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James Taylor

Singer-Songwriter

Thomas Plympton

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of James Taylor — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1320 
  • Father:
  • Robert Plympton 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Bent   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1622 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 or 20 APR 1676 
  • Death Location:
  • Battle of Boon's Plains, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Noyes
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1652 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Plympton

  Peter Plympton (Ahnentafel No:660 )

  • Notes: 

  • Thomas Plympton was killed during King Philip's War when he was escorting a Mr. Boone and his son to the garrison house. They were ambushed along the way.

• Sources for Thomas Plympton

  • ¹ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1912, Vol. 43, p. 89.
  • ² Bartlett, J. Gardner, Simon Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Deacon Simon Stone of Watertown, Mass., 1320-1926, Boston: Stone Family Association (1926), 64.
  • ³ Bent, Allen H., The Bent Family in America being Mainly a Genealogy of the Descendants of John Bent who Settled in Sudbury, Mass, in 1638, Boston: David Clapp and Son (1900), 10.
  • ⁴ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, pp. 493, 496.
  • ⁵ Newell, Frederick Haynes, Descendants of Walter Haynes and Peter Noyes, of Sudbury, Mass., Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1893), 4-5.