Rev Edward TAYLOR

Rev Edward TAYLOR

Male 1642 - 1729  (87 years)

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  • Name Edward TAYLOR  [1, 2, 3
    • The Rev. Mr. Taylor who married Elizabeth Fitch and settled in the ministry at Westfield, Mass., had been a theological student in the family of rev. Mr. Fitch and through this connection developed an affection for the daughter of his teacher.

      A curious love letter that Elizabeth fitch received from Mr. Taylor before their marriage has been preserved, (if not the original, at least a careful copy), which Miss Caulkins appropriately says, "displays in a striking manner the quaint and metaphorical taste of the age, - a taste, the decline of which can not be lamented, since it seems better adapted to the display of an elaborate fancy, than to express genuine feeling."

      The address was accompanied with a crude sketch of a carrier dove with an olive branch in its mouth. Rev. Dr. Taylor then proceeds to show "that conjugal love should exceed all other love" but in illustrating this point he forgets the role of lover for that of the theologian and tunes into the style of a sermon which would not prove popular as a present-day love-letter. the drawing of the dove and olive branch, however, prove without doubt that the Rev. Dr. Taylor was pressing an ardent love suit in which he was successful. He was a man of great erudition and left a large number of MSS. to perpetuate his memory. After the death of his first wife, Elizabeth (Fitch) Taylor, whose daughter Hepzibah married Hon. Jon Pynchon, Rev. Mr.Taylor married Ruth Wyllis of Hartford. One of their daughters, by this marriage, was mother of President Stiles of Yale University, while their only surviving son Eldred, was the progenitor of a numerous and distinguished family. [1]
    Prefix Rev 
    Birth 1642  Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Death 29 Jun 1729  Westfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Burial Old Burying Ground, Westfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Person ID I56430  Main Tree
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2021 

    Family 1 Elizabeth FITCH,   b. Jan 1651/2, Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 07 Jul 1689, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 37 years) 
    Marriage 05 Sep 1674  Westfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    Children 
     1. Anne TAYLOR,   b. 1696   d. 05 Jul 1748 (Age 52 years)  [Natural]
    Family ID F02129  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2021 

    Family 2 Ruth WYLLYS,   b. 1656   d. 27 Jan 1730, Westfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Marriage 2 Jun 1692  [3
    Family ID F19627  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2021 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1642 - Leicestershire, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Headstones
    Rev. Edward Taylor Headstone
    Rev. Edward Taylor Headstone
    Rev. Edward Taylor is the husband of (1) Elizabeth Fitch and (2) Ruth Wyllys. He is buried in the Old Burying Ground in Westfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts.

    Maintained by: Linda Joyce Oldenborg-Smith
    Originally Created by: Sue Allen
    Photo added by: CB

  • Sources 
    1. [S4773] Roscoe Conkling Fitch, "History of the FITCH Family" AD 1400-1930, (Privately by the Fitch Family).

    2. [S00060] Kenneth Lord, "Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Lord", (Name: Name: New York 1946;;).

    3. [S9347] New England Marriages Prior to 1700.

    4. [S02329] Find A Grave Website.