Descendants of William Taylor
 
 1   William Taylor b: February 15, 1691/92 in Marlboro, Middlesex County, MA  d: August 14, 1775 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
..  +Elizabeth Hapgood b: October 4, 1699 in Marlboro, Middlesex County, MA m: November 28, 1717 in Marlboro, Middlesex County, MA d: March 17, 1763 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
..... 2   Jonah Taylor b: Abt August 1718 in Marlboro, Middlesex, Massachusetts  d: September 8, 1745 in Cape Breton, MA
..... 2   Abigail Taylor b: March 5, 1719/20 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.........  +Moses Hastings  m: April 25, 1739 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Rebeckah Hastings b: December 20, 1739 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Catherine Hastings b: January 10, 1740/41 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Beulah Hastings b: January 17, 1746/47 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Nevenson Hastings b: April 19, 1749 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.....  *2nd Husband of Abigail Taylor:
.........  +Samuel Bigelow  m: May 7, 1770 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
..... 2   Mary Taylor b: August 15, 1722 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA  d: April 25, 1796 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.........  +Hezekiah Rice b: February 18, 1717/18 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, MA m: January 9, 1739/40 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Asa Rice b: March 12, 1741/42 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................  +Miriam Wheeler  m: June 11, 1763 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Nabbe Rice b: March 25, 1764 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Hezekiah Rice b: October 10, 1765 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Elizabeth Rice b: August 26, 1767 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Abner Rice b: June 29, 1769 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Sally Rice b: April 18, 1771 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
........................  +Job Cushing  m: September 2, 1790 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Elizabeth Cushing b: March 18, 1795 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Emery Cushing b: November 21, 1796 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Hezekiah Rice Cushing b: May 13, 1793 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Lucy Cushing b: January 14, 1791 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Ashbel Rice b: April 14, 1773 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Asa Rice b: July 24, 1775 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Asa Rice b: October 1, 1777 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
........................  +Mary Flagg b: Abt 1762 in of Boylston m: April 25, 1807 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Abner Rice b: November 2, 1813 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Asa Wheeler Rice b: February 17, 1817 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Francis Hayden Rice b: January 22, 1818 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   George Handel Rice b: August 15, 1815 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   James Tilden Rice b: July 22, 1810 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Joseph Flint Rice b: December 5, 1808 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Loammi Baldwin Rice b: March 8, 1823 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Martha Dwight Rice b: September 3, 1807 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Mary Loraine Rice b: January 26, 1812 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Stephen Flagg Rice b: September 14, 1820 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Dolly Rice b: September 17, 1779 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
........................  +Moses Haven  m: June 14, 1801 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Miriam Rice Haven b: November 3, 1801 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Theodore Sedgewick Haven b: August 2, 1803 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Mary Wells Haven b: April 9, 1806 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Hannah Wood Haven b: January 4, 1808 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Jane Haven b: March 22, 1810 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Hiram Orlando Haven b: November 5, 1812 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Patty Rice b: August 26, 1781 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
........................  +Simeon Dwight  m: March 3, 1802 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Mary Rice b: February 23, 1784 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Jonah Rice b: June 11, 1747 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Lemuel Rice b: May 11, 1740 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................  +Abigail Lynds  m: August 5, 1763 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Luke Rice b: October 23, 1744 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Lydia Rice b: July 9, 1752 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................  +Joseph Stone  m: November 18, 1772 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Eunice Stone b: January 19, 1780 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Lewis Stone b: June 16, 1773 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Lucy Stone b: January 31, 1783 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Luke Stone b: April 25, 1776 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Relief Stone b: July 25, 1781 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Sally Stone b: January 7, 1774 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Mary Rice b: April 30, 1755 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................  +Stephan Earls  m: April 8, 1780 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Henry Earls b: August 28, 1780 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
..... 2   Elizabeth Taylor b: June 3, 1725 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.........  +Solomon Stowe  m: November 19, 1741 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
..... 2   Dinah Taylor b: March 12, 1726/27 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA  d: November 15, 1759 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.........  +Ross Wyman  m: April 10, 1751 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Seth Wyman b: December 13, 1750 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Seth Wyman b: December 11, 1751 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Sarah Wyman b: June 3, 1753 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................  +Thaddeus Easterbrook b: in of Rutland, VT m: December 31, 1772 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Kate Wyman b: December 9, 1755 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................  +Jonathan Harrington  m: February 13, 1779 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Jonathan Harrington b: March 10, 1780 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Sally Harrington b: February 15, 1782 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Wyman Harrington b: February 11, 1784 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Seth Wyman b: April 5, 1758 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................  +Mary Brown  m: August 17, 1782 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Sally Wyman b: June 9, 1784 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Ross Wyman b: July 7, 1785 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Seth Wyman b: July 23, 1787 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
........................  +Lucy Baker  m: November 28, 1816 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Charles Dexter Wyman b: September 12, 1820 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Jane Caroline Wyman b: September 6, 1822 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Nancy Baker Wyman b: June 28, 1824 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Oliver Brown Wyman b: September 16, 1826 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Lucy Mariah Wyman b: March 30, 1830 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Seth Henry Wyman b: August 17, 1832 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Mary Putnam Wyman b: August 29, 1834 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Sarah Elizabeth Wyman b: May 8, 1837 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Oliver Wyman b: April 9, 1789 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
........................  +Hannah K. Drury  m: April 15, 1819 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Polly Wyman b: February 28, 1791 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Clarissa Wyman b: April 7, 1793 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
........................  +William Johnson b: in of Shoreham, VT m: October 29, 1839 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Levi Wyman b: November 25, 1795 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
..... 2   Eunice Taylor b: March 28, 1729 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA  d: July 1, 1759 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.........  +Daniel Howe b: April 16, 1727 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts m: June 10, 1748 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA d: July 5, 1750 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
............ 3   Jonah Howe b: January 2, 1748/49 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................  +Prudence Bowker  m: July 4, 1771 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Eunice Howe b: October 4, 1771 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
........................  +Lewis Heartshorn  m: May 27, 1790 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Dennis Howe b: July 15, 1773 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
........................  +Betsy Bigelow  m: January 7, 1795 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Prudence Bowker Howe b: May 16, 1795 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   William Howe b: November 13, 1796 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Jonah Howe b: January 25, 1798 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Charles Howe b: August 14, 1774 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Daniel Howe b: October 15, 1775 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
........................  +Hannah
.......................... 5   Edward Flint Howe b: December 25, 1789 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Levi Howe b: January 21, 1792 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Jubal Howe b: December 27, 1793 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Clark Howe b: April 26, 1796 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Damaris Howe b: July 8, 1798 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Lyman Howe b: November 21, 1800 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Joseph Howe b: September 5, 1802 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Hannah Howe b: September 11, 1805 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   William Howe b: January 13, 1777 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Eleanor Howe b: April 23, 1779 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   James Howe b: April 23, 1779 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Daniel Howe b: March 21, 1781 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.....  *2nd Husband of Eunice Taylor:
.........  +Marshall Newton  m: August 13, 1751 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Daniel Newton b: March 13, 1751/52 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Eunice Newton b: March 13, 1754 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................  +Ephraim Holland  m: August 3, 1782 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Marshall Newton b: January 13, 1757 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................  +Lydia Newton  m: July 1, 1786 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
..... 2   Lois Taylor b: March 10, 1730/31 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA  d: October 15, 1745 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
..... 2   Hepzibah Taylor b: March 6, 1732/33 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA  d: June 10, 1770 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.........  +Nathan Howe b: June 17, 1730 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts m: November 10, 1748 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts d: March 21, 1781 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
............ 3   Lois Howe b: March 2, 1748/49 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts  d: December 26, 1838 in Swanzy
................  +Edward Goddard  m: November 4, 1769 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Daniel Howe b: February 6, 1751/52 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts  d: October 13, 1776
................  +Eunice Chase  m: March 1774
............ 3   Candace Howe b: December 8, 1754 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts  d: May 8, 1848
................  +Simon Allen  m: July 20, 1772 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   John Allen b: July 21, 1772 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
............ 3   Vashti Howe b: January 13, 1757 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts  d: February 8, 1837
................  +Jonathan Hubbard  m: October 25, 1775
............ 3   Nathan Howe b: October 12, 1762 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts  d: January 6, 1851
................  +Mary Parker b: May 19, 1763 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts m: February 13, 1783 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts d: August 24, 1843 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
................... 4   Lucy Howe b: December 12, 1783 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
........................  +John Bannister b: September 23, 1783 m: 1802 d: May 5, 1822
................... 4   Martha Howe b: September 15, 1785 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
........................  +John Eager b: September 30, 1783 m: February 13, 1808 d: September 11, 1837
................... 4   William Taylor Howe b: August 24, 1787 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA  d: September 30, 1882 in Wyandot Co.OH
........................  +Elizabeth Rice b: April 15, 1787 in Nelson Twp.Cheshire Co. NH m: 1810 d: November 10, 1872 in Wyandot Co.OH
................... 4   Calvin Howe b: May 14, 1789 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA  d: January 14, 1868
........................  +Mary A Wyman b: February 28, 1791 m: 1815
................... 4   Mary Howe b: September 29, 1791 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts  d: July 23, 1825 in Camden, Maine
........................  +unk  m: March 17, 1816
................... 4   Amasa Howe b: February 6, 1794 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA  d: April 29, 1883
........................  +Elizabeth Allen  m: January 1, 1818 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
.......................... 5   Lorenzo Howe b: August 12, 1819 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
...............................  +Clarissa Ann
.......................... 5   Marriet Evaline Howe b: May 19, 1821
.......................... 5   Nathan Howe b: January 20, 1829
.......................... 5   Artemas Howe b: March 5, 1831 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Henry Howe b: March 12, 1796 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
................... 4   Samuel Parker Howe b: February 13, 1798 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA  d: June 1798 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
................... 4   Harriet Howe b: August 18, 1799 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA  d: March 15, 1870 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
........................  +Gideon Harlow b: February 17, 1799 m: January 1, 1828 d: October 26, 1877
................... 4   Samuel Parker Howe b: February 5, 1802 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA  d: June 1802 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
................... 4   Sophronia Howe b: November 20, 1805 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
............ 3   Amasa Howe b: November 24, 1766 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
................  +Sarah Pierce  m: September 4, 1786
..... 2   Beulah Taylor b: October 20, 1736 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA  d: October 28, 1745 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
..... 2   Mercy Taylor b: November 22, 1741 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA  d: December 1, 1741 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, MA
 

From Atemas Ward's History of Shrewsbury, pg. 445-6 it reads:

Taylor, William, known as Sargeant Taylor, b. 1692, m. Elizabeth, D. of Thomas Hapgood of Marlboro, Nov. 28, 1717 (she was b. in 1697, and was sister of Capt. Thomas Hapgood,who early settled here).  They probably removed from Marlboro to this town before the year 1720.  He lived, as sup. where Capt. Amasa Howe now does and was one of the founders of this chh., to which his wife Elizabeth, was ad. in 1724.  He d. Aug. 14, 1775, aged 84, and his wife Elizabeth, d. March 17, 1763, aged 66.  Chil. Jonah, whose birth is not on record here, but in Marlboro, b. in 1718, and d. at Cape Breton, Sept. 8, 1845, anged 28; Abigail, here, March 5, 1720, and m. Moses Hastings in 1742, and Samuel Bigelow, in 1770; Mary, Aug. 15, 1722, and m. Hezekiah Rice, in 1740, Elizabeth, June 3, 1725, and m. Solomon Stow of Marlboro, Nov. 19, 1741, and probably Capt. Benjamin Fay of Westboro in 1765; she was then called of Gafton; Dinah, March 12, 1727, and m. Ross Wyman, his 2nd wife, April 10, 1751; Eunice, March 28, 1729 and m. Daniel Howe, March 10, 1748, and Marshall Newton in 1751; Lois, May 10, 1731, and d. Oct. 15, 1745; Hepzibah, March 6, 1733 and m. Nathan Howe, Sept. 10, 1748; Bulah, Oct. 20, 1736, and d. Oct. 28, 1745; Mercy, Nov. 22, 1741, bap. the same day and probably d. infant.

From History of Shrewsbury by Thomas Harlow:

William Taylor, who married Captain Hapgood's other sister, Elizabeth, was also a man of considerable means for his day, but did not wholly escape, like his brother-in-law, militia honors.  His name in town and church records, I believe, has the uniform prefix Sargeant.  He settled on a lot of the North Squadron, adjoining Goddards, being the place where Mr. Charles A. Holman now lives, and where the late Amasa Howe, great-grandson of Taylor, lived; where lived also Amasa's father, Nathan, and his grandfather, also named Nathan, who was son of Captain Daniel Howe, and married Sargeant Taylor's daughter, Hepzibah.  The house which William Taylor built was taken down by Amasa Howe in 1849. The Taylor farm or share which he had in the North Squadron extended south to the Great Road, and included the site of the house in which his great-great-grandson, Thomas Harlow, now lives, and all the other land to and including the Common and the site of the Sumner house.  The Great Road was substantially on the line between the North and Middle Squadrons, and this was Taylor's south line.  The name Taylor as a surname died in Shrewsbury with the first comer, but his descendants, by six daughters, are very numerous.  His father and grandfather both lived in Marlboro, and were both named William Taylor.  He was many years a selectman of Shrewsbury.

William Taylor once owned most of the land in Shrewsbury that now lies north of Main St. in Shrewsbury and west of Rt. 140, including what is now the cemetery and commons.  He donated the land for that cemetery and commons in 1721.

The statement by Thomas Harlow, that his "father and grandfather both lived in Marlboro, and were both named William Taylor." is in partial error.  While his father was certainly William of Marlboro, there is no evidence of a grandfather named William in Marlboro.  There may be a mistaken connection here between William of Marlboro and William of Concord, a connection often made, but erroneous.  Then again, maybe William's grandfather was named William as well, but this would be the only record of his grandfather's identity, since he never came to Massachusetts.

William Taylor's signature, from his father's estate settlement Feb'y 9th, 1713/14.