TAYLOR.
Taylor was formed Jan. 19th, 1844, from Harrison, Barbour,
and Marion, and named from John Taylor of Caroline. Williamsport,
sometimes called Prunty Town, is the county-seat. It is situated
near the ferry across Tygart's Valley River, 209 miles northwesterly
from Richmond, and 18 NE. by E. from Clarksburg. It
contains 3 stores, 1 Methodist and 1 Baptist church, and about 30
dwellings. Rector College, an institution founded in 1839, is located
here; it had, by the census of 1840, 110 students.
As this county has been so recently formed, we are unable to
give its statistics or geographical boundaries, and the counties from
which it has been formed have, in those particulars, been described
in this volume as though it had no existence.
