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Note: MARRIAGE: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: Elizabeth Matthews
Gender: Female
Birth Place: EN
Birth Year: 1612
Spouse Name: William Tuttle
Spouse
Birth Place: EN
Spouse Birth Year: 1609
Marriage
Year: 1630
Marriage State: EN
Number Pages: 1
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WILLIAM TUTTLE: William Tuttle came with the first settlers of New Haven in 1639. In 1656 he bought of Joshua Atwater his house, homelot and barn in the Yorkshire Quarter between land of Thomas Johnson and that of Mrs. Constable's. The Tuttle Homestead was the only land owned by Yale College for nearly 30 years. In the 243 years from the first purchase of it from the Indians, it was held by five proprietors, Joshua Atwater 16 years, Hester Coster 5 years, First Church of New Haven 26, Yale College 166 years. Mr. Tuttle and Mr. Gregson were the first owners of land in East Haven. Thomas Tuttle's lot adjoined his father's on the south. In seating the Meeting House the first seat near the pulpit was the seat of honor, this was given to William Tuttle. He had 12 children born and raised in the old Homestead. William settled in Charlestown, at the age of twenty-six years; he was prominent in New Haven as early as 1647. and held many important positions.
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THE NAME TUTTLE:
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"Tuttle & Tuthill Lines in America", by Alva M. Tuttle, 1968
There seems little doubt that this family name originated in the British Isles, probably in several different instances. That is, I doubt that all of the name stem from a single first ancestor bearing this family name. Likewise there seems no doubt that it, like numerous other surnames, originated as a "place name" -- in this case from a hill for observation or look out -- a Tot-Hill, Thot-Hill, Tut-Hill, or Tuat-Hill, etc., said by some to come from the old Saxon word "teotan" meaning "to look out". There were numerous places in England called Tothill or Tuthill, etc., as early as the 10th or 11th centuries. Tuthill, near Thetford, Northfolkshire is said in London Notes and Queries to have been so-called in A.D. 871.
As with names and ordinary words, the spelling varied greatly in the British Isles in the early centuries and indeed in America during the colonial period. It had only begun to standardize mainly to TUTTLE or TUTHILL in the later decades of the 18th century in America, although well into the first half of the 19th century in the United States I have found in census and other contemporary public records numerous instances of the change of TOOTLE, TOOTTELL, TOOTHILL and TUTHILL to TUTTLE, in some line or lines. See, e.g., Absalom c1755- 65, Amos c1755-75, Elizabeth c1841, Stewart 1795 and Thomas c1819. There are a considerable number of other cases, some not shown herein. Also a tendency in early records has been noted to spell names of persons who definitely were TUTTLE as TURTLE, but TURTLE is a family name in its own right and most TURTLE records have been omitted.
As many as 40 spellings of what seems to be this place-derived family name are said to exist in early British records. In modern times it has mainly standard- ized to TUTHILL, TOTHILL or TUTTLE, the latter being most common.
Several male branches emigrated to America during the colonial period and a number of late-comers came in the 19th Century, several from Ireland. The following notes outline briefly the various Colonial American lines of which I have any considerable knowledge, although I suspect there may have been some others, so much more obscure that I omit them here, but some data on them will be found in the alphabetical listing.
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SHIP - THE PLANTER - PASSENGER LIST:
The following Tuttle family members were shown on the passenger list of the ship, "The Planter", which left England April 1635 and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts 7 June 1635:
Tuttle, Richard 32, husbandman of Ringstead, Hereford (From St Albans to Ipswitch, ref College of Arms. 36 pg 69)
Tuttell, Richard, husbandman 42
Tuttell, Anne 41, wife
Tuttell, Anna 12
Tuttell, John 10
Tuttell, Rebecca
Tuttell, Isabella 70 (supposed mother of Richard)
Tuttell, William 26, husbandman of Ringstead, Northants
Tuttell, Elizabeth 23
Tuttell, John 3 1/2
Tuttell, Anne 2 1/4
Tuttell, Thomas 3 mos
Tuttell, John 39, mercer of St Albans
Tuttell, Joan 42, wife
Lawrence, John 17
Lawrence, William 12
Lawrence, Maria 9
Tuttell, Abigail 6
Tuttell, Simon 4
Tuttell, Sarah 2
Tuttell, John 1
Antrobus, Joan 65 (mother-in-law of John)
Haford, Nathan, servant to John Tuttell 16
HISTORY:
The American Genealogist: Jan. 1954, pp. 7-10
TUTTLE, PANTRY, JUDSON, HURD - AN IMPORTANT CORRECTION
By Donald Lines Jacobus, New Haven, Conn.
The acute Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary of New England, vol. 4 (1862), p. 479, states that Thomas Welles [Jr.] of Hartford, Conn., "m. 23 June 1654, Hannah, wid. of John Pantry of the same, d. of Richard Tuttle of Boston, as I think"; also, that Hannah died 9 Aug. 1683. Under Pantry, he had stated that Hannah was probably daughter of Richard Tuttle.
In 1883 George Frederick Tuttle published Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, and therein identified Hannah the wife of John Pantry and Thomas Welles as daughter of William Tuttle of New Haven, Conn. This identification has since been generally accepted. Mary Kingsbury Talcott in the Memorial History of Hartford County (1886), vol. 1, p. 254, stated that Johin Pantry "m. Hannah, du. Of WILLIAM and ELIZABETH TUTTLE, of New Haven; d. in 1653 . . . . His widow m. (2) June 23, 1654, Thomas Welles, son of Gov. Welles; d. Aug. 9, 1683, ae. 50."
It is true that in 1915 Frank Farnsworth Starr, in Goodwin-Morgan Ancestral Lines, vol. 2, p. 318, struck a cautious note. He wrote: "The writer of this sketch has examined the records at Hartford and New Haven without finding any reference to the maiden name of the wife of John Pantry. The name of William Tuttle, however, appears as a witness to the agreement for the division of the estate of William Pantry [father of John] . . . which was signed at Milford. Possibly William Tuttle was a witness in the interest of his supposed son-in-law John Pantry." [comment: or perhaps was just a prominent citizen, friend and/or neighbor of William Pantry, one among a literate minority readily at handas often was the case in those times.]
The present writer, in his youth, when collecting the data eventually published (1922-32) in the New Haven Genealogical Magazine [see 8:1881], accepted the conclusion of Mr. Tuttle that Mrs. Hannah Pantry-Welles was the daughter of William Tuttle of New Haven, and made no later study of this specific question when compiling Hale, House and Related Families (1952), where an article on the Tuttle family, including the English origin, appears in pages 770-775. The following points would seem to favor that conclusion:
1. Mr. Tuttle had made an intensive study of many of the New Haven families, and an extensive study of the Tuttles including the other Tuttle families of New England, hence his conclusion regarding the identity of Hannah was not lightly to be dismissed.
2. The death of Mrs. Hannah Pantry-Welles in 1683 aged 50 is said to be from her tombstone. That agrees with the age of William Tuttle`s daughter, "Ann," stated as 2¼ in the shipping list in 1635. The age of Richard Tuttle`s daughter "Anna" in the same list was stated as 12 years, making her born about 1623, hence some 10 years older than Mrs. Pantry-Welles was supposed to be.
3. The marriage of William Tuttle`s daughter Elizabeth to Richard Edwards of Hartford is easy to understand if her older sister was then living in Hartford as Mrs. Welles.
4. Of Hannah`s Pantry children, the son John married Abigail Mix, while the daughter Mary married Nathaniel Mix, children of Thomas Mix of New Haven. That again would be easy to understand if the Pantry children had numerous Tuttle uncles and aunts in New Haven to visit.
5. It seemed a little more likely that William Tuttle was present and acted as a witness in connection with William Tuttle`s estate if his daughter rather than a niece was the wife of John Pantry.
6. A descendant of Mrs. Hannah Pantry-Welles was able to obtain the baptismal record of William Tuttle`s daughter "Anne" in England on 20 Jan. 1632/3, confirming her age in the shipping list, and use of the chart prepared for this descendant by the College of Arms was kindly permitted in Hale, House and Related Families, above referred to; and on this chart Hannah wife of Thomas Welles of Hardford is identified as daughter of William Tuttle.
Despite the strong case which can be made out for Mr. Tuttle`s conclusion, now so generally accepted, it is wrong. Hannah the wife of John Pantry and Thomas Welles of Hartford was daughter of Richard Tuttle of Boston. Ann or Anna the daughter of William Tuttle of New Haven married first, Joshua Judson of Stratford, and second, John Hurd "Jr." of Stratford and Woodbury, Conn., by both of whom she left issue.
In reaching these conclusions, the writer wishes to thank Joseph M. Kellogg, Esq., of Lawrence, Kansas, and Clarence A. Torrey, Esq., of Boston, Mass., for helpful items, and also to acknowledge the use of two or three records obtained from Woodbury records in the course of a search made by the writer on behalf of Eugene Diven Buchanan, Esq., of Highland Park, Illinois.
Charles H. Pope in Pioneers of Massachusetts (1900), p. 466, in his account of Richard Tuttle of Boston stated: "His dau. Hannah was adm. chh. 25 (10) 1647: dism. 8 (5) 1649, to chh. of Hartford, now wife of one John Pantry." Apparently Mr. Pope was quoting from the First Church records of Boston, and if so, these records make it quite certain that it was Richard`s daughter Hannah (Anna) who married John Pantry and later Thomas Welles, Jr. It is quite surprising that M. Starr [op. Cit.] in discussing the question fifteen years after Pope`s work appeared felt so uncertain as to the identity of John Pantry`s wife and even cited an item which might be construed as favorable to the claim she was daughter of William Tuttle. Clearly we must conclude that her stone erred or was misread in calling her aged 50 at her death in 1683, for being the daughter of Richard Tuttle she was about 60.
This would leave William Tuttle`s daughter Anne or Anna without a history, but fortunately several record items brought together for consideration establish her history and we conclude that it is fully proved.
Anne`s brother Benjamin Tuttle was executed for the slaying of his sister Sarah. The Connecticut Archives contain documents relating to this affair in the categories "Private Controversies" and "Crimes and Misdemeanors." Among them is a letter written in 1678 by the unhappy mother, who at the age of 68, sitting in the big chair before the fire, had seen her son kill his sister with an axe. [comment: Jacobus erred slightly here, only in regard to the mother sitting by the fire, etc. The murder occurred at Sarah`s home in Stamford, and it was Sarah sitting by the fire. Her son`s eyewitness account of the murder, see addenda to this item, was included in the court`s account that apparently was misinterpreted by Jacobus.] In the letter, in connection with the property of her son Benjamin, she tells of the distribution of her husband`s estate and of Benjamin`s portion, and then speaks of a debt due her from her son John Hurd of Stratford. In the inventory of her own estate (1684) is mentioned "a rug not entered their sister Herd had" and "another rug Symon had." What daughter could Mrs. Elizabeth Tuttle have had, sister to Simon and the other Tuttle children, who married John Hurd?
Only Anne is available. There were two John Hurds in Stratford. The elder, probably as a childless widower, married 1 Dec. 1662 Sarah Thompson, who survived his death (4 Feb. 1681/2) and remarried. His nephew, John Hurd "Jr.," maried 10 Dec. 1662 Ann, widow of Joshua Judson. By Judson she had three children, two sons whose births in 1658 ad 1660 are on record, and a daughter, presumably olderthan the sons and born about 1656 since she married about 1676. The marriage of Joshua Judson to his wife Ann must therefore be surmised as having occurred about 1654-5. That accords well with the baptism of William Tuttle`s daughter Anne in England in 1633. The youngest Hurd child was born in 1673, when Anne Tuttle was 40 years old. Hence both he name and age admit of the identification of Anne Tuttle with the wife (successively) of Joshua Judson and John Hurd "Jr."
The final proof is in the Woodbury land records. The Hurds had six children born and recorded in Stratford. One of these was Benjamin in 1666/7, another was Ebenezer in 1668. On 29 Apr. 1688, John Hurd and his wife were admitted to the Woodbury Church from Stratford. John Hurd conveyed 23 Mar. 1686/7 to his sons Joseph and Benjamin, they to maintain John and his wife for seven years [Woodbury Deeds, 1:100]. He died before 20 Dec. 1690, when an agreement respecting his estate was made by Anna Hurd "Widdow," and the four [surviving] children, Joseph, Benjamin, Ebenezer and Sarah Hurd [ib., 4:12].
In a recording of the lands of Benjamin Hurd in Woodbury [ib., 1:46], we read "Benj Hurd by way of exchange with his uncle Nathaniel Tuttle hath 3 1/5 acres . . . in two parcells . . . layd out 11 May 1696." Also [ib., 1:49], "12 of 10 Mo. 1698. Ebenezer Hurd by . . . exchange with uncle Nathaniel Tuttle hath purchased 3 acres of wood division . . . as also such a part of his sd uncles land next northward from what he purchased of benjamin and Ebenezer Hurd." Then, in a listing of Tuttle`s land, we find [ib., 1:57, 58] "Mr. Nathaniel Tuttle by way of exchange with his Couzen Benj Hurd," and "Mr. Nathaniel Tuttle by way of exchange with his Couzen Ebenr Hurd hath purchased 3 1/2 acres" etc.
Nathaniel Tuttle (1652/3-1721) of Woodbury is known as the youngest of the twelve children of William and Elizabeth Tuttle. Since his mother called John Hurd of Stratford her "son"; since he and is brothers and sisters had a "sister Herd"; since John and Anna Hurd of Stratford and Woodbury had sons Benjamin and Ebenezer; and since Nathaniel Tuttle was uncle of Benjamin and Ebenezer Hurd; it is proved that Nathaniel`s sister Anne Tuttle was the wife of John Hurd.
The descendants of John Pantry and Thomas Welles Jr. must therefore be removed from the genealogy of the William Tuttle family, and placed as descendants of Richard and Anne (Taylor) Tuttle. To offset the loss, the astronomical number of William Tuttle`s descendants must now be increased to include: the Perrys of Stratford, Oxford and Woodbury stemming from Ann Judson and her husband Arthur Perry; the family of Samuel Judson (1660-1725/6) of Stratford; the numerous Hurds of Woodbury, Conn., and Sandgate, Vt., descending from Joseph Hurd (1665/6-1751) and Benjamin Hurd (1666/7-1754) chiefly from the latter who had seven sons and one daughter, all married; and the Hurds of Killingsworth. Conn., the progeny of Ebenezer Hurd (b. 1668). Ann Tuttle`s other Judson child, Joshua, died young, as did also her last two Hurd children, Ruth and John; and her eldest Hurd child, Sarah, born 10 Dec. 1664, died unmarried at Woodbury, 13 Jan. 1722/3.
It should be observed by those interested in the Hurd family that printed accounts are inaccurate, incomplete, and not to be relied upon.
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Totehyll-Tootill-Tuttell of Northampton, England
The earliest well-researched ancestor of my American Tuttle line is Thomas Totehyll born around 1506 in County Northampton, England. There are records of scattered individuals, who may or may not be part of the same line, as far back as the Domesday Book, a census of landowners taken in the 11th century.
Among the descendents of Thomas Totehyll are all of the Tuttells who emigrated to America in 1635 on the ship Planter. Connections to the other main lines have not been positively established, but it is likely that Thomas was related in some fashion to the Tuthills of Devonshire.
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The genealogy of the Tuttle family is traced to a son of Jupiter, God of Thunder. The name is said to be spelled in various ways, to wit: Tuttell, Tathill, Toothill, Tolehill, Toteles, Touthill, Tutoil, Taythill and Tothyll. In Ireland the name is said to be spelled Tuthill, O'Tulhill, O'Toole and O'Tauthall. The family takes pride in the fact that the first name on the role of the Battle Abbey (1066) is Toteles. As far as known the first Tuttle to come to America was John, of Herefordshire, England, who, accompanied by is family, came in 1635 in the ship "Planter" and settled on Long Island. In the same year another John Tuttle came on the ship "Angel Gabriel" and settled at Dover, New Hampshire. William Tuttle settled in New Haven. Jeremiah Tuttle, who died in New York in 1705, served as alderman, was vestryman of Trinity Church and owned property on Pearl Street. Several Tuttles were commissioned officers of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. The Tuttles can boast of a sober, temperate ancestry. None of them were known to be intemperate. Among the family traits and characteristics is the tendency of the hair to grow gray at an early age. The color of the eyes so universal in the family is rather a remarkable gray, slightly dashed with hazel.
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DOVER, N.H. -- Here along Dover Point Road, where housing developments and strip malls line this two-lane highway, sits a survivor. It's the 240-acre Tuttle Farm, which has a gourmet food store housed in an oversize red barn, buffered by fields of corn and pumpkins.
The Tuttle Farm is one of the oldest businesses in America, stretching back more than 350 years and 11 generations of Tuttles. Today it faces a question about its future: Will anyone from the 12th generation want to inherit the farm and run it?
The Tuttles have lived on the very same plot of land for more than three centuries, and over time they have managed to change not just with the times but ahead of them -- accurately predicting America's changing tastes for food. Back in the mid-19th century, William Penn Tuttle built the first greenhouse in the area, growing tomatoes and flowers to sell to neighbors.
In the 1950s, the era of meat-and-potatoes America, Hugh Tuttle, now 78 years old, started pushing asparagus. His battle cry: "I'm going to make salad eaters out of those Yankees." In the 1970s, when European cheeses were found only in urbane specialty stores, the Tuttles were hawking fine fromage to rural New Englanders.
"It's lasted as long as it has because each generation has been able to put its own mark on it and accommodate interests," says 54-year-old Lucy Tuttle, who encouraged her family to sell gourmet goods after she returned from Paris, where she lived for seven years. Today, she and her 52-year-old brother, Will, run the business.
Dates and real-estate records this old are sketchy, but Tuttle Farm may have been founded between 1635 and 1638. There are few other contenders for the oldest continuing business in America. One is the Shirley Plantation, located along the James River in Charles City, Va., and believed to have started up between 1622 and 1638. It grows wheat, corn, cotton and soybeans on 275 acres, although most of the family's income comes from tourists who visit the mansion and its grounds.
"The two oldest continuous businesses in the United States happen to be family businesses," says William O'Hara, executive director of the Institute for Family Enterprise at Bryant College in Smithfield, R.I. "They are probably Tuttle and Shirley."
The Tuttles have a long streak of risk-taking and survival. In 1632, Welshman John Tuttle wanted to escape the dead-end job of apprentice barrel maker. So he received a land grant from Britain's King Charles I, who was trying to populate his American colonies. Off to America Mr. Tuttle went.
The trip wasn't smooth. The Angel Gabriel, the boat carrying John Tuttle, along with his wife, Dorothy, and their four-year-old daughter, was shipwrecked off the coast of Maine -- "burst in pieces and cast away in this storm," wrote eyewitness Richard Mather in 1635. So the family, all their possessions lost in the wreck, walked all the way to what is now New Hampshire and carved out 30 acres amid virgin forest.
They and a handful of other settlers lived off the land, learning from the Penacook tribes how to grow corn and squash, fertilizing the ground with dead fish. There was no mill in the area until the early 1700s, so the first generations of Tuttles ground their grain by hand, using a mortar and pestle.
Getting along with the neighbors was crucial then. "You didn't need money," says Hugh Tuttle, a wiry, deeply tanned man. "It was all barter system. It sure made for being neighborly." Fellow farmers traded food and services, like blacksmithing for barrel making. The barter economy lasted through the 19th century, when Hugh Tuttle's grandfather lived.
"If you needed a pair of shoes, you waited until the traveling shoemaker came along," says Hugh Tuttle, of life in his grandfather's time. "He'd live with you for a week, and make the shoes out of the hides from the family's cows."
In the early years, as many as 10 Tuttles lived in a one-room log cabin. Then, in 1780, Elijah Tuttle built the sprawling wooden farmhouse Will Tuttle lives in today, among pewter dishes and candlesticks that have been in the family for seven generations.
The farmhouse hasn't sheltered just Tuttles. As devout Quakers and abolitionists, they let their home serve as a stop on the Underground Railroad, housing slaves making their way up to Canada. A trap door off the master-bedroom closet hid freedom seekers.
Some Tuttles were entrepreneurs, trying to buck the barter economy. In the mid-19th century, William Tuttle built the region's first greenhouse, where he grew flowers to sell to neighbors. He also created a cranberry bog, a vineyard and a cider factory on the farm. But there turned out to be little demand for grapes, cranberries, cider or flowers, and all four experiments failed. Lucky for the thrice-married William, his wives' wealthy families bailed him out.
By the early 20th century, the Tuttles had better luck selling their vegetables to local grocers, hauling produce to town in a horse and buggy. In 1915, as one of the first driving families in Dover, they switched to a hand-cranked truck.
By the 1950s, with the development of agribusiness, supermarkets began shunning the local, seasonal farmer in favor of giants in California and Florida that could provide year-round produce. "Uniform mediocrity at the lowest possible price," scoffs Hugh Tuttle. "So we said, 'To heck with you guys, we'll go into competition with them.' " The Tuttles converted one of their old dairy barns into a farmstand, selling their own squash, beans, peas and other produce.
"When I was growing up," remembers Hugh Tuttle, "my father would say that the only thing on our dinner table not produced on the farm is the salt and the pepper. We ate our own meat, milk, butter and vegetables that we'd can or freeze in winter. He'd even drink his own hard cider bottled out of a barrel in our cellar."
All that has changed. During Will and Lucy Tuttle's lifetime, the tiny farmstand has grown into a 9,000-square-foot enterprise and adjacent nursery that sells gourmet foods, exotic plants and gift items like painted picture frames and scented candles. On average, 1,000 customers a day shop at Tuttle Farm, filling the asphalt parking lot with a sea of New England license plates.
"It's kind of a hike," says Carol Robinson, a teacher from Rye, N.H., a half-hour away. "But I come here for the quality. I have a friend who refers to it as Trump Farm. It's expensive. It has everything."
Indeed, the retail business now eclipses the farming operation. Less than 10% of what they sell in the store is their own produce -- seasonal corn, string beans, lettuce and pumpkins. Like a farmer, Will Tuttle still rises at 2:30 a.m., but does so to drive an hour or so to a wholesale produce market in Massachusetts, where he buys other farmers' fruits and vegetables to sell at his store.
"We couldn't be here without the retail," says Will Tuttle. "The farm is not big enough to be the only thing." Now the Tuttles' main competitors are large supermarket chains like Shaws and Shop 'n Save that are setting up specialty food sections, usually with lower prices than those at Tuttle.
The Tuttles are diversifying further, selling harried customers more prepared foods, like roasted chicken or pasta dishes, and even launching mail-order and online catalogs. Their newest venture is an in-store wine shop, managed by a longtime customer with a passion for wine.
As with other farms in the area, the Tuttles have had offers to sell their property, but so far they've resisted. "We shoo them all away," says Will Tuttle. "It's not something I'd consider unless we couldn't possibly say no. I can't imagine what it would do to our collective psyche if we sold the farm."
By Tuttle family tradition, the farm goes to the youngest son, who has the best chance to live longer and support older generations. But of those in the 12th generation, only Lucy Tuttle's son, 20-year-old Evan, has expressed interest. His cousins prefer computer science and acting to agriculture.
The Tuttles aren't holding out for the next generation. "Eleven generations of Tuttles occupied the same position of dirt, but it doesn't mean there has to be a 12th," says Will Tuttle. "It's totally their decision." All he wants, he says, is to leave behind a thriving business for his children -- if they want it. And if they don't? "It's not something that keeps me staring at the ceiling at night," he says.
Lucy Tuttle says she won't force her son to work in the family enterprise, and she notes there has been a tradition of Tuttles leaving the farm only to come back. She went to Paris and taught English, and her brother went to Campbell Soup Co., working for a time as a sales representative. Even their father, Hugh, left to study biology at Harvard. After three years, he returned home, finishing off his degree at the University of New Hampshire. "I was farmsick," he explains.
"I'm really torn," says Evan Hourihan. "I'm in college, and there are so many opportunities. But I feel such a strong connection to this place. I would never want to see the tradition pass out of the family."
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The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, Who Came From Old to New England in 1633, and Settled In New Haven in 1639, With Numerous Biographical Notes and Sketches; Also, Some account of the Descendants of John Tuttle of Dover, N.H.; Richard Tuttle of Boston; John Tuttle of Ipswich; and Henry Tuthill of Hingham, Mass; To Which Are Appended Genealogical Notes of Several Alliled Families, By GEORGE FREDERICK TUTTLE, Printed and Published by Tuttle & Co., Official State Printers, Rutland, VT, 1883:
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EMIGRATION TO NEW ENGLAND
"Prior to the embarkation on the Planter ship in April 1635, we have no positive knowledge. The usual time of a voyage from Gravesend to Boston was about ten weeks. He (William) arrived with his family about the first of July. About a year later "Mrs. Elizabeth Tuttell united with the church in Boston July 24, 1636." (Record of First church in Boston). There are two subsequent entries on the church record: "Mrs. ELIZABETH TUTTELL brought to be baptized a son JONATHAN, July 2, 1637,: and "Mrs. ELIZABETH TUTTELL brought to be baptized a son DAVID, April 7, 1639." The colonial records of Mass., of New Haven and of Conn. contain in a few scattered fragments nearly all that is known of William Tuttle. From these, however, we are able to form some idea of his social position, associations, circumstances, employments and of his general character.
In the passenger list of the Planter, he is called "husbandman." The distinction between a husbandman and a farmer was, the husbandman was a proprietor and tilled his own acres; the farmer was a leaseholder and paid rent. It appears, however, from a petition on file in the Secretary of State's office in Boston, that he was a merchant and this might be partly inferred from his joining Mr. Eaton's company, many of whom had been engaged in commercial pursuits in the old country, and whose purpose was to found a commercial city in the new. The petition is as follows, without date: "To the right worshipful Thomas Dudley, Esq., and to the magistrates and deputies of this General Court, now in Boston assembled. The humble petition of Major NEHEMIAH BOWNE, EDWARD TYNGE, WILLIAM TUTTHILL, JOSEPH YOUNGS, WILLIAM PAYNE, JOHN MILAM and JAMES OLIVER, with divers others, being merchants and owners of the ketch, called the Zebulon, now belonging to Ipswich." Abstract of Petition -- Intend to send the sasid ketch to the Indies and ask for two guns to arm her. This is refused.--Mass. Arch., vol. 60, p.168.
In 1638 GEORGE GRIGGS had permission of the court to "sell his house and garding under it and twenty acres of his great lot to Mr. Tuttell of Ipswich and Mr. Tuttell of Charlestown for his redeeming out of their debts." -- Drake's Hist. of Boston.
This item is suggestive in several particulars. First in the use of the title Mr. which was very rare indeed, especially in the case of young men. WILLIAM TUTTLE was (illegible words in the manuscript). . . Tuttle's estate in 1673 it is called his "homestead" and valued (illegible words in the manuscript) . . appears in the inventory of the widow as "the homestead" valued (illegible words in the manuscript). . . MANSFIELD and JOHN ALLING, Jr., appraisers. In about a year after..... was told by her administrators, THOMAS, JOSEPH and NATHANIEL TUTTELL's dwelling.....and two acres, bounded west by the home lot of JOHN BALL [p.142], noth by the lot of THOMAS TUTTELL [p.136], east by the Market Place, and south by the str... HANNAH JONES (wf. of Dep. Gov. WM. JONES and dau. of Gov. EATON) and JOHN PAINE witnessed the deed. In this description of boundaries no mention is made of the street (now College St.), the "Market Place" (upper Green) being named as the eastern boundary.
The subsequent history of the lot is taken from Prof. W. L. KINGSLEY's folio, Hist. of Yale College, article on its land titles by HENRY WHITE, Esq. Mr. White describes it as about 200 feet on Chapel St. by about 270 feet on College St. These dimensions embrace an area of aobut 1¼ acres, while the inventory and deeds call it 2 acres. Perhaps the street was included in the latter estimate. On General WADSWORTH's map, drawn in 1748, the lot as measured by the scale is about 230 feet on Chapel by about 300 feet on College, and an area of about 1½ acres.
Mrs. COSTER died April 6, 1691, a. 67 yrs. Her remains repose under the Center Church, and her name, date of death and age are inscribed on the tablet in the vestibule. In her will she devised this property to the "First Church of Christ in New Haven," to maintain a lecture in the spring and fall of the year. The church leased it for a few years, but finding as the house became old that it produced no income, sold it in 1717 to the trustees of the collegiate school, who immediately began the erection of the first college building, which was finished the next year. It was of wood, fronting on College St., 170 feet long by 22 feet wide, and three stories high. In 1718 it received the name of YALE COLLEGE in gratitude to Gov. ELIHU YALE, who, between 1714 and 1718, had contributed largely to the school. This building stood about 64 years. It was taken down in 1782. The South College, the old Chapel, now the ATHENEUM, built 1761, and the SOUTH MIDDLE stand on this plot. The latter was begun in 1750 and is the oldest buidling on the College Square.
The TUTTLE homestead was the only land owned by the college for nearly thirty years. It was the first of a long series of purchases extending through a period of more than a century, which finally brought the whole of the College Square into its possession. In these transfers, descendants of WM. TUTTLE, who at one time or another owned a considerable part of the square, appear as grantors, either directly to the college or to intermediate holders.
The corporation is now a great landed proprietor. Hence a peculiar interest attaches to this, its first acquisition of real estate. It is now 243 years since its purchase from the Indians, during which period it has been held by but five properietors, viz.: JOSHUA ATWATER, 16 yrs.; WILLIAM TUTTLE and heirs, 30 yrs.; HESTER COSTER, 5 yrs.; the FIRST CHURCH OF NEW HAVEN, 26 yrs.; YALE COLLEGE, 166 yrs.
On this very spot where WILLIAM TUTTLE lived and died, his great-grandson, JONATHAN EDWARDS, studied, taught and achieved his "great and excellent tutorial renown." It is now and long has been the chosen gathering place of the students, where at leisure hours, they meet for general purposes or for social intercourse.
It is here that the class histories are recited, the last fandangos of the seniors performed, and the fence given away*. [*The fence enclosing this part of the campus seems to possess peculiar attractions to the students. On almost any fine day during sessions may be seen a long row of youths seated close together on the top rail, and looking at a distance like some strange sort of fowl gone early to roost. The corporation to doubt would cheerfully furnish settees on the campus as a substitute, but that would not do. The fence fills all requirements, and is valued accordingly. The Chapel street side from the South College, about half way to College Street, is sacred to the Seniors. Thence, to the College St. corner is the exclusive property of the Juniors. The Sophomores crown the College St. rail. Beyond, there is plenty of room for the Freshmen, but they are not permitted to sit on the fence, and woe to the fledgeling who should dare to transfress this unwritten but inexorable law; though an exception is made in favor of any hero of the bat or oar who has helped to win a college race or game of ball. To such the privilege of the fence on the College St. side, below the Sophs., but nowhere else, is granted as a reward. To all others it is strictly forbidden.
Every year, a few days before Commencement, the fence is given away by the Seniors to the Juniors. By the Juniors to the Sophs., and by the latter to the class below. The writer had the good fortune to witness the transfer of '82. Citizens as well as students were present in large numbers, filling the campus, the adjoining streets and sidewalks and the balconies and windows of the neighboring hotel and houses. Class orators, mounted on express wagons, made witty presentation speeches, which were replied to in the same spirit, accompanied by uproarous laughter and clapping of hands by the audience. The whole proceeding was full of that rollicking spirit of fun which only students near the long vacation can fully realize.
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SETTLEMENT OF EAST HAVEN, CONNECTUCUT:
Abstracts from The East-Haven Register
Compiled by Stephen Dodd, Pastor of the Congregational Church in East-Haven
Published in 1824 for the author and originally sold by A.H. Mattby & Co., N. 4, Globe Building, T.G. Woodward & Co.
THE EAST-HAVEN REGISTER: IN THREE PARTS
Note: All dates previous to Sept. 14, 1752, are old or Julian-style of calendar; all dates after Sept. 14, 1752, are the new or Georgian style.
During the reign of James I and Charles I, kings of England, the Puritans were subjected to a destructive oppression, and a furious persecution for conscience sake; and seeing no end to their sufferings, projected settlements in the wilderness of America, as a place of retreat for the Church of God, and where the salvation and freedom of themselves and of their posterity might be promoted and secured. Hence, large companies left their native land and crossed the Atlantic. Among them were persons of wealth, learning, and distinguished piety and eminence.
On the 26th day of July, 1637, Rev. John Davenport, Mr. Samuel Eaton, Theophilus Eaton, Edward Hopkins, Thomas Gregson, and their company arrived at Boston. They were invited to continue there or in that vicinity. This proposal they rejected, for they were determined to settle a new colony. Accordingly, in the fall of that year, Mr. Eaton and others explored the country along the sea-coast, west of Connecticut River and finally fixed upon Quinipiack, as the place of their settlement. On the 30 Mar 1638, the company sailed from Boston, and in about two weeks arrived safe at the place of their destination.
On the 18th April, the first Lord's day after their arrival, the people attended public worship under a large oak, and Mr. Davenport preached to them from Matth. vi, 1. Soon after their arrival, they held a day of fasting and prayer, at the close of which, they solemnly entered into a plantation covenant, finding themselves, "That as in matters that concern the gathering and ordering of a Church, so also in all public offices which concern civil order; as choice of magistrates and officers, making and repealing laws, dividing allotments of inheritances and all things of like nature, they would all of them, be ordered by the rules which the scripture held forth to them." By this covenant they were regulated the first year.
On 24 Nov 1638, Theophilus Eaton, Esq., Mr. Davenport and other English planters, made their first purchase of Momauguin, sachem, of that part of the country, and his counselors. The English promised to protect Momauguin and his Indians from his enemies, and that they should have sufficient planting ground between the harbor and Saybrook fort. The purchasers also gave the sachem and his counselors -- "12 coats of English cloth, 12 alchemy spoons, 12 hatchets, 12 hoes, two dozen knives, 12 porringers, and 4 cases of French knives and scissors." This contract was signed by Momauguin and his council on the one part, and Theophilus Eaton and John Davenport on the other part. Thomas Stanton was interpreter. By the oppression of the Mohawks and Pequots, this tribe was then reduced to about 40 men.
On the 11 December, 1638, they purchased another large tract, which lay principally north of the former purchase. This was bought of Montowwese, son of the great Sachem at Mattabeseck, (now Middletown). It was 10 miles long, north and south, and 13 miles in breadth. For this tract, they gave 13 coats and allowed the Indians ground to plant, and liberty to hunt on it. These purchases "included all the lands within the ancient limits of the old towns of NEW-HAVEN, BRANFORD and WALLINGFORD, and almost the whole contained within the present limits of those towns, and of the towns of EAST-HAVEN, WOODBRIDGE, CHESHIRE, HAMDEN and NORTH-HAVEN.
On the 4 June, 1639, all the free planters of Quinipiack convened in a large barn of Mr. Newman's and formed their constitution. Sixty-three names were subscribed to it on that day, and about fifty more were added soon after.
Among the subscribers who settled in EAST-HAVEN, or were concerned in that settlement, were: William Andrews, William Touttle (or Tuttle), Garvis Boykim, John Potter, Matthew Moulthrop, Matthias Hitchcock, Edward Patterson. To these were added: Thomas Morris and John Thompson.
On 7 Mar 1644, the Colony Constitution was revised and enlarged; and then were added the names of Matthew Rowe and John Tuthill.
Jul 1644: Alling Ball, Thomas Robinson Sr., Thomas Robinson Jr., Edward Hitchcock, Edmund Tooly, William Holt, Thomas Barnes.
Aug 1644: Peter Mallory and Nicholas Augur. 3 Jul 1648: Thomas Morris was admitted a free inhabitant. 4 Apr 1654: George Pardee and John Potter Jr. May 1654: John Davenport, Jr., John Thompson and Jonathan Tuthill. 19 Feb 1658: John Chedsey. 1 May 1660: Nathanial Boykim and Thomas Tuttle. 16 Jun 1662: George Pardee. 1674: Robert Augar. The town was named New Haven in 1640. The first division of lands was made within the town plat, and that vicinity, for home lots. But several enterprising farmers turned their attention to the lands on the east side of the Quinipiack, and began to settle there, when the second division was made.
(Names listed: William Tuttle: had 5 sons, all removed except Joseph). In 1649, "It was ordered that Mr. Davenport, pastor of the Church, shall have his meadow, and the upland for his second division, both together, on the East side of the East River, where himself shall choose, with all the convenience the place can afford for a farm, together with the natural bounds of the place whether by creeks or otherwise." He accordingly, laid out a tract of land of about a mile square, and containing about 600 acres, above Dagon.
In 1650, Alling Ball became his farmer, and was exempted from militia service, while he continued in Mr. Davenport's employment.
The following list of polls and estates, by which the first division was regulated, will show the relative wealth of some of those who first had their farms in this town:
Mr. Davenport: 3 polls, 1,000 pounds. William Tuttle: 7 polls, 450 pounds. Jasper Crayne: 3 polls, 480 pounds Thomas Gregson: 6 polls, 600 pounds Benjamin Linge: 2 polls, 320 pounds. William Andrews: 2 polls, 150 pounds. John Cooper: 3 polls, 30 pounds. John Potter: 4 polls, 25 pounds. Matthias Hitchcock: 3 polls, 50 pounds. Matthew Moulthrop: 1 poll, 10 pounds. Edward Patterson: 1 poll, 40 pounds. Richard Berkley: 4 polls, 20 pounds. -------------------
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William Tuttle Will
New Haven County Court
Vol. I September 1666 November 1698, pp. 61
State Archives, Hartford, Connecticut
New Haven County Court session June 11, 1673
An inventory of the estate of Mr. Wm Tuttell late of New Haven deceased into estate - exhibited and approved for record. Upon which the court by way of settlement and distribution did order as following viz: that administration of the goods and estate of Mr. Wm Tuttle late of New Haven deceased ??? is granted onto Elizabeth Tuttle widow, the [relict] of the said deceased for payment and discharge of the just debts of the said deceased, and portions, or remaind or of portions to the children of said deceased in time convenient according to the following order of distribution; the said debts and dowry of the said widow [in relict] first deducted, and is pay in like of thirds or dowry, the court does order to the relict of administratrix the sum of two hundred pounds, and fifty pounds in proportion to the other sons to Nathaniell, who at present lives with his mother to be added to the said 200£ for her better accommodation and livelihood in the pticulars following, viz: the dwelling house, out buildings and home lot apprized at 110£, ten acres of meadow by the rock & 30£, 12 acres & half of land by [som payns] 25£, and three acres & a half towards the mill 3£: 10. Three acres of that land in the quarter by Nathaniell Tharps corner to be for her son at six pounds; two cows at 8£:5:[0], two ???? 8£:7:6, [illegible] 3£:10:[0], two yearlings & two calves 4£:4:6 in all 199£:07:00 & the ??? of the said 290£ in household goods, implements of husbandry and other necessarys, with Nathanlls part of the outland as apprized in the inventory; the said three acres above mentioned to be for Nathaniell with such part of the house & other estate as the administratrix shall think good to make up his fifty pound. And whereas we are informed that John Tuttle hath received in portion one hundred & five pounds nine shillings & four pence, and Jonathan the sum of 50£ & the other sons have received their portions but in part; the court does order such of their parts get received to be made up 50£, viz: to Thomas as additional (20 received) thirty pounds: to Joseph (19 pounds received) in addition 31£: to David 26£:18:00 received, addition 23£:02:00: to Benjamin 3£:10:00 received for addition 46£:10:00: to Symon 19£ received addition 31£:00:00: Nathanll comprehended before in his mothers part, and it appearing that Sarah hath received 40£:06:05 the court as addition of portion to the other daughters do order as followeth, viz.: to Ann who hath received 37£:09:08 in addition 2£:00:04: to Mercy 32£:00:04 received for addition 7£:19:08: and although Elizabeth hath received upon or after marriage 25£:04:[?] in full of what her father agreed to, or intended for her, yet the court for cause in ????? to her & to Mary the child of the sd Elizabeth out of the estate to order the sum of eight pounds to be payd by the said administratrix at full age or marriage; and for distribution of the lands & meadow of the sd deceased not disposed of in dowry to the widdow; to prevent any trouble that might arise about it dos order the nine acres of meadow towards the [reach] to Thomas, Joseph, David, Symon & Benjamin equally to be divided for quantity & quality as they shall agree together, with the ten acres of land in the [Yorkshire] quarter to be so divided among them. ??? one acre of the four acres neare Nathanll Tharps corner to David Tuttle adjoining to his own ground there; and for the other lands viz. nine of the said acres towards the mill, thirty five acres & a half in the rocks, about six acres by Stony River & 40 acres second division shall equally divided among all of the sons of the deceased, towards the paymt of the portions above set down & addition to John & Jonathans portions already received: but the court dos order that the house, homestead & buildings upon it, with the lands & meadow herein settled upon the widow & administratrix, after Nathanlls portion is by her payd and sett out, shall be in [reversion] after her death distributed to & among the sd sons of the sd deceased by the sd administratrix, to such of them, & in such manner & proportion [illegible] shall for cause, or to the ??? of either of them & not otherwise. And whereas upon the distribution above made we find about thirty pound remainder of estate the court do distribute the said sum in equal proportions among all the children, that is to each child 2£:10:[0] and whereas John and Jonathans proportions of the outlands above appointed comes upon apprisemt in the inventory to 7£:10:[0] apiece, the court declares that upon their receiving their part of the said outland, each of them so receiving it shall pay in to the administratrix to make good the other portions five pounds apiece, the remaining two six shillings apiece being in lieu of their part of the sd thirty pound remainder.
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Birth: Dec. 26, 1607
Ringstead, Northamptonshire, England
Death: Jun., 1673
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
William Tuttle, s. of Symon Tuttle and Isabel Wells, bp. Dec. 26, 1607 at Ringstead, Northamptonshire, England. He d. suddenly in early June 1673 at New Haven, Conn. leaving no known will. By 1631 in England, William m. Elizabeth, b. circa 1609, who d. Dec. 31, 1684 at New Haven, Conn., ¥ 76.
In April 1635 William Tuttle and wife Elizabeth, their three children John, Ann and Thomas, together with William Tuttle's older brother Richard, Richard's wife Anna and their three children Anna [i.e., Hannah (Tuttle)(Pantry) Welles], John and Rebecca, left England via the Port of London aboard the ship Planter, Nicholas Trarice master. They arrived at Boston, Mass. by July 1635. Whereas brother Richard and his family settled at Boston, by late 1639 William settled at New Haven, Conn. In the 1640s William was involved in the failed attempt by inhabitants of the New Haven Colony to establish a separate colony on the Delaware River at present-day Salem County, NJ. William's homestead on the Green at New Haven would eventually become part of Collegiate Square and location of the first building of Yale University.
William and wife Elizabeth were originally interred at New Haven's Cemetery on the Green, William having no known gravestone. In 1821 all burials at the Green, including other members of the Tuttle family, were relocated to New Haven's Grove Street Cemetery.
The children of William Tuttle and wife Elizabeth are:
i. John Tuttle, bp. Dec. 8, 1631 at Ringstead, Northampton, England, d. Nov. 12, 1683 at New Haven, Conn.; m. Nov. 8, 1653 at New Haven, Catherine Lane, dau. of John and Sarah Lane of Milford, Conn. Ten children of the family.
ii. Ann Tuttle, bp. Jan. 20, 1632/3 at Ringstead, Northampton, England, called "Ann, age 2 and a qrtr" in the April 1635 manifest of the ship Planter, d. aft. 1690 poss. at Stratford, Conn.; m. 1) Joshua Judson, s. of William and Grace Judson. He d. in 1661 at Straford, Conn. leaving three infant children. Ann m. 2) Dec. 10, 1662 at Straford, John Hurd, s. of Adam Hurd, b. likely in England. Seven children of the Hurd family. [see The American Genealogist, 30:7 for proof regarding the correct identity of William and Elizabeth Tuttle's dau. Ann (Tuttle)(Judson) Hurd.]
iii. Thomas Tuttle, bp Jan. 4, 1634/5 at Ringstead, Northampton, England, d. Oct. 19, 1710 at New Haven, Conn.; m. May 21, 1661 at New Haven, Hannah Powell, dau. of Thomas and Priscilla Powell, b. in Aug. 1641 at New Haven. She d. Oct. 15, 1710 at New Haven. Nine children of the family.
iv. Jonathan Tuttle, bp July 8, 1637 at Boston, Mass., d. in Oct. 1705 at New Haven; m. circa 1663, Rebecca Bell, dau. of Lieut. Francis and Rebecca Bell, b. circa Aug. 1643 at Stamford, Conn. She d. May 2, 1676 at New Haven. Six children of the family.
v. David Tuttle, bp. Apr. 7, 1639 at Boston, Mass., d. an invalid and unmarried in 1693 at New Haven, Conn.
vi. Joseph Tuttle, bp. Nov. 22, 1640 at New Haven, Conn., d. Sept. 22, 1690 at New Haven; m. May 2, 1667 at New Haven, Hannah Munson, dau. of Capt. Thomas and Joanna Munson, bp. June 11, 1648 at New Haven. Nine children of the family She m. 2) Aug. 21, 1694 at Guilford, Conn., Nathan Bradley and d. Nov. 30, 1695 at Guilford.
vii. Sarah Tuttle, bp. in Apr. 1642 at New Haven, Conn., d. Nov. 17, 1676 at Stamford, Conn., having been murdered by her brother Benjamin; m. Nov. 22, 1663 at New Haven, John Slason, s. of George, b. May 14, 1641 at Sandwich, Mass. Four children of the family.
viii. Elizabeth Tuttle, bp. Nov. 9, 1645 at New Haven, Conn., d. after 1691 at an unknown place of unknown circumstances; m. Nov. 19, 1667 at New Haven, Richard Edwards, only child of William Edwards and Agnes Harris, b. May 1, 1647 at Hartford, Conn. During her marriage to Richard she gave birth to a child by another man, then had six children by husband Richard before Richard was awarded a divorce in 1691. Richard subsequently m. 2) Mar 2, 1691/2 at Hartford, Mary Talcott, dau. of Lt. Col. John Talcott, Jr. and Helena Wakeman, b. Apr. 26, 1661 at Hartford, and had six more children.
ix. Simon Tuttle, bp. Mar. 28, 1647 at New Haven, Conn., d. Apr. 16, 1719 at Wallingford, Conn.; had a wife named Abigail, whose origins remain unknown. She d. in Aug. 1722 at Wallingford, Conn. Four children of the family.
x. Benjamin Tuttle, bp. Oct. 29, 1648 at New Haven; d. June 13, 1677 unmarried at Stamford, Conn. after being executed for murdering his married sister Sarah.
xi. Mercy Tuttle, b. Apr. 27, 1650 at New Haven, Conn., was living at Wallingford, Conn. in 1695; m. May 2, 1667 at New Haven, Samuel Brown, s. of Francis Brown and Mary Edwards, bp. Aug. 7, 1645 at New Haven. He d. Nov 4, 1691 at Wallingford, Conn. Five children of the family, including a 17 year old son killed by Mercy in 1691 in a fit of insanity.
xii. Nathaniel Tuttle, b. Feb 25, 1652/3 at New Haven, Conn., d. Aug. 20, 1721 at Woodbury, Conn.; m. Aug. 10, 1682 at New Haven, Sarah How, dau. of Ephraim How and Abigail Hough, b. Jan. 25, 1653/4 at New Haven. She d. in Nov. 1743 at Woodbury, Conn. Five children of the family.
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Spouse: Elizabeth Tuttle (1609 - 1684)* Children: Jonathan Tuttle (____ - 1705)* John Tuttle (1631 - 1683)* Thomas Tuttle (1635 - 1710)* Jonathon Tuttle (1637 - 1705)* Joseph Tuttle (1640 - 1690)* Elizabeth Tuttle Edwards (1645 - ____)* Simon Tuttle (1647 - 1719)* Benjamin Tuttle (1648 - 1677)* Burial:
Grove Street Cemetery
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Maintained by: Don Blauvelt
Originally Created by: Earl R. Loose
Record added: Feb 17, 2004
Find A Grave Memorial# 8395022
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