William Taggart

{{Short description|American judge (1733–1798)}}

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William Taggart (September 25, 1733 – January 9, 1798) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1793 to June 1795.[https://books.google.com/books?id=3C4tAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA208 Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations] (1891), p. 208-13.

He was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He lived in Middletown, Rhode Island.Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 62.

He and his son William Taggart Jr. spied on the British during the American Revolutionary War. After he was caught, his farm and home were plundered.{{Cite web|url=https://cranstononline.com/stories/switching-sides-in-the-war-of-independence,98029|title=Switching sides in the War of Independence|first=Joe|last=Kernan|date=November 20, 2014|website=Cranston Herald}}