John Tuttle

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• Immigration: 1635, Massachusetts

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Biography:
People originally thought that John was the son of Thomas, Symon's brother. It was thought that Richard and William who came to New England on the Planter with him were his cousins. This determination was based largely on the fact the maternal grandfather, John Wells, did not name John in his will and Thomas had a son named John. But there is some evidence that the three Tuttle men on the Planter were brothers. And, the will of their father Symon did name John as his second son. The will was written in 1627 and in a different pen was added, "to my sunn John, his daughter Abigaill, five pounds at the age of fifteene." The will was proved in 1630 and Abigail was born around 1628, so it is pretty definite that our John was the son of Symon and not Thomas.
Alva M. Tuttle theorized that John Wells left John out of his will because he married an older widow. Joanna was about four years older and already had a family. This does not seem likely to me. It was not that uncommon for a man to marry a slightly older woman at that time. Also, because John was almost 30 when he got married. It was not appropriate for an unmarried man to live on his own so he likely lived with his family. Therefore, everyone would have been happy when he finally married.
I believe that a more likely explanation was John's personality. John's two sons were not the best of offspring. For more on this see the write-up on John's wife Joanna and John's son Symon. John showed signs of being a rebel and that may not have set well with his grandfather. Since we will likely never know why John Wells left his grandson out of his will we are free to do all the speculating we want.
In 1635, John, his family, his wife's previous children, his two brothers and their families, his mother and his mother-in-law all traveled to New England on the Planter. From Games:
The traveling cohorts to New England, or "companies," could at times be huge. One of the largest family groups traveling together in 1635 was the Tuttle clan from St. Albans, Hertfordshire, who journeyed on the Planter to Ipswich, Massachusetts. St. Albans is an abbey town about 20 miles from London. In the seventeenth century, St. Albans was also a provincial market town. Benjamin Hare’s plan of St. Albans, drawn up in 1634, reveals the dense concentration of houses along the Watling road and around the abbey. For all its provincial importance, the town had only one main street, but it was a crucial thoroughfare whose existence ensured the economic viability of the community as the first major stopping point on the Watling road out of London. For the Tuttle family, the disjunction between life in bustling St. Albans, a city physically dominated by an immense stone abbey, and colonial life in Ipswich must have been stunning.
This disjunction between a “thronged place” and the “wide wilderness” was softened for the Tuttles by the presence of family and neighbors in their new home. The center of the family group contained Joan Antrobus Lawrence Tuttle, born in St. Albans to Walter and Joan Antrobus, and her second husband, John Tuttle. With Joan Tuttle traveled her four children from her first marriage to Thomas Lawrence. Three were underage – John, Marie, and William Lawrence, and the fourth was her daughter Jane, who had married George Giddings, a yeoman of Clapham, Bedfordshire, in 1634. Joan Tuttle also brought her mother, Joan Antrobus, who had been widowed in 1614, and the four children from her second marriage, Abigail, John, Sara, and Symon. This family of twelve was rounded out by three servants transported by George Giddings, and one by John Tuttle.
The Tuttles had achieved in St. Albans a significant degree of local status. Joan Tuttle’s father, Walter Antrobus, had been one of the twenty-four assistants of the borough of St. Albans. Her first husband, Thomas Lawrence, was a constable of the borough in 1614, and at his death left a sizable estate of £823.1.8. John Tuttle, Joan Antrobus’s second husband, was a draper who paid £6 freedom money to the borough and merited the honorific of “Mr” in the court record of this transaction. By 1630 he had served as constable of the borough. Also accompanying the St. Albans Tuttles were Richard and William Tuttle, with their six children, two wives and mother, relatives of John from Bedfordshire, John Tuttle’s original home. Thus, altogether twenty-seven members of the extended Tuttle clan journeyed together, after their rendezvous at the port of London, to New England. Their gather at the port suggests the convenience that a central location like London could offer these relatives who had lived scattered from each other in England.
His family settled in Ipswich where he lived for several years. Eventually, he left New England after becoming discouraged. He seems to be one who did not believe in rules. According to court records he was fined in 1641 and 1645 for keeping cattle in a common fenced area and for selling wine without a license respectively. Also, he sued three men for borrowing his boat and losing it.
According to G. F. Tuttle, he moved to Ireland when Tuttles from New Haven, also disillusioned, were negotiating to buy the city of Galloway. "He established himself advantageously there and did not return." His wife followed him in 1654. He died in Carrickfergus, Ireland. No one is sure where Joanna died.

Immigration:
The family arrived on the Planter.

John married Joanna Antrobus about 1626. Joanna (daughter of Walter Antrobus and Joan Arnold) was born about 1592; died between 1662 and 1673. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Abigail Tuttle was born in 1628; died before 1674 in Durham, New Hampshire.
2. Simon Tuttle was born about 1630; died in Jan 1691/92; was buried on 11 Jan 1691/92 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
3. Sarah Tuttle was born about 1632; died before 1674.
4. John Tuttle, Jr was born about 1633; died between 1657 and 1674.
5. Hannah Tuttle was born about 1636; died between 1657 and 1674.

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• Will: 19 Dec 1627

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Biography:
From Tuttle - Tuthill Lines in America:
Symon Tootill or Toutills of Ringstead, co Northampton, born say 1560, buried at Ringstead, 15 June 1630; married Isabel Wells, born about 1565, daughter of John Wells of Ringstead, who mentioned her in his will in 1618. Symon was mentioned in his father's will in 1589 and in that of his father-in-law in 1618. The will of John Wells also named all [five] of his Tuttell grandsons. Symon was supervisor of the will of Matthew Harris of Woodford, 5 Nov 1600. His own will was proved 1630 at Northampton. His widow accompanied her sons on the "Planter" in 1635, but no record of her has been in this country, and probably she did not long survive.

Will:
Symon's will:
In the Name of God Amen The nyneteeneth Day of December in the yeare of our Lord god one thousand six hundred twentie seaven I Symon Tuttell of Ringsted in the Countie of Northton yeoman strong in minde and of good and pfect memory thanks and praise be to allmighty god and weighing and considering the frailety of mans life and the uncertainty of this world doe make and ordayne this my psent Testamt contayning therein my last will in mann[er] and forme as followeth that ys to say ffirst I [c]om[m]end and com[m]itt my soule into the hands of Allmighty god Creator assuredly believing through the onely meritte of Jesus Christe my saviour to be made ptaker of Everlasting life And my body I comitt to the earth from whence it came to be buried [torn] Christon burialls at the discrecion of my Executrix hereafter named, hopeing assuredly to receive the same again at the gene[ral] resurreccion not a mortall but an immortall and glorious body. And now as concerning those lands and goodes wch god of his goodness hath lent me I give and bequeath unto Isabell my wife All that moytie or prcell of land meadows and com[m]ons wth theire and each of theire appurtenances wch ys due to me out of the land formerly [?] conveyed to my Eldest sonne Richard and the house messuages or ten[emen]ts wherein I now dwell together with all the houses yards lands meadows pastures com[m]ons comodities and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or in any wise appurteyning and also All those landes meadows and comons wth thappurtances wch I lately had an purchased of Thomas Holding Edward Asin [?] al[ia]s James, and of Will[ia]m Sillyman and of each of them To have and to hold the same for and during the terme of her naturall life and after the naturall death of decease of ye saide wyfe I give and bequeath all and singular the said mentioned lands and premisses wth their and each of their appurtenances unto Will[ia]m Tuttell my youngest sonne to have and to holde the same unto the saide Will[ia]m Tuttell and to the heirs of his Body Lawfully to be begotten, and for want of such yssue to the second sonne of my sonne Richard and to his heirs for ever Itm I give and bequeath unto John Tuttle my second sonne all that dwelling house wherein Mr Wrothfall now dwelleth wth all the houses thereunto belonging and the yarde and orchard thereunto adjoyning, and sometyme in the tenure or occupason of John White to have and to hold the same unto the saide John Tuttell and to his heirs and assignes for ever Itm I give and bequeath unto Isabel my said wyfe the one halfe [torn] that meadow wch I lately purchased of Joane Bateman wydow to have And to hold the same for and during her naturall life, And I give and bequeath the other Mytie or half of the same meadowe to my sonne Will[ia]m to enter [there] upon ymmediately after my decease, and I likewise give and bequeath unto my said sonne Will[ia]m the other Moytie of the same meadow to enter thereuppon after the naturall decease of my said wyfe to have and to hold the same unto him the said Will[ia]m and to the heires of his bodye lawfully to be begotten, so as he my said sonne [re]linquishes the twentie poundes given to him by his grandfather John Welles in and by his last will and testamet and the fyve pounds wch fell to him by the death of his brother Thomas Tuttell and for want of such issue of the body of the said Will[ia]m I give and bequeath the same meadowe unto the eldest sonne of my said sonne Richard and to his heirs for ever and I doe gie to my sonne Richard [illegible] halfe [illegible] the lord mordant [?] on both sides of it. Itm I give to my sone John and his heirs for ever one dole of meadow [of?] forty foote in same which I purchased of Eusache Morton Thomas Ekins [?]. Itm I give to my sunn John his Daugher Abigaill fiue pounds at the age of fifteene years: Itm I give and bequeath unto the poore of Ringsted aforesaid xxs to be distributed amongst the poorest sorte at the discreson of the minister and churchwardens. Itm I give to my godchildren xxs apeece. Itm I give to my sonne Will[ia]m my best bedsted wth the bedding and furniture thereunto belonging, or therewith usd, the table in the hall wth the frame, halfe a duzzen of framd stooles, the yron barres on the chimneys wth the hookes and hangings the bed whereon he lyeth my best brasse pan my best brasse pott, my mault mill as now yt standeth, my bolting [twine and yeelding?] fatt, the barr of yron and the package [?], and I will that all my sheepe be equally devided betweene my said wife and my said sonne Will[ia]m wth the increase thereof so long as he keepeth himselfe unmarried. Itm I give and bequeath unto my said sonne Richard and to his heirs for ever one acre of leyes wch I purchased of Mr Carier, and half a dusson sheep. Itm I forgive [missing] my said sonne John thirtie pounds. Itm I give more unto my said sonne Will[ia]m my great cubbord in the [missing] the greater chest, two of the biggest chaires, and the chest that standeth by the bedsted. Itm I give unto my grand [childre]n xxs a peece Divided allwaies And I will that all the said Movable goods herein given to my sonne Will[ia]m carefully to apply and husband his mothers business to the best of his power in [missing] of the person herein bequeathed pformed and my funeral expenses discharged. I give & bequeath unto Isabel my said wife [missing] and to be executrix of this my psent testamt and for the better execuson thereof I order [missing] them supervisores thereof and [missing]s. apeece [missing] and seal the day and year above written.

Symon married Isabel Wells. Isabel (daughter of John Wells) was born about 1565 in Ringstead, Northampton, England; died after 1635. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Isabel Toothill or Towtills

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Died:
She traveled with her children to New England on the Planter in 1635.

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Biography:
He was for Woodford, Northampton, England. His will was proved at Peterborough on 11 March 1589/90.

Richard married Elizabeth. Elizabeth died after 1589. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Elizabeth Toothill

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Biography:
According to Jacobus and Waterman in "Hale, House and Related Families", 1952, Thomas was probably the father of Richard. He was from Woodford in Northampton, England. Thomas was named as a witness for five other people.