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  1. Thomas Taber: Birth: FEB 1635/36 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA. Death: 11 NOV 1730 in Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA

  2. John Taber: Birth: 8 NOV 1640 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA. Death: AFT 1702

  3. Lydia Taber: Birth: 1642 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA. Death: 1720 in Swansea, Bristol Co., MA

  4. Joseph Taber: Birth: FEB 1645/46 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA. Death: AFT 20 JAN 1733/34 in New London, Conn.

  5. Phillip Taber: Birth: FEB 1645/46 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA. Death: 1694 in Dartmouth, Bristol, MA

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a. Note:   Philip Taber was born on September 1, 1604 in Essex, England. He was christened after September 1, 1604 in Kilmington, Paris, Essex, England. He resided in 1605 in Essex, England. He resided in 1630 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. He resided in 1634 in Watertown, MA. He was a sawyer and carpenter in 1634 in Watertown, MA. He was before 14 May 1634 in Watertown, MA. He resided in 1639/40 in Yarmouth, MA. He resided between 1651 and 1653 in New London, CT. He resided in 1653 in Martha's Vineyard. He resided between 1654 and 1663 in Portsmouth, Newport Co, RI. He resided between 1659 and 1671 in Providence, RI. He died on 11 Dec 1692 in Tiverton, Newport Co., RI. Phillip was Deputy from Yarmouth to Plymouth General Court, 1639, 1640. He was Commissioner from Portsmouth to Rhode Island Court of Commissioners, 1660, 1881, 1663. Phillip arrived in New England May 30, 1630 aboard the ship "Mary & John" which had sailed from Plymouth, England March 20, 1630. He came from Kilmington, Somerset [7 mi. NE of Wincanton and 8 mi. E of Batombe]. Rosemarie; This is one of the references. Tis is a direct quote from that. I also accessed wills of William Taber and his son Joseph. There are also court documents in VA. Henrico County. You can get most of this on the net. Just do a search. Biography of Philip Taber from: Henry Howland Carpo, Certain Comeoverers, Vol. I (New Bedford, MA: E. Anthony & Sons, 1912), pp. 307-313: Philip Tabor may be designated as your "migratory comeoverer." Most of your comeoverers, after a brief period of vacillation "sat down" and stayed put. It was not so with Philip Tabor. Whence he came I know not. He was probably born in England about 1605. He may have come over with Winthrop in 1630 and settled first at Boston. His (Winthrop) was evidently a nature which could permit no "pent up Utica" to contract his powers, even if he did not go to the extreme of making the "whole boundless continent his." In the case of Philip Tabor, however, there is nothing shady about him except his conduct. So far as his personality is concerned, it is singularly distinct. He was in no sense an important individual in the history of New England, and yet he succeeded in projecting his personality rather more vividly than most of your ancesters. Philip Tabor was admitted a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony October 19, 1630. On May 14, 1634, he was admitted a freeman of Watertown. He was a carpenter and builder, and must have come to New England with some capital as well as skill in his trade. He was one of the original contributors to a flo! ating fort to protect Boston in 1633-4. "Upon consideration of the usefulness of a moving fort to be built forty feet long and twenty-one wide, for the defense of this colony, and upon the free offer of some gentlemen lately come over to us of some large sums of money to be employed that way" the Court asked for further subscriptions. The record shows that Philip Tabor was among the gentlemen who had already subscribed by offering to give two hundred four-inch planks, a substantial and useful donation. In Watertown he was the proprietor of five lots which he sold to John Wolcot. Here he married Lydia, the daughter of John Masters, with whom very probably he was associated in construction work. What caused him to remove to Yarmouth we cannot know. It is quite likely that there was an opportunity there for him as a builder. He was propounded as a freeman of Plymouth Colony, January 7, 1638-9, and was admitted June 4, 1639. That he should have served the same year as ! a Deputy for Yarmouth to the first General Court at Plymouth is a striking example of his forcefulness in impressing others with his ability. In March 1639, he was one of a committee to make division of the planting lands at Yarmouth. In 1640, he again represented Yarmouth at the General Court. On October 4, 1640, as appears by the church records of Barnstable, the Rev. Mr. Lothrop baptized "John, son of Philip Tabor dwelling at Yarmouth, a member of the church at Watertown." Philip Tabor remained in Yarmouth a few years only and then removed to Great Harbor, later known as Edgartown, on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Thomas Mayhew of Watertown had bought this island in 1641, and in 1642 "divers families including some of Watertown" made the first settlement. It is quite probable that Philip Tabor and his wife knew some of these people as former neighbors in Watertown, and it is evident that the newly started settlement was in need of a builder. Just when Philip Tabor first came to the Vineyard is uncertain. He was living there before 1647, when he sold to John Bland his interest in a tract of land "Iying against Mr. Bland's house at Mattakeekset." Philip Tabor, himself, lived at Pease's Point. He was evidently one of the "proprietors" of the island, as he shared in all the divisions of lands as long as he was a resident of the island. His witnessing a document, relating to Mr. Mayhew�s ward, Thomas Paine, in 1647 evidences that he was somewhat closely associated with Thomas Mayhew. It is evident that he left the island occasionally to undertake some new work of construction on the continent. In 1651 he was in New London working with his brother in law, Nathaniel Masters, on the Mill Dam. It is, indeed, possible that after leaving Yarmouth and before going to the Vineyard, he was in New London in 1642, or soon after. It was then that the followers of the Rev. Mr. Blynman made the settlem! ent, from Gloucester. Philip Tabor is named as one of the early settlers, and seems to have had property there. Very likely he assisted in building the habitations of the original settlers. His wife's sister, Elizabeth, the wife of Carey Latham, was an early resident of New London. After leaving the Vineyard, he still had some interests in New London and in Connecticut, and several of his descendants were afterwards there settled. In l653, Philip Tabor was back on the island, when with Thomas Mayhew he was chosen one of the four who acted as town's committee, or Selectmen. In May 1653, Thomas Mayhew, Thomas Burchard, and Philip Tabor were chosen "to divide to the inhabitants out of all the Necks so much land as they in the best judgment shall see meet." To Philip Tabor, himself, was set off "The neck called Ashakomaksett from the bridge that is at the East side of the head of the swamp." The modern name of this locality is Mahachet. Philip Tabor, in the s! ame year, shared in the division of the planting lands. During this and the next year or two he made several conveyances of land. A year or two after, Philip Tabor was guilty of certain indiscretions, which made it desirable for him to remove from the island. He went to Portsmouth. Under date of January 3, 1655, the town records of Portsmouth say "Philip Tabor is received an inhabitant and taken his ingagement to the State of England and government of this place and bath equal right of commonage with the rest of this towne. " It was probably after his final departure from Edgartown that the following entry was made in that town's records" "May 15, 1655. It is agreed by ye 5 men yt Philip Tabor is proved to be a man that hath been an attempter of women's chastities in a high degree. This is proved by Mary Butler and Mary Foulger, as divers more remote testimonies by others, and words testified from his own mouth with an horrible abuse of scripture to accom! plish his wicked end." August of the same year, Philip Tabor conveyed his house and lot at Mahachet to Thomas Lawton and thereafter he had no further history on the Vineyard. Evidently the story of Philip Tabor's indiscretions on the Vineyard in no way prevented him from taking a leading part in the affairs of his new place of residence. In 1656 he acted on the jury at the Court at Newport. In 1660, 1661, and 1663, he represented Portsmouth as a commissioner to the General Court of the Union of the Rhode Island Colonies. In 1663 being on a committee to devise means of raising money to pay Mr. John Clarke for his services, as the agent of the Colonies in England. During his residence of about ten years in Portsmouth, he constantly served the town as Rater, Tax Collector, Constable, etc. In 1664 he described himself as "of Newport." In 1665he sold his house in Portsmouth, which was on the Newport road, to Anthony Shaw for 40 pounds and three hundred good boards.! In 1667 he was living in Providence, where he witnessed certain deeds of real estate to his son in law, Pardon Tillinghast, who had married his daughter Lydia, April 16, 1664. It is evident that Philip Tabor had a position of some distinction in Providence. His daughter's marriage to the leading minister and wealthiest merchant of the town would have accomplished that. In a deposition made in June, 1669, in which he says that he is sixty-four years old, he describes the events connected with the drowning of a young boy, "the widow Ballou's lad," and tells how he "went down to the river which runneth by his house." Where this house was I have not discovered. In 1671, "at his Majestie's Court of Justices sitting at Newport for the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" Philip Tabor and Roger Williams gave evidence against one William Harris for "speaking and writing against his Majestie's gracious Charter to his Colony," which treasonable conduct was evidently regarded very seriously by the Court. There is no further record of Philip Tabor. He probably died in Providence soon after 1672. At what date his wife, Lydia Masters, died does not appear, but he evidently married a second time one Jane, who joined in the deposition above, referred to. His son Philip came to Dartmouth and married Mary Cooke, the daughter of John Cooke, and was the ancestor of the numerous Taber families of Dartmouth. The Tabers settled on the west branch of the Coakset River and there built a mill, the locality being then known as Taber's Mills, and now known as Adamville. It was probably a grandson, Philip, who was a well-known Baptist minister of Coakset. He lived at the south end of Sawdy Pond in Tiverton and had many descendants. It is possible that the first Philip may have spent his last days in Tiverton, as there seems to be some tradition to that effect. Lindy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com


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