Sgt. Walter Taylor

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Walter Taylor was born in1623 in England to Walter Taylor and [mother unknown]. He married Alice Wells in 1652 in Massachusetts. He is the father of Mary Taylor. Walter died on 11 Feb 1687 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts

BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 55 on Oath of Allegiance at Newbury, 1678 (NEHGR, 7[1853]:349 [FHL #974 B2ne]). He is called son of Walter Taylor on county copy of death rec, but this may be a clerical error, as no elder Walter Taylor has been found in New England.

MAR: No mar rec found. Walter's wife Alice surrendered her right of dower on 14 Apr 1663 in a deed from Walter Taylor of Salisbury to William Huntington, 13 Dec 1662 (Old Norfolk Co. Deeds, 1:166 [FHL #873020]).

DEATH: VITAL RECORDS OF AMESBURY (Topsfield, MA, 1913), 591 (FHL #974.45/A1 V2a). The unregistered adm and inv of estate of Walter Taylor, 14 Feb 1686/7, is cited in David W. Hoyt, OLD FAMILIES OF SALISBURY AND AMESBURY, 3 vols. (Providence, 1897-1916; repr in 1 vol., Baltimore, 1982), 332 (FHL #974.45 D2h). OCC: Shipwright

~LDS ORDINANCES BES: IGI

References

• http://www.ourgenerationsancestors.org/getperson.php?personID=I1133...
• Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs ..., Volume 4 edited by William Richard Cutter GoogleBooks
• Evidence of Walter Taylor being the father of Mary Taylor is on page 11 of the Davis Genealogy. Davis, Francis Y., “Genealogy of the Ancestry and Descendants of Captain Francis Davis, Founder.” ..., Dayton, OH, The Oberlin Press, 1910., Pg 11. < Archive.Org >