Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers

Membership

Eligibility for membership in the Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers is limited to ladies and gentlemen who are lineal descendants of Britons who, during the period of the Civil Wars in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland from the Interregnum (30 Jan 1649) until the Restoration of the Monarchy (29 May 1660), resided in the New World remaining loyal to their Brittanic Majesties King Charles I and his son and successor, King Charles II. The ancestor must have held claim to not less than 1,000 acres of land during his lifetime. There is a rebuttable presumption that persons then living in New England were not "Cavaliers." There is a rebuttable presumption that persons then living in Virginia were "Cavaliers" as were persons then living in Barbados and the other British sugar islands of the Caribbean.

Membership in the Order is by invitation.  Anyone interested in membership should contact a member in good standing to whom the candidate is well known. Prospective members must also meet the eligibility requirements set forth above.  The Order does not provide genealogical assistance. Those interested in research should contact a professional genealogist.

Possible qualifying ancestors:

Thomas Sprigg: he had a 1000 acre estate (Northhampton), he was arrived in Maryland about 1655, he was loyal to the Monarchy of England, he descended from Britons.

Robert Taliaferro:

The know lineage of the Virginia branch of the Taliaferro family begins with the Emigrant, Robert Taliaferro, who came to Virginia in 1645. He was a man of prominence; he and his sons holding high state and church offices in the Colony.  He owned large tracts of land including one of 6,500 acres, which he patented jointly with Major Lawrence Smith.  His children and grand-children were related by blood and marriage to the first families of Virginia.

Robert Taliaferro was married to Katharine Debnam Grymes, step-daughter of Rev. Charles Grymes of "Brandon." then of Gloucester, now of Middlesex County. Robert Taliaferro and Major Lawrence Smith, being great friends and intimately associated in business, were drawn still closer together by the intermarriage of their children, John Taliaferro and Sarah Smith.

The terms of the treaty at Yorktown were arranged in the Moore House which, at one time, belonged to Major Lawrence Smith adn at this time was owned an occupied by his great-granddaughter, Lucy, wife of Col. Augustine Moore.  Nicholas Taliaferro, the great-great-grandson, was present when the reaty was made. This estate is know as "TempleFarm."

The Richmond Critic William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol II, Nos 1,4; Vol IX, No.1; Vol X, No 1; Vol III,No 4; Vol V, No 3; Vol VIII, No2; Vol X, No 1; Vol XII, Nos 1,2; Second Series, Vol.I, No3

The Taliaferros in Virginia, Chapter III

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