Robert Taft
The original American Taft homestead was in the part of Mendon which later became Uxbridge. Robert Taft I bought the deed to the land in 1679. The previous landowner, one Colonel Crown, reportedly left the area during King Philip's War, and did not return. The home on the land at "Mendham", (old English spelling of Mendon) at present day Uxbridge, was built by Robert Taft Sr., the first immigrant, in 1680. His son, also called Robert Taft Jr., born 1674, was among the first Uxbridge Board of Selectmen in 1727.