Ann Proudfoot Masterton Bostwick Taylor

Graves of Monmouth and Rachel Meritt Miller

To the best of my knowledge, the woman whose gravestone bears the name of Ann Taylor married three times. She was born Ann Proudfoot, the daughter of Lawrence Proudfoot of New York City, around 1787. She was married for the first time on November 7, 1808, in the Reformed Dutch Church of New York City, to James Masterton. In 1823, she married widower Charles Bostwick. Charles died in 1824 while Ann was pregnant with their only son, Lawrence Proudfoot Bostwick. In 1835, Ann married William Taylor. When she died in 1860 at the age of 73, her full name would have been Ann Proudfoot Masterton Bostwick Taylor. This was the announcement of her death in the New York Times:

TAYLOR. -- In this City, on Sunday morning, April 8, in the 73 year of her age, ANN TAYLOR, daughter of the late Lawrence Proudfoot.

The friends of the family, and of her son, Lawrence P. Bostwick, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, at the residence of her brother in-law, James Van Antwerp, No. 41 East 12th-st., at 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. Her remains will be taken to Newcastle, Westchester County, for interment, on Wednesday morning.

Ann and Charles's son Lawrence married Mary Elizabeth Miller in 1850. Mary was a descendant of Reverend Francis Doughty, who migrated in 1639 from England to Taunton, Massachusetts, and later settled on Long Island, and the daughter of Monmouth Miller and Rachel Merritt, who are buried in the cemetery.

Lawrence and Mary had six children, two of whom - Mary and Maria - died when they were young and are buried in the cemetery.

Mary died in 1890, and Lawrence in 1900.

1890

I have tried to work out the various family trees that intersect through Ann Taylor. These are my results:

1. Nathaniel Bostwick m. Sarah Holmes
1. Charles Bostwick (?-1824) m. (1) Phebe Hubbs; (2) Ann Proudfoot Masterton (1787-1860)
1. Henry Masterton Bostwick (1816-1852)
2. Lawrence Proudfoot Bostwick (1824-1900) m. Mary Elizabeth Miller (1820-1890) in 1850
1. Henry Masterton Bostwick (1843-)
2. Ann Bostwick (1845-)
3. Eliza Mott Bostwick (1847-)
4. Mary Elizabeth Bostwick (1850-1851)
5. Maria Proudfoot Bostwick (1853-1856)
6. Eliza M. Bostwick (1862-) 

1. Lawrence Proudfoot
1. Ann Proudfoot (1787-1860) m. (1) James Masterton in 1808; (2) Charles Bostwick (?-1824) in 1823; (3) William Taylor in 1835
1. Lawrence Proudfoot Bostwick (1824-1900)

1. Jonathan Miller (1726-1792) m. Elizabeth Doughty (1728-1813)
1. Monmouth Miller (1766-1836) m. Rachel Merritt (1784-1862)
1. Mary Elizabeth Miller (1820-1890) m. Lawrence Proudfoot Bostwick
2. John Miller (1768-1839) m. Phebe Pine (1771-1858)
1. Sarah Elizabeth Miller (1809-1887)