Robert Barraud Taylor (1774–1834)
Robert Barraud Taylor was born on 20 March 1774 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was named for his father, who served multiple terms as mayor of Norfolk, and his mother (Sarah Curle Barraud), a descendant of Huguenots who had fled religious persecution in France.
"Thomas Jefferson to Robert Taylor, 3 March 1819," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-14-02-0082. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 14, 1 February to 31 August 1819, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 93–94.]
"Taylor, Robert Barraud," in James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, eds., Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1600-1689, Volume VI: Sunderland–Zurita (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898), 49.
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