1771 Elias Taylor Homestead

Near this spot stood the 1771 homestead of the Elias and Mary Taylor family, pioneer settlers of Kennebec, Cushnoc, Hallowell, Winthrop and Manchester and Patriots of the American Revolution. In 1775 their eldest son John Taylor joined the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1776 his father Elias Taylor, Sr. joined him in the Continental Army at Fort Ticonderoga, New York where both tragically perished in May 1777. Elias and John Taylor were buried in a mass grave at Fort Ticonderoga. In appreciation of her family's great sacrifice to their country, the Town voted to provide the widow Mary Taylor with support in the amount of one-half of her late husband's wages. Another son Elias Taylor, Jr. served as a Revolutionary War soldier in 1780. Mary Taylor lived on at this homestead until 1788 and died in 1797. Her grave location is unknown.

This marker was located by the Manchester Historical Society and sponsored by Elias Taylor Sr. descendant Timothy L. Lunney.

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