Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Deacon William Gaylord
Abt 1590 - 1673 (~ 83 years)-
Name Deacon William Gaylord [1] Birth Abt 1590 Crewkerne, Somerset, England 
[2] Gender Male Death 20 Jul 1673 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut [2] Person ID I4940 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH Last Modified 4 Apr 2020
Family (Unknown wife of William Gaylord) d. 20 Jun 1657, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Marriage Bef 1615 [2] Children + 1. William Gaylord, b. 28 Dec 1617, Crewkerne, Somerset, England d. 14 Dec 1656, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 38 years)+ 2. Walter Gaylord, b. Abt 1626, Somerset, England d. 9 Aug 1689, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age ~ 63 years)Family ID F3373 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 14 Nov 2020
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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.
- Emigrated 1630 on the Mary and John.
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Sources - [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society.
- [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.
- [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society.