When the Battle of Bunker Hill is reenacted at Stage Fort Park later this week, the Tarr family of Gloucester will be thinking about Jabez Tarr, a 15-year-old soldier who was among the Gloucester colonists who fought in the battle.
Jabez is one of their ancestors and a descendent of first settler Richard Tarr, a founder of what was called Sandy Bay in the colonial era.
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