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CAPTAIN EDMUND TAYLOR,

fourth son of Col. George Taylor, was born October 21, 1744: was Captain of Company in Va. State Line during the Revolution: moved to Kentucky soon after the close of the War and died there July 1, 1786. He married Sarah Stubbs and had by her ten children. After his death she married a second time a man named Eastin, in Ky. She died Apl.12, 1796 (see Note made by diarist at end of 1796 Volume). Their children:-
1, George Gibson, married 1st, Mary B. Taylor, his first cousin, daughter of Jonathan Taylor, 2nd, Elizabeth Pearson.
2, Edmund H., married Eloisa C. Thruston, of Fredericksburg, March 3, 1797.
3. Martha Thompson (Patsy) married June 1792, William Christy.
4. Hannah, married July 1791, Reuben Eastin.
5. Sarah, married John Eastin.
6. Mary married Richard Taylor 2nd, son of Commodore Richard.
7. William, married Lucy Thom.
8. Thruston M., married Mary Clark.
9. Francis Stubbs, married Oct. 5, 1797, Sarah Lindsay, of Norfolk, Va.
10. Frances, married John Wallace.

Note- Sarah Lindsay, wife of Francis Stubbs Taylor, was daughter of Major W. Lindsay, Naval Officer at Norfolk, who died at Newport R.I. Sept. 2, 1797. Francis Stubbs Taylor was employed in the Naval Office at Norfolk three years, beginning August 1791, at £30: per year.
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COLONEL FRANCIS TAYLOR,
(Author of the Diaries) fifth son of Col. George Taylor, was born March 20, 1747. He was commissioned May 8, 1776, a Captain in the 2nd, Virginia Regiment; on March 20, 1778 (his 31st, birthday) he was commissioned Major in the 15th, Virginia Regiment; on Dec. 24, 1778, was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of the Virginia Convention Guards and March 5, 1779, Colonel of same Regiment. He served gallantly through the war of the Revolution. He never married. After the Revolution, he was for a number of years Deputy Clerk of Orange Co., under his brother, James, with whom he lived at "Greenfield."

In 1786 he went to live with his father at "Midland" in the house built that year and still standing, and there he continued to live until his death (November 1799) managing the plantation and his own and his father's business in a very successful manner. His will is on record in Orange C.H. He accumulated a handsome estate for those times and seems to have been banker for most of the family.

He received from Virginia a bounty of over 6,000 acres land, and also took up and owned many thousands more in Jefferson and Shelby counties, Ky., as well as elsewhere in Ky., and across the Ohio River in Indiana. Some of his Ky.lands lay on Floyd's Fork, others on Blackfords Creek, now the dividing line between Daviess and Hancock counties. He left the bulk of his estate to his nephews.

From the TAYLOR DIARY #1907-z in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill. FOR REFERENCE ONLY: PERMISSION TO PUBLISH MUST BE REQUESTED. WARNING: MOST MANUSCRIPTS ARE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT.
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