"William Tayloe, (probably Taylor at that day,) of London, emigrated
to Virginia about 1650. He married Anne, a daughter of Henry Corbin,
(who was settled in King and Queen county,) the ancestor of the Corbins.
John Tayloe, son of William and Anne, married Mrs. Elizabeth Lyde,
daughter of Major Gwyn, of Essex county. Their children were William,
John, Betty, and Anne Corbin. The first died young. John was the
founder of Mount Airy. Betty married Colonel Richard Corbin, grandson
of Henry Corbin. Anne Corbin married Mann Page, of Mansfield,
near Fredericksburg.
"The last-named John Tayloe, of Mount Airy, was a member of the
Council of Virginia, before the War of the Revolution, and was re-elected
with his colleague by the House of Burgesses during the progress of the
war. He died suddenly on the 18th April, 1779, leaving a large family.
He had twelve children, of whom eight daughters and one son survived
him. His wife was Rebecca Plater, sister of the Honourable Governor
George Plater, of Maryland, whom he married in 1747. She died in 1787
Their eight daughters married,—1st, Elizabeth, to Governor Edward Lloyd,
in 1767, of Maryland; 2d, Rebecca, to Francis Lightfoot Lee, the signer
of the Declaration of Independence in 1769; 3d, Eleanor, to Ralph
Wormly, of Middlesex, in 1772; 4th, Anne Corbin, to Thomas Lomax,
of Caroline, in 1773; 5th, Mary, to Mann Page, of Spottsylvania, in 1776;
6th, Catherine, to Landon Carter, of Richmond county, in 1780; 7th,
Jane, to Robert Beverley, of Essex, in 1791; 8th, Sarah, to Colonel Wm.
Augustine Washington, of Westmoreland, in 1799.
"John, son of the foregoing John and Rebecca, third of the name, was
born in 1771, the only son in a family of twelve. In 1792 he married
Anne, daughter of Governor Benjamin Ogle, of Maryland. He died in
Washington in 1828. Their children were fifteen, of whom three died
young, and eleven (six sons and five daughters) survived their father.
Their mother died in 1855, at the unusual age of eighty-three. Five sons
and three daughters have survived her. Their eldest son, John, entered
the navy, and was distinguished in the battles of the Constitution with the
Guerriere and with the Cyane and Levant. After the first action the State
of Virginia presented him with a sword. He was captured in the Levant
by a British squadron whilst lying at Port Praya, Cape de Verde Islands.
He died in 1824 at Mount Airy, having resigned, shortly before, his rank
of lieutenant in the navy, to which he was promoted soon after his first
action. Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, the second son, resides in Washington.
Three other sons—William, Edward, and George—reside in Virginia,
and one in Alabama,—Henry Tayloe, an active member of the Church in
that State. John Tayloe, a grandson, resides at Chatterton, in the county
of King George."
