"Taylor, Reuben, (s. of Samuel,) was b. at Dunstable; settled near the geographical centre of the town (XI. 2). It is supposed that he and his brother Amos bought their land of Col. Blanchard. They were here about 1757. He d. 1813 of spotted fever, ae. 77. By his wife Lucy his ch. were, Lucy, b. 1762, d. 1789; Reuben, b. 1764; Zebedee, b. 1765; Rachel, b. 1767, m. Stephen Brooks; Aaron, b. 1768, d. an infant; Hannah, b. 1770; James, b. 1772; William, b. 1781; Hannah, b. 1784. His wife d. 1814, Sb. 71."
"Taylor, Thaddeus, (s. of Samuel,) born at Dunstable, was here before the incorporation in 1762; lived over the mountains at the southwest corner of the town, (No. 79.) By wife Mary (Walton) he had Thaddeus, still living in N. I.; John, m. Sally Jones; Katy, b. 1777, m. Edmund Jones; Susannah, b. 1779, m. Dca. Jonas Barrett; Samuel, b. 1781, m. Persis Jones, and still lives at Mill Village; Oliver Swain, b. 1784, grad. Dart. Coll. 1809, was afterwards preceptor of the Academy, and now practises medicine in Auburn, N. Y.; Hepsey, b. 1789, m. Benjamin B. Williams. He d. 1825, se. 81."
"Taylor, Amos, (brother of Thaddeus,) from Dunstable, was a member of the first church formed in town ; settled on the farm next west of his brother Reuben, (XH. 2,) and many years occupied by Mr. Buckman. It is believed that he either returned to Dunstable before the incorporation of the town, or settled in some of the adjoining towns."
