John "Buck" Taylor was a Chapel Hill character from the early days. After serving in the Continental Army during the Revolution, Taylor was hired as the first Steward of the University of North Carolina. As Battle's History relates: "In addition to furnishing food, the Board required the steward to give the floors, passages and staircases a fortnightly washing, to have the students' rooms swept and beds made once a day, and to have brought from 'the spring' at least four times a day a sufficient quantity of water."
Evidently Taylor's meals were not popular with the students and after three years of service, Taylor quit. Not long after, Taylor began the operation of tavern on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. The tavern stood more or less where Graham Memorial Hall is today and was in operation up into the 1820's. Later in life, Taylor served as the Clerk of Court for Orange County. Taylor also had a brief stint as Superintendant of Buildings and Grounds at UNC.
Buck Taylor received several grants for military service during the Revoluntionary War including a 268 acre tract on Morgan Creek adjacent to the lands of Christopher Barbee, Rosie Sears and Solomon Morgan. The ailing Taylor's wife, Winifred Horton Taylor delivered a gift of 1000 acres to John Haywood for the Trustees of the University in August 1824. Buck Taylor was also a major donor of funds for the building of South Building.
Source - Wandering through the NC Piedmont - piedmontwanderings.blogspot.com - Mark Chilton.
Battle, Vol I, P. 53:
"Sandstone Slab On John Taylor'S Place (Now Snipes') 3 Miles west of Chapel Hill (John Taylor Was A Steward of UNC) 'To The Memory of John Taylor Born June 22, 1747, Died May 28, 1828. A Patriot of 1776"
Evidently Taylor's meals were not popular with the students and after three years of service, Taylor quit. Not long after, Taylor began the operation of tavern on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. The tavern stood more or less where Graham Memorial Hall is today and was in operation up into the 1820's. Later in life, Taylor served as the Clerk of Court for Orange County. Taylor also had a brief stint as Superintendant of Buildings and Grounds at UNC.
Buck Taylor received several grants for military service during the Revoluntionary War including a 268 acre tract on Morgan Creek adjacent to the lands of Christopher Barbee, Rosie Sears and Solomon Morgan. The ailing Taylor's wife, Winifred Horton Taylor delivered a gift of 1000 acres to John Haywood for the Trustees of the University in August 1824. Buck Taylor was also a major donor of funds for the building of South Building.
Source - Wandering through the NC Piedmont - piedmontwanderings.blogspot.com - Mark Chilton.
Battle, Vol I, P. 53:
"Sandstone Slab On John Taylor'S Place (Now Snipes') 3 Miles west of Chapel Hill (John Taylor Was A Steward of UNC) 'To The Memory of John Taylor Born June 22, 1747, Died May 28, 1828. A Patriot of 1776"
John "Buck" Taylor was a Chapel Hill character from the early days. After serving in the Continental Army during the Revolution, Taylor was hired as the first Steward of the University of North Carolina. As Battle's History relates: "In addition to furnishing food, the Board required the steward to give the floors, passages and staircases a fortnightly washing, to have the students' rooms swept and beds made once a day, and to have brought from 'the spring' at least four times a day a sufficient quantity of water."
Evidently Taylor's meals were not popular with the students and after three years of service, Taylor quit. Not long after, Taylor began the operation of tavern on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. The tavern stood more or less where Graham Memorial Hall is today and was in operation up into the 1820's. Later in life, Taylor served as the Clerk of Court for Orange County. Taylor also had a brief stint as Superintendant of Buildings and Grounds at UNC.
Buck Taylor received several grants for military service during the Revoluntionary War including a 268 acre tract on Morgan Creek adjacent to the lands of Christopher Barbee, Rosie Sears and Solomon Morgan. The ailing Taylor's wife, Winifred Horton Taylor delivered a gift of 1000 acres to John Haywood for the Trustees of the University in August 1824. Buck Taylor was also a major donor of funds for the building of South Building.
Source - Wandering through the NC Piedmont - piedmontwanderings.blogspot.com - Mark Chilton.
Battle, Vol I, P. 53:
"Sandstone Slab On John Taylor'S Place (Now Snipes') 3 Miles west of Chapel Hill (John Taylor Was A Steward of UNC) 'To The Memory of John Taylor Born June 22, 1747, Died May 28, 1828. A Patriot of 1776"
Evidently Taylor's meals were not popular with the students and after three years of service, Taylor quit. Not long after, Taylor began the operation of tavern on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. The tavern stood more or less where Graham Memorial Hall is today and was in operation up into the 1820's. Later in life, Taylor served as the Clerk of Court for Orange County. Taylor also had a brief stint as Superintendant of Buildings and Grounds at UNC.
Buck Taylor received several grants for military service during the Revoluntionary War including a 268 acre tract on Morgan Creek adjacent to the lands of Christopher Barbee, Rosie Sears and Solomon Morgan. The ailing Taylor's wife, Winifred Horton Taylor delivered a gift of 1000 acres to John Haywood for the Trustees of the University in August 1824. Buck Taylor was also a major donor of funds for the building of South Building.
Source - Wandering through the NC Piedmont - piedmontwanderings.blogspot.com - Mark Chilton.
Battle, Vol I, P. 53:
"Sandstone Slab On John Taylor'S Place (Now Snipes') 3 Miles west of Chapel Hill (John Taylor Was A Steward of UNC) 'To The Memory of John Taylor Born June 22, 1747, Died May 28, 1828. A Patriot of 1776"
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