Thomas Taylor (1655 - 1741)

Born 5 Oct 1655 in Windsor, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Roe) Taylor — married about 24 Jun 1678 (to 13 Oct 1691) in Suffield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Hannah Granger — married about 1692 in Suffield, Hartford Co., CT

Descendants

Died 6 Jan 1741 at age 85 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Thomas Taylor has English ancestors.

Thomas is listed as the spouse of Abigail Roe, but no other details are given in Frank C. Roe's book. ^[1]

Thomas is listed in the Suffield Historical Society listing for Hugh Roe family. ^[2] and under listing for Stephen Taylor, 2nd Generation. ^[3]

Thomas is briefly mentioned in the James Granger book, about page 48, 56.^[4]

The Frank C. Roe book^[1] (p. 10) lists a daughter of Thomas Taylor and Hannah Granger as Keziah (no DOB) who later married a William Allen II.

The family lived in Suffield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Suffield eventually (in 1716) became part of the State of Connecticut. Suffield is now known as Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA. ^[5]

Birth

1655 ^[4]

Marriage

1678 First marriage - Spouse - Abigail Roe. ^[1]

Second marriage - Spouse - Hannah Granger.

Hannah was the sister of Thomas Granger.

The wife, Mindwell Taylor, of Thomas Granger was the sister of Thomas Taylor.^[1][4]

ABT 1692 Suffield, Hartford Co., CT

Thomas Taylor m. (2) Hannah Granger, b. at Newbury, Mass., prob. b. 15 May 1666, and d. at Suffield 1729, daughter of Launcelot and Joanna (Adams) Granger. He had four children by first marriage, at least four more by second.^[6][7]

Death

1741 ^[4]

Sources

• Welles, Edwin. Births, Marriages, and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1898) Page 45
• Roe, Frank C. (1972) Some Descendants of Hugh Roe; An Immigrant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England ca. 1652. Kennett Square, Pennsylvania: self-published.
• Alcorn, Robert Hayden (1970) Biography of a Town: Suffield Connecticut 1670-1970. Suffield, CT: Three Hundredth Anniversary Committee of the Town of Suffield.
• Granger, James Nathaniel. Launcelot Granger of Newbury, Mass., and Suffield, Conn., A Genealogical History (Hartford, Conn., 1893) Page ?
• HSS Manuscripts
• The American Genealogist, Page: v.37, #4, October 1961, pp.202-203.

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Roe
2. ↑ http://www.suffieldhistoricalsociety.org/families_roe
3. ↑ http://www.suffieldhistoricalsociety.org/families_staylor
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Granger
5. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffield,_Connecticut
6. ↑ The American Genealogist
7. ↑ HSS Manuscripts