"John Taylor (II), son of John Taylor (I), was born in Windsor, Connecticut, 1641. He was a captain in the military forces of the colony. He received a grant of land at Northfield in 1683, and settled in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he was killed May 13, 1704, while in pursuit of a party of Indians which had destroyed the hamlet of Pascomuck. He married, December 18, 1662, Thankful Woodward, daughter of Henry Woodward. Their children: Thankful, born October 27, 1663; Johanna, September 27, 1665; John, October 10, 1667; Rhoda, September 26, 1669; Elizabeth, July 13, 1672; Mary, October 13, 1673; Jonathan, September 19, 1675; Mindwell, August 19, 1677; Lydia, May 18, 1678; Thomas, November 4, 1680, father of Captain Thomas Taylor, the famous Indian fighter in the French and Indian wars; Elizabeth, September 17, 1682; Experience, October, 1684, died young; Samuel, August 30, 1688, see forward."
