RTree - Person Sheet
NameJames TAYLOR 
Birth1630-35, Carlisle, England
Death30 Apr 1698, King William Co., VA
FatherJohn TAYLOR (1607-1651)
MotherElizabeth (~1610-1658)
Misc. Notes
Came to America in 1630's.
Among the early English emigrants none contributed more to the success of the colony than did James Taylor of Carlisle, who soon became a leader in colonial affairs. James Taylor was the first to come to America, settling in New Kent County and became a large land owner and prominent in civil affairs. One of the first homes established by them was in Orange County which was "Hare Forest", which led to the supposition that they descended from the Earls of Hare. No proof has been found for this supposition though.
By means of Old Taylor arms handed down from father to son for about four hundred years, it has been established that they came from the Earls of Pennington, as shown by the following record given by Burke.
"The original ancestor was the Norman Baron, Taillefer, who accompanied William the Conqueror in his invasion of Great Britain." His praises were sung by Wace, the Anglo-Norman poet, in his description of the battle of Hastings. Henry Taylefer held land in Co. Kent in time of Henry III. His [son? or grandson?] William Taylor of Shadochurst, living in the time of Richard II, Henry IV and V, left an heir, John Taylor, who married Thomasine, daughter of John Isaac, who died in 1551. They had a son, John.
It is easy to see that James Taylor of Carlisle, the first of the ... in the Virginia Colony, must have been a descendant of the Taylors of Shadochurst, in proof of which is his coat of arms, as here given, now in the possession of one of his great-great-grand-daughters, bearing the same markings as those used by the Pennington Taylors, the crest and motto being identically the same:
Quarterly first and fourth arg, on a chief sable, two bear's heads of ...field couped, for Taylor. Second, are a chevron between three greyhounds, courant, ppr for Fairstead. Third arg, a chevron arm, between three mullets, gules for Freeland. Crest: A dexter arm embowed in armor, the hand in a gauntlet grasping a javlin, all ppr. Motto: Nonsequitur quod com que petit."
Among the early English emigrants none contributed more to the success of the colony than did James Taylor of Carlisle, who soon became a leader in colonial affairs. James Taylor was the first to come to America, settling in New Kent County and became a large land owner and prominent in civil affairs. One of the first homes established by them was in Orange County which was "Hare Forest", which led to the supposition that they descended from the Earls of Hare. No proof has been found for this supposition though.
By means of Old Taylor arms handed down from father to son for about four hundred years, it has been established that they came from the Earls of Pennington, as shown by the following record given by Burke.
"The original ancestor was the Norman Baron, Taillefer, who accompanied William the Conqueror in his invasion of Great Britain." His praises were sung by Wace, the Anglo-Norman poet, in his description of the battle of Hastings. Henry Taylefer held land in Co. Kent in time of Henry III. His [son? or grandson?] William Taylor of Shadochurst, living in the time of Richard II, Henry IV and V, left an heir, John Taylor, who married Thomasine, daughter of John Isaac, who died in 1551. They had a son, John.
It is easy to see that James Taylor of Carlisle, the first of the ... in the Virginia Colony, must have been a descendant of the Taylors of Shadochurst, in proof of which is his coat of arms, as here given, now in the possession of one of his great-great-grand-daughters, bearing the same markings as those used by the Pennington Taylors, the crest and motto being identically the same:
Quarterly first and fourth arg, on a chief sable, two bear's heads of ...field couped, for Taylor. Second, are a chevron between three greyhounds, courant, ppr for Fairstead. Third arg, a chevron arm, between three mullets, gules for Freeland. Crest: A dexter arm embowed in armor, the hand in a gauntlet grasping a javlin, all ppr. Motto: Nonsequitur quod com que petit."