When Mary Taylor was born on 24 January 1750, in Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Taylor, was 31 and her mother, Naomi Gilbert, was 25. She married Barnabas Potter on 30 April 1778, in Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 31 January 1841, in Waterford, Caledonia, Vermont, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Passumpsic, Barnet, Caledonia, Vermont, United States.