Silence Taylor

Female1737–23 March 1807

Brief Life History of Silence

When Silence Taylor was born in 1737, in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Jacob Taylor, was 42 and her mother, Sarah Patten, was 36. She married Major Jonathan Stickney in 1758, in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 23 March 1807, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Major Jonathan Stickney
1736–1802
Silence Taylor
1737–1807
Marriage: 1758
Silence Stickney
1758–1803

Sources (6)

  • Silence Tayler, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Silence Stickney, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Silence Taylor, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1758Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
  • Children (1)

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    Siblings (7)

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    World Events (4)

    1776

    Age 39

    Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

    1776 · The Declaration to the King

    Age 39

    """At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""

    1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

    Age 57

    The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

    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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