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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Major / Patriotic Service
Birth: 04 Jan 1750 / Albemarle / VA Death: 03 Sep 1821 Broad River / Wilkes / GA
Qualifying Service Description:
Also Lieutenant, Captain, Second and Sixth Virginia Regiment
Prisoner of War
Additional References:
Gwathmey, Virginians in the Rev, pg 756
Magazine of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of Virginia, Vol 7, No 1, Jan 1927, pg 55-58
DAR cites HEITMAN, HIST REG OF OFFICERS OF THE CONT ARMY DURING THE WAR OF THE REV, 1775-1783, pg 531
Spouse: (1) Martha Meriwether; (2) XX Cox; Children: Ann Nancy; Mary Amelia; Warren; Elizabeth; Lewis; Benjamin E; Martha; Margaret; Thornton; David Meriwether/Merriweather; Nicholas Merriweather; Mary Nora/Mary Amelia Emily;
per findagrave.com the cemetery is located somewhere east of the dead-end of Leroy Hill Road. No public access is known at this time
Author: Marcus David Byers Jr
Benjamin Taliaferro was born 4 January 1750 at Albemarle County, Virginia, a son of Zachariah Taliaferro and Mary Braxton Boutwell. He began his service in the militia as a lieutenant of two rifle companies and transferred to the Continental Sixth Regiment in March 1776. He served in Battles at Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey, and under Colonel Daniel Morgan at Saratoga, New York, where he was promoted to Captain. In June 1779, Taliaferro joined Colonel Richard Parker’s First Virginia Battalion in action at Savannah. As a major, he was part of Benjamin Lincoln’s Southern Army in 1780 at Charleston, where he was captured. His orderly day-book is still used as a resource about the Siege of Charleston.
Benjamin Taliaferro married Martha Meriwether, a daughter of David Meriwether, in April 1782. They were the parents of ten children.
After parole, he moved to Wilkes County, Georgia, to grow tobacco. He played an active role in the life of the state of Georgia. He was a state senator, President of the Senate, U.S. Congressman, a trustee of the University of Georgia, and Judge of the Superior Court. Because of his opposition to the Yazoo Land Fraud of the Georgia Legislature, he was held in high regard by the citizens. A county was named Taliaferro in his honor.
He died 3 September 1821, at Wilkes County, Georgia.
Author: Kenneth Scott Collins
Benjamin Taliaferro b. 1750 d. 9/3/1821 OGLETHORPE COUNTY, GEORGIA
On March 4, 1776, he enlisted as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Regiment of the Virginia Continental Line. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on August 4, 1776 and to Captain, September 14, 1778. He fought in the Battle of Princeton under General Henry Lee and General Benjamin Lincoln. On May 12, 1780, he was captured by the enemy at the Battle of Charleston and was held prisoner for two years. He was promoted to Brevet-Major on September 30, 1783. During 1777 and 1778, he commanded a Company of Riflemen under Colonel Morgan. After the war, he was awarded 4,666 acres of bounty land for his services.
See: (1) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 324.
(2) Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, p. 756.
(3) History of Oglethorpe County, Georgia, p. 67.
(4) Marriages and Deaths: 1820 to 1830, p. 123.
(5) Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, p. 220.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 2, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.
A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.
Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.
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