Thomas Turner, Jr.

Family/Spouse: Mary Taliaferro. Mary (daughter of Charles Taliaferro, Jr. and Sarah Thornton) was born about 1725; died after 1781. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Martha Taliaferro about 1730 in Virginia. Martha (daughter of Richard Taliaferro and Martha Sarah Wingfield) was born in 1711 in Richmond, Henrico Co, Virginia; died in 1740 in Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Martha Sarah Wingfield in 1690 in Richmond Co, Virginia. Martha was born in 1665 in Richmond Co, Virginia or Barbados; died on 4 Feb 1717 in Hanover Parish, Richmond Co, Virginia. [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
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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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