Philip Taber

Philip Taber[1]

Male 1604 - 1669  (65 years)


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  • Name Philip Taber 
    Birth 1 Sep 1604  Tiverton, Devon, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Birth 1605  England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Birth 1605  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Emigration 1630  Essex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • From England to America
    Immigration 1634  Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • from England to America. The immigrant ancestor of the Tabers and Tabors of New England, was Philip Taber, born in England in 1605. He appeared in Watertown, MA Bay Colony in 1633-1634. He was, under the laws governing the towns of the MA Bay Colony, made a member of theFirst Church at Watertown, by virtue of his oath of fidelity on being accorded the rights of a freeman of Watertown, July 14, 1634. Philip Taber married first Lydia Masters, December 21, 1639. Upon her death he married, secondly, Jane Latham, buthis five children were all by his first wife, Lydia, born as follows: John, Thomas, Philip, Joseph, and Lydia. Philip (1) Taber removed to the town of Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Barnstable County, Colony of Plymouth in 1638, and early in 1639 it wasordered by the General Court of Plymouth Colony, that the name of Philip Taber, with three other residents of the town of Yarmouth, be added to an existing committee of three, to make an equal division of the planting lands of the town. He wassent as a Deputy to the Court at Plymouth in 1639 and 1640. He removed to New London in 1650, thence to Portsmouth in 1655 and in 1669 he was living in Providence, RI. He finally settled in Tiverton, R.I. and died there in 1672.

      * The Tabor Genealogy, Gc 929.2, 1966417, Ft. Wayne, IN 4-88, Harriet Tabor West (copied from the BIG BOOK which represents a life-long hobby in researach and recording of the Taber-Tabor Family lines and compiled by Charles Ayer Tabor (8thgeneration from Philip (1) Taber in 1634
    Death 11 Dec 1669  Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 1672  Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family Search ID KNQV-RC1 
    Family Search ID M9L9-N3V 
    _UID 37A16807467B4E368C41F7D7C8D759E100C9 
    Burial 4 Mar 1693  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I922  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 24 Sep 2023 

    Father John Taber,   b. Abt 1580, Tiverton, Devon, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F326  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Wife 1 Lydia Masters,   b. 1605, Tiverton, Devon, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1646, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 42 years) 
    Marriage 21 Dec 1639  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
     1. John Taber,   b. Bef 1640, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    >2. Lydia Taber,   b. 1640, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1720, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    +3. Thomas B. Taber,   b. Feb 1644, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Nov 1730 (Age 86 years)
    +4. Philip Taber, Jr,   b. Feb 1646, Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1694, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years)
    +5. Joseph Taber,   b. Bef 3 Feb 1646   d. 20 Jan 1734/35, New London, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 88 years)
    >6. Esther Taber,   b. Abt 1649, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F324  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 18 Sep 2023 

    Wife 2 Jane Latham,   b. Abt 1605   d. 1672 (Age 67 years) 
    Marriage Aft 1649  [1
    Family ID F325  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Jun 2021 

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  • Sources 
    1. [S73] Letter - Listenberger Rosemary to Brown Barbara 1993, Handwritten family group sheets, unknown original source.