Family register
Mansfield Tapley (Taplin)
1695–1731probable
Mansfield Tapley (Taplin) (1695 – 1731) was born in England. He married Mary Johnson. His children were Col. John Taplin and Johnson Taplin. He died in 1731, in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Early life and arrival in New England
Mansfield Tapley was a native of England who settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts.[2][6] He worked as a currier and came to Charlestown from Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1] The family surname appears in the records in more than one form, and it is recorded that all of his children except one changed the spelling to Taplin.[1][3]
Marriage and family
A later generation of the family included Johnson Taplin, born on 1 July 1766, a grandson of Mansfield Tapley.[4]