Dear WRG: At 02:05 AM 10/24/2007, ALLAGREEN@aol.com wrote: >I have searched the Middlesex VR's for an Isaac Taylor to properly identify >the one who married Elizabeth Whitney of Watertown on 20 Oct 1793. > >I have found two possible candidates. One is the Isaac Taylor, born 25 Jan >1764 in Stow, son of Abel and Martha Taylor. > >The other is the Isaac Taylor born 22 Dec 1761 in Westford, son of Eleazar >and Sarah Taylor. > >The notice of the marriage appears in the Acton Vital Records, (on pp 226 >and 240), and indicates that Isaac was "of Acton" at the time of >the marriage. > >I cannot find anything in my fumbling efforts to seek this information from >the WRG web site, so am left with this means of asking for help. That information apparently does not appear on the WRG web site. They seem to be the Isaac and Betsey Taylor who lived in Winchendon, MA, after marriage. Those VR show the births of many children, and their deaths. The ages of that couple are consistent with those of Elizabeth (Whitney) Taylor and the Isaac Taylor, son of Abel and Martha (Conant) Taylor who had been born in Stow, even though Isaac's death record calls him son of Isaac (not Abel) Taylor of Stow. Futhermore, they named a son Abel, and a daughter Lois W. (for Whitney? possibly named after Betsey's sister Lois Whitney who died at 23), and Abraham (named after Betsey's father Abraham Whitney), but no child named Martha, Eleazer, or Sarah. I conclude that the Winchendon death record is in error with regard to Isaac's father's given name, and that he was the one born in Stow. Regards, Robert Mr. Robert L. Ward http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/User:Rlward