Deacon William Gaylord

Notes:

Emigrated 1630 on the Mary and John.

"The claim has been made that William Gaylord was made deacon of the Dorchester church before the Mary & John sailed, and it seems to be certain that he was deacon as soon as that ship arrived in New England. In the earliest town records all the acts of the town were signed by four men: John Warham, John Maverick, William Rockwell and William Gaylord. Warham and Maverick were the ministers of the church, and Rockwell and Gaylord would seem to be the deacons. Also on 26 August 1633 William Gaylord and William Rockwell were appointed administrators to the estate of John Russell who had died in Dorchester, and this is a diaconal function. Neither William Gaylord nor his wife was admitted to the second church at Dorchester, organized late in 1636, clearly indicating that he retained his membership in the Warham church, where he continued as deacon after he moved to Connecticut." [The Great Migration Begins]

His English origins are quite thoroughly unknown, despite many sites' claims to the contrary. See Benjamin H. Gaylord, "The English Ancestry of Deacon William Gaylord: New Light and Observations," The American Genealogist 58:218, 1982.

Deacon married (Unknown wife of William Gaylord) before 1615. (Unknown died on 20 Jun 1657 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Gaylord was born on 28 Dec 1617 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; was christened on 28 Dec 1617 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; died on 14 Dec 1656 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.
2. Walter Gaylord was born about 1626 in Somerset, England; died on 9 Aug 1689 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.