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N.N. Rawlins (Taylor)

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Daughter of Edward Taylor and Rebecca Dudley
Wife of Aaron Rawlins
Sister of William Taylor; Nathan Taylor; Sarah Souter; N.N. Folsom and Hannah Pilsbury

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About N.N. Rawlins

Rebecca and child captured when first husband Edward Taylor killed by Indians abt 26 Apr. 1704. She returned and m. 2d Thomas Dudley bef. 7 June 1711. In 1720 she and s. Nathan renounc. adm. on the Taylor est. to Aaron Rollins, and again in 1726 to Nathan Pilsbury. Taylor children included William, Nathan, Sarah, Hannah, 2 more daughters [ref 22]

1723 — The enemy appeared at Lamprey River again on August 29, 1723, eighteen Indians attacked the garrisoned house of Aaron Rawlins. Mr. Rawlins was shot through the walls of the house he was defending and afterwards scalped, while the head of his eldest daughter, twelve years of age, was cut off. Mrs. Rawlins was the daughter of Edward and Rebecca Taylor. She was made prisoner while attempting to escape from the house with a son and daughter who followed her. The mother was redeemed in a few years. The son was adopted by the Indians, and lived with them all his days. The daughter (Edward and Rebecca Taylor’s granddaughter) married a Frenchman, and when nearly sixty years old visited with her husband her native place, hoping to recover the patrimony which she supposed was left at the death of her father.


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  1. http://www.freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pattyrose/eng...
    1. 22. "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Surnames" by Sybil Noyes, Charles T. Libby, Walter G. Davis : Baltimore:1996. Page 674. https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/30237002?h=4bc419
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