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1752 Timothy Taylor, son of Benjamin Taylor of Upper Makefield, and Letitia Kirkbride, daughter of Mahlon Kirkbride of Lower Makefield, were married on December 27. Witnessed by Benjamin and Hannah Taylor and many others. [1]

1780 Benjamin Taylor of Upper Makefield, Bucks County, Pennsylvania dated his will on 4 of month 3. The will named wife Hannah, son John Taylor, sons Bernard and Timothy, daughter Hannah White wife of Joseph White deceased, and daughter Deborah Paxson. The will named grandchildren Mary Kinsey, James Gillingham, Sarah Conrad, Hannah Williams, Esther Jones deceased, and Benjamin White. Executors, son Bernard and son-in-law Benjamin Paxson. Witnessed by John Burroughs, John Buckman and Moses Smith. On 24 of month 3, Benjamin Taylor wrote a codicil to his will. The codicil named son Timothy, son John, and son-in-law Benjamin Paxson. Date of probate 1 December 1781. [2]

A biosketch of Benjamin Taylor and son Timothy reports [3]:

Benjamin Taylor, grandfather of Joseph Taylor above mentioned, was the son of Philip and Tulianna Taylor, of Oxford township, Philadelphia, earlv settlers at the present site of Tacony. Benjamin was a blacksmith, and followed that occupation in connection with farming in Newtown township and Upper Makefield for nearly sixty years. In 1730 he purchased 403 acres of land in Newtown township, which he conveyed to his sons Timothy and Bernard prior to 1750, and purchased 150 acres in Upper Makefield, where he died in 1780. He became a large landowner in Upper and Lower Makefield. and was one of the prominent men of his time in that locality. He was a member of Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends. He married in 1719 Hannah Towne. daughter of John and Deborah (Booth) Towne, and they were the parents of four sons; Bernard, Benjamin, Timothy and John: and daughters; Hannah, wife of Joseph White: Deborah, wife of Benjamin Paxson; and another who married a Gillingham.

Timothy Taylor, son of Benjamin and Hannah (Towne) Taylor, born at Newtown in 1729, was a carpenter and lived all his life in the neighborhood of Newtown, his father conveying to him 158 acres of his Newtown plantation in 1754. He was a justice of the peace and of the court of common pleas of Bucks county, being commissioned the former on June 7, 1784, and the latter on September 29 of the same year. Timothy and Bernard Taylor were two of the trustees appointed by Falls Monthly Meeting in 1753 to purchase the land and erect Makefield meeting house. Timothy Taylor died in 1790. He was twice married, first on 12 mo. 27, 1752, to Letitia Kirkbride, daughter of Mahlon and Mary (Sotcher) Kirkbride, and granddaughter of Joseph and Sarah (Stacy) Kirkbride, and great-granddaughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Ely) Stacy, who were married at Cinder Hill, Yorkshire, England, in 1668. Both Joseph and Mahlon Kirkbride were for many years members of the colonial assembly and justices of the courts of Bucks county, and were the largest landowners in Bucks county. The children of Timothy and Letitia (Kirkbride) Taylor were: Joseph; Hannah, wife of William Field; Stacy; Timothy; Mahlon; David; Jonathan K. and Bernard. Timothy Taylor married (second) 11 mo. 19, 1772, Sarah Yardley, daughter of William and Ann (Budd) Yardley, who bore him four children: Ann, who married Jacob Cadwallader; William; Deborah, who married Samuel Cary; and Sarah, who married Phineas Briggs.

Research Notes:

Sons Bernard and Timothy married Kirkbride sisters. Both had sons named Mahlon Taylor. Both grandsons named Mahlon reportedly had spouses named Mary. We seek evidence about which Mahlon Taylor moved to Virginia, according to the record below.

1785 On 2 of month 3, Mahlon and Mary Taylor received a transfer from Bucks County, Pennsylvania to the Fairfax, Virginia meeting. [4]


Footnotes:

[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Marriages and Births, Book B, 112, [AncestryImage].

[2] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will 4-147, codicil 4-149, FHL film 172900, images 364, 366, [FamilySearchImage].

[3] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 536, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, H Record of Certificates of Removal, Makefield Preparative Meeting, Bucks County, PA, [AncestryImage].