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| All per Ancestry File - NOT VERIFIED Other children: Joseph, William, Elizabeth, John, and Walter | ||||||||||||||
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| All per Ancestry File - NOT VERIFIED Other children: Joseph, William, Elizabeth, John, and Walter Fairfield County Hsit Soci William b, exeter Eng 1585 Dorchester 1630 Windsor 1636 died 1673 Lester Card collection From the History and Pedigrees of the House of Gaillard or Gaylord (Page 15): William Gaylord (supposed a native of Exeter, in the county of Devonshire, England) emigrated to New England with his brother, John Gaylord, in the spring of 1630. he was of a good family and good estate. He came over in the ship Mary + John, arriving at Nantucket, Boston Bay, May 30, 1630, and was made freeman Oct. 19th, following. he was chosen a Deacon of the gathering at Plymouth, Devonshire county, England, March 1630, when the church was organized, under Rev. John Maverick and rev. John Warham, who also came with the company in the Mary + John, and were the pioneers in the settlement of the new town of Dorchester. Deacon William Gaylord signed the first land grants in Dorchester, and his own grant was recorded there in 1633. Was Selectman and representative to the General Court, 1635-6-8, when he removed to Windsor, Conn., with Warham's company, which town he represented near forty sessions (to 1664) in the General Assembly; and died at Windsor, July 20, 1673. The name of his wife is not known, she may have deceased before he left England, as his children were then nearly of an adult age. John Gaylord, brother of the above William, also settled in Dorchester where he resided in 1632, and was one of two to meet the Court of Assistants relating to the system of representation. "Whether he died soon or returned to England, is unknown." I have been at very considerable pains to trace the history of Mr. John Gaylord from this point down, but with little success; the records at Dorchester are silent on the subject, nor have I found any proof of his return to England - my belief, however, is that he did return. Mr reasons for so thinking I will state as concisely as possible. 1st. Had he died here, there is every reason to believe there would have been some mention of the circumstance. There is a pretty full record of his brother William. Why should there not also have been as full a record of John, had he remained? 2nd. In Dr. Stiles' History (Supplement, page 14) a widow Gaylord is mentioned who devised moneys and twenty acres of meadow land to the Church at Windsor forever, on certain conditions, which was the beginning of a Church Fund in that place, after which she returned to her home at Tiverton, in the County of Devon, England, and their died. 3rd. Among the oldest members of the family in Devonshire, I have found a report current that some of their ancestors went to America in the early time, but returned again, on account of the inclemency of the cold during the New England winters. My impression is, that the widow last mentioned, and John, were the parties who thus returned. The winters in Devonshire are usually quite mild, and not unlike those of their native "sunny France." Both the widow and Mr. John Gaylord were evidently persons in good circumstance, and, having the means, would naturally desire to end their days in a more genial climate, and preferred their old home, with its conveniences and comforts, to the hardships of a pioneer life. I would further suggest here, which seems to me as not an improbable conjecture, vis., that he did return, and is probably the principal progenitor of those bearing the name in the west of England at this day. If he returned for the reasons before given, it is more than likely that he would have settle near his old home. Wincanton being but a few miles from Exeter, I think it very probable that he was either the father or grandfather of the William who was at Sedgmoor in 1685. One or two other circumstances tend to confirm this belief - the strong resemblance, or family likeness, which I find existing between the families in Old and New England, and their similarity of names. William and John have been the two principal names in use in the male line among the Gaillards of Devonshire down to the present time. ________________________________ William Gaylord (supposedly a native of Execter, in the county of Devonshire, England) is said to have emigrated to New England with his brother, John Gaylord, in the Spring of 1630. It is thought he came over on the ship "Mary and John," which arrived at Nantasket, near Dorchester Neck, Boston Bay, Massachusetts, 30 May 1630. Mr. Burton Spear of "The Mary & John Clearing House" has a series of books titled "Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John, 1630." In Volume 1 he has detailed a synthetic passenger list from various sources and why they were or were not a passenger on the Mary & John. As to John Gaylord, nothing has been found as to whether he died shortly after arriving or went directly back to England. Present evidence indicates that the parents and wives of William are still unknown. Exactly where William was from and where he was prior to coming to New England is still unknown. John I Coddington in "Clues to the English Home of William Gaylord, of Dorchester, MA., and Windsor, CT." in The American Genealogist, Volume 17, said William was in Crewkerne at least from 1619 through 1624, as three of his sons were baptized there (Samuel, John and Joseph). Where he was prior to 1619 and after 1624 is still a puzzle. Mr. Coddington says that the will of Joan Patten showed a definite connection of William to Crewkerne. Joan was buried at Crewkerne 29 April 1634, and made bequests to everyone of her brothers, to her sister Sarah and the latter's children, to her sister Elizabeth and her sister Marie, and "to William Gaylard in New England, 5 (pounds), to be bestowed for him as my executor shall think fit." The will did not show the relationship between Joan and William. Some researchers think William, the emigrant, was the one who married Jone Ashwood 11 June 1610. Mr. Coddington believes it is nevertheless impossible to tell whether this record refers to this William or not. There are sources that state that William married second a Sarah or Mary Walters after Jone died 20 June 1657 in Windsor, CT. One researcher said that this Mary was an incorrect reading of the gravestone, that this was the wife of Walter Gaylord. http://home.att.net/~bcwood/ ____________________________ There's no proof that William Gaylord was ever married to anybody named Mary Walter or Walters. There were two articles published in the 1980s, both called "The Wives of William1 and Walter2 Gaylord of Dorchester MA and Windsor CT." The second of these articles has the subtitle "A Reprise." The first was by Michel L. Call and the second was by Robert Charles Anderson. They were published in The American Genealogist (TAG). The article by Call was in Vol. 60, 1984, pp. 213-4. He says that somebody misread a note that should have read "Mary, Walter's first wife [died] 1657." Instead they thought it read "Mary Walters, first wife [died] 1657." Those commas and apostrophes are important. The article by Anderson was in Vol. 61, 1985-6, pp. 95-6. In this article he corrects one assumption by Call concerning the fact that William's wife and Walter's wife died only nine days apart. Also, Anderson did not name a wife for William in The Great Migration Begins, for which he dredged up all available records to come up with authoritative information. | ||||||||||||||
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