I Abraham Taylor, late of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania, America, but now of the city of Bath in the County of Somerset, Esquire, do make, publish and declare this my Last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say:

If my dear Grandson John Taylor survives me I give him £300 which I have in the Stocks

Pennsylvania Governor Patrick Gordon was my 7th great grandfather. Patrick Gordon was born in Aberdeen in 1664, to John Gordon and Christian Smyth, being baptised on 1st March at St. Nicholas, Aberdeen.3,4 He was 1 of 9 children (6 boys and 3 girls).

Ann Jane Taylor, Robert Nurse’s wife, and my great great grandmother was a descendent of John Taylor, the Landscape Painter, so he was my 5th great grandfather. John was the only son of Abraham Taylor and Philadelphia Gordon - the daughter of Major General Patrick Gordon2, Deputy Governor and effective head of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1726 until his death in 1736.

Abraham Taylor was a prosperous Philadelphia merchant and friend of Benjamin Franklin, before the American Revolution. He was my 6th great grandfather