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1024 SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
'born Nov. 20, 1785, in Warren, R. I., married
Sept. 9, 1713, Polly Gorham, born Sept. 1,
1789. She died Feb. 21, 1864, and he married
(second) May 21, 1865, Mrs. Beulah Macomber.
Mr. Cole was a master millwright. He
owned and lived upon a farm at Assawampsett,
some four miles from the farm of his father.
He died at Middleboro, Mass., Oct. 16, 1871.
His children, all born in Middleboro, were :
Abigail, born Sept. 4, 1814, married Abrara
M. Cushman; Andrew, born Sept. 1, 1816,
married Hannah S. Smith; Mary Ann, bom
Nov. 23, 1817, married Ira Thomas; James
was born April 7, 1819; Harrison G., born
Nov. 4, 1820, married Caroline B. Silvester;
Luther, born May 20, 1822, married Sarah A.
Carsley; Nathaniel, born May 3, 1824, married
Martha S. Foy ; Robert V., bom July 14, 182-,
married Cordelia B. Savery; Judith J., born
Aug. 10, 1828, married (first) Soranus C.
Bradford, of Attleboro, Mass., (second) Capt.
Stephen B. Gibbs (deceased) ; Elcener T.,
born March 26, 1832, married Martin P. Stan-
dish.
TABER. The Taber family of Dartmouth
and New Bedford, one of the oldest families in
southeastern Massachusetts, is descended from
(I) Philip Taber, who, according to Savage,
was born in 1605, and died in 1672. He was at
Watertown in 1634, and he contributed toward
building the galley for the security of the harbor.
He was made a freeman at Plymouth in
that same year. In 1639-40 he was deputy from
Yarmouth, and was afterward at Martha's
Vineyard, and from 1647 to 1655 was at Edgartown,
going from there to New London in
1651, but probably returning soon. He was
an inhabitant of Portsmouth in February,
1655, and was a representative in Providence
in 1661, the commissioners being Roger Wil-
liams, William Field, Thomas Olney, Joseph
Torrey, Philip Taber and John Anthony. He
later settled in Tiverton, where his death occurred.
He married Lydia Masters, of Watertown,
Mass., daughter of John and Jane
Masters, and his second wife, Jane, born in
1605, died in 1669. His children were: John,
baptized at Barnstable Nov. 8, 1640, who died
young; Philip, baptized at Barnstable in February,
1646, who married Mary Cook; Thomas,
born in 1644, baptized at Barnstable in
February, 1646; Joseph, baptized at Barnstable
Feb. 11, 1646; and Lydia, who married
Pardon Tillinghast, and died in 1718.
(II) Thomas Taber, son of Philip, born in
February, 1644, baptized in 1646, died Nov.
11, 1730. He was town surveyor in 1673,
town clerk and constable in 1679, freeman in
1684, selectman in 1685, 1692, 1694, 1699,
1701, 1702 and 1711; was twice representative
to the General Court (once in 1693), and
in 1689. His house in Dartmouth
captain
(now Fairhaven) was burned by the Indians
in 1675, and he fled with his family to the
blockhouse which had been built by John
Cook. Mr. Taber afterward built another
house, a portion of the south end of which was
standing in 1908. He married (first) Esther
Cook, daughter of Rev. John and Sarah (Warren)
Cook, he a son of Francis Cook(e) and
she a daughter of Richard Warren, both of the
"Mayflower." She died in 1671, and he married
(second) in June, 1672, Mary Thompson,
born in 1650, daughter of John and Mary
(t'ook) Thompson, of Dartmouth, and granddaughter
of Francis Cook, of Plymouth, and
she died May 3, 1734. To his first marriage
were born: Thomas, Oct. 2, 1668, and Esther,
April 17, 1671. The eleven children of the
second marriage were : Lydia, born Aug. 8,
1673; Sarah, Jan. 28, 1675; Mary, March 18,
1677; Joseph, March 7, 1679; Thomas, Feb.
22, 1681 John ; (twin to Thomas) ; Jacob, July
26, 1683; Jonathan, Sept. 22, 1685; Bethiah,
Sept. 3, 1687; Philip, Feb. 7, 1689; and Abigail,
May 2, 1693.
(III) Joseph Taber, son of Thomas and
Mary (Thompson), born March 7, 1679, died
in 1752. He married May 28, 1701-02, Elizabeth
Spooner, daughter of John, and they
became the parents of thirteen children : Amos,
born April 29. 1703; Sarah, March 2, 1704-
05; Benjamin, Dec. 2, 1706; Mary, June 6,
1708-09; Joseph, Feb. 15, 1709-10; Rebekah,
Oct. 11, 1711; Elener, March 28, 1713; John,
Aug. 8, 1715; Thomas, Sept. 20, 1717; Elizabeth,
Nov. 2. 1718; Peter, April 6, 1721; William,
Slarch 15, 1722; Abegael, April 16. 1725.
(IV) Benjamin Taber, son of Joseph and
Elizabeth (Spooner), bom Dec. 2, 1706, married
Dec. 5, 1729, Susannah Lewis, and be-
came the father of thirteen children : Elizabeth,
born Sept. 17, 1730; Joseph, Feb. 28, 1731-32;
Benjamin, Oct. 10, 1733 (died in 1820) ; John,
Oct. 9, 1735; Archilus, July 2t, 1737; Joshua,
Jan. 28, 1739-40; Mary, June 14, 1741; Jedu-
than, March 15, 1742-43; Rebecca, Feb. 28,
1744-45; Thomas, March 28, 1747; Jeremiah,
April 3, 1749; Lewis, Oct. 7, 1751; and
Joshua, Feb. 23, 1753.
(V) Benjamin Taber (2), son of Benjamin
and Susannah (Lewis), born Oct. 10, 1733,
married (first) in 1755 Hannah Gardner
(born in 1737, in Nantucket, Mass., died in
1766), and (second) Eunice (Worth) Gard-