Taber (Y-DNA)

Status summary

Completed as of October 10, 2020:

• Recruiting direct male-line descendants of Thomas Taber for SNP testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact Raymond T. Wing (email: wing.genealogist AT gmail DOT com)

Still to do as of October 10, 2020

• NGS/WGS test descendants of Thomas Taber to discover their subclade as well as possible descendants lines.

Biography

First Generation

Thomas Taber was born Yarmouth before Feb 1645/6 son of Philip Taber and Lydia Masters. He died at Dartmouth 11 Nov 1720. He married Dartmouth 2 Jun 1672 Mary Thomson. They had eleven children; five daughters and six sons (Joseph, Thomas, John, Jacob, Jonathan and Philip)

Second Generation (all born at Dartmouth)

Joseph Taber was born 7 Mar 1679/80 and died Dartmouth bef 7 Feb 1753. He married twice, first Dartmouth 28 Jan 1701/2 to Elizabeth Spooner, who was the mother of all of his children. After her death he married Sandwich 30 Nov 1738 to Lydia Abbott. Joseph and his first wife, Elizabeth, had (order unknown) four daughters and sons Benjamin, Amos, Joseph & Peter

Thomas Taber (II) was born 22 Feb 1680/1

John Taber was born 22 Feb 1681/2 and died abt 1761

Jacob Taber was born 26 Jul 1683 and died Dartmouth 4 Apr 1773.

Jonathan Taber was born 22 Sep 1685

Philip Taber was born 7 Feb 1689/90

DNA results

Previous Y-DNA testing

Family Tree DNA currently does not have a Taber or Tabor surname DNA Project, but lists 59 Taber tests and 97 Tabor tests

Further needed testing

We would need more Y-DNA descendants of Thomas Taber to take NGS/WGS tests to pin down the haplogroup, as well as possibly define subclades for various branches of the family.

References & External Links

• Randall, George Leander. Taber genealogy: Descendants of Thomas, son of Philip Taber. (New Bedford, MA: Vining Press, 1924)