John Nelson (1653-1734)

He was the principal heir of his childless uncle, Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Bt., of Boston and London, Governor of Nova Scotia, and came out to Massachusetts in 1734. He was a first cousin of Thomas Temple, of Kennebec, Maine. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Tailer/Taylor, of Dorchester, near Boston, and she was a niece through her mother of Governor William Stoughton. They had 6-children (listed).