Thomas Taggart and Mary Vanderbilt

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Husband Thomas Taggart ¹

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            AKA: James Taggart 2
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Wife Mary Vanderbilt ¹

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Children

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1 F Christiana Taggart ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Christianna Taggart,3 Christina Taggart,4 Christine Taggart 5
           Born: 12 May or 17 May 1755 - Philadelphia, PA 1 3 6
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           Died: 10 Nov 1829 3 6
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         Spouse: Col. James Sample (1756/1756-1830/1830) 1 3 7 8 9

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Taggart

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He [James] was an early settler of western Pennsylvania, in the area of Allegheny and Lawrence Counties. [BOBLC, 70]

He [James] was an early settler of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [BOBLC, 129]

Thomas Taggart of County Antrim, Ireland, came with his brother Robert to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1750, where Robert was a well-known merchant. Three generations of the Taggart family published the Philadelphia Times. As early as 1754 David Taggart settled in Virginia at a place called Tygart's Valley. Col. John Taggart was in command of Camp Curtin, July, 1861.

Thomas Taggart and his wife Mary Vanderbilt, were residents of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.

1 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 89.

2 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 70, 129.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 796.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 241, 252.

5 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 249.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 241.

7 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 179, 412.

8 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 917.

9 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 168.