Thomas Taylor Byrd
(1752-1821)
BIRTH
1752
PLACE
Westover, Virginia Colony
DEATH
1821
PLACE
Clarke, Virginia, United States
FAMILY
FATHER
William Byrd III
(1728-1777)
MOTHER
Elizabeth Hill Carter Byrd
(1731-1760)
BROTHER
Francis Otway Byrd
(1756-1800)
SISTER
Elizabeth Hill Byrd Skipwith
(1759-1819)
SISTER
Maria Horsmanden Byrd Page
(1761-1844)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Thomas Taylor Byrd was a Virginia-born Loyalist, born in 1752, a son of William Byrd III and Elizabeth Hill Carter. He served as a captain in the British army before and during the American Revolution. After the war he returned to Virginia and moved to the northwestern part of the state in 1785. He married Mary Anne Armistead and established the family estate known as the Cottage. Their son Richard Evelyn became a Virginia lawyer and legislator. Thomas died in 1821.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Thomas Taylor Byrd’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Thomas Taylor Byrd is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Thomas Taylor Byrd died in 1821, in Clarke, Virginia, United States. Thomas Taylor Byrd was a Virginia-born Loyalist, born in 1752, a son of William Byrd III and Elizabeth Hill Carter. He served as a captain in the British army before and during the American Revolution. After the war he returned to Virginia and moved to the northwestern part of the state in 1785. He married Mary Anne Armistead and established the family estate known as the Cottage. Their son Richard Evelyn became a Virginia lawyer and legislator. Thomas died in 1821. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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