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taken verb Past tense of take. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1863 (in 1999 Davis CW Letters 90) our boys Taken him up had him trid before a justice condemned him To hang and they hung him up. 1914 Arthur Western NC 266 It is certain that we sometimes say “hit” for it and “taken” for took. 1939 Hall Coll (Oconaluftee NC) We couldn’t get up close to them, but we finally got our horses and taken part of it on one of them that we could get the closest to. 1953 Atwood Verbs East US 23-24 [In] nearly all of N.C. [tuck] becomes fairly common (being used by more than half of Type I [i.e. older speakers having little formal education] in N.C.) It also occurs with some regularity in s.w. Va. and throughout W.Va. ... The preterite taken is also confined to the South and the South Midland, where it occurs rather commonly in Md. and W.Va., less commonly in Va., N.C., and S.C. 1997 GSMNPOHP-5:19 It tuck us a day to go from Cades Cove to Maryville.