Family of Richard * TARR and Elizabeth * DICER

Husband:	Richard * TARR (1646-1732)
Wife:	Elizabeth * DICER (1667-1716)
Children:	William TARR (1688- )
	John TARR (1690- )
	Elizabeth TARR (1691- )
	Honour TARR (1693- )
	Richard TARR (1695- )
	Joseph TARR (1698- )
	Benjamin TARR (1700- )
	Caleb * TARR (1703-1753)
	Samuel TARR (1706- )
	Sarah TARR (1716- )
Marriage	1684	Saco, York, ME, US1

Husband: Richard * TARR

Wife: Elizabeth * DICER

Name:	Elizabeth * DICER
Sex:	Female
Father:	William * DICER (1627-1707)
Mother:	Elizabeth * AUSTIN (1650-1704)
Birth	2 Jul 1667	Salem, Essex, MA, US
Death	1716 (age 48-49)	Gloucester, Essex, MA, US

Child 1: William TARR

Name:	William TARR
Sex:	Male
Birth	1688

Child 2: John TARR

Name:	John TARR
Sex:	Male
Birth	1690

Child 3: Elizabeth TARR

Name:	Elizabeth TARR
Sex:	Female
Birth	10 Jan 1691

Child 4: Honour TARR

Name:	Honour TARR
Sex:	Female
Birth	20 May 1693

Child 5: Richard TARR

Name:	Richard TARR
Sex:	Male
Birth	26 Aug 1695

Child 6: Joseph TARR

Name:	Joseph TARR
Sex:	Male
Birth	16 Jan 1698

Child 7: Benjamin TARR

Name:	Benjamin TARR
Sex:	Male
Birth	9 Apr 1700

Child 8: Caleb * TARR

Name:	Caleb * TARR
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Martha * WALLIS (1701-1759)
Birth	4 Jul 1703	Gloucester, Essex, MA, US2
Death	1753 (age 49-50)	Gloucester, Essex, MA, US

Child 9: Samuel TARR

Name:	Samuel TARR
Sex:	Male
Birth	25 Jun 1706

Child 10: Sarah TARR

Name:	Sarah TARR
Sex:	Female
Birth	11 Sep 1716

Note on Husband: Richard * TARR

Further on, on the enclosed water known as Goose Cove, were the families of Thomas Riggs, town clerk and school-master, FrancisNorwood and John Hammons. Continuing to Lobster Cove were the families of Edward Harraden and Henry Witham who occupiedseveral acres extending from the head of the cove to Ipswich bay then called Planter's Neck. Continuing, the traveller wended hisway through an unbroken forest at what is now Pigeon Cove and Rockport, the first settler in that vicinity, Richard Tarr, makinginroads in the forest primeval on the south side of Davison's Run about 1690, followed by John Pool about 1700 who settled near Tarr.The circuit of the cape was made until "Farms" in ward 2 were reached. Here were located with their families John Rowe, JamesBabson, and on Eastern Point were located Abraham Robinson and Robert Elwell.

 

 

Page 38, History of Gloucester, James Pringl, 1892

 

 

Two hundred and thirty-four years ago, in 1690, one Richard Tarr, with his wife and two children, left Marblehead and went to Sandy Bay to make his home. Sandy Bay was at the very tip of Cape Ann, and together with Pigeon Cove was part of the town of Gloucester.

 

A good many fish have come out of the sea since Richard Tarr thus changed his place of abode, and a great many changes have taken place. Richard Tarr has long since passed on to join his fathers. His log cabin has disappeared and nothing remains to mark the spot where once it stood. Even the name of the place yielded to change nearly a century ago, and the Sandy Bay which he knew has long been known as Rockport.

 

What reason lay behind the coming of Richard Tarr to Sandy Bay history does not relate. The glorious prospect of ocean and country, of rocks and beaches, of coves and islands, may have appealed to him as it does to all who know the Rockport of today. Or perhaps he wanted merely to live alone. If so, his wish was granted, for not until ten years later did the Tarr family have a neighbor nearer than Gloucester.

 

The only visitors at Sandy Bay in those early days were fishermen from near-by ports who plied their vocation during the summer months, making their headquarters in the various coves.

 

In the year 1700 John Pool moved from Beverly and became a neighbor to Richard Tarr, bringing with him his wife Sarah and their five children.

 

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Sources

1	"US New England Marriages prior to 1700".

2	"MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 Record".