According to Janie Revill in A Compilation of the Original List of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina 1763-1773, Martha Templeton appeared before the Council in Charleston, SC on 8 NOV 1772 to receive her 100 acre land grant from King George III of England. Because there was usually a 10 to 12 day quarantine before immigrants could debark the ship, she probably arrived around 8-10 OCT 1772 from Northern Ireland. She married William Taylor, Jr. late in life after she arrived in South Carolina. With her were relatives, either cousins or brothers and sisters,: James Templeton, who married her husband's sister, Jannett Taylor; Agnes Templeton, who married her husband's brother, Robert Taylor; William Templeton, who was apparently married because he received 150 acres and Robert Templeton, who received 250 acres, meaning he was married with 2 children or widowed with 3 children. The grant system allowed a head-right of 100 acres for head of household and 50 acres for the wife and each child. Martha, James and Agnes were not married at the time because they each received only the head-right of 100 acres.
Henry Templeton had arrived much earlier in the grant system on 19 FEB 1764, settling in Boonesborough in Abbeville County, SC. The relationship between Henry and the other Templetons is not known, if any. It is known that Henry also sailed from Northern Ireland. All had to swear that they were protestant before they could debark and become citizens of South Carolina.
Martha Templeton Taylor lived to be 101 years old which was remarkable for that period in history. William Taylor and Martha's home place was about 3/4 of a mile north of Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church, following the old road that is straight across the road from the church. Because her granddaughter, Jane Taylor Blakely, wife of William Simpson Blakely, bought their estate at Martha's death, the place became known as the Blakely place. Previous to that it was known as Granny Springs, probably because Martha had lived so long. Their grant attached to her father-in-law, William Taylor, Sr.'s grant of 350 acres which was north west of theirs. James Word bought WIlliam Taylor, Sr.'s grant at William, Sr.'s wife, Jannett's, death and the grant became known as Cold Water in the 1850 Laurens County census. William Taylor, Sr. marked his grant corners with 4 x 2 foot grantite slabs and the north east corner stone still stood in the woods in front of Walmart Distribution before it was removed by the construction of Hunter Industrial Park. William Taylor,Sr. had donated, for 36 shillings, the land for Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church and uncounted numbers of Taylors are buried in the cemetery there, in marked and unmarked graves. At the front of the cemetery, there are so many unmarked Taylor graves that my great-uncle Charlton Holmes Taylor said that had stopped burying there because they always dug into an older grave when they tried to bury there.
The Templetons and Taylors did not arrive as paupers and were given no pauper's provisions as others did that arrived on what was listed as pauper ships. The third entry in the oldest land transaction book in the Laurens County Courthouse shows William Taylor, Sr. buying more land. The first entry is John Copeland buying more land, who arrived with the first settlement from Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1754. That first settlement settled on Duncan Creek, north of Clinton, SC. On 17 FEB 2018, the Taylors will have been citizens of Laurens County and South Carolina for 250 years, with ten or more generations.

Sent to me by Ron and Lisa Taylor. It identifies the locations of the Taylor Family. Martha is location # 2.

Council journal showing Martha Templeton receiving land on 8 NOV 1772 in Charleston, SC.

This is the will of Martha Templeton Taylor, who arrived in Charleston Harbor around 28 OCT 1772 and received a land grant of 100 acres head right. Her will was probated 12 OCT 1843. She was born in Northern Ireland in 1737 and died in 1838 at 101 years old. She has been the longest lived Taylor to date. The will lists her children. As the will shows, Martha gave each child twenty dollars. The remainder of the estate and her slaves, Sambo, fillis, Ritty, Slyvia and Slyvia's children, Caroline, Stephen and Thomas went to her son, James Taylor, who must have been her favorite as he is buried beside her. The slaves are buried under the building across the road from the Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Cemetery.