John,
Thank you very much for your posting. In it I have found some information
of which I was not aware. With great interest I read the information about
"Lutheran Baptisms and Marriages in NE Pennyslvania" and the publication by
William Egle. I appreciate all the help that we can get on our family lines.
I am aware of the Taylor brothers marrying the three Cavett sisters. We (my
niece and I) discovered the connection in our research of the Taylor line.
My apologies, I realize that I neglected to mention the connection, however,
as you can see from my previous posting, as follows:
>I am a descendant of Isaac Taylor and Mary "Polly"
Cavett. Isaac was a
brother to Ann Phillips' ancestor Pleasant Taylor and
Mary was sister to
Ann's ancestor Elizabeth. I would like to find some descendants of John K.
Taylor and Jane Cavett if any.<<
The book "Sevier Family History with the collected letters of Gen. John
Sevier, First Govenor of Tennessee" by Cora Bales Sevier and Nancy S. Madden
mentions Alexander Cavet. On page 113 it mentions that on Sept. 25th, 1793
the Indians attacked Alexander Cavett's station and plundered and burned. It
says there that only the youngest of Cavet's (their spelling) son's was
spared, but killed later in the Indian towns. It mentions that Sevier's
order book on this campaign is contained in his diary.
In a letter to Daniel Smith, Gen. Sevier mentions the massacre at Alexander
Cavet's plantation. Pgs. 113-114.
On page 127 is a draft of a letter to the Knoxville Gazette, Gen. Sevier
mentions the murder of Cavet's wife and daughters and mentions Doublehead (in
a note the authors mention that the files of the Knoxville Gazette of that
period are incomplete, and that there seemed to be no way of checking to see
if the letter was ever published).
I have a copy of a newspaper article that mentions Isaac Taylor and the other
Taylor - Cavett marriages. Very interesting reading and it makes the
ancestors come alive and become more than just names on paper, as does the
deposition given by Richard Cavett on his and his father's Revolutionary War
Service.
I descend from Isaac Taylor and Mary Cavett Taylor's daughter, Arachne, whose
name has been spelled many ways in records. One of which was Arrah Mae,
another Arrachaine, most often as Arachne. I would like to find the origin
of this name, as it seems unusual to me.
Regards,
Linda