Gent William Taliaferro

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 22 Jun 1749, Orange Co, Virginia; road orders
• Other-Begin: 22 Jun 1749, Orange Co, Virginia; road orders

Notes:

Capt. William TALIAFERRO, born January 17, 1707; married Anne WALKER. He was a Justice of the Peace in Essex County. His children include

Walker TALIAFERRO (who was a member of the House of Burgesses from Caroline County 1765, 1766-1768, 1769-1777, 1772, 1773, and member of the County Committee 1775-6);

Christopher TALIAFERRO;

and Lucy TALIAFERRO CARTER JONES (married (1) Col. Charles CARTER, of Cleves, (2) William JONES)

Col. Richard TALIAFERRO, born 1705; lived in James City County; died July 3, 1779: "died Richard TALIAFERRO, Esq., in the 74th year of his age with the gout in the heart". [NOTE] He married Elizabeth EGGLESTON, and they had two children:

Elizabeth TALIAFERRO WYTHE, who married as his second wife George WYTHE. George WYTHE, the husband of Elizabeth, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He was Professor of Law and Police at William and Mary in 1786 when he carried on correspondence with Thomas JEFFERSON about the family name of TALIAFERRO. James MADISON was President and Professor of Natural and Moral Philosophy at William and Mary and WYTHE mentions him several times as a mutual friend of the two men. The subject of the correspondence included the preparation of a copper plate with Latin words and the name Richard TALIAFERRO about which Jefferson said "You do not mention the size of the plate, but presuming it is intended for labels for the inside of books, I have had it made of the proper size for that."
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Other-Begin:
22 June 1749, O.S. p. 180
Ordered that William Taliaferro Gent do take a List of the Tithables in this County on the North Side of the main Road up to Seayres’s old Houses across to the Mouth of Robinson River.

Other-Begin:
22 June 1749, O.S. p. 180
Upon the Petition of John Bramham he is allowed to keep Ordinary at the Courthouse for the Space of one whole Year on his giving Security whereupon the said John Bramham with Thomas Chew & William Taliaferro Gent his Securities entered into & acknowledged his Bond for keeping the said Ordinary according to Law and It is Ordered that the Clerk of this Court do prepare a License for him accordingly.

Family/Spouse: Anne Walker. Anne was born in Jan 1706 in Middlesex Co, Virginia; died after 1758 in Caroline Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Toliver (Taliaferro) was born in 1755 in Goochland, Goochland Co, Virginia; died in 1817 in Bath Co, Kentucky.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: 7 Feb 1682, Glocester Co, Virginia
• Property: 28 Sep 1682, Gloucester Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 1688, Gloucester Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: Between 1690 and 1700, Essex Co, Virginia; Justice
• Property: 1701, Essex Co, Virginia; her father's age?
• Research Notes: 17 Dec 2012; siblings

Notes:

Property:
DEED - FRANCIS TALIAFERRO TO RICHARD AND CHARLES TALIAFERRO - 1682 (Same preamble as in proceeding deed from Francis Taliaferro to John NOW KNOW YE that I the sd Francis Taliaferro...
NOW KNOW YE that I the sd Francis Taliaferro...in consideratio n of Witnesses: Francis Taliaferro John Mann Richard Brooke Lewis Burwell Henry Hill Clerk Recd: Rappahannock: 7th Februrary 1682 Test: Ed mo: Craske: Cl Cur
in consideration of Witnesses: Francis Taliaferro John Mann Richard Brooke Lewis Burwell Henry Hill Clerk Recd: Rappahannock: 7th Februrary 1682 Test: Ed mo: Craske: Cl Cur

Property:
On Sept. 28, 1682, Francis made two deeds, one to his brother, John, alone, and one to his brothers John and Richard, together.
DEED-FRANCIS TALIAFERRO TO JOHN TALIAFERRO-1682 (I) Francis Taliaferro of the County of Glocester Gent son and heir 28th day of September 1682. Francis Taliaferro
Witnesses: John Mann Recd: Rappahannock: 7th February 1682 Lewis Burwell Test: Edmo: Craske C l Cur Richard Brooke Henry Hill Clerk



Other-Begin:
In 1688, Francis Taliaferro, and his brother, John Taliaferro, gave bond for their mother, Mrs. Sarah Taliaferro, widow of Robert Taliaferro.

Property:
in 1701 Francis and his wife, Elizabeth Catlett, sold their half of a 416 acre tract of land in Essex County which was granted to her father, Col. John Catlett, on Sept. 10, 1600 and by his will, Francis gave to his two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah, certain land surveyed by Will Moseley, Surveyor, on May 4, 1691

Research Notes:
Siblings and some of their children all named in Robert Taliaferro's will. Will written 19 Jul 1726; proved by brothers John and William 19 Jul 1726.

Francis married Elizabeth Catlett about 1675 in Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of John Catlett) was born about 1654; died after 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: 1666, Gloucester Co, Virginia; Richard White
• Property: 1666/7, "Taliferro's Mount," Old Rappahannock, Essex Co, Virginia

Notes:

He apparently "came to Virginia in 1645. He was a man of prominence; he and his sons holding high state and church offices in the Colony. He owned large tracts of land, including one of 6,500 acres which he patented jointly with Major Lawrence Smith. His children and grand-children were related by blood and marriage to the first families of Virginia; their names being mentioned in 'The Genuine Aristoc of Virginia' and in The Richmond Critic as 'The First Families of Virginia.' Robert Taliaferro was married to Sarah Grymes, daughter of Rev. Charles Grymes, of 'Brandon,' then of Gloucester County, now of Middlesex County. Robert Taliaferro and Maj. Lawrence Smith, being great friends and intimately associated in business, were drawn closer together by the intermarriage of their children, John Taliaferro and Sarah Smith. The terms of the Treaty of Yorktown were arranged in the Moore House which, at one time, belonged to Maj. Lawrence Smith, and at this time was owned and occupied by his great-granddaughter, Lucy, the wife of Col. Augustine Moore. Nicholoas Taliaferro, the great-great-grandson of Major Lawrence Smith, was present when the treaty was made. This estate is now known as 'Temple Farm.' [citations omitted.]"
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Property:
A collection of P. 79: DEED
RICHARD AND ADRIA WHITE to ROBERT TALIAFERRO, 1666 Richard (Witnesses) Richd X White John Catlett Adria X White
Tho: Goodrich Tho: Hawkins _________

Property:
1666/7, he moved to the place that came to be called ?Taliaferro?s Mount? on the Rappahannock River in Old Rappahannock/Essex/Caroline County, near the site of the present town of Port Royal.

Robert married Catherine Debnam in 1658 in York Co, Virginia. Catherine (daughter of William Debnam, (immigrant) and Catherine Frances Jennings, (immigrant)) was born in 1628 in Kent, England; died in Nov 1672 in Gloucester Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

daughter of Rev. Charles Grymes, of 'Brandon,' then of Gloucester County, now of Middlesex County.

note: It was long ago believed that the wife of Robert Taliaferro, Sr., was "Sarah Grymes," supposedly a daughter of the Reverend Charles and Katherine Grymes. Later it was found that Mrs. Robert Taliaferro's name was Katherine, not Sarah, and thus for a time she was given as "Katherine Grymes." Finally, more thorough research established that the wife of Robert Taliaferro was Katherine Debnam, a daughter of Katherine (Unknown) Debnam Grymes by her marriage to William Debnam, and thus a step-daughter, not daughter, of the Reverend Charles Grymes. No Sarah or Katherine Grymes is documented as a child of Katherine (Unknown) Debnam and Charles Grymes. The only child proven for them was a son, John Grymes I, an account of whom appears later in this report.

Few matriarchs in Virginia history produced so notable a progeny as Katherine (Unknown) Debnam Grymes, and one cannot help wondering at the mystery of her own name and origin. It is likely that she belonged to a gentry family in England, one already well known to the families among whom her children and descendants married in Virginia. While it has been supposed that she came to Virginia with her parents, or was born in Virginia, the possibility must be considered that she may have arrived from England with a husband prior to William Debnam. Until further facts are obtained, her early life remains a matter of conjecture. (Her identity was likely recorded with her marriage in the earliest and now evidently lost records of New Poquoson Parish, Charles River/York County.)

KATHERINE (UNKNOWN), born probably by 1620, may have been born in Virginia or may have come to Virginia as a member of her parents? family, whose surname is unknown, or with a first husband, whose name is now lost. The circumstances of her presence in the colony before 1637/8 are not established. Her first known husband, William Debnam, is documented. (Variations of his family name include Dedman, Deadman, Debman, Debenham, and others; the present writer believes the name was likely Debingham and that it was contracted by English usage into "Debnam."

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From: Jeff Duvall
Subject: Re: CADWALLADER JONES
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:00:40 -0500
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2001-01/0980985640

There are several well-documented sources for information on this Cadwallader Jones. Perhaps the most important are a series of articles which appeared in *The Virginia Genealogist* in the mid-1990s beginning with Henry G. Taliaferro's "Who Was Catherine, The Wife of Colonel Cadwallader Jones of Virginia?" (vol. 38, no. 3, July-Sept, 1994). Taliaferro makes a very persuasive case for identifying Jones' wife Catherine as Catherine DEBNAM, daughter of William and Catherine Debnam and widow of Robert Taliaferro. This is of particular interest since another daughter of William and Catherine Debnam is thought to be Mary, wife of Maj. Lawrence SMITH (a descendant of William I "the Lion" of Scotland).

Notes:

The children of Robert and Katherine (Debnam) Taliaferro were: (1) Robert Taliaferro, Jr., died 1688, married Sarah Catlett, daughter of Colonel John Catlett, Sr., and his wife Elizabeth (Underwood) Taylor Slaughter, later Butler (see later, Catlett Excursus), and lived at ?Church Neck,? Essex County; (2) Francis Taliaferro, died 1710, married Elizabeth Catlett, sister of Sarah Catlett (see Catlett Excursus), and lived first at the head of Ware River in Gloucester County, and later at ?Taliaferro?s Mount,? Essex County; (3) Colonel John
Taliaferro, known as ?The Ranger? for his military service to Virginia, died 1719, member of the House of Burgesses for Essex County in 1699, married his first cousin Sarah Smith, daughter of Colonel Lawrence and Mary (Debnam) Smith (see under 5, below; two of Colonel John Taliaferro?s great-grand-daughters, both named Mildred Thornton and first
cousins to one another, married Colonel Samuel Washington and Charles Washington, both full brothers of President George Washington); (4) Richard Taliaferro, died 1715, married Sarah Wingfield and died in Richmond County (he lived out of Virginia from 1688 to 1704, during which time he was a ship captain and owner and was Chief Judge and member of the Royal Council of the Bahaman Islands, 1699-1703, during the Bahamian governorship of his step-father Colonel Cadwallader Jones; Richard was in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1704, and returned late that year to Virginia, King George County [Henry G. Taliaferro, ?John Taliaferro of the Mount,? under Sources]); (5) Katherine Taliaferro, died c.1699, married as his first wife, Colonel John Battaile I, from whom all the Virginia Battailes descend (member of the House of Burgesses, 1693 and 1696-97), a native of Essex, England, who lived in Essex County, Virginia, and who married second, Katherine Taliaferro?s first cousin Elizabeth Smith (see under 5, below); (6) Charles Taliaferro, died 1735, married Mary Carter, and lived in Essex/Caroline County (the writer has been unable to identify this Mary Carter, but others have assumed that she was related to the ?Corotoman? Carters of the Northern
Neck).

Katherine (Debnam) Taliaferro and her second husband, Colonel Cadwallader Jones, evidently had only one child, a daughter, Frances Jones, who married Robert Slaughter (died 1726) of Essex County.
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Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 1666, Gloucester Co, Virginia

Notes:

Other-Begin:
A collection of P. 79:
DEED RICHARD AND ADRIA WHITE to ROBERT TALIAFERRO, 1666 Richard (Witnesses) Richd X White John Catlett Adria X White
Tho: Goodrich Tho: Hawkins _________

Notes:

On 6 May 1636, William Debnam was listed as a headright for Captain (later Colonel) Christopher Calthorpe of "Thropland."

William Debnam married Katherine (Unknown). They were the parents of four known children:

Kathrine (Debnam) (Taliaferro) Jones

Ann (Debnam) Hoyle

Mary (Debnam) Smith

William Debnam, Jr.

In the fall of 1648 William Debnam was one of four men ordered to appraise the estate of his neighbor Abraham Turner. Dednam had acquired land on Ware River in "Mojack" Bay, Charles River (later Gloucester) County by 10 Oct 1642, when his property is mentioned as abutting a patent granted to Abraham Turner. He himself patented two parcels in Mockjack Bay ten years later: 600 acres on 6 May 1652 (one of the headright names listed is__Dickinson), and 1500 acres on 26 May 1653, both these patents were renewed, after his death, on 13 Jan 1661.

William Debnam, Sr. received a Mobjack Bay patent in 1652, totaling 2,100 acres.

William Debnam died in 1657 in Gloucester County.
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William Debnam first appears in extant Virginia records on 6 May 1636 as a headright for Captain (later Colonel) Christopher Calthorpe of ?Thropland,? one of the wealthy and influential men of Charles River/York County, proving Debnam?s arrival from England by that date. William Debnam?s own land in Charles River/York County lay in New Poquoson Parish and he held title to land there at the time of his death. By 1642 he was in possession of land on the Ware River, Mobjack Bay, Gloucester County, and received a Mobjack Bay patent in 1652, totaling 2,100 acres, this perhaps being merely a confirmation of his earlier holdings there. William Debnam died in 1657 in Gloucester County. He and Katherine Debnam had four known children: Katherine, William, Ann, and Mary, as follows. They became the ancestors of many distinguished families in Virginia and other states, families often characterized by habitual intermarriage among their established connections.

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William married Catherine Frances Jennings, (immigrant). Catherine was born in 1605 in Kent, England; died on 26 Aug 1678 in Gloucester Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Katherine was born in England. Her presence in VA has not been documented prir to 1637.

It is most likely that Katherine was from a gentry family in England--one that was well-known in the Colonies. Through her marriage to William Debnam, Katherine became the ancestor of many who would later marry into the families of Ball, Bankhead, Byrd, Carter, Fitzhugh, Grymes, Lee, Lewis, Lightfoot, Mann, Marshall, Nelwon, Peyton, Randolph, Smith, Stribling, Taylor, Warner, Washington, and Wormeley.
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