General Notes

Cooper successful mill owner, large land owner; in 1643 listed as able to bear arms at East Taunton, MA; made settlement of Estate 31 MAR 1694; will filed Taunton 2 APR 1723, recorded 30 OCT 1723.

John Macomber was admitted as a freeman and enrolled in the militia of Taunton in 1643. He was granted permission to build a mill in Taunton in 1659. There were then four persons in his family, and there is no record of more. The name of his first wife has not been learned. He was in a military company in 1680. He was living in 1687, as shown by a deed. Another deed shows that he died before 1690. He was a carpenter by trade. His property was equally divided between a daughter, Mary Staples, and a son, John Macomber.
Source: 'Macomber Genealogy', 1908, Everett S. Stackpole, p 10.