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given in Hutchins's 'Dorset/* i. 640. ed. 1860. According to this, Christopher was the son of a James de Havelland, Mayor of Poole 1502 and 1506, by wife Juliana, and grandson of another James de Havelland, also Mayor of Poole 1494 and 1498, by wife Helena. Neither Hutchins nor Mr. de Havilland gives any proof or even evidence for these statements. There is proof that there was a James de Havelland Mayor of Poole in the years 1494, 1498, 1502, and 1506, but no reason to think, without evidence, that they were not one and the same person. This James's wife's

name was Helena. There is reason

to believe they had but three sons who reached maturity : Richard, John, and William ; and one daughter, Helene or Eleanor. Of William, who married Frances, daughter of Huagerford, there are a few living descendants. Helene or Eleanor, the daughter of James de Havelland, married AVilliam, the son of Nicholas Pitt (living temp. Henry VI.), who is the first known ancestor of that historic family.

As Christopher Havilland is the progenitor of practically all who bear the name in England to-day (with the exception of members of the Guernsey branch, who are " de Havillands "), I shall be grateful for any data bearing on his parentage and ancestry.

E. HAVILAND HILLMAN, F.S.G.

13, Somers Place, Hyde Park, W.

COL. WILLIAM TAILER. Many of those who came as Crown officials to this country in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries also held commissions in the British Army. For the period covered, Mr. Charles Dalton's ' English Army Lists and Commission Regis- ters, 1661-1714,' is a most valuable work, and, so far as I have tested it, all the Ame- rican officials mentioned in it are correctly identified, with the single exception of " Colonel Wm. Taylor." The identity of this officer has, no doubt owing to the form in which the name appears, escaped Mr. Dalton altogether. Under the heading " Colonel Wm. Taylor's Regt. of Foot," Mr. Dalton states that a commission was issued 1 April, 1710, to

" Wm. Taylor to be Colonel of a Regt. of Foot to lx> forthwith raised for her Majesty's Service in the West Indies !>>>],"

l>edigree in Hutchins's 'Dorset' was partly com- piled by Mr. de Havilland, the Wilkeswood, branch being done by the late Thomas Bond, Esq.
 * Since writing this, I have noticed that the

and adds this note :

" A Colonial. Was sent by Genl. Nicholson to* summon the French Commander to surrender Port Royal to the British 1 Oct., 1710. Not noticed in Appleton's ' American Biography.' Genl. Fras. Nicholson in his will dated 4 Mar. r 1728, left Col. Win. Taylor a mourning ring." VI. 285.

William Tailer for this was the way in which he spelt his name was the son of William and Rebecca (Stoughton) Taylor, the latter the sister of Lieut. -Governor William Stoughton. Born 7 March, 1677, he was twice married : first to Sarah By field on 2 March, 1699 ; and secondly to Abigail! Dudley on 20 March, 1711. He was com- missioned Lieutenant-Governor of Massa- chusetts by Anne on 7 April, 1711 ; again by George I. on 28 April, 1715 ; and again by George II. on 15 April, 1730. He was Acting Governor from 9 Nov., 1715, to-

5 Oct., 1716; and again from 11 June to; 10 Aug., 1730 ; and held various other positions of importance.

On 22 May, 1711, the Earl of Dartmouth wrote to Governor Joseph Dudley as follows r

" The Queen having been pleased to constitute Colonell William Tailer Lieutenant Governor of the Province of the Massachuset's Bay in New England and the Territorys depending thereon- with all the Rights and Advantages thereunto belonging, I must recommend him to your Favour and Assistance, if there be occasion, that he may receive the benefit of Her Maj tJ ' 8 Gracious Inten- tion to him, in as full & ample manner as any of his predecessors have done. Though his- personal Interest and Merit will be a sufficient Recommendation of him to you and to the As- sembly there yet upon the Character I have- received of the Services he has performed and of his Zeale and Loyalty in what may occurre for the future, I can not but add mine ; and take this Opportunity to acknowledge the Receipt of the Letter which I received from you by him."

And on 5 June, 1711, Jeremiah Dummer r then the agent of Massachusetts in London,, wrote to Governor Dudley :

" This Pacquett goes by Coll Tayler who has- the Queen's Commission for Leiutenn' Governour of the Province. Coll Nicholson's recommenda- tion of him to My Lord Dartmouth, & His own putting in a Memorial that He had rais'd a regi- ment at his own expence for Her Majesty's service at Port Royall, & had receiv'd no pay, was what procur'd him this honour. He never imparted his Design to me till it was almost done,

6 then I told him I could doe nothing in it, having no instructions about it."

Tailer died 1 March, 1732, as appears from a notice which was printed in The Boston News-Letter of the following day :

" Yesterday in the Afternoon died at his Seat in Dorchester, the Honourable William Tailer,.