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- "Col. David Taggart," in _Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania_, published by J.L. Floyd & Co., Chicago, 1911. p9. Library of Congress microfilm collection. "...
Thomas Taggart, the founder of this family in America and in Northumberland county, was born May 10, 1728, in Ireland, of Scotch-Irish descent, and emigrated with his brother Robert prior to 1750, the young men settling in Philadelphia, where Robert became a merchant. About 1775 Thomas Taggart arrived at the town of Northumberland, where he became a leading merchant. Settling at Queen and Front streets, near what was later the site of Morgan's shoe store, he was a well known resident of the place until his death, which occurred April 13, 1788. He married Mary Vanderbilt, a native of Philadelphia, who died in Northumberland in 1805.
Their descendants have been prominent in public life, in business matters, and in the wars of the country. Their family was a large one, viz.:
Elizabeth, born June 15, 1753, married William Bonham, and died about 1780 (her son, Thomas, was for many years a tanner at Northumberland, but finally removed to Wabash county, Ill., where he died);
Christiana, born May 12, 1755, married a Mr. Sample, and settled in Allegheny county, this State;
Robert was born Feb. 18, 1757;
John, born June 30, 1759, died July 21, 1759;
Catharine, born Sept. 6, 1760, married Capt. John Painter, and died in 1840;
Thomas, born Oct. 22, 1762, died Jan. 16, 1780 (he was killed by Indians);
Mary, born Jan. 19, 1765, married a Mr. Patterson, a noted frontiersman of Pennsylvania, and died Feb. 8, 1773 [sic, 1791];
William, born Oct. 3, 1771, died Jan. 24, 1773;
David, born Feb. 21, 1769, died May 17, 1812;
William (2), known as 'Old Major' Taggart, born Aug. [unclear on copy - 6?] 1773, kept store at an early day in Northumberland and in the latter part of his life resided in Chillisquaque township, where hed died at the age of eighty years; and
James was born Jan. 1, 178-."
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