Section IV: Descendants of John Cable

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Generation One

1. JOHN1 CABLE was born about 1615[12], and died between 4 April 1682 and 21 Sept. 1682[2]. [13]
Children:
+2i.JOHN2 CABLE, b. on 12 Jan. 1641[2, 13] in Springfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts, United States[2, 13]; d. before 7 Nov. 1673[2]; m. ELIZABETH _____.
3ii.REBECCA CABLE, b. about 1650/1; d. about 1700; m. JOHN KNOWLES.

Generation Two

2. JOHN2 CABLE (John1), son of (1) John1 CABLE, was born on 12 Jan. 1641[2, 13] in Springfield[2, 13], and died before 7 Nov. 1673[2]. He married ELIZABETH _____. She married (2nd) before 19 Dec. 1683[2], (ALW-9) THOMAS SHERWOOD JR., son of (ALW-1) Thomas and Alice (TILER) SHERWOOD, who was born about 1624[5, 14].
Children:
+4i.JOHN3 CABLE, b. about 1674; d. about July 1724[3]; m. (ALW-21) ABIGAIL SHERWOOD, d. about Nov. 1735[2], daughter of (ALW-15) Isaac, Sr. and (XC-7) Elizabeth (JACKSON).
5ii.ELIZABETH CABLE, b. about 1660/1; d. about 1650/1.
6iii.SARAH CABLE, b. about 1670; d. about 1750; m. about 1690[2] ROBERT CHURCHILL.
7iv.REBECCA CABLE, b. about 1660/1; d. about 1650/1; m. DANIEL ADAMS.
8v.JOSEPH CABLE, b. about 1660/1; d. about 1740/1; m. ABIGAIL ADAMS, b. on 25 March 1682[4].

Generation Three

4. JOHN3 CABLE (John2, John1), son of (2) John2 and Elizabeth (_____) CABLE, was born between 1655/6 and 1674, and died between 12 June 1724 and 8 Aug. 1724[3]. He married (ALW-21) ABIGAIL SHERWOOD, daughter of (ALW-15) Isaac, Sr. and (XC-7) Elizabeth (JACKSON), who died about Nov. 1735[2]. [2]
Children:
9i.MARGERY4 CABLE, b. about 1701[3]; d. on 1 April 1788[3] in Wilton, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, United States[3]; m. about 1723[3] JOSEPH PATCHEN.
10ii.GEORGE CABLE, b. about 1703[3]; d. on 17 Sept. 1763[3] in Westport, Fairfield Co.[3]; m. on 17 Feb. 1729[3] in Fairfield, Fairfield Co.[3] SARAH SHAW, chr. on 11 April 1708[6], d. in Westport[3] on 29 Jan. 1787[3].
11iii.JONATHAN CABLE, b. about 1705[3]; d. about 1780; m. on 3 Sept. 1728[3] in Fairfield[3] MARY BENNETT.
12iv.ABIGAIL CABLE, b. about 1707[3]; d. on 15 Feb. 1795[3] in Wilton[3]; m. about 1725[3] JACOB PATCHEN.
13v.JOHN CABLE, b. about 1709[3]; d. on 24 March 1760[7] in Weston, Fairfield Co.[7]; m. on 26 Sept. 1733[3] ANN DAVIS, d. in 1773[3].
+14vi.ANDREW CABLE, b. about 1712[8]; d. about April 1761[8] in Fairfield[8]; m. (ATK-38) REBECCA WHEELER, b. on 14 Feb. 1719[8], d. in Stratfield, Fairfield Co.[8] on 23 Feb. 1799[8], daughter of (ATK-32) Timothy and (ASC-20) Ann (WAKELEE) WHEELER.
15vii.DANIEL CABLE, b. about 1714[3]; d. in 1760[9] in Fairfield[9]; m. on 7 June 1739[3] in Fairfield[3] SARAH CRANE, b. about 1718[9].
16viii.ISAAC CABLE, b. in 1716[3]; d. about 1750.

Generation Four

14. ANDREW4 CABLE (John3, John2, John1), son of (4) John3 and (ALW-21) Abigail (SHERWOOD) CABLE, was born about 1712[8], and died between 1 Jan. 1761 and 4 Aug. 1761[8] in Fairfield[8]. He married (ATK-38) REBECCA WHEELER, daughter of (ATK-32) Timothy and (ASC-20) Ann (WAKELEE) WHEELER, who was born on 14 Feb. 1719[8], died on 23 Feb. 1799[8] in Stratfield[8], and was buried on 24 Feb. 1799[10] in Trinity Church, Southport, Fairfield Co.[10]. [3]
Children:
+17i.OLIVE5 CABLE, bp. on 6 March 1743[8] in Westport[8]; d. about 1820; m. (1) (ACJ-1) WILLIAM JACKSON MEEKER, b. in Fairfield[11] in 1730[11], d. in Stratfield[11] about Feb. 1777[11]; m. (2) about 1778 (AQY-1) JAMES VAUGHN, b. about 1741, d. about 1795.
18ii.ANDREW CABLE, bp. on 2 June 1745[8] in Westport[8]; d. in 1768[8].
19iii.JUSTUS CABLE, bp. on 3 July 1748[8] in Westport[8]; d. about 1760[8].
20iv.ANN CABLE, b. about 1750/1; d. about 1800/1; m. _____ TAYLOR.
21v.WHEELER CABLE, b. about 1758[8]; d. on 3 June 1782[8] in Stratfield[8].

Generation Five

17. OLIVE5 CABLE (Andrew4, John3, John2, John1), daughter of (14) Andrew4 and (ATK-38) Rebecca (WHEELER) CABLE, was christened on 6 March 1743[8] in Westport[8], and died between 1790 and 1853. She married (1st) (ACJ-1) WILLIAM JACKSON MEEKER, who was born in 1730[11] in Fairfield[11], and died about Feb. 1777[11] in Stratfield[11]. She married (2nd) about 1778, (AQY-1) JAMES VAUGHN, who was born about 1741, and died about 1795.
1790 census, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut:
Olive Vaune
white males over 16 years: 1 (Wheeler?)
white males under 16 years: 1 (John age 5)
females: 4 (Olive, Polly, Catherine, ?)[1]
"Est. of Wheeler C. Vaughn of Fairfield was ordered distributed, Aug. 1807, to bro. and sisters: John Vaughn, Polly wife of Israel Blackman, and Catherine. These were prob. the children of Olive."[8]
Children of: Olive5 CABLE and William Jackson MEEKER: See (ACJ-1) William Jackson MEEKER

Children of: Olive5 CABLE and James VAUGHN: See (AQY-1) James VAUGHN


1. 1790 United States Federal Census; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com).
2. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. I (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976), 136; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 June 2011).
3. Ibid., 137.
4. Ibid., 138.
5. Ibid., 549.
6. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. II Part I (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976), 219.
7. Ibid., 220.
8. Ibid., 221.
9. Ibid., 222.
10. Edmund Guilbert, Annals of an Old Parish - Historical Sketches of Trinity Church (New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1898); digital images, Archive.org (http://www.archive.org).
11. Doyle Fenn, Footprints West: A Family History, 2nd ed. (Manvel, Texas: D. Fenn, 1998), 271; FHL microfilm 1,425,202.
12. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 300.
13. Henry M. Burt, The First Century of the History of Springfield, Volume II (Springfield, Mass.: Henry M. Burt, 1899), 543; digital images, Archive.org (http://www.archive.org : accessed 5 June 2011).
14. Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), 3:309; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (http://www.americanancestors.org/ : accessed 8 June 2011).