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→Early life: Durham ironworks - Taylor was a supplier of ammo for the Continental Army
==Early life==
==Early life==
George Taylor was born in [[Ireland]], the son of a clergyman. He received an education in medicine but abandoned his studies and emigrated to America at age twenty. To pay his way across the Atlantic Taylor spent several years as an [[Indentured servant]].<ref>[https://www.founderoftheday.com/founder-of-the-day/george-taylor George Taylor - The Indentured Servant Who Signed The Declaration]</ref> Taylor worked as a clerk for an iron manufacturer at Durham, in Chester county Pennsylvania. The iron manufacturer owner died several years later and he would marry the widow Ann Taylor Savage. As owner, Taylor formed a partnership with a large ironworks company in Easton, Pennsylvania and he would amass a considerable fortune.<ref>[http://georgetaylor.net/ George Taylor, Georgetaylor.com]</ref>
George Taylor was born in [[Ireland]], the son of a clergyman. He received an education in medicine but abandoned his studies and emigrated to America at age twenty. To pay his way across the Atlantic Taylor spent several years as an [[Indentured servant]].<ref>[https://www.founderoftheday.com/founder-of-the-day/george-taylor George Taylor - The Indentured Servant Who Signed The Declaration]</ref> Taylor worked as a clerk for an iron manufacturer at Durham, in Chester county Pennsylvania. The iron manufacturer owner died several years later and he would marry the widow Ann Taylor Savage. As owner, Taylor formed a partnership with a large ironworks company in Easton, Pennsylvania and he would amass a considerable fortune.<ref>[http://georgetaylor.net/ George Taylor, Georgetaylor.com]</ref>
Taylor signed a lease to operate Durham ironworks, owned by Joseph Galloway.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9NaQXAXcjBgC&pg=PA10 Proceedings and Addresses, Volume 23]</ref> Galloway was not pleased that Taylor used his furnace to produce munitions and cannon shot for the Continental Army.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=p2GwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA56 A Synopsis of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence]</ref> Galloway increasingly turned loyalist, and eventually fled to England.
At age forty-seven he would retire and moved to a large estate long the Lehigh River in Northampton County. The George Taylor House in Biery's Port, Catasauqua, is now a national historic site.
At age forty-seven he would retire and moved to a large estate long the Lehigh River in Northampton County. The George Taylor House in Biery's Port, Catasauqua, is now a national historic site.