Creed Taylor (1766–1836)
Creed Taylor was born in Cumberland County, Virginia. A lawyer by trade, he served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1788) and the Virginia Senate (1798–1805). Taylor was also a judge for the Virginia General Court (1805–06) and the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond and Lynchburg districts (1806–31).
"From James Madison to Creed Taylor, 4 January 1813," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-05-02-0459. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 5, 10 July 1812–7 February 1813, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Martha J. King, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, and Jewel L. Spangler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004, pp. 551–552.]
"To James Madison from Creed Taylor, 21 December 1822," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-02-02-0548. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 1 February 1820 – 26 February 1823, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, pp. 617–618.]
A Guide to the Papers of Creed Taylor, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (Archival Resources of the Virginias).
Thomas Pitchett de Graffenried, History of the DeGraffenried Family, from 1191 A.D. to 1925 (Self-published: 1925), 197.
Richmond Enquirer, 28 January 1836, page 3, column 1 (Newspapers.com).
Sarah Taylor in Virginia, U.S., Death Registers, 1853–1911 (Ancestry.com).
Sally Woodson Taylor B 1774 at Vongraffenried: Some Information and Pictures about the DeGraffenried or von Graffenried Family.
Judge Creed Taylor at Find a Grave.