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ALL OF THE ABOVE VOLUME I i ii ALL OF THE ABOVE VOLUME I GENEALOGY AND HISTORY LINEAL ANCESTORS OF ELIZABETH HUEY TAYLOR COOK TAYLOR, HUEY, MOORE, CROUCH, MAYO, BALDWIN, SCOTT, DAWSON, PUTNAM (PUTTENHAM), PORTER, HA(W)THORNE, DOYNE, WHARTON, STONE, WINSTON, GAINES, WATTS, GOUGE, GRAVES, WILLIAMS, HUNT (HARP), JEWETT/JUETT, MASON, PENDLETON, GAMEWELL, SWAINE, PARSONS, BOOTH, WOODBURY, DWIGHT, WALTON, MAVERICK, HARRISON, LYTTLETON, VALLETTE, MARMADUKE, GYE, HEDGES (DE LACY), KENDRICK, NOBLE, BATTAILLE, BOWEN, FLEMING, DAVIS, DEVOTION, SHEPHERD, POND, LOWE, RICE, COTTON, MAINWARING, CURTIS, GREGORY, ELYOT, SMITH, CRUTTENDEN, PARSONS, STRONG, HINKSON, GREGSON, CHURCH, MARSH, POMEROY, MATHER, ABRAM(S), ROCKETT, BARBEE, WOODWARD, STEBBENS, WHITING, CROWE, REEDS, GODWIN, PARTRIDGE. LYMAN, DELAMARE, BREWER, THROCKMORTON, SCUDDER, DAWKINS, FRANKLIN, VAUGHN, JOHNSON, MORRILL, CRAIG, TALIAFERRO, HAWKINS, FAULCONER (FALKONER), JENKIN, GARLAND, COLLINS, WATSON, MEDFORD (MITFORD), HEPBOURNE, MACKALL, DOLAND (DOWLAND), BROWNE, POWELSON, MUNN, COOKE, WHITE, COEBOURNE, STALCOP Richard Baldwin Cook 1 ALL OF THE ABOVE Volume I GENEALOGY AND HISTORY LINEAL ANCESTORS OF ELIZABETH HUEY TAYLOR COOK By Richard Baldwin Cook ISBN – 13: 978-0-9791257-1-3 ISBN – 10: 0-9791257-1-5 Copyright Richard Baldwin Cook First Edition - 2008 NATIVABOOKS.COM Nativa Publishing Cockeysville, Maryland Available at on line book sellers and at bookstores 2 Introduction: Too Intrinsic for Renown Page 5 Elizabeth Huey Taylor Cook (1918-2000) Page 11 Nan Elizabeth Huey Taylor (1893-1993) Page 29 John Oliver Taylor, Jr (1891-1960) Page 41 James Addison Huey (1862-1961) Page 53 Sara Crouch (1861-1956) Two Couples: Page 89 Joseph Addison Huey (1819-1896) Amanda Watts Gaines (1821-1895) & Virginia Watts (1803-1882) James Gaines (1798-1872) John Oliver Taylor Sr (1862-1922) Page 113 Mary Baldwin Moore (1863-1936) Charles Taylor (1819-1897) Page 139 Charlotte Jane Gamewell (1828-1910) Catherine Gould Parsons (1791-1865) Page 179 Oliver Swayne Taylor (1784-1885) John Maverick (1578-1635/6) Page 201 Mary Gye (c. 1580-aft 1666) Marmaduke Moore (1808-1883) Page 213 Jane Hedges Baldwin (1809-1893) Jonah Baldwin (1777-1864/5) Page 225 Sarah Scott (1791-1817) William Moore (1780-1859) Page 251 Elinor Vallette Dawson (1781-1834) 3 Thomas Moore (1745 -1823) Page 257 Mary Harrison (1761-1835) Henry Hunt Mayo (1810-1877) Page 275 Louisa Winston (?-?) Daniel Mayo (1762-1838) Page 283 Mary Putnam (1773-1838) Esther Kendrick (?-?) Page 323 Joseph Mayo (1720-1776) Nicholas Dawson (1745-1789/90) Page 337 Vilette/Valette Ly(i)ttleton (1759-1842) Mary Stone (?-1683/86) Page 357 Robert Doyne (?-1689) William Stone (1603-1660) Page 363 Verlinda Cotton (?-c. 1675) Roster of Illustrations Page 377 Index Page 379 4 “TOO INTRINSIC FOR RENOWN” Emily Dickinson (Time and Eternity, LXXXII) Members of our family have participated in both major events (the Indian Wars, the Battle of Bunker Hill, the American Revolution, the Civil War) and some of the mythic incidents, which have contributed to the character and self-understanding of the people of the United States. A number of the signal episodes were legal proceedings (Salem Witch Trials, Boston Massacre trials, a runaway slave trial). A large number of male ancestors were clergy of one or another Christian variety. A vocational attachment to devout notions of destiny beyond this life runs deep and consistent across the centuries. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth, we find this same current of devotion present in female ancestors, who would have been debarred in an earlier age from any vocational expression of their religious inclinations and who, in some communions, still are. Beyond child rearing activities, the records of the doings of females, is scant, until we reach the twentieth century. Our ancestors in America were adventurers and settlers from Europe. Their own anonymous, ancient ancestors had participated in the out-from-Africa clan migrations of past millennia. In successive and uncounted generations, they played their part in the formation of the tribes and tribal federations, which, long before the European occupation of America, had begun to coalesce into the familiar European nation states of today. Many events in history (such as the creation of nations) are better thought of as movements for they were large population shifts which occurred over decades and centuries. These mass migrations were marked by eviction, dislocation and absorption of resident populations, and thus, by 5 considerable violence. The upheavals were rarely as well documented as the Norman invasion of England. (The French, whether in England after 1066 or in Louisiana, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, always seem to keep good records. Thus we know that two of the twenty-five barons at Runnymede, who placed the Magna Carta before King John in 1216, are connected to Taylor ancestors.) The creation of the distinct ethnic groupings of Europe can be seen as a prelude to the peopling of North America by Europeans. Their appearance in North America might be described (from this side of the Atlantic Ocean) as a relentless invasion by uninvited interlopers, arriving onto lands already occupied. Did it matter if these filthy, violent newcomers thought of themselves as pilgrims and pioneers? No known right, merely brutal conquest gave them any entitlement to settle and divide among themselves the territory they insisted upon calling, quite mistakenly, a “new” world. Was the arrival and expansion of European settlements merely an extension of the clan migrations of earlier eons? Our direct ancestors were on only one side of the genocidal struggles against the Indians – a name given to them by others. The Indians were themselves members of migrating clans but of Asiatic rather than European origin. They had been in North America for thousands of years before the first European voyagers came across them. Against the advance of European settlement, the Asians had no chance. Their lack of resistance to epidemic disease caused a population imbalance and social disintegration that undermined their every effort at survival. But that is the long view. It is not the perspective of a family terrified in the night, in its little cabin, listening to whispers and the near-silent foot fall, and wondering if the log door would hold, uncertain, even, of survival into the next day, when one must venture out to tend crops and care for animals. 6 Terror in the night was the experience of people in their outpost clearings in isolated Ohio and Kentucky forests towards the end of the eighteenth century and a century earlier in Massachusetts or Virginia woods and meadows. It was also the experience of families in Indian towns, petrified by advancing militiamen, who were coming to kill and enslave on the pretext that because native gods were different, the natives were therefore depraved. In fact, Indians would be driven to the brink of extinction because they were in the way of European occupiers, who quickly learned the purifying power of total annihilation. The resident peoples were exterminated by our people: Hawthorns, Swaynes, Moores, Harrisons and others of our Taylor line; Graves, Farmers, Dubois, Van Meters, Crocketts, Cooks and others of our Cook line. The Huguenot ancestor often appears in our decendency. Because of this frequency, precious space is given in this book, and its companion volume, to the tracing of Huguenot origins to France and the absorption and ultimate loss of Huguenot identity within the family and perhaps generally. The writing of biography, even the modest ancestral sketch, is a reversal of the Easter narrative, which moves forward from sacrificial death to miraculous life. But our stories move backward, from death to a glimpse of prior life. This writing is motivated by an attempt to comply with a duty to acknowledge, describe and so honor our ancestors. This obligation, as undertaken in this instance, extends beyond memory, and thus beyond the thin historical data we have. History is not all that happened or even all that was important. History is what is recorded and remembered. A story out of the past is what you have after connecting certain selected and arranged facts. A facet of human life which surely separates us from all other life on this planet is our ancient insistence upon warehousing the bodies of our beloved dead. Many of the old cemeteries still exist and may be located by way of 7 the Index, with directions to some of them. The occasional redundant mention of names and dates is intended to permit the reader to take up a sketch here and there and not feel pressed to read from cover to cover. ELIZABETH HUEY TAYLOR COOK – BETTY COOK This book (in two volumes) is my attempt to honor the memory and the labors of my mother, Elizabeth Huey Taylor Cook (1918-2000). Betty Cook worked on a family genealogy for half a century. She did the necessary tasks: preserving documents, asking questions of her elders, writing and calling distant cousins, organizing her data and discussing it all with the next generation. Betty passed along her research in the form of a grand genealogical chart book in which she collected the facts and made the connections. Betty’s effort is the basis of the present work, whose author hopes Betty’s ancestors will become a presence to her descendents, as they were to her. PROOFREADING & FACT CHECKING Hearty thanks are offered for a thankless task, well done with tenacity and grace, by Rosemarie Coffman and Merry Toups, who proofread an early version and are not responsible for remaining faults. The writer, who continued to fool with the proofread manuscript, owes his gratitude to an observant granddaughter, Isabella Henderson Cook Mendez, for pointing out brand new, last-minute typos. Thanks, Isa. Thanks also to Jean Taylor, the writer’s aunt, who checked and corrected Taylor and Huey facts, as did Dr.

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