This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Taylor, Whitehurst, Nelson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BVB.2ACI/1058.1 Message Board Post: My look at the ages of the family members and a close reading of the documents leves the following information. Samuel and Abigail Whitehurst made their home on the Wilkins plantation on Bogue Sound. Samuel’s Straits property became the home place of Samuel and Sarah’s son, Robert. We would presume that Ann Wilkins made her home with Samuel and Abigail. It is certain that in 1756, when Samuel Whitehurst died, he was living on the Wilkins plantation on Bogue Sound . In his will he names his children and his current wife, Abigail . The identified children of Samuel Whitehurst and Sarah Nelson are Anne, Esther and Robert, all of whom were certainly borne prior to 1750. In Samuel’s will, land at the Straits is given to his son Robert and the plantation on Bogue Sound is given to “son-in-law” William Wilkins Taylor . Because of this identification of William Wilkins Taylor, it could be surmised that Taylor had married one of Samuel’s daughters. This is not the case. Son-in-law means what we would call today a "step son". And it would! be reasonable for Samuel to leave Abigail's son the plantation home of Abigail. In 1760, William Wilkins Taylor married Elizabeth Shepard. [his first wife] William and Elizabeth sold the Bogue Sound plantation to William Dennis in 1774 and moved to Onslow County. William Wilkins Taylor can be found in Onslow County in 1790 . William Wilkins Taylor and Elizabeth had children. Elizabeth was the daughter of David Shepard . Elizabeth was dead by at the time David Shepard wrote his will in May of 1774. The will of David Shepard makes very clear that David did not want any inheritance to be controlled by William Wilkins Taylor .