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Stephen Taylor
b.Cal 1618
Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Stephen Taylor |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2] |
Cal 1618 |
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| Emigration[1] |
Bef 30 Sep 1641 |
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| Residence[1] |
1642 |
Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Marriage |
1 Nov 1642 |
Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Sarah Hosford |
| Marriage |
25 Oct 1649 |
Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Elizabeth Unknown |
| Will[1] |
16 Aug 1683 |
Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Death[1] |
1 Sep 1688 |
Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Estate Inventory[1] |
4 Sep 1688 |
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From Ye Horseford Booke
Stephen married, second, Oct. 25, 1649, Elizabeth Newell who died Aug. 5, 1689.
Stephen Taylor lived (1642) on the William Horsford place in Windsor. In 1656 he sold it mand moved across the river.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Coddington, John Insley. Stephen Taylor of Windsor, Connecticut. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Oct 1961)
37:197-203.
"Stephen Taylor, an early settler of Windsor, Conn., was born in England, probably in Dorset or a neighboring county, in or about 1618, and died in Windsor 1 Sept. 1680, having had two wives and eight children …
No record remains of Stephen Taylor's arrival in New England, but, judging from George Way's will and the association with Roger Clap, it is more than probable that Taylor settled first at Dorchester, Mass. We do not know when he moved to Windsor, Conn., but it was before 1 Nov. 1642, when he married his first wife at Windsor. …
The will of Stephen Taylor is as follows:
83 august 16
The last will and testament of Steuen taylor sener is as followeth my soule I bequeath too god that gaue it and my body to a christian buriall and as for that estat that god hath giuen me all my just debts being payd and funerall charges first I giue to my deare and loueing wife my house and barne and the Uper halfe of my lott bounding by Thomas Bissell duering her life and also I giue to my wife liberty too take of my house all goods what se ses [sic] cause duering her life and also out of the estat ten pounds to be at her owne dispose. I giue to my son Steuen the lower haluf of my lott to take posession after my Deceas he paying ten pounds to my [one word illegible, probably widow] within on twelue month after my disceas: to my son Samuell I giue twenty shillings also to my son Thomas I giue ten pounds: as for my son John I giue after my wiues decease I giue him my house and barne on that haluf of my lott next too Thomas Bissell he paying forty pounds with in three years after his mother desease and too my daughter Abigail I giue twenty fore pounds and too my daughter Mary I glue twinty ponds too my daughter Mindwell I giue therty fiue pounds shee being pay of the legacy first twenty pounds and then for what my estate fals short to pay thay must all pay by equall proportion till the money be dew from Steuen and John but in case by any prouedent my estat fals short to make good all my legaces thay are all too beare ther parts proportiabl as thay are to reseave also I apoint my wife and son John excecuters to this my last will and my desier is that Thomas Bissell senr and Nathanell Bissell may be ouerseers of this my last will and to be helpfull too my wife and John and thay to repare to them for aduice and councell this the sixteene day of august eighty three in witness hear of I set my hand in the present of witnes that word first about mindwell was enther lined before subscription
Stephen Taylor
witnes Thomas Bissell Nathanell Bissell sener
[on reverse] Will of Stephen Taylor late of Windsor, decd 1688.
September 4 1688. Inventory taken of the estat of Steuen Taylor decesed [Total] £49-08-03. [Signed] Joseph Fitch, Samuel Grant sener, Joshua Wills.
[Comment: … the original will of Stephen Taylor, transcribed above, is Probate #5403, Hartford District, State Library, Hartford. …]"
- ↑ Stephen Taylor, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
4:264.
"Stephen (Taylor), Windsor, perhaps br. of the first John of the same, m. 1 Nov. 1642, Sarah Hosford, d. of Rev. William, had Stephen, b. 11 Mar. 1644; Samuel, 8 Oct. 1647; and by sec. w. m. 25 Oct. 1649, Eliz. Newell [Nowell], had John, 22 Mar. 1652; Thomas, 5 Oct. 1655; Abigail, 19 Mar. 1657; Mary, 18 June 1661; Mindwell, 5 Nov. 1663; and Nathaniel, 24 May 1668, d. at 14 yrs.; was in the list of freem. Oct. 1669. He d. 1 Sept. 1668 [1688], and his wid. d. 5 Aug. foll. acc. one rep. but Stiles says, 14 Dec. 1717. He call. hims. 66 yrs. old in 1684."
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