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From "Genealogical Study of the Family of Josiah Fisher Wilson Sanborn & Alberteen Adelaide Eaton" Compiled by Helen (Burgess) Lindhorst, privately published 1978, revised 1993."
**John Tatom was born about 1663 in Bermuda. As a young man, he moved to Deptford Township, New Jersey, purchased 50 acres of land on Woodbury Creek, West New Jersey Province, from Jonathan Wainwright on 14 September 1689. The first mention of John Tatom in New Jersey. The first mention of John Tatom in New Jersey is 7 February 1689, when he witnessed a deed between William Salesbury and Jonathan Wainwright.
He married twice, first to a woman named Elizabeth and second to a woman named Mary. He died before 2 May 1738 in West New Jersey, date will was probated.
He was a Presbyterian, being a member of the First Prebyterian Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. However, the Quakers had some influence on him because upon leaving Bermuda, he settled in a Quaker Settlement along with his brother, Samuel. Also the Bullocks and Painters, relatives through marriage, were Quakers.
He was a ship's carpenter. From the cedar wood of the box used to transport his worldly possessions, he built a writing desk which is still in the hands of a John Tatom, eighth in an unbroken descent of Johns.

**From Family Group Record of FamilySearch Ancestral Files, AFN:1LQ0-WTC: shows our John to have been born about 1674 in Gloucester, Camden, New Jersey. Further research need to be done to establish correct birthdates of the two brothers, Samuel (AFN:938W-S6) with same submitters is the brother that supposedly was born in 1663 at Warwick Tribe, Bermuda and married Elizabeth Roe about 1688.(he being only 14 years old?)

From The Tatum Narrative compiled by Richard P. Tatum, published 1925 in Phila,PA-
In Sept 1689 John Tatem made his purchas of 50 acres of land on Woodbury Creek, Province of West New Jersy. (Gloucester Co.,NJ Deeds B, pp. 52-53) John Tatem died in 1738 in West New Jersey(gloucester Co.,NJ Wills). On Feb 7 1689 he signed as witness a deed between William Salisbury, carpenter and Jonathan Wainright, shoemaker, for one hundred acres of land in Gloucester County.(New Jersey Deeds, Gloucester Book B, Folio 32).
Also from same souce: John Tatem of West New Jersey and his brother Samuel of Long Island are mentioned by Jonathan Dickinson writing from Philadephia "ye 12th November 1719" to his manager, John Harriort regarding the care of his plantation in the Island of Jamaica:
"............I have thine p Capt Richard Cleather who arrived here ye 22d September which I kindlyrec'd...as to our place I said wee had a wett summer and after a sickly fall thee people much downe with feavers and Agues but upon ye frost comeing the are over ye people of us City have had their health ingenerally pretty well.-
Thy Brother Samuell is well in health but not of business, lives on his means, remaines a widdoweer. Sarah Righton is pretty hearty for her age. Sybella, ye wife of T. Masters is well. They have two sons, two daughters, the eldest Daughter married to Jos. Buckley, have one child. Agnes ye youngest daughter of Sarah Righton married to a watchmaker.
John Tatem is well, he live's in Jearsey aboute ten miles from towne. Hisbrother Samuel Tatem at Long Island a very honest frd.....(Copy Book of Letters 1714 of Jonathan Dickinson at Ridgeway Branch Library,p. 286)"
Also from The Tatum Narrative--On 16 Nov 1697, John Tatum and Elizabeth Tatum signed the marriage certificate of George Ward of ye town of Upton and County of Gloucester and Hannah Wainwright of Woodbury Creek. Elizabeth appears to have been his first wife and theylived for a time on what he terms in his will "the lower place."