Robert Taliaferro was the son of Francis Taliaferro of London, and grandson of Bartolomeo Taliaferro of Venice and London.
He emigrated to Virginia in 1647, settling on Mobjack Bay in Gloucester County.
He married Catherine Dednam, sister of Mary Dednam Smith, and half-sister of John Grymes.
He was in a partnership with his brother-in-law, Major Lawrence Smith. They received a grant for 6,300 acres on the upper Rappahannock in 1664. Taliaferro purchased a nearby plantation that he dubbed "Taliaferro's Mount" and relocated there from Gloucester County to oversee and develop his new lands. He died before November 1671 and his widow remarried to Cadwallader Jones about December 1671.
Robert Taliaferro was the progenitor of the Taliaferro family of Virginia.Robert Taliaferro was Born: 11-Nov-1626, Bethnal Green, Stephney, Middlesex, Eng,Christened: 19-Nov-1626, St. Dunstan, Stepney Parish, Middlesex, England. Robert immigrated to VA by 1647, and lived twenty years in Gloucester County, his lands lying along Poropotank Creek and evidently at the head of Ware River, until, in 1666/7, when he moved to the place that came to be called "Taliaferro's Mount" on the Rappahannock River in Old Rappahannock/Essex/Caroline County, near the site of the present town of Port Royal. With his wife Katherine Debnam whom he married in 1654, he became the founder of a significant Virginia family. Robert Taliaferro and Katherine (Debman) Taliaferro were the parents of: Robert Taliaferro, II.; Francis Taliaferro, I.; Lt. Col. John "The Ranger" Taliaferro Sr.; Mary (Taliaferro) Johnson; Richard Taliaferro Sr.(The Pirate); Katherine (Taliaferro) Battaile and Charles Taliaferro Sr.
He emigrated to Virginia in 1647, settling on Mobjack Bay in Gloucester County.
He married Catherine Dednam, sister of Mary Dednam Smith, and half-sister of John Grymes.
He was in a partnership with his brother-in-law, Major Lawrence Smith. They received a grant for 6,300 acres on the upper Rappahannock in 1664. Taliaferro purchased a nearby plantation that he dubbed "Taliaferro's Mount" and relocated there from Gloucester County to oversee and develop his new lands. He died before November 1671 and his widow remarried to Cadwallader Jones about December 1671.
Robert Taliaferro was the progenitor of the Taliaferro family of Virginia.Robert Taliaferro was Born: 11-Nov-1626, Bethnal Green, Stephney, Middlesex, Eng,Christened: 19-Nov-1626, St. Dunstan, Stepney Parish, Middlesex, England. Robert immigrated to VA by 1647, and lived twenty years in Gloucester County, his lands lying along Poropotank Creek and evidently at the head of Ware River, until, in 1666/7, when he moved to the place that came to be called "Taliaferro's Mount" on the Rappahannock River in Old Rappahannock/Essex/Caroline County, near the site of the present town of Port Royal. With his wife Katherine Debnam whom he married in 1654, he became the founder of a significant Virginia family. Robert Taliaferro and Katherine (Debman) Taliaferro were the parents of: Robert Taliaferro, II.; Francis Taliaferro, I.; Lt. Col. John "The Ranger" Taliaferro Sr.; Mary (Taliaferro) Johnson; Richard Taliaferro Sr.(The Pirate); Katherine (Taliaferro) Battaile and Charles Taliaferro Sr.
Robert Taliaferro was the son of Francis Taliaferro of London, and grandson of Bartolomeo Taliaferro of Venice and London.
He emigrated to Virginia in 1647, settling on Mobjack Bay in Gloucester County.
He married Catherine Dednam, sister of Mary Dednam Smith, and half-sister of John Grymes.
He was in a partnership with his brother-in-law, Major Lawrence Smith. They received a grant for 6,300 acres on the upper Rappahannock in 1664. Taliaferro purchased a nearby plantation that he dubbed "Taliaferro's Mount" and relocated there from Gloucester County to oversee and develop his new lands. He died before November 1671 and his widow remarried to Cadwallader Jones about December 1671.
Robert Taliaferro was the progenitor of the Taliaferro family of Virginia.Robert Taliaferro was Born: 11-Nov-1626, Bethnal Green, Stephney, Middlesex, Eng,Christened: 19-Nov-1626, St. Dunstan, Stepney Parish, Middlesex, England. Robert immigrated to VA by 1647, and lived twenty years in Gloucester County, his lands lying along Poropotank Creek and evidently at the head of Ware River, until, in 1666/7, when he moved to the place that came to be called "Taliaferro's Mount" on the Rappahannock River in Old Rappahannock/Essex/Caroline County, near the site of the present town of Port Royal. With his wife Katherine Debnam whom he married in 1654, he became the founder of a significant Virginia family. Robert Taliaferro and Katherine (Debman) Taliaferro were the parents of: Robert Taliaferro, II.; Francis Taliaferro, I.; Lt. Col. John "The Ranger" Taliaferro Sr.; Mary (Taliaferro) Johnson; Richard Taliaferro Sr.(The Pirate); Katherine (Taliaferro) Battaile and Charles Taliaferro Sr.
He emigrated to Virginia in 1647, settling on Mobjack Bay in Gloucester County.
He married Catherine Dednam, sister of Mary Dednam Smith, and half-sister of John Grymes.
He was in a partnership with his brother-in-law, Major Lawrence Smith. They received a grant for 6,300 acres on the upper Rappahannock in 1664. Taliaferro purchased a nearby plantation that he dubbed "Taliaferro's Mount" and relocated there from Gloucester County to oversee and develop his new lands. He died before November 1671 and his widow remarried to Cadwallader Jones about December 1671.
Robert Taliaferro was the progenitor of the Taliaferro family of Virginia.Robert Taliaferro was Born: 11-Nov-1626, Bethnal Green, Stephney, Middlesex, Eng,Christened: 19-Nov-1626, St. Dunstan, Stepney Parish, Middlesex, England. Robert immigrated to VA by 1647, and lived twenty years in Gloucester County, his lands lying along Poropotank Creek and evidently at the head of Ware River, until, in 1666/7, when he moved to the place that came to be called "Taliaferro's Mount" on the Rappahannock River in Old Rappahannock/Essex/Caroline County, near the site of the present town of Port Royal. With his wife Katherine Debnam whom he married in 1654, he became the founder of a significant Virginia family. Robert Taliaferro and Katherine (Debman) Taliaferro were the parents of: Robert Taliaferro, II.; Francis Taliaferro, I.; Lt. Col. John "The Ranger" Taliaferro Sr.; Mary (Taliaferro) Johnson; Richard Taliaferro Sr.(The Pirate); Katherine (Taliaferro) Battaile and Charles Taliaferro Sr.
