Person:Richard Taylor (1)
Richard Taylor
b.Abt 1618 England
d.Abt 13 Dec 1673 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
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  • H.  Richard TaylorAbt 1618 - Abt 1673
  • W.  Mary Whelden1621 - Abt 1673
m. Abt 27 Oct 1646
  1. Sarah Taylor - 1695
  2. John TaylorAbt 1646 - 1721
  3. Joseph TaylorAbt 1648 - 1727
  4. Mary TaylorAbt 1650 - 1718
  5. Martha Taylor1650 - 1728
  6. Elizabeth TaylorAbt 1655 - 1721
  7. Hannah TaylorAbt 1667 - 1743
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Name Richard Taylor
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1618 Englandbased on est marriage date
Marriage Abt 27 Oct 1646 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts(date of Gabriel Whelden's agreement to their marriage)
to Mary Whelden
Death[1] Abt 13 Dec 1673 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States(date of inventory)

While many would like to believe he was the same Richard Taylor, 17, as found on the ship, Truelove out of Gravesend, 10 Jun 1635 (with other Taylors, including James, William and Ann), the number of contemporary Richard Taylors in New England as well as Virginia, make it impossible at this time to determine which Richard Taylor was he of the Truelove.

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Legacy

The text of his will has not been located, although it is referenced as Plymouth Colony Wills, Volume III, p. 96.

A transcription of his inventory may be found in Probate: 1674 Inventory of Richard Taylor of Yarmouth.

Richard Taylor, tailor, and some of his descendants cites "5 Plym. Col. Recs. 137, 138" regarding the disposition of his estate on 4 March 1673/4. Specifically, it reads:

“Mr. John Gorum and Mr. John Thacher are joyned with John Tayler for the disposing of the estate of Richard Tayler to his children, and for the paying and receiving of debts according to order of Court. Concerning the estate of Richard Tayler, late of Yarmouth, deceased, this Court doth order, first, that the eldest son of the said Tayler shall have his fathers housing, and two thirds of the land, both upland and marsh, and the rest of his portion out of what of the estate Mr. Gorum and Mr. John Thacher shall judge most suitable for him, hee being by order of Court to have a dubble portion.
2condly, it is ordered, that the hay, and what provisions was or is upon the invoice of the estate that is now spent, or shalbe judged convenient for the family to spend betweixt this and the first of the next Augst, shall not be accounted to the estate, as like-wise what woole and flaxe hath bing spon by the daughters sence theire parents death shalbe accompanied theirs that spon it.
The rest of the estate to be devided betweixt the second son and the five daughters, everyone an equall proportion, to bee set out to them as maybe most suitable for them, by the discretion of their eldest brother, and Mr. John Gorum, and Mr. John Thacher.
The second son to have the other third of his father’s land, besides his portion equall to his sisters.
Lastly, that nothing that hat bin already given or bestowed by the said Taylor on any of his children, shall not be considered in the devision, but everyone of to have an equall proportion, after the payment of debts due from the estate.”
References
  1. ↑ Plymouth Colony Records. 1674 Inventory of the Estate of Richard Taylor of Yarmouth. (Yarmouth, MA, 1674)
    13 Dec 1673.

    (See source for transcript of inventory)

  2.   Hawes, James W. Richard Taylor, Tailor, and Some of his Descendants. (Yarmouthport, MA: C.W. Swift, 1914)
    1919.
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