Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Robert TAPRILL | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TAPERELL - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TAPRILL, Robert, Mr., mariner, prop. of Portsmouth, m. Abishag Walton after 1659. Wit. Champernowne to Walton 1661. In 1672 they liv. in Boston in Alexander Waldron's ho. She seems to have left her husband and returned to her fa.'s ho. at Newcastle soon afterward, opening a shop to maintain her family. Taprill was capt. of the 'Hopewell' in 1676 when he was sued for wages by Francis Pallot, and of the ketch 'Providence' when he d. at sea in Nov. 1678. The wid. d. Jan. 1678-9. Ch. named in gr.fa. Walton's will: Alice, Priscilla, Grace. [ref 22] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ROBERT TAPRILL was one of the proprietors of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1660. He was a mariner. The name, which is also spelled Taperell, is met with in the New England records with extreme infrequency, and, inasmuch as the seventeenth century clerks, like their contemporary descendants, were liable to occasional error, it seems probable that the William Taprill, who testified in Hampton Quarterly Court in October, 1650, that he had served a summons on Humphrey Chadborne for his master, George Walton, was the Robert Taprell who subsequently married Walton's daughter. Taprill was at Great Island in the summer of 1661 and witnessed a bill binding Mr. Francis Champernowne to pay twenty-six pounds to her father. They were married before 1663, however, when she was presented at the Quarterly Court, as Abishag Taperill, for not attending meeting for several months, from which we judge that she also inclined to the Quaker belief. In 1672 they were living in Boston. Robert Taprill died while on a voyage in the ketch "Providence" in the first part of November, 1678, and his wife survived him only a few weeks, dying in January, 1678/9, possibly without learning of her husband's death. The story of Taprill's death is told by three young sailors, Henry Dyer, Thomas Jose and John Allcock, and as they speak of him as Mr. Robert Taprill it seems probable that he was the captain of the "Providence." The sick man told them that he would not live to see his wife, that he believed that she would marry again and that he hoped that she would find a better husband than he had been to her although she had maintained him and clothed him. He gave all of his personal property on board the "Providence" to his wife's nephew, Samuel Walton. [ref 42:75] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TAPRILL, robert, Portsmouth, mariner, proprietor, 1660. Wife Abisha d. leaving a nuncupative will dated Jan 25, 1678-9, left children, not specified by names. Alexander Waldren, who d. at Great Island in 1676, bequeathed a house in Boston to Abisha for her life and 10 li. to her dau. Alice Taprell; the latter was also a legatee of George Walton, Sen. in 1686, to 8 acres of land jointly with her sister Priscilla, while he gave their sister Grace "the house her mother died in." [ref 44:2-202] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Abishag WALTON | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Abishag, m. Robert Taprill. [ref 22] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ABISHAG. She witnessed a deed from Richard Tucker to her father in 1657, signing her name. She m. Robert Taprill. [ref 42:84] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Abishag Walton was unmarried when she witnessed a deed for her father in 1659, and the date of her wedding is uncertain. Mr. Alexander Waldron died in 1676 and left this house and land to Mrs. Taprill for the period of her life, and also two gold rings which were in a purse in his chest. The Taprills were not very happy in their married life. Taprill contributed little or nothing to the support of his wife and their three small daughters, and when he returned from his voyages his wife was not only called upon to assume the additional expense of his presence in the household but on one occasion she was obliged to borrow ten pounds from Mr. Isaac Waldron to prevent his being held in jail for some offense. Finally she returned to her father at Great Island and assisted him in the management of his estate, while he had a house built for her and financed the shop which she opened. Abishag Taprill made no will, telling her friends who urged her to do so that the house in which she lived and the merchandise in her shop belonged to her father, but she "desired her ffather that as shee had evr been a true & ffaithful servant to him so he would not suffer her children to want." Walton took possession of the property and had an inventory made by Mr. William Robie and William Bickham. Difficulties soon arose, however. Mr. Isaac Waldron sued him for the loan of ten pounds previously referred to, on June 30, 1679, and rather than give security he went to prison, saying that "if he payd that det others would com upon him All so." The matter was finally adjusted, however, by the waiver by Alice Taprill of her legacy from Alexander Waldron. The three Taprill children lived with their grandfather until his death in 1685, and they are mentioned in his will. [ref 42:76] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 Jun 1676 George Walton bequeathed his house and land at Boston to "Abisha, wife of Robert Taperell mariner during her life"; he also gave her two gold rings, and to her daughter Alice Taprill 10 pounds. [ref 44:220] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Last Modified 28 Aug 2004 | Created 4 Jan 2005 |