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Note: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Thomas Tuttle
Spouse: Hannah Powell
Birth: 1634
Birth: 1641 - CT
Marriage: 1661 - CT
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Thomas Tuttle was a cooper; chosen Packer 1672-72. Guager and Packer 1704. Juryman 1692. Constable 1683, excused from training on account of gout 1689. One of the appraisers of the estate of James Davids (Colonal John Dixwell, one of the regicides), Presidient Stiles of Yale College says " Thomas Tuttle I have been told, assisted in laying out Mr. Dixwell and there is some reason to believe he was the very person that privately dug Whalley's grave and assisted at his interment here."(Stiles' Hist of the Judges.) He (Thomas Tuttle) lived and died on what is a part of College Square. The property was held by Tuttle's for 133 years. "Mrs Constable 1639 to 1652. Thomas Wheeler 1652-1657. Thomas Tuttle and descendants 1657 to 1780. John Scott 1780-1796. Yale College 1796-1882.
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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:
p.l35-136
"Thomas Tuttle, b. Eng. 1634; m. May 21, 1661, Hannah, dau. of Thomas Powell, b. 1641; d. Oct. 10, 1710. He was a cooper; choaen Packer March, 1672, and 1674; Gauger and Packer 1704; Juryman 1682; Constable 1683; excused from training on account of gout 1689; about 1690, conv. to s. Caleb the lot that was bro. David's in Yorkshire Quarter. In 1701 conv. to s. John "right in the Wigglesworth lot (north side of chapel between High and York sts.) for which I paid £15 to my son-in-law Joshua Hotchkiss." Jan. 7, 1700, conv. to s. John Tuttle "my right in the home lot," Joshua Hotchkiss, John Ball and Eliphalet Ball wits. In 1695 conv. land to John Blakeslee. In 1707 admr. of Mr. Wm. Tuttle's, remainder granted to his s. Thomas, and inv. of lands exhibited. In June 1689, with Capt. Moses Mansfield, took inv. and appraisal of est. of James Davids (Col. John Dixwell). £276, 12s, 6d. Prest. Stiles says: "Thomas Tuttle, I have been told, assisted in laying out Mr. Dixwell, and there is some reason to believe he was the very person that privately dug Whalley's grave and assisted at his interment here."-History of the Judges; see app. He lived and d. on what is now a part of the College Square. The lot was assigned to Mrs. Constable in 1639. It fronted on Market Place (upper Green) about 170 feet, and extended back about half the square, between College and York, or nearly to High st. It contained about 5-8 acres. In 1652 Mrs. Constable sold the lot to Thomas Wheeler who sold it in 1657 to Thomas Tuttle; the lot adjoined that of his father on the south. The two lots occupied half the front on College st., between Chapel and Elm, and comprised the larger proportion of the south half of the parallelogram. now called " College Square." On these Tuttle homesteads the most ancient of the college buildings were afterwards erected. The old " Observatory" stands on about the center of the Thomas Tuttle lot, whose northern boundary line produced across the upper Green, passes through the middle of the "Old State House," the Dixwell monument and the Center church. It is in fact coincident with the meridian line of the original nine squares of the town plot, and its intersection with a line parallel to and a little west of Temple st. is the exact central point of John Brockett's lay out. That point is in the porch or the vestibule of the Center chh. Thomas Tuttle by deed dated May 13, 1710-about 5 mos. before his dec.-conv. the homestead to youngest s. Joshua, who 40 yrs after, 1750, conv. to the College a narrow strip on the
south side, 20 feet wide by 250 feet deep (to make room for the south middle college) excepting a strip one foot wide on which a part of the house stood." This determines the location of the dwelling very closely. Excepting this strip, the property was held by Thomas Tuttle and his descendants for a period of 133 yrs. ; previously held by Mrs. Constable 13 yrs. (1639-1652), Thomas Wheeler 5 yrs. (1652-1657), Thomas Tuttle and desc. 123 yrs. (1657-1780), John Scott 16 yrs. (1780-1796), whose executors sold it to the College; whose period of possession, 86 yrs., (1796-1882), falls short more than one-third century of that of the Tuttle family; but they will catch up
in 1920, unless they sell out and remove to Hartford in the mean time. About 1750 in a conv. of right of wid. of Joshua Tuttle the lot is described as bounded on the north in part by land of Benjamin Franklin, Esq., of Philadelphia. Thos. Tuttle d. Oct. 19, 1710; will
dated May 6, 1704; proved 2d Tuesday of Nov., 1710; "son Joshua exr.; s. Caleb to have a set of coopering tools; gr. chil. Hannah, Priscilla, Abigail, Mary and Abraham Hotchkiss, chil. of my dau. Hannah, wf. of Joshua Hotchkiss.
I. Hannah, b. Feb. 24, 1661; m. Joshua Hotchkiss
II. Abigail, Jan. 17, 1663
III. Mary, June 14, 1665; d. Au . 12, 1683.
IV. Thomas, Oct. 27, 1667; m. June 28, 1692, Mary Sanford
V. John, Dec. 5, 1669; m. Hannah -
VI. Esther, April 9, 1672; m. Feb. 27, 1694, Samuel Russell
VII. Caleb, Aug. 29, 1674; m. March 1, 1699, Mary Hotchkiss
VIII. Joshua, Dec. 19, 1675; m. Feb. 26, 1710, Mary Mix
IX. Martha, May 23, 1679; d. Jan. 25, 1690."
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