The First Settler: Robert Taft, Sr
- Robert Taft, Sr (c. 1640-1725); The famous Taft family in America developed its roots in Mendon and Uxbridge. Robert Taft, Sr came here from Braintree. The original American Taft homestead was in western Mendon, which later became Uxbridge, and was built by Robert Taft (Sr), the first immigrant, in 1680. Robert Taft Sr. had built an earlier home in 1669, but it was abandoned due to the King Phillip's War. Robert Taft, Sr's descendants are a large politically active family with descendants who are prominent in Ohio, but live throughout the U.S.A.
- Robert Taft II; was born in 1674 to Robert Sr, and Sarah Taft at Braintree. He grew up in the western part of Mendon in what later became Uxbridge. He became a founding member of the Uxbridge Board of Selectmen in 1727. Robert Taft, 2nd, may have been the first American Taft to hold a political office in the Taft family Dynasty. His descendents included a Governor of Rhode Island, Royal Chapin Taft, a United States Senator from Ohio, Kingsley Arter Taft, and a U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson II, among others.
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