Person:Grace Taprill (1)

Robert TAPRILL, called Mr., mariner, proprietor of Portsmouth, married Abishag Walton (dau of George1 Walton) after 1659. He was a Wittness Champernowue to Walton, 1661. In 1672 they where living in Boston in Alexander Waldron’s house. She seems to have left her husband and returned to her father's house at Newcastle soon afterward, opening a shop to maintain her family. Robert Taprill was captain of the pinke Hopewell in 1676 when he was sued for wages by Francis Pallet, and of the ketch Providence when he died at sea in Nov. 1678. Lists 302b, 311a, 313a, 330ab, 331b. The widow died January 1678-9. See ‘Ancestry of Lydia Harmon’ (W. G. Davis, 1924). Children named in grandfather Walton’s will:
1) Alice, suspected of having had an illegit. ch. 1685.
2) Priscilla, married at Boston 18 Aug. 1699 Francis Caswell; d. bef. 1714 when his w. was Jane.
3) Grace, had illegit. ch. 1700 which she laid to John Tomson of Kittery; married first to Israel Hoyt and probably married second to Sampson Babb.

Sergeant Israel³ Hoyt (Thomas², John¹) was born in Salisbury July 16, 1678. Israel Hoyt married Grace Taprill, daughter of Robert and Abishag (Walton) Taprill of Newcastle. On August 17 and October 15, 1713, two warrants were issued against Israel Hoyt “for setting up a house upon the Queen’s highway leading from Bloody Point to Welchman’s Cove.” The return on the first warrant was non est inventus. To the second no return was made. This last failure of record may indicate the date of Israel Hoyt’s death. His wife, Grace Hoite, owned the covenant of the Newington church and had her children baptized on June 14, 1719. [The author goes into other records]
Children :
1 Dorothy, m. Sampson Babb, Jr., of Portsmouth, April 29, 1725.
2 Israel m Eleanor... his children listed
3. John born about 1710 on November 13, 1732, he married Lettice Hasty
4. Abishag, m. Joel Whittemore of Kitter^-, June 14, 1739, in Xewington.
5. Fances