Family:Richard Taylor and Sarah Unknown (1)

Origins

Vital Records of Sudbury (as transcribed from Middlesex County records of births, marriages and deaths for that town): Richard, son of Richard and Hannah Taylor, b. 15 Aug 1676.

Married / Adult Life

Compilation of Records of Littleton (which includes some guess work on the part of Samuel Smith, compiler), indicate he married twice:

1. Sarah

2. Submit (Clapp) [widow of Joseph] Brintnall on 23 JUL 1741

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (from NEHGS online database):
Framingham: 1741: Taylor, Richard, of Sudbury, and Submit Brintnall, July 23 1741. In Sudbury*.

First shows up in Sudbury Town Records (other than his birth) as paying either a tax or a debt on 6 Apr 1703. (Town Records)

29 Jan 1722/3: Town Meeting. Appears to have voted against moving the meeting house? Or perhaps against the committee formed to move it. In either case, he is listed among the dissenters.

History of Subdury, Massachusetts, 1663-1889 by Alfred Sereno Hudson, p. 167 "Another place in whose settlement Sudbury citizens had some share was Grafton, a town in Worcester County... In the [1724] Indian deed concerning the territory, among other specific declarations is the following: "To Jonathan Rice and Richard Taylor both of Sudbury in the County of Middlesex aforesaid husbandmen each one fortieth part thereof... to them and their respective heirs and assigns forever."

p. 168 (same source): [Between 1730 and 1734] "The committee chosen 'to take survey of the plantation of Hassanamisco, and find out and stake the centre plot of the plantation, were .... Richard Taylor of Sudbury.

p. 450 (same source): "... among the inhabitants of the north-west district, early in the century [i.e., early 1700s] was Richard Taylor, who was one of the Proprietors of and prominently connected with the settlement of Grafton."

p. 508 (same source): The North-West District... Some of the earlier occupants of this district were Jonathan Rice... other early occupants were... Richard Taylor

Kellogg, Dale C., and Threlfall, John B., "Richard Sawtell of Watertown, Mass. and Some of His Descendants," NEHGR, Volume CXXVI (1972), pp. 6, 140: On 29 Feb 1723/4... guardian bond was posted by Richard Taylor of Sudbury, husbandman, and Richard Whitney of Stow, as surety, as guardian of Ruhamah Whitney, in her18th year, and Hepsibah Whitney, in her 13th year.

Appears to have received, along with his uncle, Jonathan Rice, some land in Grafton, MA. See History of Sudbury, p. 167: Another place in whose settlement Sudbury citizens had some share was Grafton, a town in Worcester county. Its Indian name was Hassanamesit, which means a place of small stones. The land... was purchased of the native proprietors upon leases obtained of the General Court, May 1724... In the Indian deed concerning the territory, among other specific declarations is the following: "To Jonathan Rice and Richard Taylor both of Sudbury in the county of Middlesex aforesaid husbandmen, each one fortieth part thereof..."

Legacy

Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index, 1648-1870
Given Name: Richard
Surname: Taylor
Location: Sudbury
Date: 1753
Subject: Will
Number: 22231

(Submit Clapp Brintnall Taylor then m3. on 30 Nov 1755.)