It's been a while since I posted my Taylors, so here they are... We suspect that our first American Taylor was Benjamin Taylor, probably born about 1700, we believe he was born in Scotland. In the late 1720s he shows up in Cecil County, MD, near the town of North East (apparently, at the time, there was an area near what is now the Cecil County Community College, that was called Westminister, not to be confused with the much larger town with a similar name in Carroll County). According to what I could find at the Cecil County Historical Society Library in Elkton, Benjamin's youngest son was also named Benjamin. I believe this is the child of Benjamin's that was my direct ancestor. He was born in 1744. There was a Benjamin Taylor from Cecil County that fought in the American Revolution. According to the Maryland Muster Rolls, this was the only Benjamin Taylor that fought from Maryland in the American Revolution. Alexander Taylor, my great-great-great uncle, wrote a family history in 1912 that said that his great-grandfather, Benjamin Taylor, came to Westminster from Scotland and fought in the American Revolution in a Maryland Regiment. Although I can't prove these Benjamins all go together yet, it seems likely. Next in line was Benjamin's son, Edward Taylor. Edward was probably born in the late 1760s, early 1770s. Alexander didn't have much to say about him except that he married a Miss BROWN, whose father was a Loyalist during the American Revolution, though he was too big a coward to fight (those were Alexander's words). A trip to the Maryland Historical Society gives us an Edward Taylor marrying a Mary Ann BROWN in Baltimore in 1792. This is the only Edward Taylor marrying a BROWN from anywhere close to that time period (though their records are probably not complete). Finally we come Edward's son, Eleazer Taylor. According to several pension records, Eleazer was born in Cumberland, MD about 1795. This seems to match well with an Edward married in 1792. Eleazer fought in a Maryland Regiment in the War of 1812, I've copied what little information there is from the pay/muster cards for Eleazer at the National Archives. The next time we find Eleazer, he's in Huntingdon County, PA, living in Shirley Township. We found him on the tax records there in 1828. He stayed there until around 1840, when he began to move around Huntingdon and what would shortly become Blair County. He appears in the 1850 Census in Fulton County and in the 1860 Census near Williamsburg in Blair County. According to Alexander (who was Eleazer's son by his second wife, Nancy ROGERS), Eleazer is buried in Yellow Springs, PA, which is very close to Williamsburg. If you think you are connected to or know anything about these Taylors, please let me know. Thanks! Lee Taylor