1790 'The Rememberancer' in The Colonial Music Institute, Annapolis, Maryland

"To sheep-shear, my boys! pipe and tabor strike up"

 (from pamphlet published in Albany, NY, in the state library):

A PINKSTER ODE
For the Year 1803.
"Now hark! the Banjo, rub a dub,
Like a washer-woman's tub;
And hear the drum, 'tis rolling now,
Row de dow, row de dow.
The pipe and tabor, flute and fife,
Shall wake the dullest soul to life."

a few verses later in the ode:

"The fiddles touch their sweetest strings,
While the ebon lassie sings;
And the pipe and tabor plays,
Brisk and merry rounde lays.
Again the fife and hollow drum
Calls you-come together come,
And sing a little, and laugh a little,
And fiddle a little, and foot it a little,"

Pinkster was a traditional Dutch celebration of the Christian holiday Pentecost and springtime, and was adopted by early African American communities in New York and New Jersey. It typically ran from three to six days. The festival remained an important feature of regional African American life and culture well into the 19th century. (source)

War of 1812: from the song 'The Patriotic Diggers' by Samuel Woodward. Men from all walks of life volunteered to join the army:

"...How they break the soil! Brewers, butchers, bakers
Here the doctors toil, there the undertakers.
     Bright Apollo's sons leave their pipe and tabor
     Mid the roar of guns, join the martial labor."

1825: a small selection from a song:

 “I will sing of General Jackson/
Who the foe he has ne’er turned his back on,/
But his soldiers, with all their knapsacks on,/
Did make all de English stray./
He fought them one and all,/
And his courage was not very small,/
For he cut them with his sabre,/
And their backs he did belabour;/
Then we’ll sound the pipe and tabor,/
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!—Hurrah for General Jackson

1858 THE O'LINCOLN FAMILY by Mr. Wilson Flagg

 " A flock of merry singing-birds were sporting in the grove;
Some were warbling cheerily, and some were making love:
There were Bobolincon, Wadolincon, Winterseeble, Conquedle,—
A livelier set was never led by tabor, pipe, or fiddle,—
Crying, “Phew, shew, Wadolincon, see, see, Bobolincon,
Down among the tickletops, hiding in the buttercups!"

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858

1860

“While toward some devil's-dance, we crane the neck,
And sigh unshriven;
Or lightly follow where our leaders go
With pipe and tambour"

poem number 124 from  Poems by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman’

1865

"Come, tune up and summon, with pipe and with tabor",  

'The Cheerless Condition of Bachelorship' by George Moses Horton

1881 The Household Cyclopedia of General Information - a handbook of the practical and domestic arts of America in Victorian times, regarding sailors:

"... they should be indulged in any innocent amusement that will keep their minds as well as bodies in a state of pleasant activity, and perhaps none is then more proper than dancing. This makes a fiddle or a pipe and tabor desirable acquisitions on board of every ship bound on a long voyage."

Some morris sides are accompanied by the pipe and tabor and some of these are women.

It was reported in 1982 that The Bouwerie Boys are unusual in having a female musician, Jessica Murrow, who freely criticizes or praises their dancing in addition to accompanying them on the pipe and tabor. (source)