tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post1854300547851338806..comments2024-03-17T16:32:51.970-04:00Comments on Vast Public Indifference: Gravestone of the Day: Samuel TarbellCDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14390048358391513711noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post-81307444945576578792011-03-08T09:42:37.400-05:002011-03-08T09:42:37.400-05:00What a family, indeed -- and it doesn't stop t...What a family, indeed -- and it doesn't stop there. William Tarbell, a brother of the two captive boys who became Mohawk chiefs, was forebear of Edmund C. Tarbell (1862-1938), the famous artist.Person of Interesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04602433812664507504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post-47941770688976238502010-04-18T18:46:37.506-04:002010-04-18T18:46:37.506-04:00Those are wonderful additional details. What a fam...Those are wonderful additional details. What a family. Massachusetts Bay Puritans, two of whom became Mohawk chiefs, one a Catholic nun, one a Loyalist, and assorted others certainly American revolutionaries.<br /><br />> Green wrote a lot about the resulting lawsuit without finding the older Tarbell’s death date<br /><br />J.L., was there something specific Green commented on about this date? I have his <i>Groton Epitaphs</i> (1878) in front of me (still a model cemetery transcription), and it contains this stone in full.<br /><br />—RJORobert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12937384579138400443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post-70959325594678284612010-04-18T17:56:52.034-04:002010-04-18T17:56:52.034-04:00A Canadian source sheds a little light on the youn...A <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=9sU_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA463" rel="nofollow">Canadian source</a> sheds a little light on the younger Samuel Tarbell’s life as a Loyalist. I guess he didn’t like being locked in jail for eight months in 1777.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post-73847206811064024092010-04-18T17:50:02.235-04:002010-04-18T17:50:02.235-04:00This Capt. Samuel Tarbell died in 1776, but someti...This Capt. Samuel Tarbell died in 1776, but sometime after 1777 his namesake son, born in 1746, joined the royal army's American Dragoons. He served in New York in 1781 and <a href="http://www.royalprovincial.com/military/musters/kad/kadfulton1.htm" rel="nofollow">1782</a>. <br /><br />Massachusetts and New Hampshire moved to seize properties that the younger Samuel Tarbell inherited. Nevertheless, after the war he returned to Groton and died there in March 1796. <br /><br />Curiously, the Groton historian Samuel Abbott Green wrote a lot about the resulting lawsuit without finding the older Tarbell’s death date—which is kind of hard to miss in this picture.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post-59116590864496562092010-04-18T16:02:06.913-04:002010-04-18T16:02:06.913-04:00I should have added that this Samuel was one of th...I should have added that this Samuel was one of the ten children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Woods) Tarbell of Groton, a family very well known in early New England. Three of their ten children were captured by Mohawks in the 1707 raid on Groton during Queen Anne's War. The girl converted to Catholicism and lived the rest of her life in a convent near Montreal. The two boys were adopted as members of the Mohawk tribe and became prominent members of their community. There are many Mohawk residents of northern New York and adjacent Canada today named Tarbell, all of them descendants from the two Groton boys captured in 1707, brothers to this Samuel Tarbell.<br /><br />For one account see:<br /><br />http://www.wampumchronicles.com/firstfamilies.html<br /><br />That page quotes a later encounter the two Tarbell boys had with Thomas Hutchinson, of Revolutionary (in)fame:<br /><br />"I saw at Albany two or three men in the year l744 who came in with the Indians to trade and who had been taken at Groton in this, that is called Queen Anne’s War. One of them, Tarball was said to be one of the wealthiest of the Cagnawaga Tribe. He made a visit in his Indian dress, and with his Indian complexion (for by means of grease and paints but little difference could be discerned) to his relations at Groton but had no inclination to remain there…"<br /><br />—RJORobert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12937384579138400443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post-58504614753789713072010-04-18T15:39:55.375-04:002010-04-18T15:39:55.375-04:00This has another example of a minor feature of man...This has another example of a minor feature of many Park-workshop stones: the lower loop of the 8 is dropped below the baseline instead of resting on the baseline as is usual. It's not on all Park stones, leading one to wonder if it's characteristic of a particular carver within the shop.<br /><br />(My 8th-great uncle, I believe.)<br /><br />—RJORobert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12937384579138400443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post-86682398223891043312010-04-18T15:28:09.398-04:002010-04-18T15:28:09.398-04:00I did a quick search on Captain Tarbell and accord...I did a quick search on Captain Tarbell and according to Google books it appears he was on the wrong side in the war and his farm was confiscated by the state not long before he died. But I could be wrong.<br /><br />Otherwise, it's a very nice stone with finely carved lettering.cliffnoreply@blogger.com