John Taylor
was born between 1639 and 1642 in Windsor, Connecticut to John and Rhoda Taylor. He was orphaned in 1645/6 when his father was lost at sea.[1] He was taken in, and all but adopted by Lt. David Wilton and his wife, Katherine (Hoskins?) Wilton.[1] It is unknown whether he was related to Katherine or David.[1]
John married 18 December 1662 at Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts to Thankful Woodward.
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John and Thankful had 13 children, all born in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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In 1674, John set-up the first saw mill in Easthampton, Massachusetts with two partners.
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John served as a Captain in the militia and was killed by Native American Indians at Pascommuck Fort.
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"Those commanded by Capt. Taylor went around by Pomeroy's meadow and met the Indians near Mount Tom, when a skirmish ensued, in which Capt. Taylor was killed."
John died 13 May 1704 at Easthampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts.
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Sources
↑ 1.01.11.2 Coddington, John Insley, "Wilton and Marshall Families." (Vol 38 1963, Pages 1-4, 7) The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database accessed March 14, 2015. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)
↑Marriage:
"Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924"
citing FHL microfilm: 186164; Record number: 119;
FamilySearch Record: FHHY-SHZ (accessed 17 September 2022)
John Taylor marriage to Thankfull Woodward on 18 Dec 1662 in Northampton, Massachusetts Bay.
↑Death:
"Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
citing FHL microfilm: 186161; Record number: 25;
FamilySearch Record: FC95-Q2N (accessed 17 September 2022)
John Tailor death 13 May 1704 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay.
Ferris, Mary. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes” Volume II, (Privately Printed, 1943)
Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Name: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004
Note: The following account of the Indian raid at Pascommuck, now part of Easthampton, Massachusetts, was written by Samuel Partridge of Hatfield in the Hampshire County Records.
Pascomok Fort taken by ye French and Indians being about 72. They took and Captivated ye whole garrison being about 37 persons. The English pursveing of them caused them nock all ye Captives on the head Save 5 or 6. Three they carried to Canada with them, the other Escap'd and about 7 of those Knock'd on head Recover'd ye Rest died. Capt. John Taylor was Killed in ye fight and Samll Bartlett wounded.
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I am concerned to see this man and his wife appear to be teleporting back and forth between Northampton and Windsor, ie between different Mass counties. Their children are currently shown as born in a mix of the two, with an implausible timeline requiring a lot of going back and forth for no apparent reason.
This is presumably the result of a WikiTree merge of previously unconnected families, one of which may have had the wrong places.
Is anyone working to clean this up, and either a) fix the teleportation problem, or b) provide sources to prove there isn't a problem?
The correction has been made. Someone decided that his birthplace, Windsor, was actually the one in Berkshire County, Massachusetts! There is no evidence to support that, and the Windsor in Massachusetts was not settled until some sixty-plus years after John Taylor's death.
This is presumably the result of a WikiTree merge of previously unconnected families, one of which may have had the wrong places.
Is anyone working to clean this up, and either a) fix the teleportation problem, or b) provide sources to prove there isn't a problem?
Thoughts?