Washington County TN Archives Military Records.....Taylor, LeRoy 
Revwar - Pension 
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CAPT. LEROY TAYLOR



    LeRoy Taylor applied for revolutionary pension while living in Washington

County, Tenn., Sept. 14, 1832. He entered the service while living in Burke

County, N. C. He moved to Tennessee country which was then North Carolina, in

the spring of 1789. His last pension payment was made to his grand daughter,

Margaret Irwin. He died March 24, 1834.



    NOTE:-LeRoy Taylor is called Colonel Taylor because of service after the

Revolution in the Militia. He and his brother Parmenas, moved to the Tennessee

country. They were sons of William Taylor of Prince County, Virginia. William

Taylor's wife was Sarah Bradford. He was born in Prince William County, Va. and

moved to Burke County, N. C. in his youth with his mother and step father, Hosea

Rose. He was born July 25, 1758. He died March 24, 1834 in Leesburg, Washington

County, Va. He married twice. His first wife was Susan Sherrill, sister of

Catherine Sherrill who married Col. John Sevier. The second wife was Mary

Bradford, a kinswoman of his mother. His children were Nellie: William; Robert;

Joseph; Sallie or Sarah who married John Campbell; Levi (first child by the

second wife; married Mary Houston Rogers; Malinda married Patrick Irwin; Jacob

married Polly Keys; LeRoy, Jr., married Jean Inman: Peggy married Young Kibbler;

Betsey married Henry Haire; Ruth married Hiram Swaney; It is believed there were

five other children, twenty-four in all.





Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. I



by Zella Armstrong



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