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THE PENDLETON FAMILY,
one of the most powerful, influential and aristocratie families of old Virginia, were closely related to the Taylors, intermarriages having taken place in every generation, beginning with Mary Taylor, daughter of James, the emigrant, who married, in 1701, Henry Pendleton. Their descendants are many of them illustrious. James Taylor, eldest son of Col.George Taylor, married Ann Pendleton, a grand-daughter or great-grand-daughter of this Henry and Elizabeth. The daughter of this James Taylor married John Pendleton, and there were several others.
THE TALIAFERRO FAMILY,
were also influential people and were connected with the Taylors by a number of marriages, mentioned elsewhere.
WALKER'S MILLS,
were on the Madison side of the Rapidan River, about two miles above the present Madison Mills. They were destroyed many years ago. This Mill was also known as the "Punch Bowl-" so called from an excavation in a rock opposite, supposed to have been made by Indians.
REDSTONE,
The Route taken by all the Taylors, who emigrated to Kentucky, was by way of Winchester, Va., thence to Red Stone, Pennsylvania, a point on the Monongahela River, about 50 miles directly South of Pittsburgh. From there they went in flat-boats don to the junction with the Ohio, and so down that stream, to the Falls of the Ohio, now Louisville.
THE ORANGE COUNTY COMMITTEE OF SAFETY. May 9, 1776.
James Madison Sr., Chairman. +
James Taylor, + Thomas Barbour, +
Zachariah Burnley,+ Rowland Thomas,
James Madison Jr.,+ William Moore,+
James Walker, Lawrence Taliaferro,+
Henry Johnny Scott, Thomas Bell,+
James Taylor, above mentioned, was the eldest son of Col.George Taylor. Of the eleven members above, eight were either relatives of near connections of the Taylor family: those marked+.
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.