This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Taylor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AgB.2ACI/1083.1 Message Board Post: Henry Taylor, born 1787, that you mentioned was the son of Capt. Thomas Taylor of the Rev. War. Thomas Taylor was known as the "father of Columbia". He sold the land for the city of Columbia commenting," They took a good plantation and made a damn poor town out of it". It was stated one of the descendants of Thomas Taylor moved to the Lexington District and most of the Lexington Taylors are descended from him.