On 20 November 1871, a Wilson County Probate Court judge ordered 13 year-old Doctor Taylor bound as an apprentice to Jolly Taylor until he reached 21 years of age.
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In the 1870 census of Joyners township, Wilson County: farm laborer Jolly Taylor, 35; wife Patsey, 48; Dock Taylor, 15; and Nellie, 12, Haywood and Richard, 12, and George Farmer, 16.
In the 1880 census of Toisnot township, Wilson County: Dock Taylor, 23 farm laborer, living alone.
On 14 March 1889, Dock Taylor, 36, married Ellen Taylor, 36, at Dock Taylor’s home in Toisnot township, Wilson County. A.M.E. Zion minister James M. Copeland performed the ceremony in the presence of William R. Taylor, Curtis Taylor, and Flonny Taylor.
[More about Jolly Taylor later.]
United States Indenture and Manumission Records, 1780-1939, database at https://familysearch.org.