Family:Joseph Taylor and Thankful Clarke (1)

Joseph Taylor son of Isaac. Isaac is son of John Sr. and Sarah.

"John, Sr, c from Plymouth Colony, probably Scituate, as early as 1635; took up lands at Dam (Damariscotta), lower falls, next North of Walter Phillips; r here till 1678 when he was driven off by savage ferocity and his house was burned; m Sarah ____; took the Freeman's oath in Bos, 1830; d. in Mass.

"John, Sr's chil. One son, Isaac, who after he was "driven from Damariscotta (Maine) became, one informant says, a merchant in Boston and another says in Pembroke, and several daughters. One married a Simmons; another a Woodbridge, part of whose descendants now r in N (Newcastle); and a third lived single till upwards of 90 years of age. A fourth m Thomas Gent of Sheepscot." ^{S1 p. 420}

Isaac is said to have several sons, "Jacob, Joseph, Benjamin and Alizeus, and one dau. Asenath, who m George Barstow of Hanover, Mass, Jan 10, 1750 and moved to N (Newcastle) in 1765."

"Joseph, b. Nov. 20, 1737; m Thankful Clarke of Providence, RI; r first in Scituate; d Jan 5, 1818. Thankful, b. July 22, 1738; d Mar 1820. Joseph c to N (Newcastle) in 1767 and soon built the house, on what is now "Academy Hill," known afterwards as the "Glidden house" which was burnt about the year 1860. Parting with this to Joseph Glidden, Sr, he moved back and built him a house a little to the South of where Capt. John Taylor, his grandson, afterwards lived.

"Joseph and Thankful r with their son John in Jeff (Jefferson) during the last years of their life. Their remains now lie interred in the cemetery on Trask's Hill near the Baptist Church in Jeff." ^{S1 p. 420-421}

1.   Cushman, David Quimby. The history of ancient Sheepscot and Newcastle: including early Pemaquid, Damariscotta, and other contiguous places, from the earliest discovery to the present time : together with the genealogy of more than four hundred families. (Bath Me.: E. Upton & Son, printers, 1882)
   p. 420 et seq.

   Taylor family genealogy section. See text.