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Note: 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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"Newton Tuttle, b. June 21, 1768; resided Southbury, Conn.; farmer; during his leisure hours ardently availed himself of such means of instruction as were within his reach. About 1784, converted to Methodism, and helped to found the first society of that denomination in the town. Soon afterwards he was licensed to preach, and continued to officiate until his decease, having pastoral charge of the Southbury M. E. soc., for many years and frequently preaching in other places. As his sons became old enough to go into business for themselves, he provided each with a farm, taking the burden upon himself and in no case allowing them to become indebted to others. In more than one instance he gave up his own homestead to a son and at great inconvenience to himself sought another residence. Nor did his paternal solicitude cease after he had started his children in life. He continued to watch over and advise them as long as he lived, and so elevated was his character that not one of them would have deemed it prudent to have disregarded his wishes. He became interested in some manufacturing enterprises which he carried on in connection with his farm. He did a large amount of public business, and was much employed as administrator and executor of estates and guardian for minors. It was his custom to take his wards into his own family and treat them as his children. A man of lofty character and rigid, perhaps stern, ideas of duty he expected thosse under his charge to conform to the same standard he had set up for himself. His widow used to relate that at one time her husband being appointed guardian for a refractory boy, the terror of the whole neighborhood, she begged him not to take this boy into the family, lest his example might prove injurious to the other children. But she was overruled; the boy came and with no coercion beyond the influence and example of his guardian, turned out to be one of the best boys she had ever seen. If any disagreement arose between his neighbors and friends, he constituted himself a peace maker, and his efforts were always successful. The late Chief Justice Hinman used to say, that he had met with but few persons who possessed so strong a mind and as well-regulated a judgment as Newton Tuttle. He represented the town of Southbury in Conn. Leg., in 1824 and 1828; died March 12, 1833. He married Sept. 10, 1786, Ruth Pearce, b. Aug. 17, 1767, a great-granddau. of Deacon John Pearce; she died July 1850, age 83 years.--Cothren's History of Woodbury, Vol. 2, page 1566."
Note: The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, Who Came From Old to New
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