John Taylor : a Scottish merchant of Glasgow and New York, 1752-1833 A family narrative written for his descendants . Margaret. Margaret (in Scotland) in 1784. Elizabeth (Eliza) in 1786. Andrew (named after Johns father) in 1788. James Scott (named after Margarets father) in 1789. John Burnside (named after Johns Glasgow friend) in 1791. Andrew (the Second) in 1793. Janet (Jessie) (named after Johns mother) in 1794. Robert Lenox (named after the elder Robert Lenox) in 1796. Scott in 1797. Little Andrew, the First, lived to be only five yearsold and then he died of a Dropsey in the head, butano
John Taylor : a Scottish merchant of Glasgow and New York, 1752-1833 A family narrative written for his descendants . Margaret. Margaret (in Scotland) in 1784. Elizabeth (Eliza) in 1786. Andrew (named after Johns father) in 1788. James Scott (named after Margarets father) in 1789. John Burnside (named after Johns Glasgow friend) in 1791. Andrew (the Second) in 1793. Janet (Jessie) (named after Johns mother) in 1794. Robert Lenox (named after the elder Robert Lenox) in 1796. Scott in 1797. Little Andrew, the First, lived to be only five yearsold and then he died of a Dropsey in the head, butanother son, appearing opportunely only four dayslater, was immediately given his brothers name. With all these children the parents felt the ne-cessity of having some country home where they couldspend their summers, especially as there were frequentepidemics of yellow fever or cholera in town duringthe summer time. Therefore on October 16, 1796(when Robert Lenox Taylor was a baby), the fatherbought a farm far out in the country from the estateof Samuel Nicoll. This farm faced on the Bloomingdale Road (Broad- [18]. BLOOMINGDALE FARM way) and had a rear entrance on the Bowery Road(Middle Road), which ran parallel with the Blooming-dale Road midway between the streets afterwards laidout and called Fifth and Madison Avenues. Bloom-ingdale Farm was as long as two crosstown blocksand on Fifth Avenue extended from 39th Street to40th Street, a plot about two hundred and twenty-seven feet wide. It contained nearly ten acres andfor it John Taylor paid £1575. The map of the prop-erty shows that it was just south of the land wherethe Publi c Library now stands. Here the Taylor children had a glorious mother, too, was very happy in her countryhome. She wrote in 1796 to her Scotch half-brother,the Rev. Andrew Thomson, and told him all about invited him and his wife to visit her at Blooming-dale the first time he had a holiday and added thatshe would gladly take one of his n
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