Anthony Taylor, Jr.

  Notes and Events:

• Note. "...Anthony Taylor, Jr., third son of Anthony, and great-grandson of Samuel, the founder, was born at Brookdale farm in 1772, and when quite young was placed with John Thompson, a prominent merchant of Philadelphia, to be trained for a mercantile and business career. On attaining his majority he formed a partnership with Thomas Newbold, whose sister he later married, and engaged extensively in the East India trade, the firm name being Taylor & Newbold. In 1810 Mr. Taylor retired from active business pursuits and settled in Sunbury, his fine country seat in Bristol township, Bucks county, which had been his summer home for some years previously. He later purchased several other large tracts of land in lower Bucks county, and at his death in 1837 was the largest landowner in the county. Anthony Taylor married, in 1802, Mary Newbold, tenth child of Caleb Newbold, of Springfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, and a descendant of Michael Newbold, of Sheffield Park, Yorkshire, England, who in 1678 purchased one eighth of three nintieth parts of the province of West Jersey, and settled in Springfield township, Burlington county where he died in 1693, leaving a large number of children and grandchildren, some of whomwere still in England. Many of his descendants eventually became residents of Bucks county. Anthony and Mary (Newbold) Taylor were the parents of eleven children ..."

Anthony married Mary Newbold, daughter of Caleb Newbold and Sarah Haines.