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Mary (Polly) Taylor
Abt 1810 - 1886 (~ 76 years)-
Name Mary (Polly) Taylor Nickname Polly Born Abt 1810 Pendleton County, Virginia, USA 
Gender Female Died 17 Jan 1886 Highland, Virginia, United States Buried Headwaters Cemetery, Bethel, Highland, VA, United States Person ID I1506 My Family Tree | Armstrong-Bird Last Modified 31 Aug 2015
Father William Taylor, b. Abt 1774, "Little Levels', Greenbrier, Virginia Mother Mary Burrell Married 6 Feb 1796 Greenbriar, Virginia, United States Family ID F10 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Samuel Eli Armstrong, b. 5 Dec 1804, Doe Hill, Highland, Virginia, United States , d. 29 Aug 1878, Shaws Fork, Highland, Virginia, United States (Age 73 years) Married 21 Nov 1830 Rockingham County, Virginia, USA - Rev. Abner West Killpatrick
Children 1. Child Armstrong 2. Benami "Ami" Armstrong, b. 26 Dec 1831, Doe Hill, Highland, Virginia, United States , d. 18 Mar 1898 (Age 66 years)3. Jared Armstrong, b. 13 Sep 1833, Doe Hill, Highland, Virginia, United States , d. 15 Mar 1862 (Age 28 years)+ 4. Eli Armstrong, b. 18 May 1835, Doe Hill, Highland, Virginia, United States , d. 8 Mar 1883, St. Paul Cemetery, Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA (Age 47 years)5. Margaret Armstrong, b. 20 May 1837, Doe Hill, Highland, Virginia, United States , d. 21 May 1913 (Age 76 years)6. Tacy Armstrong, b. 27 Apr 1839, Doe Hill, Highland, Virginia, United States , d. Jun 1888 (Age 49 years)7. Palmyra Armstrong, b. 1843, Doe Hill, Highland, Virginia, United States , d. Yes, date unknown8. Hudson Armstrong, b. 17 Dec 1843, Doe Hill, Highland, Virginia, United States , d. 7 Jun 1911, Highland, Virginia, United States (Age 67 years)9. John E. Armstrong, b. 5 Jun 1848, Doe Hill, Highland, Virginia, United States , d. 18 Jun 1921 (Age 73 years)10. George A. Armstrong, b. 18 Oct 1851, Doe Hill, Highland, Virginia, United States , d. 5 Mar 1862 (Age 10 years)11. Child Armstrong, b. 29 Apr 1856, Highland, Virginia, United States , d. Yes, date unknownLast Modified 4 Aug 2015 Family ID F521 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - Abt 1810 - Pendleton County, Virginia, USA 
Married - 21 Nov 1830 - Rockingham County, Virginia, USA 
Died - 17 Jan 1886 - Highland, Virginia, United States 
Buried - - Headwaters Cemetery, Bethel, Highland, VA, United States = Link to Google Earth
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Documents 
1860 United States Federal Census-Doe Hill, Highland, Virginia Samuel Eli Armstrong, family #490
Household as listed:
Samuel E Armstrong 55
Polly Armstrong 50
Eli Armstrong 25
Facy Armstrong 21
Palmira Armstrong 19
Hudson Armstrong 16
William Armstrong 14
John Armstrong 11
George Armstrong 8
1850 United States Federal Census 25th District, Highland Co., Virginia enumerated: 27 August 1850, page 194, family: #509, Armstrong Samuel Eli
Household listed:
Saml E Armstrong 45
Mary Armstrong 40
Benami Armstrong 19
Jared Armstrong 16
Eli Armstrong 13
Margaret Armstrong 11
Teracy Armstrong 9
Palmira Armstrong 7
Hudson Armstrong 5
Wm Armstrong 3
John Armstrong 1
1880 United States Federal Census for Stonewall district, Highland County, West Virginia.
This census shows Benami and wife Mary C. and family. This includes Robert A Armstrong and his wife Margarett A and son George Burns age 2 living in same home.
Benani Armstrong 49
Mary C. Armstrong 45
Robt. A. Armstrong 22 son -married
Geo. H. Armstrong 17 son
Eliza J. Armstrong 14 dau
Rachel A. Armstrong 10 dau
John H. Armstrong 7 son
William P. Armstrong 5 son
Geo. Burns Armstrong 2 grandson
Margarett A. Armstrong 19 daughter-in-law -married
Benami's sister Palmyra F. and husband Peter F. Lamb and son living next door.
Two doors away John E Armstrong (brother to Benami) and wife Barbara A and family are living.
On next page of Census Benami's mother Polly (Mary Taylor)is living as widow with grand children Barbara, 19 and Jared M. 13, grandson who appear to be helping take care of farm.
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Notes - Taylor Ancestry--From the files of Janice L. (Armstrong) Nicholas
TAYLOR ANCESTRY
Mary Taylor (known as "Polly") was born in Rockingham County, Virginia in the year 1810. She was the daughter of William and Mary (Burrell) Taylor. On November 21, 1830, she and Samuel E. Armstrong were married in Rockingham Co., by the Rev. Abner W. Killpatrick. Thus, our Taylor connection. See Chapter Three. ancestry. NOTE: The following information was given to Kent Botkin in a letter from Frank Taylor. It is from the files of Rebecca H. Good, and came with a note saying that this line was being prepared for publication. Also included was Daniel Taylor's Pension Application which I have copied into this report.
William Taylor was born c 1774, near the "Little Levels" in then Greenbrier County, (now) Pochantas County, West Virginia. His parents, Daniel and Mary Taylor were separated when he was young and he was bound out to Valentine Cackley, a German, of Bath County, now Pocahontas County. William was raised by the Cackleys, became a blacksmith and married Mary Burrell on February 6, 1796. Their children were: (1) Daniel, m. Mary (Polly) Nicely, (2) Solomon, (3) Eli, (4) Mary, m. Samuel E. Armstrong, (5) Elizabeth, m. Philander Bush, (6) Frances, m. Samuel Emswiler, (7) Nancy, died young.
Daniel Taylor was born on September 18, 1748 in New Jersey, parents names not known. He came as a child to Frederick County Va. and lived near Winchester. In the year 1770, he left Frederick County and went to the Greenbrier settlement in what is now Pocahontas County. He died on February 27, 1841 in Missouri, probably in Warren County. Daniel married Mary, maiden name not known, before June of 1773. Daniel Served in the Revolutionary War as a militia soldier in Greenbrier County. Fought as a private in the Battle of Point Pleasant and served in building and guarding the fort at Fort Defiance. After the Revolution he and Mary separated and Mary went to live with one William Ewing. Daniel left Virginia and went to Kentucky about 1790. In 1791, Mary married William Ewing, the marriage is recorded in Bath County. Because there were two William Ewings in Bath County at that time, he was called "Long William" to distinguish him from the other William, who was called "Swago Bill" There are court records in Bath County which show that William Ewing and Mary Taylor were brought before the court for living together in adultly, her husband, Daniel Taylor, being still living. By his removal to Kentucky, he evidently made it possible for them to marry, since it seems that the suit was not prosecuted further. Mary and William both died in Pocohantas County, West Virginia. He in 1827 and she in 1836. The children of Daniel and Mary Taylor were: (1) William, b. c 1774, m. Mary Burrell; (2) Eli, b. c 1776; (3) Solomon, b. c 1778, a captain in the War of 1812; (4) Diadema, m. Samuel Wood; (5) Diana, m. Abraham Hawk.
RECORD BOOK E - VOLUME 8 - PAGE 88 APPLICATION OF DANIEL TAYLOR FOR A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION
State of Missouri, County of Montgomery, ---- day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open Count before the Judge of the Circuit Court of the County of Montgomery aforesaid now sitting,l Tayolor, a resident of Lewiston Township in said County and State, aged about eighty-four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth make the following statement in addition of the one which he has here tofore made in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, 7th of June 1832, for the relief of soldiers of the revolution. That he was, he thinks in the year 1774 in a battle which was fought near the mouth of the great Kanawa between Colonial forces under command of General Lewis and the Indians, that he was then a married man; that he was born in Jersey about 40 miles from city of New York, in the year of 1748 on the 18th of September, according to the record of his birth which was in his fathers bible out of which he copied it - that his father when this affiant was still quite young removed to Frederick County, Virginia near to Winchester, that this affiant remained there until he had become a man and there learned his trade of a house carpenter, that he removed from there to the Greenbrier River to a settlement that was there and remained there 12 years having married there, and it was some few years after his removal to this settlement that the revolutionary war broke out. The settlement on the Greenbrier at this time was small and could not produce more than 30 or 40 men and was from its distance from the interior and the proximity to the wilderness extremely exposed to danger from the Indians inhabiting to the west and south who were generally hostile to the Americans. In this situation, the inhabitants of the settlement were organized into militia under command of on John Cook and this affiant in conjunction with the rest of the Command of Captain Cook erected a fort at a place called the Little Levels, within one mile and half of Greenbrier River and gave it the name of Fort Defiance, that this fort was built in the year seventy-six and from the time of its erection this affiant was engaged during nearly the whole of every summer for six years under the Command of Captain Cook spying, guarding the fort and ranging. During that time several of the men were killed by the Indians but the fort was not attacked being on an eminence in open ground, the Indians it seemed were unwilling to expose themselves to the danger of an open attack. A fort within about 14 miles from Fort Defiance was attacked by 300 Indians but was successfully defended - this was Fort Donaldson - and during the six years the affiant was engaged in guarding and defending Fort Defiance, and the neighboring settlement he assisted on several occasions to equip young men of the settlement who were desirous to partake in the defence of their country against the British invader, tho he never went himself, and indeed it was the desire of the Government that the fort and settlement on the Greenbrier should be maintained as a protection to the interior settlements, and the people of the settlement accordingly received a message, said to come from the Board of War, requiring them to maintain their position, and promising them their services rendered in its defense and protection should be accounted as services rendered the government in the line of the Continental Army. This affiant, after remaining at Fort Defiance six years or thereabouts, returned to the neighborhood of Winchester where he remained some three or four years and then moved back to Greenbrier and after a couple of years moved to Kentucky where he resided part of the time near Bardstown and part in the barrens and after remaining there some twenty years he removed to this County where he has remained since and expects to die. It is impossible for this affiant to state the number of months or years he was engaged in active service in defense of his country, but he thinks that this ought not to preclude him from receiving something from his government with which to smooth his path to the grave, and in his circumstances anything would be much butter than nothing at all. His extreme age, too, has affected his memory, but he believes he is very safe in saying he must have been engaged in actual service under Captain Cook for at least one year, as the greater part of each summer for six years was occupied by him in the woods or fort as he before said. The affiant states that other officers in the company were George Clendenon, Lieutenant, and John McNeil, Ensign, that he himself was a private and for the greater part of the time acting as a spy. That he was a volunteer in all his services and never got a discharge, but each one went his way when the war was over. This affiant does not know of anyone living by whom he is able to prove the services mentioned above. He is known to several persons who are in this State, and to many in Kentucky, who have known him for many years, but they are out of his reach and he is obliged to resort to his neighbors in this County for the only testimonials of his character, and the reputation of his revolutionary services which he is able to produce, in amongst those he named; Nathaniel Dryden, Amos Kibbe and Jacob L. Sharpe. This affiant farther states, that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or of the United States and that he has never made any application for a pension save the present and hereby relinquishes all claims to pension of annuity for or on account of revolutionary services save what he seeks by this petition, and which may be granted him under the law of the seventh of June last - this affiant believes that he has stated all that he knows mentioned in this application and farther saith not.
Signed: Daniel Taylor - Taylor Ancestry--From the files of Janice L. (Armstrong) Nicholas
TAYLOR ANCESTRY
Mary Taylor (known as "Polly") was born in Rockingham County, Virginia in the year 1810. She was the daughter of William and Mary (Burrell) Taylor. On November 21, 1830, she and Samuel E. Armstrong were married in Rockingham Co., by the Rev. Abner W. Killpatrick. Thus, our Taylor connection. See Chapter Three. ancestry.
NOTE:
The following information was given to Kent Botkin in a letter from Frank Taylor. It is from the files of Rebecca H. Good, and came with a note saying that this line was being prepared for publication. Also included was Daniel Taylor's Pension Application which I have copied into this report.
William Taylor was born c 1774, near the "Little Levels" in then Greenbrier County, (now) Pochantas County, West Virginia. His parents, Daniel and Mary Taylor were separated when he was young and he was bound out to Valentine Cackley, a German, of Bath County, now Pocahontas County. William was raised by the Cackleys, became a blacksmith and married Mary Burrell on February 6, 1796. Their children were: (1) Daniel, m. Mary (Polly) Nicely, (2) Solomon, (3) Eli, (4) Mary, m. Samuel E. Armstrong, (5) Elizabeth, m. Philander Bush, (6) Frances, m. Samuel Emswiler, (7) Nancy, died young.
Daniel Taylor was born on September 18, 1748 in New Jersey, parents names not known. He came as a child to Frederick County Va. and lived near Winchester. In the year 1770, he left Frederick County and went to the Greenbrier settlement in what is now Pocahontas County. He died on February 27, 1841 in Missouri, probably in Warren County. Daniel married Mary, maiden name not known, before June of 1773. Daniel Served in the Revolutionary War as a militia soldier in Greenbrier County. Fought as a private in the Battle of Point Pleasant and served in building and guarding the fort at Fort Defiance. After the Revolution he and Mary separated and Mary went to live with one William Ewing. Daniel left Virginia and went to Kentucky about 1790. In 1791, Mary married William Ewing, the marriage is recorded in Bath County. Because there were two William Ewings in Bath County at that time, he was called "Long William" to distinguish him from the other William, who was called "Swago Bill" There are court records in Bath County which show that William Ewing and Mary Taylor were brought before the court for living together in adultly, her husband, Daniel Taylor, being still living. By his removal to Kentucky, he evidently made it possible for them to marry, since it seems that the suit was not prosecuted further. Mary and William both died in Pocohantas County, West Virginia. He in 1827 and she in 1836. The children of Daniel and Mary Taylor were: (1) William, b. c 1774, m. Mary Burrell; (2) Eli, b. c 1776; (3) Solomon, b. c 1778, a captain in the War of 1812; (4) Diadema, m. Samuel Wood; (5) Diana, m. Abraham Hawk.
RECORD BOOK E - VOLUME 8 - PAGE 88
APPLICATION OF DANIEL TAYLOR
FOR A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION
State of Missouri, County of Montgomery, ---- day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open Count before the Judge of the Circuit Court of the County of Montgomery aforesaid now sitting, Daniel Tayolor, a resident of Lewiston Township in said County and State, aged about eighty-four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth make the following statement in addition of the one which he has here tofore made in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, 7th of June 1832, for the relief of soldiers of the revolution. That he was, he thinks in the year 1774 in a battle which was fought near the mouth of the great Kanawa between Colonial forces under command of General Lewis and the Indians, that he was then a married man; that he was born in Jersey about 40 miles from city of New York, in the year of 1748 on the 18th of September, according to the record of his birth which was in his fathers bible out of which he copied it - that his father when this affiant was still quite young removed to Frederick County, Virginia near to Winchester, that this affiant remained there until he had become a man and there learned his trade of a house carpenter, that he removed from there to the
Greenbrier River to a settlement that was there and remained there 12 years having married there, and it was some few years after his removal to this settlement that the revolutionary war broke out. The settlement on the Greenbrier at this time was small and could not produce more than 30 or 40 men and was from its distance from the interior and the proximity to the wilderness extremely exposed to danger from the Indians inhabiting to the west and south who were generally hostile to the Americans. In this situation, the inhabitants of the settlement were organized into militia under command of on John Cook and this affiant in conjunction with the rest of the Command of Captain Cook erected a fort at a place called the Little Levels, within one mile and half of Greenbrier River and gave it the name of Fort Defiance, that this fort was built in the year seventy-six and from the time of its erection this affiant was engaged during nearly the whole of every summer for six years under the Command of Captain Cook spying, guarding the fort and ranging. During that time several of the men were killed by the Indians but the fort was not attacked being on an eminence in open ground, the Indians it seemed were unwilling to expose themselves to the danger of an open attack. A fort within about 14 miles from Fort Defiance was attacked by 300 Indians but was successfully defended - this was Fort Donaldson - and during the six years the affiant was engaged in guarding and defending Fort Defiance, and the neighboring settlement he assisted on several occasions to equip young men of the settlement who were desirous to partake in the defence of their country against the British invader, tho he never went himself, and indeed it was the desire of the Government that the fort and settlement on the Greenbrier should be maintained as a protection to the interior settlements, and the people of the settlement accordingly received a message, said to come from the Board of War, requiring them to maintain their position, and promising them their services rendered in its defense and protection should be accounted as services rendered the government in the line of the Continental Army. This affiant, after remaining at Fort Defiance six years or thereabouts, returned to the neighborhood of Winchester where he remained some three or four years and then moved back to Greenbrier and after a couple of years moved to Kentucky where he resided part of the time near Bardstown and part in the barrens and after remaining there some twenty years he removed to this County where he has remained since and expects to die. It is impossible for this affiant to state the number of months or years he was engaged in active service in defense of his country, but he thinks that this ought not to preclude him from receiving something from his government with which to smooth his path to the grave, and in his circumstances anything would be much butter than nothing at all. His extreme age, too, has affected his memory, but he believes he is very safe in saying he must have been engaged in actual service under Captain Cook for at least one year, as the greater part of each summer for six years was occupied by him in the woods or fort as he before said. The affiant states that other officers in the company were George Clendenon, Lieutenant, and John McNeil, Ensign, that he himself was a private and for the greater part of the time acting as a spy. That he was a volunteer in all his services and never got a discharge, but each one went his way when the war was over. This affiant does not know of anyone living by whom he is able to prove the services mentioned above. He is known to several persons who are in this State, and to many in Kentucky, who have known him for many years, but they are out of his reach and he is obliged to resort to his neighbors in this County for the only testimonials of his character, and the reputation of his revolutionary services which he is able to produce, in amongst those he named; Nathaniel Dryden, Amos Kibbe and Jacob L. Sharpe. This affiant farther states, that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or of the United States and that he has never made any application for a pension save the present and hereby relinquishes all claims to pension of annuity for or on account of revolutionary services save what he seeks by this petition, and which may be granted him under the law of the seventh of June last - this affiant believes that he has stated all that he knows mentioned in this application and farther saith not.
Signed: Daniel Taylor
- Taylor Ancestry--From the files of Janice L. (Armstrong) Nicholas