He was a member of the committee to draft the instructions of Pennsylvania delegates to the first Continental Congress, a member of the Committee of Correspondence, and of the Committee of Safety. In 1775 he was appointed to replace a member of the Pennsylvania delegation who refused to support Independence. He arrived too late to vote, but did sign the Declaration. DS, signed 'Geo. Taylor,' one page, 19.5 x 14.75, May 27, 1745. Taylor witnesses a land lease between Robert and Rebecca Grace of Philadelphia, for half interest in the Coventry Forge for a period of one year to William Branson of Philadelphia in consideration of five shillings for 'all that furnace and forge and...all the tract or parcel of land whereon the same stand scituate in the said township of Coventry...containing two hundred and fifty acres.' Lease also includes the house, outhouses, buildings, gardens, orchards, woods, meadows, dams, streams and other property improvements. In very good condition, with a horizontal document fold bisecting the signature, light soiling, several small separations at fold intersections, scalloped top edge, some paper loss from ink aciditiy, and some light mirroring of text along bottom edge. COA John Reznikoff/University Archives and RRAuction COA.
