"Joseph (Taylor) b. about 1681; [He was of age September 16, 1702, when he receipted for his share in the estate of his grandmother, Katharine Taylor. Middlesex County, Mass., Deeds, vol. 13, p. 275."] mar. before Nov. 27, 1708, Mehetable Halsey. [New York Historical Society Collections, 1896, p. 205, and 1902, p. 46, wills of Isaac Halsey and Joseph Taylor.]"