Edward Taylor1
Edward Taylor was born in 1642 in the town of Sketchley, England. He had two brothers named Joseph and Richard and a sister-in-law named Alice. He taught school for a short time in England then moved to the Bay Colony, which is now known as Boston in April 1668. Edward Taylor landed in Boston on July 5, 1668. On July 14 he had an interview at Harvard and was admitted on July 23. During his three years at Harvard, Taylor was the college butler. He studied, Hebrew, Greek, rhetoric, divinity, physics, ethics . . .
Among other puritans, he believed that god had delivered him from oppression in Europe. In 1692, Taylor remarried to Ruth Wyllys of Hartford. On December 1671, he traveled to Westfield, Massachusetts. Edward Taylors view on the new world is probably a good one. He wrote many poems on the trouble of his childrens death. He came from England and had the opportunity to study at Harvard and become a minister. On November 5, 1674, Edward Taylor married Elizabeth Fitch. He was completely in accord with the beliefs of the time. There were six children by this marriage. Being that Edward Taylor was very religious (being a minister), he believed that men were first under an order to obey God through the exercise of good works, but after the fall, men could only be saved through faith, and not through work. He probably saw it as a relief from the oppression in Europe.
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