Husband and wife are third cousins once removed of each other.
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John Taylor was born at Newmarket, County Rockingham, New Hampshire on 24 August 1762. His parents were Thomas Taylor and Abigail Piper. In 1777, John was a resident of Gilmanton, Belknap County, New Hampshire.

On 31 March 1777, at the age of 14, John Taylor joined the Revolutionary army as a "private soldier." He joined Captain Meshach Bell's company of Col. George Reed's regiment (Second Regiment of the New Hampshire Forces). He went from Gilmanton to Tyconderoga, from there to to the taking of Burgoyne, and from there to Valley Forge. He was at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778 and at the White Plains. He was also at the battles of Hubbardton, Bemis Heights, and others. John also went with General Sullivan up the Sasquahanna River. He served for three years in a number of places including New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. John was honourably discharged at Newtown, Connecticut in 1780.

After the war, John Taylor returned to Gilmanton, New Hampshire. He married Comfort Burleigh on 15 February 1787 at Sanbornton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. They originally settled in Gilmanton where John was a farmer.

Starting in the mid 1790's, the family moved several times. About 1796 they moved to Rumford, Oxford County, Maine. About 1803 they moved to Knox, Waldo County, Maine. (Maine was then a district of Massachusetts). Sometime between 1810 and 1825 they moved to Roxbury, Oxford County, Maine. In 1820 they lived at an unicorporated plantation called "Number Seven" in the County of Oxford.

John Taylor applied for a pension for his war service under the Revolutionary Claim Act of 1818, and a pension of $8.00 a month was granted in 1820 (claim #R10410). Considerable documentation was required to justify his claim, and this documentation appears in his papers. Pensions were not automatic: he had to show a "need" for such payments. In his application, dated 24 June 1820 (when he was 57) he said that he was a farmer unable to persue his occupation because of "great debility." He also stated the ability of his wife and children to carry out his work: His wife Comfort was "unable to do anything, being in a consumption", and his children aged 10 to 20 "do what they can."

Husband and wife are third cousins once removed of each other.

Comfort Burleigh was born at Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts. She was a daughter of Joseph Burleigh and Comfort Stevens. Although born in Newburyport, her parents were of Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire, and it appears that she was raised in New Hampshire.

Comfort died at Roxbury