Individual Details
Edward Taylor
( - Jun 1729)
RESIDENCE: Left England on 26 April, 1668, arrived Boston, Massachusetts 5 July 1668.
OCCUPATION: Minister (First Church) and physician in Westfield, Massachusetts 1671-1729. Ordained 1679.
EDUCATION: 3 years at Cambridge University in England, then to America and three years at Harvard, A.B. degree at Harvard 1671, honorary M.A. 1720.
OCCUPATION: Minister (First Church) and physician in Westfield, Massachusetts 1671-1729. Ordained 1679.
EDUCATION: 3 years at Cambridge University in England, then to America and three years at Harvard, A.B. degree at Harvard 1671, honorary M.A. 1720.
Events
Marriage | 5 Nov 1674 | Elizabeth Fitch | |||
Marriage | 21 Jun 1692 | Ruth Wyllys | |||
Death | Jun 1729 | Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts | |||
Birth | Sketchley, Leicestershire, England |
Families
Spouse | Elizabeth Fitch (1652 - 1689) |
Child | Samuel Taylor (1675 - ) |
Child | Elizabeth Taylor (1676 - 1677) |
Child | James Taylor (1678 - 1701) |
Child | Abigail Taylor (1681 - 1682) |
Child | Bathshua Taylor (1683 - 1710) |
Child | Elizabeth Taylor (1684 - 1685) |
Child | Mary Taylor (1686 - 1687) |
Child | Hezekiah Taylor (1688 - 1688) |
Spouse | Ruth Wyllys ( - ) |
Child | Ruth Taylor (1693 - ) |
Child | Naomi Taylor (1695 - ) |
Child | Ann Taylor (1696 - ) |
Child | Mehetble Taylor (1699 - ) |
Child | Kezia Taylor (1702 - ) |
Child | Rev. Eldad Taylor (1708 - 1777) |
Father | ? Taylor ( - ) |
Sibling | Joseph Taylor ( - ) |
Sibling | Richard Taylor ( - ) |
Endnotes
1. George Hubbard, Ancestors and Descendents of Josiah Hosmer, Jr. (1902).
2. Who Was Who in America (1963).
3. Who Was Who in America (1963), 521.
4. Donald E. Stanford, The Poems of Edward Taylor (New Haven, CT: 1960), xxxix.