a member of the Bull family of Gloucester County. She died before Green moved to Sussex (Warren) County. His third wife, Hannah Wright, was the daughter of Dutch immigrants who settled in Amwell Township.

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The Cook Proprietary Tract

By in Delaware Township, Featured, Moore, Sandbrook, Sutton, Taylor 5 Comments Tags: ,

The Hammond Maps of Hunterdon County proprietary tracts are a wonderful resource for county historians. Many of the property owners shown on these maps drawn by D. Stanton Hammond in 1963 were the first Europeans to claim title to this part of the state of New Jersey. What happened to those properties in succeeding years has always fascinated me and provided wonderful material for my articles.

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The Sine Farm

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For the final installment of my study of the Haddon Tract,1 I am turning to the remainder of the property that was left to Nicholas Sine. As a reminder, Nicholas Signe/Sayn/Sine was a partner with another German immigrant, Jacob Sniter, in the 1748 purchase of 1300 acres of the Haddon Tract, a 2,000-acre plot that was surveyed for John Haddon in 1711. Daniel Robins had purchased the other 700 acres.

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Buckwheat Cakes & Trimmer Stew

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An interesting view of 19th century rural cooking from the perspective of one who grew up on it, and was able to compare it to the food available in the 1930s, when food processing had begun to be modernized. Commercial food production was just coming into its own back then. If Mr. Bush could take a stroll down the aisles of today’s supermarkets, he would be astonished, and probably dismayed. In many ways things have gotten worse.

But they have also gotten better, especially in Hunterdon County. We have access to wonderful locally grown produce and natural ingredients, especially in our many local farmers’ markets. And today there are many creative cooks who have figured out how to make better use of some of these ancient cooking techniques, as well as new ones. Continue reading »

Hoppock Farm Over 600 Acres

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Not long ago I published some articles about properties located in what was once known as The Haddon Tract (The Haddon Tract, part one). Today’s article by Egbert T. Bush concerns a very large farm located in that tract that I have not yet written about. It was sold by Jacob Sniter and Nicholas Sayn to John Peter Foxe of Amwell, who subsequently sold it to Jost Hoppock in 1749.

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Tavernkeeper of Skunktown

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Most of you, my dear readers, know that the famous Rockafellar family had its roots in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County. And we’re all familiar with one particular descendant of this German immigrant family, a man who prospered hugely from the opportunities afforded him in America—the famous John D. Rockafellar. Another descendant, although not a direct ancestor of John D., became the tavernkeeper at Skunktown (now known as Sergeantsville), and I am much more interested in him.

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