The Tabor Papers

"John Vaughan Tabor (1807-1869) was born in the village of St. Martins, NB, on the shores of the Bay of Fundy...His life centered around his family, farming, teaching, and the Baptist church. In spite of limited formal education he mastered the skill of putting his thoughts on paper, both in the form of verse and prose, as is well chronicled in the Tabor papers. During his lifetime he lived, and worked, in St. Martins, Saint John, Upham (Kings County, NB), Wickham (Queens County, NB), and Woodstock (Carleton County, NB), to where some of his sons had previously moved, and where John Vaughan Tabor himself moved barely a year prior to his death. The Tabor papers give a clear insight into the life and times of the first half of the nineteenth century in southern New Brunswick" --Back cover.