The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-18
Daughters of the
 American Revolution.
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Thomas and John-it is supposeo, settled fin Virginia. while Archelaus crossed the mountain and took up his abode in the West and held no intercourse with his | brothers, they being shareholders which is against the Quaker religion. There are Elmores living in Ohio and Illinois. the | descendants of Archelaus.
 General John A. Elmore of Alabama,
 was the son of General. John Archelaus Fillmore and Susannah Morris of Virginia. Captain John A. Elmore of Montgomery
 was the third of the name of whom we
 have knowledge. Two of General
 John Archer Elmore's daughters enjoy
 the distlnct4M of being real daughters
 --one Mrs. A. H. Hearne, being a mem
 Der of Peter Forney Chapter, and Mrs. James Scott of the Dallas, Texas, chap ter.
 Answers.
 No. 523. GATES-General Gates was a
 native of England. He was early trained
 to arms. He came to America as an
 officer, and served with Washington,
 under General Braddock in the ill-fated
 campaign against Fort Duquesne in 1755.
 On the breaking out of the Revolution in
 lT6, from his attachment to his adopted
 country. and high military reputation, he
 was by the Continental Congress appoint ed Adjutant General of the army, and in TIT. succeeded General Schuyler in the command of the northern army, to which
 after two sanguinary battles. General Burgoyne surrendered with his whole force as prisoners of war at Saratoga, October 7th. TIT. For this service Gen eral Gates received 8 gold medal, and the
 thanks of Congress. In June, 17S0 Gen. eral Gates was invested with the chief command of the Southern army. At Camden, 18th of August, 17S0, he was de-.
 feated with great slaughter by Lord Cornwallis. He retreated to Hillsboro, and Congress appointed General Green to succeed him. He was tried by order
 or Congress for his conduct at Camden, by special court. and was acquitted.
 In l7S2 he was restored to his command
 but the war was over. and Gates retired to his farm in Virginia. Afterwards he
 removed to New York. where he died
 10th April 1806 See Wheelers' History of North Carolina, page 159. NO. 54. TAYLOR-In an Arkansas paper. there was recently published an extensive genealogy of the Taylor family, by Elenor Lexington, which says "the an-
 cestor of the Taylor family was the Nor
 man Baron Taillefer. The lapse of ages has wrought changes in the orthography or the name, charges that almost make it
 unrecginazable. From Tallefer, it be-
 came Taylefer, finally Taylor. Taillefer accompanied William the Conqueror to
 England. and lost his life at the battle or Hastings. His family received from
 the Conqueror large landed estates in the county of Kent, England, as his share
 of the spells. Hanger Taylefer, his des-
 cendant, held lands in the tenure of osprfnge. in the County of Kent, in 125G.
 and from him is descended the present
 line of Taylors. A John Taylor in the
 sixteenth century was lord of the Manor or Schodaschmost His grandson, Thomas
 was created Baron. also his son, and
 grandson. The immigrant ancestor was IsdWard Taylor, who came over from
 London in 1892. and settled in New Ter
 sey at place called Garrets Hill but in later years called by seamen Pisenn