 Mary TarbellBorn 24 Aug 1639 Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA, died 06 Jul 1690 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, 50 years Background of Iowa Territorial Pioneers Comparatively little concerning the activities of the early Tarbellsseems to have found its way into print, yet they were as vigilant asthe Parkers and equally unfortunate in the wars with the Indians.Evidently the families were intimate, Samual Parker's daughterAbigail, born 1696, having married a Thomas Tarbell, while hisgrand-daughter Sarah Parker, born 1725, was the wife of John Tarbell.With at least three Tarbells bearing the name Thomas in circulation atthe same time in the same vicinity it is difficult to be sure which iswhich, but the founder of the New England branch of the family wasplainly the father of him who succeeded Deacon Whitney. Thomas Tarbell, the immigrant, appeared in Watertown as early as 1647,accompanied by his wife Mary, whose family name, as usual, cannot nowbe traced. Both were born in England, and the ancestry of Thomas is tobe found in Burke's Peerage [American families], edition of 1928. They removed to Groton in 1663, and she died there in 1674. He diedfour years later in Charlestown, whither the family had removed onaccount of Indian depredations round Groton. John Tarbell, one of thesons of Thomas and Mary, was on the pay-roll of soldiers fromMiddlesex County in 1675, at the time Lancaster and Brookfield wereattacked. Thomas Tarbell, probably the brother of John and Abigail,served in Capt. James Parker's command in 1691, along with JamesParker, Jr., Joshua Whitney, Jr., John Lakin, Daniel Pierce, JohnStone, Nathaniel Blood and other young men of allied families inGroton. Fifteen years later another Thomas Tarbell, probably the sonof Abigail's brother Thomas, was in the company of Capt. John Lane forthe defense of Groton, Dunstable and Dracut, all of which settlementswere simultaneously attacked or threatened. In this outbreak of the savages, Sarah Tarbell, daughter of thisThomas, was carried off by the Indians and never after heard of.Massachusetts Archives [70:583] show that the father in 1711 commandedone of the garrisons in Groton. Tradition of this tragedy survived inthe family for generations. By what appears to be a remarkablecoincidence Stephen Dutton, (the grandfather of Jerome B. Dutton, whowas the husband of Celinda Sarah Parker), had married when living atAfton, N. Y., a Sally Tarbell named in remembrance of her kidnapedrelative of long ago. This younger Sarah was possibly the daughter ofEdmund Tarbell, grandson of Abigail's brother Thomas, while StephenDutton's mother was Martha Lane, daughter of Capt. James Lane, son ofCapt. John Lane, in whose troop brother Thomas had gone to the reliefof Dunstable in 1706. In the Pioneer Cemetery near Big Rock, abouttwenty miles west of the Mississippi River, a granite block bears thisinscription: "In memory of Charles Dutton, son of Stephen and Sally,who settled nearby with five sons in 1836: They were among the firsttwo hundred pioneers that opened the virgin prairies of Clinton Countyto cultivation. By raft and boat they came on the Susquehanna, Ohioand Mississippi rivers from Afton, New York, to what became known asthe Dutton settlement on the Wapsipinicon River in the southwestcorner of Olive Township. He was an early volunteer in the War of 1812and was born February 2, 1788 at Dummerston, Vermont; married 1814 toNancy Pearsall, and buried on his son Leroy's farm near Grand Mound,Iowa." Caleb Butler's "History of Groton" thus records still another tragedytouching the Tarbell pioneers back in Massachusetts: "The tradition isundoubtedly correct that two lads, John and Zachariah Tarbell,brothers, and sons of Thomas Tarbell, were taken and carried off toCanada. The Indians came suddenly upon a garrison house which stoodnear where Rev. Mr. Sanderson's house now stands. The two boys were upin a cherry tree and could not get down in time to get into thehouse." But it was not alone the Indians that brought trials and tribulationsto the early Tarbells and their neighbors in New England. JohnTarbell, son of the immigrant Thomas, had married in 1678 at Salem,Mass., Mary Nurse, whose mother, born Rebecca Towne, and her twosisters, Mary and Sarah, all daughters of William Towne, of Yarmouth,England, were in 1692 arrested, convicted and hanged as witches. Thesecultured women were all held in high esteem in the community,according to John Fiske. One of their chief accusers was Ann Putnam; aprecocious little actress only twelve years old, yet the reign ofterror excepted nobody when stirred by the sayings, doings andwritings of such credulous and super-stitutious men as Cotton Mather.Though highly educated he was a firm believer in the reality ofwitchcraft and of a Satan that might assume the appearance of someperson of known excellence and innocence. The same witnesses who sent these unfortunate women to the gallowsalso accused the Rev. Samuel Willard, but not until this epidemic ofpuerile insanity had begun to subside, which alone seems to have savedthe life of the eminent Boston divine and educator. Not so fortunate,however, was another well-known pastor, Rev. George Burroughs, ofSalem. Little Ann accused him of having caused the death of threepersons that had recently passed away, and this was enough. In Fiske's"New France and New England" it is stated that Burroughs had been aclassmate of Cotton Mather at Harvard College, and that the latterrode on horseback from Boston to Salem to witness the execution. Theaccused pastor's innocence of demeanor so impressed the spectatorsthat he might have escaped hanging if superstition's victim had notintervened to remind the crowd of the Devil's power to take on thesemblance of a saint. Possibly it was this demonstration of the powerof superstition to "bind that little world, the human mind, and sinkits noblest powers to impotence" which kept Cotton Mather fromsucceeding his father, Increase Mather, as president of HarvardCollege. The Rev. Samuel Willard, son of Simon and popular pastor ofthe Old South Church, was long vice-president and acting president,but he never would permit his name to be presented for election aspresident, owing to his personal friendship for Cotton Mather, whosought that honor yet never attained it. When Willard died in 1707 thecorporation elected the out-spoken liberal, John Leverett, grandson ofthe early Governor of Massachusetts, to succeed him. As a directresult of the hanging of Rebecca Nurse John Tarbell and his wife leftthe church, and this was the beginning of a remonstrance of the peopleagainst the reign of terror in New England. ..... http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/_glc_/2006/2006_27.html Married 03 Jul 1665 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (25 years married) to:  Jonathan Sawtell, son of Richard Sawtell and Elizabeth Pople.Born 24 Aug 1639 Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA, died 06 Jul 1690 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, 50 years Children: 1. Mary SawtellBorn 16 Oct 1667 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, died 25 Jul 1684 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA, 16 years 2. Elizabeth SawtellBorn 03 Feb 1669 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, died 24 Nov 1723 Stow, Middlesex Co., MA, 54 years 3. Hannah SawtellBorn 06 Oct 1670 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, died 23 May 1753 Stow, Middlesex, MA, 82 years American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Record Name: Hannah SAWTELL Birth Date: 1670 Birthplace: Massachusetts Volume: 153 Page Number: 434 Reference: A genealogical dict. of the first settlers of New England,showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692. By JamesSavage. Boston. 1861. (4v.)v.4:29 Name: Hannah Sawtell Change Date: 11 APR 2004 at 17:45:40 Marriage 1 Samuel Hall 1 Children 1. Elizabeth Hall b: cir CA 1700 2. Sarah Hall b: 1709 3. Rachel Hall Sources: 1. Title: GEDCOM File : weterb.ged Author: Eugene James Benjamin Weatherby Abbrev: Eugene James Benjamin Weatherby Abbrev: GEDCOM File : weterb.ged Note: 23 SE 9th St. Madras, OR 97741 weterb@@oregontrail.net 541-475-1882 Date: 11 APR 2004 ---------------- Bogdonoff-Dick Ancestry http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jss_pdb&id=I2614 Name: Hannah SAWTELL Sex: F Birth: 6 OCT 1670 in Groton, Middlesex Co., MA Death: 23 MAY 1753 in Stow, Middlesex Co., MA 1 2 Reference Number: 3227 Father: Jonathan SAWTELL b: 24 AUG 1639 in Watertown, MA Mother: Mary TARBELL b: ABT 1640 in Watertown, MA? Marriage 1 Samuel HALL b: 8 DEC 1665 in Concord, Middlesex Co., MA Married: BEF 1698 in Where? (not recorded in Groton or Stow or ConcordVRs) Note: The only of their children listed in Stow births is Dorothy, b. Dec1714. This would seem to indicate that they came to Stow shortly before thisand that their other children were born elsewhere. Their marriage record has not been found; it is not in Concord (whereSamuel was from), it is not in Groton (where Hannah was from), it isnot in Stow (where they ultimately settled). Children perported to be theirs (as listed by others) include: 1. Jonathan Hall b: ABT 1701 [confirmed; see notes for him] 2. Dorothy Hall b: 22 DEC 1714 [only one listed in Stow VR births; mayhave married Samuel Ellis in Wrentham, MA then moved to Medway, MA] 3. Stephen Hall, b. abt. 1700; intentions 25 Feb 1726 (Stow VR, p.158) to Hepzibah Jones. But parents not named; certainly possiblesince Samuel's father was named Stephen. [not confirmed] 4. Mary Hall b. abt. 11 Dec 1697, based on age at death, 11 Jul 1720;death (and parents) recorded in Stow. [confirmed] 5. Elizabeth Hall, b. abt. 1700 (in Middlesex per "Early Generationsof the Wetherby-Witherby-Wetherbee-Witherbee Family in New England,"W. Wetherbee, 1946.); intentions in Stow VR (p. 158): 20 Apr 1721 toEphraim Wetherbee. [not confirmed] 6. Rachel Hall, b. abt 1700-1706; intentions 14 Dec 1723 (Stow VR, p.158) to Daniel Wetherbee; above Wetherby book names her dau of Samuel.[not confirmed] 7. Sarah Hall, b. abt. 1709; intentions 26 Jul 1729 (Stow VR, p. 158)to Josiah Wetherbee. [parentage not confirmed] 8. Hannah Hall, b. abt. 1704; intentions 28 Jul 1722 (Stow VR, p. 158)to John Merriam, Jr. [parents not confirmed] 9. Samuel Hall, Jr., b. ??; m. ?? Abigail Fellows (per Beth Wheeler;source not listed) [not confirmed] 10. Lucy Hall, [may have married William Goss in Lancaster, MA in1736] [not confirmed] Children Mary Hall b: ABT 11 DEC 1697 in [not Stow, MA] Jonathan HALL I b: ABT 1700 in Unknown Stephen Hall b: ABT 1705 Dorothy Hall b: 22 DEC 1714 in Stow, MA Sources: Title: Vital Records of Stow, Massachusetts to the year 1850 Author: New England Historic Genealogical Society Publication: Boston: 1911; reproduced on CD by Search & ReSearchPublishing Corporation, Wheat Ridge, CO 1998 Page: p. 247 Text: Hall, Hanah, w. Capt. Samuell, May 23, 1753. Title: New England Historic Genealogical Society Register Author: NEHGS Publication: Boston, MA Note: Probably good Repository: Media: Other Page: January 1972, Vol 12, page 6; Genealogy of Richard Sawtell ofWatertown, Mass. Text: iii Hannah, b. 6 Oct. 1670: d. at Stow 23 May 1753: mar. Capt.Samuel Hall. b. 8 Dec. 1665 at Concord, son of Stephen and Ruth Hall(Vital Records); d. 12 March 1750, ae. 84 yrs, 3 months and 4 days(Stow Vital Records). 4. Abigail SawtellBorn 05 Mar 1672 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, died 01 Apr 1716 Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA, 44 years 5. Sarah SawtellBorn 24 Feb 1674 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA 6. Jonathan SawtellBorn Apr 1676 Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA | |||