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I J- J f J 1 I z L t TAIT MIL FAMILY Y i K ii Name of of Noble Significance Significance-A A Fine Heritage if jf Ancestry Ancestry- Makes a Man Man Statesman Authors ors Artists Soldiers Artists Soldiers of Fortune Knights Fortune Knights Who Were Very Hotspurs Hotspurs Pil Pilgrim I Possessions Possessions Mar Mar Mar- Fathers Had Stout Hearts and Large Connections With the F F FI Vs Heraldic Vs Heraldic Charges Den Denote te Resolution Dominion Authority Glory rP n HY BY on LEXINGTON JI i J on the origin in of or surf surnames sur sur- f S names toll tell us that TaR Tail Is derived from t French word onI tete tote meaning head t of or chief In the first or front rank rank- r II It also means man anil ani likewise likewise Judgment Judg judg- A 1 th m ment nt and discretion Since SIrce the eleventh century when surnames were wele first adopted has icon been a 0 prominent name nam In Norway It ItIs Is If mentioned In the Helm HelmI Helms I r Variations VarIatIon of or the name all along j. j th the ag ages s IH have been heon and anti Tate In colonial limN Tate S a a. popular orthography In fact tho the I name was spelled Ind indifferently Tate or 1 raft the latter Is Js the more mor usual form rk n af present The Tails mils have a n fine herita heritage e if 0 ancestry makes males a man for they can claim a long line of noble forefathers both holh English Scotch and Irish One r of or the lord m mayors mors ors of Dublin was Sir Siri i Peter Tail Talt and and one of the spiritual l i lords of or the realm was Archibald Campbell Tail Taft born bora In Edinburgh who vho became primate of all England i- i The family has its soldiers of fortU fortune fortune for for- tU tune its knights who were very Hotspurs Hot Hot- spurs purs In the lIt list and ho whose e spears fA fr rang true and clear upon their opponents opponent's op oi I visors making the sparks Ily In every en direction I. I One One of r the sc seals sels ls of the family since time immemorial Is Livesey Li Castle r r- near Liverpool aud we can picture It tt t as ns one of the typical strongholds strongholds-of the middle tl ages cS with It its moat mont and drawbridge draw draw- bridge ts tg guard Juard room loom its dungeons for prisoner HH ItH apertures In the walls wails for fOl sho shooting arrows w and its tortuous tortuous tortuous tor tor- imd underground l' l round passages ages all breathing of oC romance The first firt of the family here were from the Orkney an and Shetland Isles and som- som they spelled their name naoe I Tall Talt ami a sometimes K Tate Tat Tata a u a mere matter mattel of or taste and no importance whatever t they d' d probably argued If H I disposed to a assume c. airs and extra t was added cd d arid and e It looks looIs loos quito swell swoll some said Oh no I th they didn't ay swell for fOl this Is a nineteenth c century a addition to our vo 0 vo- vo c bulan c Pilgrim fathers father brought stout hearts 1 and their thel uhs Magnus 1 S Tate also J. J brought some cash for for he with his wife HonouR is living lI at a beautiful o pla plade e appropriately named dere clerc in 1696 This ThiR wa was In Charles Charlos town ell Bt Virginia s Magni Tate came from Orkney Island Islan lie was wast t one of or the Virginia settlers who help help- I cd ei to win humanity's birthright ht from fromet et put ut of tumult and tn peril gaining there there- c from a a. glorious security of oC liberty nn 1 happiness for all the ages aKes to lo tor r t come eume Ik Magnus jr son on of Magnus anu the I t if grim married Mary Mai McCormick Other S marriage connections were w with the Lewis Goode Fletcher Lucas Moore J King Beck Porter and fam- fam tr m ili H all all well rel known Virginia names f Nanc Nancy rate Tate granddaughter of the it f pilgrim married Francis and s I and It Is down In the records H that thal the they It had hafl large floRse possessions ion and ten Len chil- chil cJ ren The New England n land pilgrim was CapS Cap Cap- tam tain George fat Tate who came caine from S London England and settled In Portland Port Port- land laiR Maine lIe He was as married and J had live five children when he ho came here In O. O His Ills wife lied died twenty years yearn after uner her arrival In Maine a aged d ld sixty I years ars and lh the captain caplain when hen eighty again became a bridegroom marrying S Mrs Mr Mary Coverly George was a man nian of or education education edu edu- cation judging from his hiM writings s and ami J. J a U man of prop property judging from his style of of- living Jiving I for he lie lived J Eng Eng- n n as fiS one historian o of the tIme family has it H that hat I Is IR In much Kyle style Captain Cap Cap- tam tain George George- was a noble contributor of his means to the cau cause e of American liberty ILls IUs son George jr jl became 3 ail an 1 admiral In the lie nu lan nav navy nivy another another an- an other lher son Captain Samuel was ably in In the thc C Continental army Ills I dau daughter Mary Iary married Joseph Ingraham Ingraham Ingra- Ingra ham and anil he lie was WIlS prosperous and amid she bt tI CuI Captain Samuel followed his fathers father's example and anti took a see see- nd wife wife Eunice Eunice GraHam Ellza I both h horn born rn at Me Is nil ito AVO know of or his first pou p. p His Ills Intention 1 of or marriage with Eunice I J Is recorded under late date August 21 21 1801 Officers of the American rI Am an t i i tl e jc Revolution gives gI the names of ot no New ew England fates Tates I ralls but they wez part pnat of the noble army of ot the rank atH and file The officers of or the family fam fam- am- am fly ily from Pennsylvania were Ensign John and ml Surgeon James from North Carolina Lieutenant Joseph and Chaplain James who served from the tho opening to the close of or the war Cap Cap- J Lieutenant tam William was from South Carolina The Mexican war had its representatives In Major Felix son of or James Tall Tait who was a gentleman of Hof great in property and nid moral p. p u worth i Major was as n a planter o of Alabama m member of the time legislature legisla i ture and state senator Charl Charles s Tall Tail was surgeon of ot Texas cavalry in the Mexican war His ills daughter married Jud Judge c Thompson lieutenant governor of or Texas lexa A hoo good story is told of Judge Charles Talt Tail of Virginia a cousin of ot Henry Henn Clay He lie was United States senator in 1809 A. A man of superior talents his scientific and nud literary acquirements ac ac- making him one of or the thc most Interesting men of hi ills his da day The story lory Is that owing to a a. fall from hIs hla horse In Iii his youth h he had hall lost a n leJ leg Challenged to a duel he refused to meet upon the thc field Held o of combat un un- un- un I less his opponents opponent's leg leg- was wag encased in tho the trunk of a hollow tree to offset offset off oIT- set his single leg In 1828 Judge Tait fait was offered the post o of ol minister to England but declined the honor Statesmen and soldiers and mI gentlemen gentle gentle- men of ot bree breeding ln and a abound in iii the Tall Tail famil family There are arc artists Arthur AIthur Tall born in iii Lan Lan- caster I England nd antI and John Robinson mit born horn In Ohio who was also an author The scientist of the family was Peter Guthric fait Tait mathematician cian clan Hn mind physicist L A A. notable l EnglIsh English Eng Eng- r g lish publication of twenty flu years I ago ao was wag Tails Magazine la One branch of or the Tate family or lants of or a n Tate ma may trace back to lo Edward III ILL on and nd his Queen Philippa Philip- Philip pa pu This through h th the marriage e of Mary Tate of VirginIa r to Charles Charlea Lewis Pe Peyton ton a descendant of or John Johh Peyton Peton a Virginia pilgrim of oC 1607 Charles L. L Peytons Peyton's father Cather was wat Craven Crayen Cray Cray- en Peyton of Albemarle count county whose wife vIte was Luc Lucy Jefferson I Lewis h e niece of Pre President Jefferson The Peytons Pey- Pey tons also allo were related to Colonel Fiel Fielding ln Lewis who married first Catherine Washington a cousin of or George Washington a lon an and amid second his ler 1 cI Belt Betty Belly Washington all rh fh The wife of or James Madison bishop of or Virginia was as ns Sain Tate Talc Here Is a marriage connection with Patrick Henry whose sister Su Susannah married Bishop Madison's ons brother Thomas Characteristics of the thc family arc are energy common sense senses good l looks cordiality and ch charm rm of manner tact and courtesy courtesy and honesty and honesty honest ome f-ome one adds be bc sure suro to say that they are hOIl honest t and anti honorable Of or more than one t- t n 01 the family It may be said that ho he has s a heart to lo a head to lo contrive and a hand to cx execute eute Burkes Burke's Peerage blazons arms anna inns for forthe forthe forthe the Scottish branch of oC the Tait family urgent enl a or St S1 Andrews Andrew's cross gules or red a chief of the last I. I e. e of or the last color named tl gules ule Crest a r rising sun Hun proper propel or In Its Us natural coloring God Motto God give Graco Grace Mottoes l used usell l IJ by other oilier branches of the Tait Talt farT II are arc la Ja Menu l Always 8 time the t same hame Ae e ede do de Jn Ha Having passed pu a rought path and A gr de do Recto Having pa passed lasel ell a a. rOIl rough h path safely The Tho fH It a It 0 in itt heraldry betokens resolution and c courage it was tho time reward of those who ho had ll scaled sealed the walls wall of ot towns lowns denotes the pO possession of land laud A chief sl signifies dominion and authority n n. rl n sun glory y and splendor a also o ab au an- I The Thc crowns crown j of Roman era em- ivi werN made with nut points to lo symbolize sym sym- ym boll e the lie suns sun's ra rays 8 because the they were suns anti and flaming I lights ht time the whole world being led lell h by their ex ex- ex ample The metal argent In olden times symbolized b by the pearl and Luna runa o othe or 01 orthe the he hellIon Moon signifies sig peace sincerity I purity and Innocence the time color or tincture g gules lc 1 symbolized m b by the ruby ruIn and anti Mars the thc god sod of war signifies sig II nines military fortitude courage bravery bray brav ely ery and anti ma magnanimity grat great roat of or mind great rat of or f heart |