JANE

The abundance of information about the early settle s to this country has made it possible to trace our ancestors back to the first one to come to this country. This person is Richard Tarr and he came from Wales some time in the late sixteen hundreds. Here he married and he and his wives (it is believed he had two) raised a family of eleven children. All but one of these children lived to adulthood and married and had children of their own. At this point in time there are eleven generations of descendants in our direct line from Richard Tarr... The origin of our family is the British Islands. Richard came from Wales and based on maiden names of the women that married into the Tarr family in the first five generations, they also appear to have come from the British Islands... The early history books give a fair amount of information about Richard Tarr because he was the first settler at Sandy Bay, a place now known as Rockport, Massachusetts. It is believed that he arrived in this..