Ancestry of
James Taylor

Singer-Songwriter

Robert Calef

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of James Taylor — 11th Generation
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  • 1518 
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  • ABT 1648 
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  • 13 Apr 1719 
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  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Mary -----
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  Martha Calef (Ahnentafel No:759 )

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  • Robert Calef's surname is also seen as Calif.

    Lieutenant Joshua Hewes by Eben Putnam, p. 317

    Robert Calif, a merchant, had in 1700 published “More Wonders of the Invisible World,” the book which placed Cotton Mather in such an unenviable light, and threw such an illumination upon the Witchcraft delusion at Salem in 1692, that Increase Mather, then president of Harvard College, ordered a copy burned in the College yard. Calif had interfered with Mather's plans to reawaken in Boston, the excitement which had subsided at Salem. . . .

• Sources for Robert Calef

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 2, p. 480, Death record for Robert Calef.
  • ² Putnam, Eben, Lieutenant Joshua Hewes: A New England Pioneer and Some of his Descendants, New York: J. F. Tapley Co. (1913), 317.