Notes for Philip Pendleton Taylor

Notes for Philip Pendleton Taylor

!Gwynn, Zae H. Abstracts of the Wills and Estate Records of Granville Co NC 1746-1808, 1973; Dated Sep 5 1765, proved Aug 1766:
Phillip Taylor willed to wife Mary the land whereon I now live with the usage of the plantation thereunto belonging (in lieu of her dower) and, at her death, to go to my son Philip Taylor, and aforesaid land containing 880 acres adjoining Howel Lewis; to son John, land on Bennett's Creek being all land I purchased of my brother William Taylor and George King, containing 735 acres; to son James Taylor, L200 Virginia money to enable him to buy a tract of land when he is of full age; if either son Philip or John die without lawful issue, my son James is to have said land as before devised; the rest of the estate which is negroes, stock, and chattels to be divided between my wife and the children I had by her and my estate kept together excepting the part given my wife which she may leave or take out as she wishes. (Philip and a daughter are underage
Executors: wife and brothers Edmond Taylor, William Taylor, and Joseph Taylor, friend Capt. Tom Person; witnesses Edmund Taylor, Samuel Hopkins, Ann Taylor. (Gwynn, 24-25)
Since son Walker Taylor was not named in his father's will and he would have been underage, he had probably died by 1765.