IMMIGRANT Robert Taliaferro^[1]

Est 1626 - 1671  (~ 45 years)

• Name	Robert Taliaferro
  	Immigrant from Italy
  Title	IMMIGRANT
  Born	Est 1626	Glouchester Co., Virginia Colony
  Gender	Male
  Died	1671	Taliaferro's Mount, St. Mary's Parish, Essex/Caroline Co., Virginia Colony
  Person ID	I18094	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	20 Apr 2017

  
  

  Family	Katherine Debnam,   b. Est 1638, Rappahannock River in Old Rappahannock /Essex/Caroline, Co., Colonial Virginia ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	By 1658  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Charles Taliaferro,   b. Est 1685,   d. 1735, Taliaferro's Mount, St. Mary's Parish, Essex/Caroline Co., Virginia Colony  (Age ~ 50 years)   2. John 'The Ranger' Taliaferro,   b. Est 1656, Rappahannock River in Old Rappahannock /Essex/Caroline, Co., Colonial Virginia ,   d. 1720  (Age ~ 64 years)
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2020
  Family ID	F6593	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S107] Family Histories, http://www.aylesworth.net/Confidence_family_DWT_CSS/rfa_talifero.htm. [S122] Genealogy. com, http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/debnam/137/. KATHERINE DEBNAM, ca.1638-post 1686, married by 1658, Robert Taliaferro, Sr.,1626-1670/1, then of Gloucester County, but soon to be of ?Taliaferro?s Mount,? St. Mary?s Parish, Essex/Caroline County, son of Francis and Bennett (Haie) Taliaferro and grandson of Bartholomew and Joane (Lane) Taliaferro, all of London. Robert Taliaferro came to Virginia by 1747, and lived twenty years in Gloucester County, his lands lying along Poropotank Creek and at the head of Ware River, until, in 1666/7, he moved to the place that came to be called ?Taliaferro?s Mount? on the Rappahannock River in Old Rappahannock/Essex/Caroline County, near the site of the present town of Port Royal. With his wife Katherine Debnam, he became the founder of a significant Virginia family. Descendant Henry G. Taliaferro has made a convincing case that by 6 January 1672/3, Katherine (Debnam) Taliaferro had married as her (2) husband, Colonel Cadwallader Jones, c.1652-post 1699, son of Richard Jones and his wife Frances (Baldwin) Townsend, she being of Chotank Creek in Upper Sittingbourne Parish, Old Rappahannock/King George/Stafford County, and the widow of Richard Townsend, a member of the Royal Governor?s Council. Colonel Cadwallader Jones was an Indian trader, an explorer into the western regions of Virginia, a sheriff of Old Rappahannock County, and in 1689, while in London, was commissioned Governor of the Bahaman Islands, taking office in 1690 and holding it, amid some controversy, until 1694, after which he returned to Virginia. His whereabouts after 1699 remain unknown. [S122] Genealogy. com, http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/debnam/137/. The children of Robert and Katherine (Debnam) Taliaferro were: (1) Robert Taliaferro, Jr., died 1688, married Sarah Catlett, daughter of Colonel John Catlett, Sr., and his wife Elizabeth (Underwood) Taylor Slaughter, later Butler (see later, Catlett Excursus), and lived at ?Church Neck,? Essex County; (2) Francis Taliaferro, died 1710, married Elizabeth Catlett, sister of Sarah Catlett (see Catlett Excursus), and lived first at the head of Ware River in Gloucester County, and later at ?Taliaferro?s Mount,? Essex County; (3) Colonel John Taliaferro, known as ?The Ranger? for his military service to Virginia, died 1719, member of the House of Burgesses for Essex County in 1699, married his first cousin Sarah Smith, daughter of Colonel Lawrence and Mary (Debnam) Smith (see under 5, below; two of Colonel John Taliaferro?s great-grand-daughters, both named Mildred Thornton and first cousins to one another, married Colonel Samuel Washington and Charles Washington, both full brothers of President George Washington); (4) Richard Taliaferro, died 1715, married Sarah Wingfield and died in Richmond County (he lived out of Virginia from 1688 to 1704, during which time he was a ship captain and owner and was Chief Judge and member of the Royal Council of the Bahaman Islands, 1699-1703, during the Bahamian governorship of his step-father Colonel Cadwallader Jones; Richard was in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1704, and returned late that year to Virginia, King George County [Henry G. Taliaferro, ?John Taliaferro of the Mount,? under Sources]); (5) Katherine Taliaferro, died c.1699, married as his first wife, Colonel John Battaile I, from whom all the Virginia Battailes descend (member of the House of Burgesses, 1693 and 1696-97), a native of Essex, England, who lived in Essex County, Virginia, and who married second, Katherine Taliaferro?s first cousin Elizabeth Smith (see under 5, below); (6) Charles Taliaferro, died 1735, married Mary Carter, and lived in Essex/Caroline County (the writer has been unable to identify this Mary Carter, but others have assumed that she was related to the ?Corotoman? Carters of the Northern Neck). Katherine (Debnam) Taliaferro and her second husband, Colonel Cadwallader Jones, evidently had only one child, a daughter, Frances Jones, who married Robert Slaughter (died 1726) of Essex County.