History of The Pearson Families
from History of Sanbornton, New Hampshire.
Boston, Mass: Alfred Mudge & Son , Printers, 34 School Street. 1881. Vol 2, pp. 546-547.

Our record of these is quite fragmentary.

Taylor Pearson (spelled also "Pearsons" and "Parsons"), who lived in Exeter, is thought to have been the ancestor of most, if not all, bearing the name in this town, and was certainly the father of three brothers, whose descendants ahve been found here and in the edge of Meredith. He was twice m. Children (as above):

2,3. Taylor, Jr. (?)[5]. John [11].

Dole [20] (2^nd wife), half-brother of the two preceding.

Taylor, Jr. (?) [2] (Taylor), of whom we only know that he m. Rachel Taylor, who, after his death, m., 2d, David Burley (see p. 60 [23], and as the father of the five following:

Taylor, who settled in Meredith, near the present Lucrates Colby's; m. Molly Leavitt. Children: -- 1. Nancy, b. April 17, 1775; m. David Hanaford, Feb 10, 1794, who was b. July 28, 1771, and d. 1833, ae. 62. She d. Nov 12, 1858, ae. 84--7 and was the mother of ten children, of the following names and order: