Mary Taylor

Brief Life History of Mary

Mary Taylor was born on 18 April 1783, in Sanbornton, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States. She married Andrew James Lovejoy on 8 February 1801, in New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 1 October 1840, in Harlem, Winnebago, Illinois, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Roscoe, Winnebago, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Andrew James Lovejoy
1772–1856
Mary Taylor
1783–1840
Marriage: 8 February 1801
Marcia Lovejoy
1802–1839
Child Lovejoy
1806–1806
Hannah Lovejoy
1804–1847
Lucia Lovejoy
1806–1839
Andrew James Pool Lovejoy
1810–1851
Charles Henry Lovejoy
1812–1851
Mary Lovejoy
1814–1901
Sarah Ann Lovejoy
1815–1834
Nathan Joshua Lovejoy
1818–1897
Sophia Hill Lovejoy
1823–1890

Sources (10)

  • Mary Taylor, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
  • Mary Taylor Lovejoy, "Find a Grave Index"
  • Ancestry Family Trees

World Events (8)

1786 · Shays' Rebellion

Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

1788 · New Hampshire Helps Ratify the US Constitution

On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and final state needed to ratify the US Constitution and make it the official law of the land

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.

In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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