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    Col. John Tayloe I (February 15, 1688 – November 15, 1747) was one of the richest plantation owners and businessmen in Virginia for his generation. Considered...
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    Virginia for nine years. The Tayloe family of Richmond County, including his father, John Tayloe II, and grandfather, John Tayloe I, exemplified gentry entrepreneurship...
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    Col. John Tayloe II (28 May 1721 – 18 April 1779) was the premier Virginia planter; a politician, and colonial Colonel in the Virginia Militia. Virginia...
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  • John Tayloe may refer to: John Tayloe I (1688–1747), plantation owner and businessmen in Virginia John Tayloe II (1721–1779), plantation owner in Virginia...
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  • Counties, Virginia Col. John Tayloe I (1688–1747), plantation owner, councillor and businessman in Virginia Col. John Tayloe II (1721–1779), plantation...
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  • after his maternal grandfather John Tayloe I. The eldest son of the former Elizabeth Tayloe, daughter of burgess John Tayloe I, and her planter husband Richard...
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    Nellie Davis Ross (née Tayloe; November 29, 1876 – December 19, 1977) was an American educator and politician who served as the 14th governor of Wyoming...
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    Wollaston Speaker John Robinson John Tayloe I of the Old House John Tayloe II of Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia, John Wollaston John Tayloe III (Stuart)...
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    The Octagon House (category Tayloe family of Virginia)
    The Octagon House, also known as the Colonel John Tayloe III House, is a house located at 1799 New York Avenue, Northwest in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood...
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    Mount Airy Plantation (category Tayloe family of Virginia)
    1764 for Colonel John Tayloe II, perhaps the richest Virginia planter of his generation, upon the burning of his family's older house. John Ariss is the attributed...
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  • Sheriff of York County, Virginia, the father of John Tayloe I of The Old House and progenitor of the Tayloes of Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia. His...
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    Neabsco Iron Works (category Tayloe family of Virginia)
    000 ha) by the Neabsco Creek. After abandoning the Bristol Iron Works, John Tayloe I established the Neabsco Iron Foundry around 1737. The business became...
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    ancient Norman House of Percy. Tayloe's father was Colonel John Tayloe III, one of the richest people in Virginia. Colonel Tayloe had built The Octagon House...
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    the Old House". The Tayloe family of Richmond County, including John Tayloe I, his son, John Tayloe II, and grandson, John Tayloe III, exemplified gentry...
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    and racer, and land speculator in the 19th century. A younger son of John Tayloe III of The Octagon House and Mount Airy, a wealthy planter in Washington...
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    Rappahannock River. John Tayloe I, John Tayloe II who built Mount Airy and after Menokin for his son-in-law Francis Lightfoot Lee, John Tayloe III who later...
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    Christmas in 1830. Tayloe was born on January 21, 1803, at The Octagon House, the city residence built by his father John Tayloe III, who inherited the...
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  • William Tayloe, Col. George Taylor, Mr. Samuel Peachey, Capt. John Deane, and Capt. John Tarpley were justices of Richmond Co., VA. John Tayloe I son of...
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    Mary’s, Calvert, present-day Charles, and Prince George’s County". John Tayloe I purchased land around Nanjemoy Creek after 1710 from which to mine iron...
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  • payment. In July 1737 he married Elizabeth Tayloe (1719-1784), daughter of burgess and planter John Tayloe I of Mount Airy Plantation in Richmond County...
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  • Col. William Tayloe (born 1599; also known as William Teylow) was an English-American immigrant, colonist and planter, from Gloucester, England, who emigrated...
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  • and ancient Norman House of Percy. John Tayloe IV served as a midshipman on the USS Constitution, Benjamin Ogle Tayloe was a member of the Porcellian Club...
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    William Tayloe, the nephew of William Tayloe (the immigrant) of King's Creek Plantation and High Sheriff of York County, Virginia, and bore John Tayloe I and...
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  • John Tayloe I John Tayloe II William Tayloe (the nephew) William Tayloe (the immigrant) Ethelred Taylor George Taylor Henry Taylor James Taylor John Taylor...
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    Tayloe was born on January 29, 1799, at Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia, the grand colonial estate built by his grandfather Colonel John Tayloe...
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    John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960) was an American financier and philanthropist. Rockefeller was the fifth child and only son...
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    Mann Page (category Tayloe family of Virginia)
    discussed below. Mann was born to Mann Page II and Ann Corbin Tayloe, daughter of John Tayloe I, (his second wife) at Rosewell Plantation in Gloucester County...
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    Francis Scott Key (category St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni)
    He married Mary Tayloe Lloyd on January 1, 1802, daughter of Edward Lloyd IV of Wye House and Elizabeth Tayloe, daughter of John Tayloe II of Mount Airy...
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    on to found the Ohio Company, and was the co-executor of his uncle, John Tayloe I's, estate, what became Mount Airy. Thomas Lee (1690–1750) married Hannah...
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    Texas, and the second woman to be governor of any U.S. state, after Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming. Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson was born in Bell County...
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