Family
He married (13 August 1717) Elizabeth Jenkinson (died 2 June 1761), a widow, of Boston, Lincolnshire. His surviving children were:
- Richard (died 1762), married Margaret Meadows; his eldest son, Philip Taylor (1747–1831), was presbyterian minister at Kay Street, Liverpool (1767), and at Eustace Street, Dublin (1771), and grandfather of Meadows Taylor; his second son, John Taylor, the hymn-writer.
- Sarah (died 1773), married to John Rigby of Chowbent, was mother of Edward Rigby.
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