Mary "Polly" Fowler Taylor was the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Spangler) Fowler and widow of Mark Taylor. She married secondly to Mills Robertson, widower, who married 1st to Elizabeth S. Walker, daughter of George R. Walker and, 2nd and then to Mary Fowler Taylor on April 2, 1832 in Franklin Co., VA. Mills, her second husband, was the son of Jeffrey and Nancy (Dickerson) Robertson.

Franklin Co., Va. Minute Book, 1840-1845
January 1843  Chancery Order
Taylor versus Boon

        Moses G. Carson is appointed guardian as shown to William Robertson, an infant defined in this court, 
to defend his interests in this court and _blank_ this day. blank_ heard by Court on the Bill of the 
Complaints, the answers of the defendants this day filed, the disposition of Witnesses and was assigned 
Council upon consideration whereof the Court being of opinion the lands & slaves mentioned in the Bill of 
Complaint might be divided and among the claimants of the same and that it was the intention of said 
Testator that all said lands not specifically divided ought to be divided equally between the Simon Boon on 
the one hand and the heirs of Polly Robertson on the other and that the tract of land called the Gray Tract 
which was conveyed by said Testator in his lifetime to Lewis Skelton, Thomas & Janes Taylor was intended 
as an advancement and satisfication pro tenant of the provision made by the said Will in their possession out 
of said land and that said tract of land at the time of assessment was of the value of five hundred dollars doth 
transfer, adjudge, order and decreed that Moses G. Carson, Cyrus Prince (Priss?), and John Nathan be
 appointed commissioner for the purpose of making said division and they are hereby required to go on said 
lands and allot by proper metes & bounds one half therof to Simon Boon and the other half to the children of 
Polly Robertson, decd., having regards in making allotment to the quality as well as quanity of said lands and 
allowing said Simon Boon five hundred more in value of said lands than the children of said Polly Robertson, 
decd.  The Court being further of the opinion that the slaves mentioned in the said Will not especially 
bequested ought to be divided unto two equal shares as between the said Simon Boon and the children of the 
said Polly Robertson, decd., doth transfer, adjudge, order and decree that the above named Commissioner on 
the 1st of January 1844 make division of the said slaves to the terms of the Order and that they devide the 
same unto two equal shares in number and value as near as may be practible and allot one share to Simon 
Boon and the other share to the children of Polly Robertson, decd.  The Court being further of opinion that 
the said Testator desired that all the children of said Polly Robertson, decd., should be equally the objects of 
his bounty, and that said testator in his lifetime conveyed to Lewis & Thomas Skelton and James Taylor 
land of the value of $2000.00 and that he intended said advancement as a satisfication pro tenant of the 
provision made for them under and by said will, doth thereafter adjudge, order and decree that the above 
commissioner go upon the lands which shall be allotted to the said children of the said Polly Robertson, 
decd., and allot by proper metes and bounds one half thereof to each of the children of said Polly Robertson, 
decd., having regard in making said allotment to the quality as well as the quanity of said land and allowing 
the said William Robertson $400.00 more in value of land than any of his said brothers and that they also 
divide the slaves which shall be alloted to the children of the said Polly Robertson, decd., into five equalo 
shares in number and values as near as may be practible and allot one fifth part thereof to each of said 
children and report these proceedings to the Court in order to a final divise in the provisions.


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