Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 336. Page 1 (316) 7/7/48 PHILLIP TABER. The following is from "The Descendants of Thomas, son of Philip Taber", by George L. Randall, 1924: from the "Genealogy of Francis Weeks, by Dr. Frank Edgar Weeks, Kipton, Ohio: and from "The Tillinghast Family", by John Gifford Tillinghast, Providence, R.I., 1889. Philip Taber was born probably in 1605, and came from Essex, England, in 1630 and settled first in Boston, freeman on October 19/1630. He was a carpenter and builder and one of the original contributors to a floating fort to protect Boston, and offered to give 200 four inch planks. He owned five lots in Watertown which he sold and removed to Yarmouth. He was made freeman of Plymouth Colony on June 4/1639, Deputy to the General Court in 1639-40. After a few years at Yarmouth, he moved to Great Harbor, later Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard before 1647. He was one of the proprietors of the island and shared in all the divisions of land as long as he resided there. He was in New London in 1651, working with his brother in law Nathaniel Masters on the Mill Dam. It is possible he went to New London before going to the Vineyard in 1642: was still there in 1653 and allotted land at Ashakomaksett, now called Machet. A year or two after he was guilty of certain moral indiscretions which made it desirable for him to remove from the island. On January 3/1655 he was an inhabitant of Portsmouth, R.I. From 1660-1663 he represented Portsmouth as Commissioner to the General Court of the Union of Rhode Island Colonies. He lived there ten years as a rater, tax collector and constable &c. In 1664 he was a resident of Newport and in 1667 of Providence, where he died after 1672. He married, 1st, in Watertown on December 21/1639, Lydia Masters, daughter of John and Jane Masters. He married, 2nd, Jane Latham. Issue:- (by his first wife Lydia Masters) 1. John Taber. Born at Yarmouth, November 8/1640. In 1702 his house and goods were burned and he was given a life lease of 20 acres by the town of Providence, R.I. No children, 2. Lydia Taber. Born ---, died 1718. She married, as his second wife, on February or April 16/1664-5, the Reverend Pardon Tillinghast, born 1622 at Seven Cliffs, near Beechy Head, England, died at Providence, January 20/1718. He was the leading minister and the wealthiest man in town. He had married, 1st, --- Butterworth of Reheboth, Mass., and had three children, by her. Issue:- (dates in Tillinghast differ from Randall slightly) 2/1. Lydia Tillinghast, born at Newport, January 18/1665, died January 30/1707. She married John Audrey (or Audley) of Newport, and had eight children. 2/2. Pardon Tillinghast, born at Providence, February 16/1666, died on October 15/1743 at East Greenwich, R.1., He married 1st, Mary Keech, born 1670, died February 4/1726. He married, 2nd, Sarah Tarbox, born 1678, died 1742. He had five children by his first wife. 2/5. Philip Tillinghast, born at Providence, October 1/1668, died March 14/1732. He married Martha Holmes, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Borden) Holmes, (see subject 1390), and had fifteen children. 2/4. Joseph Tillinghast, born December 16/1669, died December 11/1763. He married, 1st, Freelove Stafford, daughter of Samuel and Mercy (Walcott) Stafford, and had four children. We married, 2nd, the widow Hendson and had six children by her. 2/5. Benjamin Tillinghast, born at Providence, February 2/1642, died September 14/1720. He married Sarah Rhodes and had eight children, all of whom died young. Subject 336. Page 2 (317) 2/6. Abigail Tillinghast, born in March 1674, died 1744. She married Nicholas Sheldon, who died November 3/1747. Eight children. 2/7. Mercy Tillinghast, born January 1678, died November 13/1769. She married Colonel Nicholas Power, son of Nicholas and Rebecca (Rhodes) Power and had eight children. 2/8. Hannah Tillinghast. She married John Hale of Swansea, R,I, and had four children. 2/9. Elizabeth Tillinghast, died 1750. She married her cousin Phillip Taber, born February 7/1689, died December 27/1750. see subject 168. 3. Joseph Taber. Baptized 1646. He married Hannah ---. See subject 168 for issue and further particulars. 4. Phillip Taber. Born 1644, died 1693. He married in 1667, Mary Cooke, born January 12/1652, died 1694 at Dartmouth, daughter of John and Sarah (Warren) Cooke, see subject 686. See subject 334 for issue and further particulars. 5. Thomas Taber. Baptized at Yarmouth, Mass., in February 1644, died there November 11/1730. He married, 1st, in 1667, Esther Cooke, born in Plymouth, Mass., August 16/1650, died at Dartmouth, l671-2, daughter of the Reverend John and Mary (Warren) Cooke. He married, 2nd, in June 1672, Mary Thompson, born 1650, died May 3/1734, daughter of John and Mary (Cooke) Thompson. See subject 170 for issue and further particulars.