Mary Taylor

Mary Whelden (bapt. 23 Dec 1621-Dec.1673) m.1646 Richard Taylor, tailor of Yarmouth.. She was found dead 4 Dec 1673 in a wrecked boat off Duxbury, Plymouth Colony. His estate was inventoried 13 Dec 1673, and was treated as though he were a widower. Whether he died in the same shipwreck as his wife is unclear.

children
. . . . . 61. Ann Taylor (2 Dec 1648 - 29 Mar 1650)

Children were baptized at St Leodegarius Church, Basford.

• 6. Mary Whelden (bapt. 23 Dec 1621-Dec.1673) m.1646 Richard Taylor, tailor of Yarmouth.. She was found dead 4 Dec 1673 in a wrecked boat off Duxbury, Plymouth Colony.  His estate was inventoried 13 Dec 1673, and was treated as though he were a widower.  Whether he died in the same shipwreck as his wife is unclear.

9 Children

• . . . . . 61. Ann Taylor (2 Dec 1648 - 29 Mar 1650)
• . . . . . 62. Mary Taylor (18 Dec 1650-1 Feb 1716/7) married about 1673 Abishai Marchant
• . . . . . 63. Martha Taylor (18 Dec 1650-27 Jan 1727/8) m.3 Dec 1676 Joseph Bearse of Barnstable
• . . . . . 64. John Taylor (c1652 - bef 18 Jan 1721/2) m.15 Dec 1674 Sarah Matthews
• . . . . . 65. Elizabeth Taylor (c1655 - 4 May 1721) m.20 Dec 1680 Samuel Cobb of Barnstable
• . . . . . 66. Hannah Taylor (1658 -14 May 1743) m.19 July 1680 Deacon Job Crocker of Barnstable
• . . . . . 67. Ann Taylor (c1659) m. 25 June 1679 Josiah Davis of Barnstable
• . . . . . 68. Joseph Taylor (c1660 -13 Sept 1727) m.25 Apr 1684 Experience Williamson; Marshfield
• . . . . . 69. Sarah Taylor (died 31 July 1695) unmarried

notes

Name also seen as Ruth (1)

"Mary's death was tragic. Her body was found in a small boat in which she had probably intended to go from Yarmouth to Duxbury or Plymouth. A jury of inquest was formed in Duxbury, where the boat was probably found, and it rendered its verdict on the 4th of December 1673. The following was the verdict:

• "The jury of inquest appointed to view a corpes found in a boate now racked, and being supposed to be the wife of Richard Taylor, somtimes of Yarmouth, and to make dilligent serch how the said woman came by her death, doe judge, that the boate being cast away, the woman was drowned in the boate."

Her husband died, grief stricken, within 9 days of hearing the verdict."

Children: Ann Taylor, Mary Taylor Marchant, Martha Taylor Bearse, John Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor Cobb, Hannah Taylor Crocker, Sarah Taylor, and Ann Taylor Davis.

1/2 blood Wampanoag Indian from her mother.

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Alternate Birth Location: Yarmouth, MA, USA

Notes

1. That she and not her sister Ruth was the wife of Richard Taylor, tailor of Yarmouth, is argued in "The Origins of Gabriel Whelden of Yarmouth and Malden, Massachusetts," Register 163:253-261.

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Name: Mary Whelden
Event Type: Death
Death Date: 4 Dec 1673
Death Place: USA
Father's Name: Gabriel Whelden
Page number: 261
Volume Number: 163
Ancestry.com, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011

• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mary_Whelden_%281%29_
  • "In [Jan] or Dec 1673, the body of a drowned woman was found in a boat. An inquest in Duxbury identified her as "wife of Richard Taylor, sometimes of Yarmouth", but the name of the drowned woman is not provided.. [Source: Plymouth Colony Records, Volume 5; pp.122-123]" http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.taylor/18793/mb.ashx Apparently this is not the woman. 13 Marriage Notes (Richard Taylor) A 1655 lawsuit was brought against Margaret Whelden, widow of Gabriel by four men, two of whom were: Richard Taylor, Taylor and Richard Taylor, Husbandman... [Source: Middlesex Court Files Folio 11; HLS #411 and/or Probate Court, Cambridge, Suffolk County]: "To the Constable of maulden or his deputie. You are required to attach the body or goods of Margrett Weilden, late widdow of Gabriel Weilden, and to take bond of her to the value of fourscore plus tenn pounds with sufficient suerties for her appearance at the next Court holden at Cambrdge ye wd day of ye 8 mo. 55, then and there to anser ye complaynt of Henry Weilden John Weilden, Rich: Taylor Taylor and Rich: Taylor husbandman for withholding their parts or portions of an estate which their late father Gabriell Weilden was possessor or owner of in his life and soe make a true returne hereof under your hand. Dated the 28 of the 5th mo. 55. By the Court Tho: Starr" (Jillaine Smith, 2007)
    • There were 2 Richard Taylors in Yarmouth that married Wheldens, and their families may be jumbled or reversed here.****
• http://capecodhistory.us/genealogy/lost/i135.htm#i69253
• Whilden
• Nottinghamshire History: Basford
• Miner Descent
• The Sacred Cod  Wellfleet Massachusetts, and connections
• New England, Historical and Genealogical Register (Vol. 163, No. 4, October 2009) Jan Porter and Daniel F. Stramara, Jr., "The Origin of Gabriel1 Whelden of Yarmouth and Malden, Massachusetts" pp. 253-261
• "Whelden" in New England Marriages Prior to 1700.  Clarence Almon Torrey Genealogical Publishing Com, 1985 - Reference - 1009 pages.  page 802. Gabriel Whelden (- 1654) & 1st wf; ca 1620? 1610? Yarmouth / Malden. & 2nd wf Margaret ?; Yarmouth / Lynn / Malden
• Gabriel Wheldon and spouse Margaret Diguina(?) 1620's
•  "From Out of the Past--Who our Forefathers Really Were, a True Narrative of our White and Indian Ancestors" filed in the 1930's by Franklin Ele-watum Bearse, a Scaticoke and Eastern Indian: http://www.murrah.com/gen/FEBearse%20Paper.doc 
•  Donald Lines Jacobus, "Austin Bearse and His Alleged Indian Connections" in THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, 1936 view article
• WeRelate

“The pilgrims didn’t know it, but they were moving into a cemetery,” About 1614, a series of three epidemics, inadvertently introduced through contact with Europeans, began to sweep through the Indian villages in Massachusetts. At least ten Wampanoag villages were abandoned because there were no survivors. The Wampanoag population decreased from 12,000 to 5,000.

Note: It is not known what the actual disease was that caused this epidemic. Various writers have suggested bubonic plague, smallpox, and hepatitis A. There is strong evidence supporting all of these theories. It is estimated that by 1619, 75% of the Native population of New England had died as a result of this epidemic.

When Squanto returned from England with captain Thomas Dermer in 1619, he searched for the Wampanoag of his village, but found that they had all died in the epidemic.

By the end of the wars the Wampanoag were nearly exterminated: only 400 survived.

When the Mayflower pilgrims and the Wampanoag sat down for the first Thanksgiving in 1621, it wasn’t actually that big of a deal. Likely, it was just a routine English harvest celebration. More significant—and less remembered—was the peace treaty that the parties established seven months earlier, which lasted for 50 years. (See also: National Geographic Kids: First Thanksgiving.)

“There’s in fact very little historical record of the first Thanksgiving, which is why Thanksgiving wasn’t really celebrated as a holiday until the 19th century,” says Charles C. Mann, author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. “To historians, it seems kind of funny that the celebration … now seems more important than the treaty itself.”

President Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a national holiday during the Civil War, and the feast has since become an American tradition. Yet the story of the Wampanoag and the pilgrims who first broke bread is not commonly known. (See also: Talking Turkey: Facts about Thanksgiving's Big Bird.)

Here’s a little background about the much-mythologized meal.

1. It wasn’t actually a “Thanksgiving.”

In 1841, Boston publisher Alexander Young printed a book containing a letter by pilgrim Edward Winslow, which described the feast:

“[O]ur harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a more special manner rejoice together … [There were] many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest King Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted.” (See also: National Geographic Kids: First Thanksgiving.)

Pilgrims land An engraving depicts the Mayflower pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620. In reality, the pilgrims never wrote of any such rock. The first written mention of Plymouth Rock was in 1835.

Among 17th-century pilgrims, a “Thanksgiving” was actually a period of prayerful fasting, and Winslow did not use the word anywhere in his letter. But when Young published the letter, he called it the “first Thanksgiving” in a footnote, and the name stuck.

Edward Winslow Pilgrim Edward Winslow visits Massasoit, the Sachem (or leader) of the Wampanoag Confederacy.

2. A year before the first Thanksgiving, the pilgrims raided Native American graves.

When the pilgrims arrived in Cape Cod, they were incredibly unprepared. “They were under the persistent belief that because New England is south of the Netherlands and southern England, it would therefore be warmer,” says Mann. “Then they showed up six weeks before winter with practically no food.”

In a desperate state, the pilgrims robbed corn from Native Americans graves and storehouses soon after they arrived; but because of their overall lack of preparation, half of them still died within their first year. To learn how to farm sustainably, they eventually required help from Tisquantum, an English-speaking Native American who had been staying with the Wampanoag. (See also: Cranberries, a Native American Superfood.)

3. The pilgrims could only settle at Plymouth because thousands of Native Americans, including many Wampanoag, had been killed by disease.

If the pilgrims had arrived in Cape Cod three years earlier, they might not have found those abandoned graves and storehouses … in fact, they might not have had space to land.

Europeans who sailed to New England in the early to mid-1610s found flourishing communities along the coast, and little room for themselves to settle. But by 1620, when the Mayflower arrived, the area looked abandoned.

“A couple of years before, there’d been an epidemic that wiped out most of the coastal population of New England, and Plymouth was on top of a village that had been deserted by disease,” says Mann.

“The pilgrims didn’t know it, but they were moving into a cemetery,” he adds.

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4. The peace that led to the first Thanksgiving was driven by trade and tribal rivalries.

Before the Wampanoag suffered losses from disease, they had driven Europeans like John Smith away. “Now,” says Mann, “the Wampanoag [were] much weaker because of the disease, and they’re much weaker than their hated adversaries, the Narragansett.”

Ann McMullen, curator at the National Museum of the American Indian, says that the Wampanoag weren’t necessarily looking to make alliances against the Narragansett; but “because the Wampanoag were in a slightly weakened position,” they realized that an alliance with the pilgrims “could fortify their strength.”

The Europeans were valuable trading partners for the Wampanoag and other Native Americans in the area because they traded steel knives and axes for beaver pelts—something that, in the beaver-rich New England area, the Wampanoag considered essentially worthless.

“It’s a little like somebody comes to your door, and says I’ll give you gold if you give me a rock,” Mann says. “The Wampanoag thought: if we tie ourselves to these guys, everybody else will be hesitant to attack us, because they could drive away these people who are willing to pay gold for rocks.

When the pilgrims arrived in Cape Cod, they were incredibly unprepared. “They were under the persistent belief that because New England is south of the Netherlands and southern England, it would therefore be warmer,” says Mann. “Then they showed up six weeks before winter with practically no food.”

In a desperate state, the pilgrims robbed corn from Native Americans graves and storehouses soon after they arrived; but because of their overall lack of preparation, half of them still died within their first year. To learn how to farm sustainably, they eventually required help from Tisquantum, an English-speaking Native American who had been staying with the Wampanoag. (See also: Cranberries, a Native American Superfood.)

3. The pilgrims could only settle at Plymouth because thousands of Native Americans, including many Wampanoag, had been killed by disease.

If the pilgrims had arrived in Cape Cod three years earlier, they might not have found those abandoned graves and storehouses … in fact, they might not have had space to land.

Some of the Information on her came from American Genealogical volume 48