1Charles Henry Wight, Thomas Tarbell and Some of His Descendants, NEHGR Vol. 61, p. 72 (Jan. 1907).
"5. JOHN3 TARBELL (John,2 Thomas1) married at Salem, Aug. 21, 1705, Hannah, daughter of John Flint. . . . According to the Billerica town records, "Mr John Tarbell Departed this Life February the 5, 1757 : about 77 years & a half old", and Mrs Hannah Tarbell wido of Mr John Tarbell Departed this life Decr 14, 1779. Aged 94 years and eight months."
Children, recorded at salem:
11. i. WILLIAM,4 b. Sept. 3, -----;† bapt. at Salem Village church, Oct. 5, 1707.
12. ii. JOHN, b. July 28, -----.†
iii. THOMAS, b. Aug. 5, -----;† bapt. Salem Village, Oct. 12, 1712; was living at Billerica, 1733, but was not there in 1755, according to tax lists. He was alive when his father made his will in 1754, but no further trace of him has been found.
iv. HANNAH, stillborn, June 19, 1714.
v. ANNA, b. Apr. 20, -----;† bapt. at South Danvers church, July 17, 1717; m. (1) Samuel Parker of Billerica, who d.Nov. 21, 1752; m. (2) July 14, 1757, Nathan Crosby.
vi. ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 27, -----;† bapt. at South Danvers, Oct. 4, 1719; d. Mar. 31, 1779; m. (1) in Billerica, Feb. 1, 1749-50, John Horsly, who d. Jan. 2, 1754; m. (2) Dec. 10, 1754, Samuel Baldwin.
13. vii. MARY, b. Feb. 2, 17---;† bapt. at Lynnfield church, May 1722; d. July 7, 1770; m. Thomas Marshall of Billerica.
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† Record missing.".
1Arthur G. Loring, Robert Eames of Woburn, Mass., and Some of His Descendants, NEHGR, Vol. 62, p. 59 (1908).
"2. SAMUEL2 EAMES (Robert1), born Sept. 2, 1664, died Mar. 5, 1747, as per inventory dated Mar. 2, 1747. His nuncupative wills mentions son Caleb, daughter Elizabeth Stearman, and his son Samuel who administered his estate (Middlesex Co. Probate, 4616), and Daniel Eames (son?) to notify the heirs at law. He owned land near Matthew Edwards's bridge, 1710, in present Wilmington, near the reading line (Johnson's Abstracts of Early Woburn Deeds, p. 61). With wife Mary, both in 1740 belonged to that part of Woburn set off in 1730 and now included in Wilmington. The couple sold land in Woburn to Daniel Fiske on Oct. 14, 1740. In this sale the locality of residence and the name of the wife are stated. On the Woburn town records the births of eleven children are given.
Children:
3. i. SAMUEL,3 b. Sept. 8, 1692.
ii. LYDIA, b. Oct. 28, 1694; m. Nov. 25, 1713, Ebenezer Buck of Woburn, by the Rev. John Fos, pastor of the Woburn church, and according to the best of his recollection in the year 1713, per his recorded statement in the town book. She d. in Woburn, June 8, 1722. In 1748, Buck wrote from Haverhill to the Woburn town clerk that the date of marriage to Lydia Eames was Nov. 25, 1713. At Haverhill he had m. Judith Wood of that place, Feb. 21, 1723. By wife Lydia he had one dau. and two sons, b. in Woburn; and one dau. by wife Judith, also b. in Woburn. He then removed to haverhill.
4. iii. DANIEL, b. Jan. 10, 1697.
iv. JACOB, b. July 11, 1699; d. in Woburn, of the smallpox, Jan. 18, 1722.
v. HEPHZIBAH, b. Mar. 9, 1702.
5. vi. JOSHUA, b. May 8, 1705.
6. vii. CALEB, b. Mar. 17, 1708.
viii. ELIZABETH, b. Mar. 26, 1711; m. (int. dated Aug. 2, 1731) Robert Stirman of Boston. (Boston Rec. Com. Reoort, No. 28, p. 218.)
ix. ROBERT, d.(sic) Oct. 6, 1712.
x. ABIGAIL, b. Apr. 11, 1714.
7. xi. JONATHAN, b. Aug. 18, 1716.".