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NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES
GENEALOGICAL AND MEMORIAL A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths
and the Founding of a Nation COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
WILLLAM RICHARD CUTTER, A. M., Historian of New England Historic-Genealogical Society; Author of "The Cutter
Family," "History of Arlington," Etc. THIRD SERIES
VOLUME III
CLEARFIELD Originally published
New York, 1915 (II) Thomas, son of William Tuttle, was born in England in 1634. He was a cooper by trade; was elected packer by the town in March, 1672 and 1674; juror, 1682; constable, 1683; gauger and packer, 1704. He was excused from training on account of gout in 1689. President Stiles wrote: "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 (the regicide) and assisted at his interment here." He lived and died on what is now part of the college square, fronting on Market Place. On the Tuttle homestead the most ancient of the college buildings stand. He died October 19, 1710. His will was dated May 6, 1704, and proved in November, 1710. He married, May 21, 1661, Hannah, born 1641, died October 10, 1710, daughter of Thomas Powell. Children: Hannah, born February 24, 1662; Abigail, January 17, 1663; Mary, June 14, 1665; Thomas, October 27, 1667; John, December 5, 1669; Esther, April 9, 1672; Caleb, mentioned below; Joshua, December 19, 1675; Martha, May 23, 1679. |
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