John Tuttle

Abt 1596 - 1656  (~ 60 years)

• Name	John Tuttle  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Born	Abt 1596	England
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	1635	Massachusetts
  	The family arrived on the Planter.
  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.
  Died	30 Dec 1656	Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland
  Person ID	I1029	Our Family
  Last Modified	4 Oct 2016

  
  

  Father	Symon Toothill or Towtills,   b. Abt 1560,   d. Jun 1630, Ringstead, Northampton, England  (Age ~ 70 years)
  Mother	Isabel Wells,   b. Abt 1565, Ringstead, Northampton, England ,   d. Aft 1635  (Age ~ 71 years)
  Married	Y  [5]
  Family ID	F835	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joanna Antrobus,   b. Abt 1592,   d. Between 1662 and 1673  (Age ~ 70 years)
  Married	Abt 1626
  Children	1. Abigail Tuttle,   b. 1628,   d. Bef 1674, Durham, New Hampshire  (Age < 46 years)   2. Simon Tuttle,   b. Abt 1630,   d. Jan 1691/92  (Age ~ 62 years)   3. Sarah Tuttle,   b. Abt 1632,   d. Bef 1674  (Age ~ 41 years)   4. John Tuttle, Jr,   b. Abt 1633,   d. Between 1657 and 1674  (Age ~ 24 years)   5. Hannah Tuttle,   b. Abt 1636,   d. Between 1657 and 1674  (Age ~ 21 years)
  Last Modified	18 Dec 2016
  Family ID	F358	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt 1596 - England Immigration - 1635 - Massachusetts Died - 30 Dec 1656 - Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S34] Tuttle, Descendants Tuttle (Reliability: 0). [S305] NEHGR - Founders of New England. Pages 303-5 [S306] Exxex Quarterly County Court Records. [S307] Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic. Pages 53-5 [S304] Tuttle - Tuthill Lines in America.