Individual Details
John TAYLOR Col.
(Abt Aug 1752 - 5 Nov 1801)
Per the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey he was an early tutor and professor of Queen's College (now Rutgers University). Four of his sons were Rutgers alumni.
He was appointed professor of Mathematics in Union College in 1798 and continued to exercise the duties of the professorcite until his death, which was produced by the Yellow fever, in consequence of a visit to the city of N. York in October, when the disease was about commencing and the alarm had not become general.
He was crowned with the honors of Nassau Hall at Princeton N. Jersey at the age of seventeen, and by invitation from the Trustees of Queen's College at New Brunswick, removed thither and assumed the office of its principal Teacher. When the spirit of liberty and independence pervaded the minds of his Countrymen at the commencement of the revolution, he was induced to repair to the tented field, as a volunteer, to participate with his fellow citizens in fighting the battles of his Country. After performing the appointed tour of duty as a soldier, he returned to Queen's College and resumed the habits of a teacher. But the distracted concerns of his country soon roused him from retirement and prompted, again, to lay aside the garb of the citizen, for the habiliments of war; and with the commission of Lieutenant Colonel he bore a conspicuous part in the memorable battles of Princeton, Monmouth and the various skirmishes wich distinguished the american army in the State of N. Jersey.
He was honored with the friendship and correspondence of that exalted patriot and virtuous Citizen General George Washington during and after the struggle for Independence.
In the year 1781 he was married to Jennet Fitz Randolph of Woodbridge and in the following year returned to New Brunswick and resumed the duties of a teacher in Queen's College. An increasing and expensive family compelled him to remove in November 1791 to Elizabeth Town. This was selected as the most eligible of several situations which were proposed to him about the same period. Here he taught the Greek and Latin Languages together with the sciences with success and high reputation. An invitation, characterized with a strong solicitation from the Board of Trustees of the then Academy at Schenectady in the State of New York, constrained him from a sense of duty as well as interest, to remove in the autumn of 1794 and become the principal in that Institution. By his agency and zealous endeavours, with a few others, the charter of Union college was procured in the year 1796, and he was immediately appointed by the Board of Trustees the principal and the College was opened with twenty three students in November 1796. Its success and reputation are well known in the literary world and many of her distinguished alumni can at this period testify how indefatigably he laboured to promote their interest and that of the institution. In the year 1798 he was appointed by the Trustees, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Phylosophy, the duties of which he continued to discharge with reputation to himself and satisfaction to the Board and public mind, untill the 5th November 1801, when his immortal soul left its clay tenement....
His remains were entered in the Presbyterian Church yard in the city of Schenectady State of New York, and a plain monument with a suitable inscription was erected by his oldest son, to point out to the passing stranger the spot where lies the Christian and the Mathematician. FIELD NAME Page
He was appointed professor of Mathematics in Union College in 1798 and continued to exercise the duties of the professorcite until his death, which was produced by the Yellow fever, in consequence of a visit to the city of N. York in October, when the disease was about commencing and the alarm had not become general.
He was crowned with the honors of Nassau Hall at Princeton N. Jersey at the age of seventeen, and by invitation from the Trustees of Queen's College at New Brunswick, removed thither and assumed the office of its principal Teacher. When the spirit of liberty and independence pervaded the minds of his Countrymen at the commencement of the revolution, he was induced to repair to the tented field, as a volunteer, to participate with his fellow citizens in fighting the battles of his Country. After performing the appointed tour of duty as a soldier, he returned to Queen's College and resumed the habits of a teacher. But the distracted concerns of his country soon roused him from retirement and prompted, again, to lay aside the garb of the citizen, for the habiliments of war; and with the commission of Lieutenant Colonel he bore a conspicuous part in the memorable battles of Princeton, Monmouth and the various skirmishes wich distinguished the american army in the State of N. Jersey.
He was honored with the friendship and correspondence of that exalted patriot and virtuous Citizen General George Washington during and after the struggle for Independence.
In the year 1781 he was married to Jennet Fitz Randolph of Woodbridge and in the following year returned to New Brunswick and resumed the duties of a teacher in Queen's College. An increasing and expensive family compelled him to remove in November 1791 to Elizabeth Town. This was selected as the most eligible of several situations which were proposed to him about the same period. Here he taught the Greek and Latin Languages together with the sciences with success and high reputation. An invitation, characterized with a strong solicitation from the Board of Trustees of the then Academy at Schenectady in the State of New York, constrained him from a sense of duty as well as interest, to remove in the autumn of 1794 and become the principal in that Institution. By his agency and zealous endeavours, with a few others, the charter of Union college was procured in the year 1796, and he was immediately appointed by the Board of Trustees the principal and the College was opened with twenty three students in November 1796. Its success and reputation are well known in the literary world and many of her distinguished alumni can at this period testify how indefatigably he laboured to promote their interest and that of the institution. In the year 1798 he was appointed by the Trustees, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Phylosophy, the duties of which he continued to discharge with reputation to himself and satisfaction to the Board and public mind, untill the 5th November 1801, when his immortal soul left its clay tenement....
His remains were entered in the Presbyterian Church yard in the city of Schenectady State of New York, and a plain monument with a suitable inscription was erected by his oldest son, to point out to the passing stranger the spot where lies the Christian and the Mathematician. FIELD NAME Page
Events
| Birth | Abt Aug 1752 | ||||
| Death | 5 Nov 1801 | Schenectady, Schenectady, New York, United States | |||
| Marriage | Janet FITZRANDOLPH |
Families
| Spouse | Janet FITZRANDOLPH (1758 - 1838) |
| Child | Augustus Fitzrandolph TAYLOR (1782 - ) |
| Father | Living |
| Mother | Living |