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- John Tuthill, Jr. was twice married. His first wife was Deliverance King, to whom he was married February 17th, 1657. Their children were—1st. John, born February 11th, 1658, died 21st November, 1754, aged ninety-six years, nine months and seven days. 2nd. Elizabeth, born January 19th, 1661. 3rd. Henry, born May 1st, 1665. 4th. Hannah, born Nov. 7th, 1667. 5th. Abigail, born October 17th, 1670; died June 6th, 1705. 6th. Dorothy, born October 6th, 1674; died 24th February, 1684. 7th. Deliverance, born August 2nd, 1677; died 17th February, 1683. 8th. Daniel, born January 25th, 1679; died December 7th, 1762, aged eighty-three years, ten months and sixteen days. 9th. Nathaniel, born November 10th, 1683 and died December 18th, 1705, aged twenty-two years, one month and eight days. His second wife was Sarah Youngs, to whom he "was married May 28th, 1690. By her he had one child, a daughter. She lived about eight years. It appears from the old deeds and his purchases of those days, that he was a prominent businessman, and was held in respectable consideration in the community at large; and the same may be said of his father, who with his household, was one of the thirteen families already mentioned. John Tuthill, Jr., died October 12th, 1717, aged eighty-two years and three months. His first wife, Deliverance, died January 25th, 1689. She was a daughter to the 1st William King, before mentioned. John Tuthill, 3rd, grandson of the elder John Tuthill, as referred to, by information handed down, was a wise and very useful man in his day. From 1696 to 1740, he was in public life, as to what was of interest to this place and the town. He was chosen as a member of the Assembly of the State, then a colony of Great Britain, in the years 1693, 1694, 1695 and 1698. It is said his school education was small, but his judgment, as an adviser and calculator, was large and much thought of. His skill, or genius, in solving the most intricate questions in arithmetic was assuredly, as we are informed, very extraordinary. Although not a man of letters, he was held in high esteem for his prudence and sterling sagacity. A piece of chalk was generally his pen and pencil; the most difficult questions in figures he would answer readily with a piece of chalk; his slate or paper was a piece of board or on the rail fence. For this mode of his doing business in this line of accounts, he was proverbially known for the last fifty years of his useful life, and after his death for fifty years more, his name was respectfully mentioned as Chalker John.” It is now one hundred years since his death, at which time he was ninety-six years, nine months and twelve days old. In many old deeds and conveyances may now be seen the signature of John Tuthill, the man who made so good a use of chalk. It is probable he held the office of Justice of the Peace, since the title of Esquire ” was often given him. Of his family, we know but little — who was his wife, or of what family. Only two of his children, a son and daughter, we know anything of, viz :—John, who was John Tuthill, the fourth in succession, and daughter Dorothy. Dorothy was married to Joseph Brown, Estp Two of Joseph’s sons names were, first, Joseph Brown, Jr., who married Mehitable, the daughter of Jeremiah Vail, Jr., by whom he had eighteen children. Himself and his wife have set down to the table to eat with sixteen of their children with them at the time. George Miller, Esq., of Riverhead, a lawyer, is a grandchild of the said Joseph and Mehitable. Benjamin, the other son, married his mother's niece, John Tuthill 4th’s daughter, by whom he had seven children. Benjamin was a Justice of the Peace and a Deacon of a church, he died in 1774, an excellent, good man. Benjamin Brown, by his wife, Mary, had seven children, viz :—Gershom, Israel, George, Elizabeth, Jemima, Mary and Bethia. Find a grave gave John's birth date, but not his birthplace. It may have been in England just prior to his family's immigration to America, or in Hingham, Massachusetts where his father Henry was known to have initially settled by 1637. For this person there was a christening date posted of 16 July 1635 at Southold, Suffolk, New York, United States. There was no community of Southold until 1640 and the earliest notice of John Tuthill at Southold was in 1656 when he was 21 years old. That date was apparently the date of John's birth as cited by Find a Grave. John's widowed mother was probably at Southold by 1650. Henry, the father of John was at Hingham, Massachusetts by 1637. AT LEAST 4 TUTTLE FAMILIES Immigrated to NEW ENGLAND In 1635. “Four distinct families by the name of Tuttle immigrated from England in 1635, and three of them arrived at Boston on the ‘Planter’ in the spring of that year. THE HEADS OF THESE THREE FAMILIES WERE: JOHN, WHO SETTLED IN IPSWICH; RICHARD, WHO REMAINED IN BOSTON; WILLIAM, WHO WENT TO NEW HAVEN. THE FOURTH WAS THAT OF ANOTHER JOHN TUTTLE, WHO EMBARKED ON THE ILL-FATED ‘ANGEL GABRIEL’ WHICH WAS WRECKED ON THE ROCKY COAST OF MAINE, AUGUST 15, 1634. THIS JOHN TUTTLE SETTLED IN DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, prior to 1640, and became the progenitor of a numerous posterity. In the same year arrived another immigrant, whose descendants are numerous and have been conspicuously identified with the history of New York from a very early period in it settlement to the present day. Many prominent citizens of Orange county have borne and now bear the name.” YET ANOTHER JOHN TUTHILL WAS THE SON OF HENRY TUTHILL, FROM SAXLINGHAM, NORFOLK, ENGLAND. Henry, son of John Tuthill, born 1580, resided at Tharston, Norfolk, England. He married Alice Gooch. Their son “HENRY WAS BAPTIZED 28 JUNE, 1612 AT THARSTON. HE MARRIED IN ENGLAND, BRIDGET WHO ACCOMPANIED HIM TO AMERICA IN 1635. IN THAT YEAR HE SETTLED IN HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, where he had a planting lot at Broad Cove and a house lot in 1637. He was admitted freeman in March, 1638, and served as constable in 1640. He sold his property there June 20, 1644, and removed to Southold, New York, where he died before 1650. His wife survived him and married (second) William Wells, of Southold. Children: John, Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Daniel.” The data continues with JOHN TUTHILL, SON OF HENRY AND BRIDGET TUTHILL WHO WAS BORN 16 JULY, 1635, “PROBABLY IN HINGHAM, DIED OCTOBER 12, 1717, in SOUTHOLD, where he was a large land holder. He married first Deliverance King who was baptized October 31, 1641 in Salem, Massachusetts, died January 25, 1689, at Southold, daughter of William and Dorothy (Hayne)* (sic) King. He married (second) May 28, 1690, Sarah, probably the widow of Thomas Young, and daughter of John Frost. She died November 8, 1727, surviving him more than ten years. Children: John, Elizabeth, Henry, Hannah, Abigail, Dorothy, Deliverance, Daniel, Nathaniel, Mary, all born of the first wife.” William R. Cutter, Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, v. 1, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), pages 372-373. There is some thought that Henry’s brother, John Tuthill, b. 1607 at Tharston, also immigrated but returned to England. He was not the same as the several others of his name with whom he was mixed on Family Tree. Little credible information is available about any marriages or children. The three heads of Tuttle families that arrived on the Planter were John Tuttell, 1596, (2nd husband of Joane Antrobus (widow of Thomas Lawrence) of St. Albans, but John Tuttell’s birthplace not known for certain). The other two on the Planter were brothers Richard and William of Ringstead, Northamptonshire, England, apparent sons of Simon and Isabel Wells Tuttle. There is no record to confirm that this John Tuttell was actually a brother of Richard or William. Although it is not genealogically sound to assume he was a brother without further proof, some records on Family Tree cite this John Tuttell, 1596 to be of Ringstead, Northamptonshire. This person has also been confused on Family Tree with a John Tuttle of Holcot, who probably never came to America, and certainly cannot be proved as the husband of Joan Antrobus Lawrence Tuttell. It has taken days, but I have tried to separate all these families by credible sources. Please do not merge them again. There will be many online family trees that still mix them up.
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1635 - 1717 (82 years)
