Samuel Tarbox (abt. 1647 - abt. 1715)

Born about 1647 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Rebekah (Armitage) Tarbox — married 14 Nov 1664 in Lynn, Massachusetts

Husband of Experience (Look) Tarbox — married 16 Oct 1678 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died about 16 Aug 1715 at about age 68 in Lynn, Essex, Province of Massachusetts bay

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Biography

Samuel Tarbox, son of John and Rebecca Tarbox, was born in 1646/47 in Lynn, Massachusetts.

He married Rebekah Armitage, daughter of Godfrey Armitage and (--?--) Webb, on 14 Nov 1664/65 at Lynn.^[1]

He married Experience Look on 16 Oct 1678 at Lynn, Massachusetts. ^[2]

Samuel died on 16 Aug 1714/15.^[3] He has a virtual memorial with links to those of family members.^[4]

Military

ENSIGN SAMUEL TARBOX, youngest child of John Tarbox and Rebekah) Tarbox, Was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, about 1646. Unlike his father and brother John, he was Very active in civic affairs and a member of the trained bands of the militia. ‘When in the autumn of 1675 that fierce lndian War called King Philip’s threatened Lynn, Samuel Tarbox was one of those engaged in defending the town. He served, too, in the fight at Bloody Brook and in the Great Swamp battle near South Kingston, Rhode Island. During this war he won his commission as ensign by service in Captain Gardner's company. As he was a farmer, his enforced absence from home for military‘ service reduced his personal fortunes and in 1685 he with twenty-five others petitioned the General Court for some special remuneration. The plea was granted in the form of an eight mile square tract of land in ‘Worcester County on condition that thirty families with an orthodox minister settle there within four years. Ensign Samuel Tarbox and his family removed to the new tract, where he continued to reside until his death. Died in 1715. married, first, November 14, I665, Rebekah Armitage, daughter of Godfrey Armitage of Boston. She died in March, 1676. married, second, October 16, 1678, Experience Look, who died March 2, 1738. Issue, by first Wife, six children; by second, twelve. The second son and child by the first wife was Jonathon Tarbox. Colonial families of America; v. 01 p.120 ^[5] After the death of Ens. Samuel Tarbox the widow and family removed from Lynn to Wenham. 1897 Essex Antiquarian Vol. I V2.0.pdf ^[6]

Children of Samuel and Rebecca

1. SAMUEL, b. June 20, 1666; d. before 1693.
2. Jonathan, b. July 3, 1668. had wife Eleanor.
3. GODFREY, b. Aug. 16, 1670; d. before 1701, as in that year the three children of Rebekah, then living, united in giving a deed of property to a man in Boston.
4. Rebekah, b. Aug. 8, 1672 ; m. John Gott, of Wenham.
5. Sarah, b. Oct. 15, 1674 ; m. Ebenezer Batchelder, of Wenham.
6. MARY, b. Feb. 21, 1676. The mother died a fortnight after the birth of this child, and the child died three weeks later. The father was absent at the time as a soldier in King Phillip's war.^[3]

Children of Samuel and Experience

1. Experience, b . Sept. 1, 1679.
2. Hannah, b. March 12, 1681.
3. JOHN, b. March 8, 1683 ; d. March 14, 1683.
4. Thomas, b. June 8, 1684 ; m. Esther Edwards
5. JOSEPH - twin b. Jan. 8 1686; d. within two weeks.
6. ELIZABETH - twin b. Jan. 8 1686; d. within two weeks.
7. BENJAMIN, b. Jan. 23, 1686; d. Sept. 27, 1710.
8. MARY, b. Jan. 20, 1689; m. Ephraim Kimball, son of Ephraim Kimball, of Boxford.^[7]
9. SAMUEL, b. 1693; m. Elizabeth Maxey.
10. EBENEZER, b. Aug. 1, 1695; m. Sarah Hall.
11. MEHITABLE, b. June 12, 1697; m. John Herrick, of Beverly.
12. JOSEPH, b. March 6, 1699; m. Susanna Stevens.^[3]

Will

Ensign Samuel Tarbox died August 16, 1715. He bad been much employed in different ways in the service of the town. A short time before his death he made a will, which was in advance of his time, as the following extract from it will show : Having but a small estate, and my children considerable grown up, and mostly taken care for, and I have done for according to my capacity, and my beloved wife being in years and a lame woman, my will is, and I doe hereby will and bequeath unto my beloved wife Experience Tarbox her heirs and assigns for ever, all my estate both real and personal, housing and lands, with all my movables both within doors and without doors, to be at her own pleasure, to give sell and dispose of as she see cause for her own comfortable subsistence. If my afore said estate may remain more than for her subsistence afore said my desire is that she doe, as I doubt not her loving nature will move her to dispose of the same among my children as she see cause." "Reprinted from the N.E. Historical and Genealogical Register for Jan., 1888."^[8]

Note

In 1685 Samuel Tarbox was one of twenty-five petitioners to the General Court setting forth the trials, hardships, damages and losses which they suffered in that terrible war of 1675-6, and asking some special remuneration.

• "On the 3rd of June, 1685, the Court granted them a tract of land in Worcester County, eight miles square, on condition that thirty families, with an Orthodox minister, should settle there within four years."

After the death of Samuel Tarbox in 1715, his wife Experience went to live with her son Thomas in Wenham. There she continued for many years, dying March 2, 1738, in the 85th year of her age. Her tombstone stands plainly to view near the front entrance of the Wenham burial-ground." [1] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register^[9]

Joseph Aemitage —Jived on the north side of the Common, a little east of Mall street, his land extending to Strawberry brook. He was a tailor, and was admitted a freeman in 1637. Some years after, lie became the proprietor of a corn and slitting mill on Saugus river. (Essex Reg. Deeds.) He opened the first tavern in the town, called the Anchor. (Mass. archives.) It stood on the Boston road, a little west of the river. For a hundred and seventy years, this was the most celebrated tavern in Essex county, being half way from Salem to Boston. He died 27 June, 1680, aged 80 years. His wife, Jane, died March 3, 1675. His children were John, and Rebecca, who married Samuel Tarbox, in 1665. Godfrey Armitage —was a farmer, and was admitted a free- man in 1638. [He was by trade a tailor, as was Joseph; and they may have been brothers. Godfrey removed to Boston, ANNALS — 1630. 115 where he reared a family-; and some of his descendants became prominent.]

History of Lynn, Essex county, Massachusetts: including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscot, and Nahant by Lewis, Alonzo, 1794-1861; Newhall, James Robinson

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Sources

THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN

1. ↑ Lynn Vital Rec.
2. ↑ Look Experiens, and Samuel Tarbox, October 16, 1678 Vital records of Lynn, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 Marriages and deaths Volume 2 p.234
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Rev. Increase N. Tarbox. John Tarbox of Lynn and his Descendants for Five Generations. David Clapp & Son, Printers. Boston. Jan. 1888. p. 5-7. On-line from Connecticut State Lib. INTrabox]
4. ↑ Samuel Tarbox memorial at Find A Grave.
5. ↑ https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE7700593
6. ↑ http://essexcountyma.net/1897%20Essex%20Antiquarian%20Vol.%20I%20%20V2.0.pdf
7. ↑ William Richard Cutter. Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 4 p. 1613. (Google eBook). Families of Middlesex County
8. ↑ https://cslib.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4005coll11/id/486
9. ↑ https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5Qad5gcuaDZtCWG6epBKhRlVhfV95QUCTASRIY2wq-53pE95icUT1BqhxM0lzG2q_yi-2ewz6uBu0FLPOPnzHxUGUylAdzajoNzDv8X8lyA39F5y72vCzpU_xkVs1jH4M_dRd3Bizjw_2awoF_ejutBZwgI4Uf-AtlRnEt5xyTRi19SrH4oTbxH4HYp9kdXVqcr1kvIQZZ4CK6bJvYIQAgMvhXqpJbCkfEb6pE1PF_N5eF66I9ZoVnvUTqzNJEojmueS8skjbkeXkqEdudCIl5bLIQ2KtvA
10. ↑ https://ia801305.us.archive.org/35/items/historyoflynness00lewi_0/historyoflynness00lewi_0.pdf

See Also

• Ancestry Family Trees: Mike Reynolds

• Find A Grave memorial # 103867221 Samuel Tarbox.

Acknowledgments

• This profile was created through the import of Savage.ged on 21 February 2011 .
• Thank you to Greg Rose for creating Tarbox-116 on 29 Dec 13.
• WikiTree profile Tarbox-32 created through the import of Where Did Mike Reynolds Come F.ged on Jul 1, 2011 by Mike Reynolds.