Other sources claim he was born on in Carlisle, Lancaster, England, and New Kent County, VA.
Other sources claim he died on 23 Jun 1729.

This James Taylor is great-grandfather to both James Madison and Zachary Taylor, Presidents of the United
States.

per Carol Sheedy's notes: James was Colonel of the Militia; member of the House of Burgesses; Surveyor-
General of the Colony; and a Knight of the Golden Horseshoe.

From "James Madison: A Biography" by Ralph Ketcham: "Frances Taylor Madison's father, James Taylor II,
had established his family in Orange County by patenting 13,500 acres of land there in 1722. He acquired
this estate after traveling through the Virginia Piedmont with the "Knights of the Gold Horseshoe" in the
late summer of 1716. Twelve gentlemen, headed by Governor Alexnder Spotswood and accompanied by
thirty servants, Indian guides, and soldiers, had left the settlements above Fredericksburg on the
Rapahannock and proceeded into the wilderness up the north fork of the river, going within six or eight miles
of lands which later belonged to President James Madison. On the night the expedition camped in this
region one of its members recorded in his journal that they had passed 'the largest timber, the finest and
deepest mould, and the best grass I ever did see.' The the party went over Milam's Gap in the Blue Ridge,
and looked across the Shenandoah, or Great, Valley, the first Virginians to record that feat. Thus, seven
years before his father's birth, the rich lands and rolling hills of James Madison's home, always his haven from
public demands and duties, were a virgin wilderness known only to Indians and perhaps to some nameless
trappers and traders."