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- Based on the deed below, it has been suggested that Robert's wife may
have been Sarah. However, Sarah is probably not his wife since she was
not mentioned in his will.
6 Feb. 1746 -- Deed Bk 14, p 24, Peter Taylor and his wife, Dorcas, of
Norfolk County, Va. to Richard Bunting of Norfolk Co. for 25 pounds
current money a tract of 50 acres of land on the south side of the
Western Branch of the Elizabeth River, in (Newbys or Hubeys) Neck
joining the lands of John Joyce and Richard Taylor being the land said
Richard Bunting sold to Peter Taylor. Sign. Peter Taylor and Dorcas
Taylor (X), wit. Ralph (Fenter), SARAH CULPEPPER (X her mark), Elanor
Tart. Transcribed by Clyde T. Colbert
It is interesting to note that each of her sons, Robert, Jr., Joseph,
and Benjamin, named a son Benjamin. In the case of Joseph and
Benjamin, at least, it would appear that they each named their first
born son, Benjamin. Various naming conventions were used by different
cultures in the South, but in Virginia, first born sons were most
often named after a grandfather. (See "Albion's Seed, Four British
Folkways in America," by David Hackett Fischer.)
So perhaps the father of Robert's wife was named Benjamin.
The birth dates of Robert's children are largely speculative, and
subject to revision from further research. Perhaps the order in which
Robert names his children in his will offers us some guidance as to
the order of birth. This writer prefers to use the known or
approximate birth dates of children, to estimate the birth date of the
parents. The dates one chooses, in either case, are going to be
guesses, at best.
If our current ancestral theory is correct, then one would hope that
all of the male names used in this family, Robert, Joseph, and
Benjamin, came from the distaff side of the Culpepper family, in some
recent prior generation, as none of these names are Culpepper family
names, in the branch of the Culpeppers from which we currently
speculate that this line is descended.
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1666 - Bef 1739 (< 73 years)