| b 1657, Of Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts | d 25 Mar 1715, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts | |||
| Thomas Tarbell | ||||
| | b 1590 | ||||
| Thomas Tarbell | ||||
| |b 1615 | | | |||
| |d 11 Jun 1678 | ||||
| | | ||||
| John Tarbell | ||||
| |Mary Nurse | |m 25 Oct 1678 | |||
| |Salem, Essex, Massachusetts | | | |||
| Mary | ||||
| b 1624 | | | |||
| d 29 Apr 1674 | ||||
| 1 | John Tarbell | 2 | Mary Tarbell | 3 | Cornelius Tarbell | 4 | Jonathan Tarbell | 5 | Elizabeth Tarbell | 6 | Sarah Tarbell |
Will dated 3 March 1714-15, probated 25 April 1715; by it he gives to his son John all his lands and common rights in Groton (where his brother had settled), who is to pay Mary, widow of John Smith, 5 pounds. All the rest of his estate is to fall to sons Cornelius and Jonathan who are to pay certain legacies to his three daughters, Mary, Elizabeth and Sarah.
To Jonathan he gives enough to his share in the 'Iron Works' to give each of his sons equal shares, witnessed by David Judd, John Presten, and Jonathan Putnman. In May following, the widow Mary relinquishes all right to dower and her sons Cornelius and Jonathan agree to support her. The old house was still standing in 1892.
Source: 'Salem Possessed, The Social Origins of Witchcraft', 1974, Paul Boyer & Stephen Nissenbaum, p 70. 'The Devil in Massachusetts', 1989, Marion L. Starkey, p 251 'A Genealogy of the Nurse Family for Five Generations', 1892, John D. Ames, p 100, 101.