Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
NameRose TAYLOR?
BirthEngland
Deathbef 12 Feb 1685, Stamford?, Fairfield, Connecticut1876, p 483
FatherGregory TAYLOR (-1657)
MotherAchsa (-1657)
Individual Notes
• She was surely not Rose Lockwood. Since John testified on 21 October 1657 that “his father in law and mother are both dead lately at Stamford,” and since both Gregory Taylor and his wife had died at Stamford within the prior two months, there seems to be a strong possibility they were Rose’s parents, or perhaps Rose was their adopted daughter.1851, p 498
Spouses
Birth28 Dec 16211876, p 483
Memodate calculated
Baptism30 Dec 1621, Sudbury, Suffolk, England1851, p 496,1381, p 174,1876, p 479 Age: <1
MemoAll Saints
Death31 Jul 1658, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut1851, p 500; year only,1876, p 483 Age: 36
Memodied age 36y 7m 3d; died intestate
FatherWilliam WATERBURY
MotherAlice PARCETT
Individual Notes
• In his Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich: 673, published in 1911, Spencer P. Mead states that John Waterbury married Rose Lockwood. He makes the assertion without adducing any evidence whatever, a failing for which he had, regrettably, a well deserved reputation. “Library genealogists” have adopted this asserted identification as fact and many have convinced themselves that Rose was a daughter of Edmund Lockwood, including Hoppin in his Washington Ancestry, op. cit., 3:479-483 [R1374]. This compiler believes that Rose was not a Lockwood, but was, perhaps, a daughter of Gregory and Achsa Taylor, for reasons given below.
She is therefore shown herein as “Rose (Taylor?).” She was surely not Rose Lockwood. Since John testified on 21 October 1657 that “his father in law and mother are both dead lately at Stamford,” and since both Gregory Taylor and his wife had died at Stamford within the prior two months, there seems to be a strong possibility they were Rose's parents, or perhaps Rose was their adopted daughter.1851, pp 496-8

• He first settled in Watertown, Mass. about 1641, where he sold his property Oct. 15, 1646, and removed to Stamford, Conn., by Mar. 2, 1651.1381, p 174

• John Waterbury died in 1658 at the age of only 37 or 38 years. Since he had been elected deputy just two months earlier, presumably when in good health, we may conjecture that he died suddenly and unexpectedly. His widow, Rose, married Joseph Garnsey 11 May 1659 (Stamford Town Records, 1:74), and had a son, Joseph Garnsey Jr., born 30 June 1662 (ibid., 1:76). 1851, p 500
Marriageabt 1641, Watertown?, Middlesex, Massachusetts1864, p 783
Family Notes
• 5 known children.1851, p 501
ChildrenRachel Parcett (~1642-<1710)
Marriage11 May 1659, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut1864, p 783; year only,1851, p 273 & p 500,1876, p 483
ChildrenJoseph (1662-)
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