In 1701 Diego Tavares was the Ministro de Justicia in Santiago de los Caballeros. In 1738, Diego assisted Canary Islanders in settling Puerto Plata. He was married to Mauricia Infante who by April 1787 was his widow.

An unknown Tavares had Antonia, José, and Manuel Tavares in the early to mid 1700s. These siblings had a mother who had the A2 maternal haplogroup indicating a native maternal linage. A cousin of these three siblings was Juana Tavares who married Juan Tineo Grullón.

A priest named Pedro Tavares Zapata (born c. 1725) was in charge of several chaplains in Santiago founded between 1747 and 1783. In 1805, the priest was taken prisoner by the Haitian troops who had conquered the city of Santiago and subsequently killed.

Alternatively at the same time, Jean-Jacques Dessalines named José Tavares, also known as el criollo and Campo Tavares, a mulato resident of the city of Santiago its commander (comandante de la plaza) according the Gaspar de Arredondo y Pichardo based on his color. It is unknown whether the connection of this Tavares was through blood or slavery.

Amid the violence, many families escaped the island of Santo Domingo. Branches of the family the Tavares family (going by the interchangeable alternative version of the surname, Tabares) fled the island. A notable branch includes the family of Antonio Tabares y Soto, a native of Santiago de los Caballeros and resident of the city Santo Domingo, fled the island. He was the son of José Santiago Tabares, a native of Santiago de los Caballeros and María de Jesús de Soto Gutiérrez, a native of Santo Domingo. He had children with Águeda Tirado y Cuello (born 1772, Santo Domingo) and fled with them to Puerto Príncipe (Camagüey), Cuba. He died in 1813 in that city and a son of his, Manuel de Jesús Tabares Tirado, died there in 1818. One of his sons did leave descendants on the island, Juan de Dios Tabares Tirado married María Magdalena Machado Fernández June 22, 1836 in La Habana. The next generation was born in La Habana before moving to Santa Clara and finally settling in Sagua la Grande. Numerous descendants exist from this family.

In Baracoa, Cuba, multiple members of the family arrived during the violent period on the island of Santo Domingo.

Coronel Joaquín Tabares Polanco was a notable commander in San José de las Matas in 1840.

In 1878, Vicente de la Trinidad Tavares Portes was alcalde of Santiago de los Caballeros.

Based on dispensations, a lineage of Tavares can be determined founded by the siblings Antonia, José, and Manuel Tavares. Their parents were likely born in the early 1700s and they were connected to the city of Santiago and neighboring San José de las Matas.

Antonia Tavares married Gonzalo Rodríguez Ureña, the son of Gonzalo Rodríguez Rosario and Mariana de Ureña Céspedes. with her children residing and marrying into families from San José de las Matas.

José Tavares married Rosa Tineo Grullón, the daughter of Juan Tineo and Simona Grullón. The couple had numerous children: Catalina, Josefa, Antonio, Tomás, Pedro, Simona and María Tavares Tineo.

José Tavares in his 1807 marital dispensation to Baltazara Tineo Tavares, named his parents as José Tavares and Rosa Tineo Grullón. In later dispensations, he is noted as being the son of a Pedro Tavares and in a land record for property in El Guano in 1824, he was named as the son of Catalina López Ureña (wife of Pedro Tavares Tineo, son of José and Rosa). While confusing, the later records are more consistent leading me to believe he was the son of the later couple.

Manuel Tavares married María Reynoso. The couple had Ignacio Tavares Reynoso who married Manuela Tineo Tavares, the daughter of Juan Tineo Grullón and Juana Tavares. Ignacio and Manuel had Lino and Pedro Tavares Tineo.

Lino Tavares may have resided in Baracoa for a short time during the Era de Francia as his name appears with Doña Petronila García in those records. He married Rosa Tavares Rodríguez, daughter of Antonio Tavares Tineo (granddaughter of José Tavares and Rosa Tineo Grullón). One of their daughters, María Concepción Tavares Tavares, married the catalán Pedro Francisco Tió Llovet, thus being ancestors to part of the Tió family in the Dominican Republic. Through their daughter Catalina Tavares Tavares, they are the ancestors of Aída Mercedes Batlle Morell, who was the wife of presidente Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly Fondeur.

Pedro Tavares Tineo married Úrsula Reyes Reynoso and had Manuel de Jesús Tavares Reyes. Manuel married María Altagracia Portes y Morel de Santa Cruz in 1834, the daughter of Pedro de Portes e Infante and Ana Morell de Santa Cruz y Paredes Carreño, all natives of Santiago. Their two sons, Vicente de la Trinidad (1839-1923) and Manuel de Jesús (1841-1906) were influential figures in Santiago during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

The writer Julia Álvarez is a descendant of Manuel de Jesús Tavares Portes, his great granddaughter, through her mother Julia Idalia Tavares Espaillat, daughter of Juan Tomás Tavares Julia (1896-1992).

Juan Tavares and Luisa Zapata Morel, natives of Santiago de los Caballeros, were the parents of Catalina, Capitán Juan, and Pedro Tavares Zapata. Catalina was the first wife of Francisco Espaillat, the French-born surgeon and wealthy businessman and had a dowry valued at 600 pesos. She died soon after this and they only produced one son, the doctor José Espaillat Tavares who was a graduate of the university of Salamanca and died in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1844 unmarried and childless.

Capitán de Milicias Urbanas Juan Tavares Zapata left behind more descendants with his marriage to Mariana Polanco Sánchez, the daughter of Juan Campuzano Polanco and Beatriz Sánchez y Firpo. This couple had Pedro, Joaquín, Benedicto, Juan Luis, Maria, Luis, and Juana Tavares Polanco. In his will made in 1808 in la Villa de San Germán, Puerto Rico, Juan Tavares Zapata declared his children's names and that he was a native of the city of Santiago de los Caballeros as well as his parents D. Juan Tavares and Da. Luisa Zapata Morel, deceased. His son Joaquín Tavares Polanco would marry María Antonia de Luna and flee to Baracoa, Cuba during the Haitian Revolution bringing six children with them before returning to Hispaniola soon after. Here it appears he rose in the military ranks as he was a Coronel by 1840 commanding San José de las Matas.

Juan Luis Tavares Polanco married his cousin María Magdalena Reynoso, the daughter of Mateo Reynoso Sánchez in Dajabón receiving a dispensation in 1798 for 3rd degree blood relations. Juan Luis had a will made in 1826 due to a grave illness. He named his children with Magdalena Reynoso, deceased; Ángel María, Asunción, Francisca, Antonio Marcelo, Antonio Benito, and Andrés Tabares Reynoso.

Ángel María Tavares Reynoso married María Macedonia Morales and died in 1868 in Santiago de los Caballeros. A great grandson through his son Aurelio de Jesús Tavares Morales (c. 1852-1905) named Manuel Aurelio Tavárez Justo married one of the Hermanas Mirabal (María Argentina Minerva Mirabal Reyes).

Asunción Tavares Reynoso (c. 1818-1905) married Guillermo Pérez Alba (1814-1892). They had some influential descendants such as the lawyer Genaro Pérez Tavarez who was Decan of the Lawyers of Santiago in 1917 and his son doctor Juan Bautista Pérez Rancier who was President of the Appeals Court of Santiago in the same year.

Antonio Marcelo Tavares Reynoso married Manuela Escarfuller Martínez having two daughters, Dolores and Natividad. After Manuela's death, he remarried to Petronila Cabreja Gómez in 1862, San Ignacio de Sabaneta, having more children with her. The elder sisters Dolores and Natividad would have relationships with a cousin, Guillermo María Pérez Tavares. With Natividad marrying him in 1876. With her, the couple had María Dolores Pérez Tavarez who married Pedro Tomás Olavarrieta Tavares, the son of José Antonio Olavarrieta Tineo and Gabriela Josefa Tavares Portes in 1898. With Dolores, they had Manuel de Jesús Tavarez (1883-1926).

Pedro Tavares Zapata (born c. 1725) was in charge of several chaplains in Santiago founded between 1747 and 1783. On July 10, 1780, Pedro sent Carlos de Rojas to to sell goods across the border in Dajabón. In 1805, the priest was taken prisoner by the Haitian troops who had conquered the city of Santiago. A scene is described of the priest, over eighty years of age, being forced to walk the long distance to the border on April 28, 1805 where eventually he fell from exhaustion and eventually died without food or water. With him were Doña Francisca Hurtado of the same age and her husband Julián de Medina with their daughter Felipa and her daughters, Seferina, Florentina, Gregoria, Maria, and Nicolasa. Only Maria and Nicolasa escaped and returned to Santiago.

Arrived 02 Mar 1805

D. Joaquín Tavares (household left 18 Apr 1806 for another destination)
Wife: Da. María Antonia de Luna
Children: María Merced, Melchor, María Ramona, José Antonio, Baltazar, and Ana
D. José Tavares Infante (household left 11 Dec 1809)
Wife: Da. María Evora
Child: D. Manuel
Antonia Tavares, agregada de Da. Teresa Medrano, esposa de D. Pedro Escoto

Arrived 28 Apr 1805

Francisco Xavier Mendoza (household departed 19 Jan 1810; Francisco was deceased by this time)
Wife: Juana Tavares
Agregada: Nicolasa

Arrived 04 May 1805

Petronila Tavares (household departed 14 Apr 1810)

Arrived 18 Jun 1805

Clemente Tavares (household departed 21 May 1810)
Children: Antonia and Petronila

Arrived 25 Aug 1805

Da. Lucía Tavares (left 27 Jan 1810)
D. Manuel Gonzalez (household left 27 Jan 1810)
Wife: Da. Apolinaria Policarpa Tavares
Children: Ricardo and Barbara
Da. Petronila García (household left 29 Jan 1810)
Agregado: D. Lino Tavares
Maria Carabajal (left 28 Feb 1810)
Husband: Manuel Tavares (absent in 28 Feb 1810)
Santiago de la Cruz (household departed 03 Jul 1810)
Wife: María Tabares
Agregado: Jose de la Cruz
Micaela Tabares (household departed 03 May 1810)
Daughter: Francisca
Siblings: Juan, Gregoria
Nephew: Pedro
Father: Antonio Tabares

Arrived 28 Aug 1805

Pablo Tavares (household left 15 Jan 1810)
Wife: Lucía Infante
Children: Juan, Clemente, José Manuel, María de la Encarnación, Petronila, María Pantaleona, and Manuela

Departed 14 Aug 1810

D. Tomás Quiñones
Da. Francisca Tavares, su esposa
D. Pedro, hijo
Da. Rosa Villanueva
D. Francisco Quiñones
Da. Josefa
Da. Ines
Da. Maria Ramona
Da. Maria Petronila
D. Diego Tavares
Da. Lucia Tatis, su esposa
D. Bartolome, hijo
D. Juan
Da. Rosa
D. Joaquin Tavares
Da. Maria Antonia de Luna
D. Melchor, hijo
D. Jose Antonio
Da. Merced
Da. Maria Ramona
Da. Baltazara
Da. Ana
Isabel, criada
Clemencia, criada