Category talk:Taylor in Massachusetts

Introductions

Jillaine, excellent idea, glad you've started this. I've done this sort of thing elsewhere, and find it useful to put very brief synopses of trees (with links to appropriate pages) as I start to disentangle the facts. I did that with my Wm Taylor family in Concord.

Re the Taylors in the Truelove, I'd seen that reference pop up in searching colonial Taylors recently. The info you quote says that those passengers were being carried to the Bahamas or St. Christopher (in the West Indies, right?). And the fragments quoted sound like it's a Dutch ship? What makes you think these people ended up in Massachusetts? --TomChatt 05:55, 22 February 2009 (EST)

Hi Tom, I'm so thrilled to have another partner on lines and topics of mutual interest. Some answers:

• The list is from NEHGR (volume 14, I think; I'm working on that volume right now), which published ships lists containing passengers who ended up in MBC.
• This particular ship left from England. (again, let me double check this)
• The ships that went to Barbadoes frequently then went up the east coast and dropped people and supplies off in New England.

This is all from articles I've read-- mostly from the NEHG Register-- AND I need to get those exact references included here and elsewhere.

As for this particular group of Taylors on the Truelove, there are, shortly after 1635, ALL of them appearing near each other in Massachusetts. Descendants of the Richard Taylors of Yarmouth have claimed their Richard is one of these. I don't see how they can prove that. My husband is descended of the Richard Taylor of Sudbury, and in my effort to figure out HIS origins, I became caught up in documenting all these early Taylors. I now actually believe he's related to your William, but I can't yet prove it. ;-)

-- jillaine 08:36, 22 February 2009 (EST)

Tom (and others), see this page about Richard of Sudbury that presents my theory. -- jillaine 08:59, 22 February 2009 (EST)

Early Dunstable Taylors [22 February 2009]

Tom and others,

From my examination of the Dunstable VRs, it looks like there were three contemporary Taylors in early Dunstable:

1. John (m. Sarah/Sary Cummings 23 Mar 1709 in Charlestown)
2. Abraham (m. Mary abt 1714)
3. Jonathan (m. Hannah abt 1718-19)

Tom, you've said other researchers believe Abraham and Jonathan to be brothers. What about John? Do you know of him?

-- jillaine 14:35, 22 February 2009 (EST)

I just read the Taylor section of Early Generations of Founders of Dunstable and it appears he's proposing that these were three brothers, all sons of Abraham Taylor and Mary Whittaker. -- jillaine 14:52, 22 February 2009 (EST)

Hi Jillaine, I didn't know anything specifically about John, but it seems plausible. In the other source I was using, they didn't mention him, but there is also a gap between 1682/83 and 1688 of children of Abraham and Mary, who were otherwise regularly prolific through 1702, so another child in 1685 would make sense.--TomChatt 15:26, 22 February 2009 (EST)

Tom, Concord VR (page 32) has this:

John Taylor, ye son of Abraham Taylor and Mary his wife was born January September ye 8th 1685.

There you go.

-- jillaine 16:32, 22 February 2009 (EST)

The Two Contemporary Jonathans [23 February 2009]

Tom, I can't thank you enough for pointing me to the Dunstable records. To find two contemporary Jonathan Taylors having children at the same time in separate towns, and living in those towns with siblings, confirms for me what I've believed for awhile: namely, that Jonathan Taylor of Littleton (formerly of Sudbury) was son of Richard Taylor of Sudbury, married Rebeckah Powers in Concord, then returned to Littleton where his brother Caleb and his half sister Hannah (Ward) (Taylor) Cobleigh were also living, and there he and Rebeckah had children 1719-1738.

Meanwhile, Jonathan Taylor of Concord, son of Abraham, moved to Dunstable with his brother(s) Abraham (and John), married Hannah and was having children 1719/20-1739. The same exact time period.

This is confirmation, for me.

Now if I could just find out who my Littleton Jonathan's GRANDfather was! ;-)

-- jillaine 16:07, 22 February 2009 (EST)

Hey glad I could help with a small puzzle piece. I agree that you have pretty reliably disambiguated these two Jonathans. Re the sources, it's a generalization, but of those genealogy books from the "golden age" (abt 1860-1930), many of which have been digitized by Google, those that focus on a town history (like that Dunstable one) tend to be a bit more reliable than those that focus on a particular family line. Of course specifics may vary. --TomChatt 20:02, 22 February 2009 (EST)