"Naylor, Edward, ± 32 in 1666, 38 in 1674, truck-master at the Penobscot fort under Lt. Gardner (9) in 1662 and in command at Negas for Col. Temple in 1666. Poss. He came from Barbadoes. He m. Catherine (Wheelwright) Nanny and liv. in Boston, a merchant, until 1672 when she divorced him and he was given two months to settle his affairs bef. being banished twenty miles from Bos., but this sentence was revoked that same yr. and his children restored to him. He had committed adultery with Mary Reade (9), whose dau., Deborah, was b. in Hampton 4 Sept. 1668, and who testif. in the case. There was also evid. that his w. had been given poison. In 1674-5 he was in ct. for intruding into his late w.'s company. He settled accts. with Samuel Wheelwright in 1676. 'Mr. Naylor's brook' in Wells, 1678, was doubtless his, in Wheelwright territory. In 1679, in partnership with Obadiah Walker, he bot 1000 a. on E. side of the Kennebec over against Purchase's Isl. … Ch. b. in Bos: Tabitha, b. 2 July 1667, m. one Peak. Lydia, b. 26 July 1668, m. one Amee."
