Simon Tuttle

Other Events:

• Baptism: 10 Jan 1630/31
• Immigration: 1635, Massachusetts

Notes:

Biography:
Simon was a piece of work. Simon was hot headed when just being hot headed could land you in jail. In letters from her mother we find out that he was cheating his father (see the write-up on Simon’s mother to see the letters) which eventually contributed to his mother to being destitute. Apparently the family, and especially Simon, was involved in trade with Barbados. It also seems that Simon spent time in Barbados. In the first letter from 3 October 1656, Joanna says, “simon deals very bad with his father - he lies at Barbados and sends noe Retorns butt spends all, his father will have no mor goods sent to him.” In the second letter from 6 April 1657 she says her husband’s death “left me disolat In a strang land and in dept by Reson of Simans keeping the Returnes from barbadous”. She even believes that problems with her husband’s only two sons contributed to his death. She says, “grife that [he] hath taken for his to sonns hath brought [upon him] a lingring deseas lost his stomuce and pined away never sick tell the day before he died”. In the third letter from 20 March 1657/8 she concludes with “I pray send no goods to simon I heare that of him which will bring my gray head with sorow to the graue with tears”.
Simon spent a lot of time in court. His first time in court was March of 1659 when he was about 28. He was being sued by John Hasletine for stealing a mare and colt. Even though Simon brought many witnesses in his support including a letter from his mother in Ireland (one of the three above), he lost the case. Then, in September, Simon sued John Hasletine for stealing a mare and colt. This time Simon had more witnesses and two more letters from his mother (the other two above). From the best I can tell, when Simon’s parents moved to Ireland the hired Joseph Jewett to manage the estate and the included taking care of the horses. As it turned out, Mr. Jewett was not too honest. He sold the horse to John Hasletine. Joseph Jewett was forced to repay the money he got for the horses.
By 1662, Simon must have patched things up with his mother because he represented her when she was suing Richard Shatswell for non-payment of rent and damage to the estate.
In September of 1663, Simon was ordered to pay fees when his horse got lose:
Symon Tuttle, presented for a rescue of his horse from Mighill Cresie, was fined, and ordered to pay fees to John Pinder, Aron Pengry and Hernry Osborne.
Aaron Pengry deposed that Goodman Cressy, heading Mr. Tuttle’s horse out of the common gate with him, Mr. Tuttle went hastily up to him and struck the horse with a short stick two or three blows, making the horse start out of his hand and run away. Sworn in court.
Symon Tuttle confessed that Said Cressie told him he was driving the horse to the pound.
Obviously he and Cressie did not get along too well. Simon may have let the horse wander often and Cressie decided to get rid of it.
In March of 1664, Simon had his biggest run in with the law:
Symon Tuttle, for his seditions and mutinous carriages, was sentenced to be committed to prison until he put in a bond of 200 li. (pounds), with sureites in 200 li. more for his appearance at the next General Court of election at Boston, the day after the election, and to be of good behavior in the meantime. Richard Shatswell, William Evans and John Gould, sureties.
It’s interesting that Richard Shatswell is now vouching for Simon after he lost the judgment against him by Simon’s mother for back rent and damages. Apparently on the day before the court was meeting, while the soldiers were parading on the green, Simon was went into a treasonous tirade. According to the testimony of Theophilus Willson and William Pritchett:
the day before the Court being traineing day, we being upon the meeting house greene Symon Tuttle being there looking on the souldyers, the sayd Symon broke out into these words, upon ocation speaking of the libertie of the choise of officers, he sayd it were better to live in turkye than heere, wherupon William Pritchett sayd to him, not soe, for it is better heere then there, and if you weare there, you must be subject to the Laws and Goverment of the same and soe you must heere, whervpon he made slight of or laws heere and spake contemptuously of them, and sayd if he weare in England againe, he would soone have our laws and law makers layd neck and heeles, and further sayd if we cannot have the libertye the King gave us, we would winn it by ye edge of the sword, and further saith, but we have lost our opptunitye, but we hope we shall gaine it againe, though the Friggotts be stopt for the prsent. And that the Gouverment of the Country, was in a few sneakeing fellows hands, and hopt we should have a turne and upon a brush would soone be cutt off and have our necks from under the yoke.
Simon’s call for liberty was about 110 years too early. Instead of getting him a position in the army or the Continental Congress, it landed him in jail with a £200 fine. It’s interesting he mentioned Turkey as an alternative to England or New England. Turkey (or more formally the Ottoman Empire) was the most powerful empire at the time. For hundreds of years they had been encroaching on Europe (this ended in 1683 when the Ottomans failed in an attempted siege on Vienna). But, other than that, his tirade seems awfully familiar. Realizing the err in his ways, Simon issued a formal apology prior to being sentenced:
To the Honered court now sitting at Ipswich Humbly sheweth yt wheras your worships have received a complaint against me, I acknowledge the same to be iust and that what I spake was pverse and sinfull, and of a very haynous nature, and therfore I cast my selfe at ye feete of your justice and mercy, and if [you ] should censure me acording to the demerritt of my great offence I have noe reason to complaine, what I have spoken I confesse is much of the nature of that which sometimes Shimen spake against david, & I may truly take up his words, yt your servants doth know that he hath sinned, and I am hartily sorry for my soe great Folly and with him I humbly request that your worships would not impute iniquitye to me, neither remember what your servant did perversly speake, against the laws & authority of this country & that I (though unworthy of it) may have the benifitt of your Clemency, and I trust by the helpe of God I shall not alow my selfe heerafter, for ever speake well as of your selves psonally, soe of the laws & government heere established, but stir up others to doe the like, and if I shallever speake soe vildly againe, I shall never open my mouth to request the like favour, as desireing the very strictnes of iustice agst me ; be pleased therfore but this once to pitty me, and pas by this my offence and you shall for ever ingage your poore peticioner to honer you & speake highly of your clemency "Symon Tuttle”.
The apology did not work too well. We don’t know how much time he spent in jail or if he ever paid the £200 fine. In May, someone named Caleb Kimball was fined for hitting Simon and for breach of the peace. In November Simon acknowledged a debt to Mr. Eleazer Hathorne of a little over £10. In December Simon is sent to prison for non-payment of that debt. Then in March of 1665, Simon is sent back to jail until he paid his £200 fine. His bond for god behavior was removed. They may have let him off as long as he didn’t get into trouble. The trouble may have been not paying his other debt. We don’t know, nor do we know how long he spent in prison this time and whether he paid the fine or not. This was the last time Simon was in trouble in court. He may have learned his lesson. A couple years later he was helping measure the town boundaries so he must have improved his image.


Immigration:
The family arrived on the Planter.

Simon married Joan Burnham in 1659. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Simon married Sarah Cogswell in 1663. Sarah (daughter of John Cogswell and Elizabeth Thompson) was born about 1646 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; died on 24 Jan 1732; was buried in Old Burying Hill, Ipswich, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joanna Tuttle was born on 24 Sep 1664 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
2. Simon Tuttle was born on 17 Sep 1667 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
3. Elizabeth Tuttle was born on 24 Nov 1670 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; died on 29 Nov 1752 in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
4. Sarah Tuttle was born on 3 Sep 1672 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
5. Abigail Tuttle was born on 7 Oct 1673 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; died on 30 Sep 1756.
6. Susanna Tuttle was born on 7 May 1675 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
7. William Tuttle was born on 7 May 1677 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
8. John Tuttle died on 26 Feb 1715/16 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
9. Charles Tuttle was born on 31 Mar 1679 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
10. Mary Tuttle was born on 12 Jun 1680 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
11. Jonathan Tuttle was born on 11 Jun 1682 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
12. Ruth Tuttle was born on 11 Jun 1682.
13. Tuttle was born on Yes, date unknown.

Other Events:

• Immigration: 1635, Massachusetts

Notes:

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]

Other Events:

• Name: Joan Lawrence
• Name: Joanna Tuttle
• Baptism: 25 Jun 1592, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England
• Immigration: 1635, Massachusetts

Notes:

Biography:
Joanna’s second husband John Tuttle became disillusioned with New England and moved to Ireland around 1651. Joanna followed him around 1654. Before she left she rented out the family home and farm to Richard Shatswell. She put her son-in-law, George Gidding (married to her daughter Jane Lawrence) and Joseph Jewett in charge of her assets while she was gone. The lease said (at the time of the agreement, the New Year fell on March 23 each year so it was dated 5 days before 1654):

Agreement, dated Mar. 18, 1653-4, between Mrs. Joanna Tuttell and Richard Shatswell, (signature) for her house and land at Ipswich, the said Joanna Tuttell being attorney to her husband, Mr. John Tuttell, now living in Ireland: That from the fourteenth day of the present month, said Shatswell should for two years enjoy the dwelling house, barns, orchard and outhouses of said Tuttell; also all her meadow, marsh and broken up ground within the common fence, paying to said Joanna at her now dwelling house in Ipswich, 241i. per year in corn, at each year's end; also two ---- and one cow, all of which should be in good condition at the expiration of the time etc. There were also two plow chains and a share and colter, two yoke's and half a harrow of which said Shatswell was to have the use.

In March of 1659, Joanna’s son Simon was sued by a John Hasletine for stealing a mare and colt (interestingly, Hasletine’s attorney was Joseph Jewett). Even though just about all the evidence was for Simon, the jury found in favor of Hasletine. In September of that year, Simon sued Hasletine for stealing the same horse and mare submitting even more evidence and this time the jury found for Simon.

Between the two trials, three letters from Joanna were submitted. They were sent to her daughter Jane and her husband George Gidding. They paint a grim picture of the family and business dealings that Joanna was going through.

The first letter was sent to her daughter Jane in October 1656, 2 ½ years after the lease and before her husband John died, shows that she was having issues with Shatswell and her family. After several niceties, she asks Jane to ask her husband to look into Richard Shatswell who has not paid rent. At this point he owes £48 in corn. She also asks to check in on the mare (Simon’s mare) who is with Joanna’s son-in-law (by Marie Lawrence) Thomas Burnham. Joanna is very upset with Simon for cheating his father. Apparently they were involved in trade with Barbados and Simon seems to have traveled there. Simon never paid his father, his part of the business. The only other Tuttle son seems to be no better. Joanne tells Jane that Jane has many sons and Joanne hopes that Jane’s sons comfort her and are not “such afflictions as ours are”. Here is the letter:

"To my Deare & Louing Daughter Jane Gidding att Ipswich, in New England These:
Dauter Jane hauing an oportunity I could nott omit to let you understand that we are all in good health blessed be god. I hop you Receaved my last dated in february wherein I wright largely which now I shall omit god hath dealt graecously with me and fred me of the troubles of the world the lord give me grace now to spend the litell time I haue to liue more to his glory the letter I Receaved from you I lay by me as a cordiall which I often Refresh myselfe with. If you know how much it Rejoyced me to hear from you you would nott omite I pray lett me hear how your breach is made up in Respect of the ministrey which I long to hear if you haue Mr Cobete I pray present my loue to him and tell him I liue under a very honst man wher I injoy the ordinances of god In new england way we want nothing but more good company the lord increase the number. Jaen I pray intreat your husband to looke to oure besines I hear Richard Schwell hath paid noe Rent I pray speake to him and get it 48 li send me word what increase ther is of oure mare and whether Thomas Burnam have groncelled the house ore not simon deals very bad with his father he lies at Barbados and sends noe Retorns butt spends all, his father will have no mor goods sent to him. I could wish I had no such cause to writ I thinke he and John intends to undoe ther father. Jane you haue many sons the lord blese them & make them comforts to you & nott such aflictions as ours are I haue done only my dear and harty loue to your hussband & selfe and children I leav you to the lord how is abell to keep and preserve you to his heauenly kingdom which is the prayer of your dear and louing mother
Joanna Tuttell.
Carrickfergus,
Oct. the 3d, 56
my deare love to you yor husband and yors
J. T.

The second letter to Jane and her husband, dated April of 1657 starts out by informing them the Joanna’s husband (Jane’s stepfather) John Tuttle died last December. He had never been sick until shortly before he died. Joanna was left “disolat In a strang land and in dept by Reson of Simons keeping the Returnes from barbadous”. So, with no rent and no income from her son Simon, Joanna found herself in debt. Joanna speculates that the grief that her husband felt from his two sons, Simon and John may have contributed to his death. The rent is way behind and she is concerned about the condition of her cattle. She will write to one of her other sons, John Lawrence for help. Joanne is also concerned about the state of her house. If Simon or John come, Jane should “let nott them meddell with anything there”. They will get part of the estate.

Joanna talks of her daughter Hannah who is about to get married to “a good husband one that lous well and a hansom man”. Joanna likes Ireland because there is never frost or snow and never too hot. Here is the second letter:

"To her louing son Gorg Giding dwelling In Ips in New England these:
Sone Giding and dauter
these are to lett you understand that the lord hath taken to himself my deare husband & left me disolat In a strang land and in dept by Reson of Simans keeping the Returnes from barbadous grife that [he] hath taken for his to sonns hath brought [upon him] a lingring deseas lost his stomuce and pined away never sick tell the day before he died which wos the 30th of December I pray talke [with] Mr Jeuett about that which I left with you & him this 3 yeares. I have nott hard of anything that he hath done I cannot hear of the cattell nor what increas the mare hath nor the Rent I pray lett things be Ready for I have wright to John lawrence to take them into his hands if Simon ore John should com lett nott them meddell with anything there my husband hath given them som thing in his will which I shall paie them now I will keep the state in my one hand as long as I live it may be I may se new ingland againe I pray louke to my house that it be not Reuined. hanna is to be maried shortly to a good husband one that lous her well and a hansom man she is a great comfort to me. I sent Jane a smale token by Mr weber that went from hence to Jeimcas and so to new england. I like lerland very well we haue nether frost nor snow this winter butt very tempeat weather which agrees with me well my husbands death went neare the lord give me good of it & make up my losse in him selfe a teach this ----- sharp Rod to submit to the will of my god. that ---- I had need of it I pray Remember me att the throne ---- I should be glad that you would Right to me that I may heare from you. I have not one letter this yeare which I wonder att. Remember me to all yours and to all my friends that aske of me no more att present butt the lord bless you with all sprituall blessings in heavenly things in Christ which is the prayer of your afecinat mother
Joanna Tuttell
hanna Rem her kind loue to you & all yours
Carrackfergus the 6th of Apriell 57.

The third letter is addressed to George almost a year later on March 20, 1657 (remember that 1658 does not start until March 23). She is concerned about Mr. Jewett who is supposed to manage her estate. She says, “I heare he imporues my estate to his one (own) advantage”. He owes £12 to be paid to her son-in-law, Richard Martin in goods but gave Martin “nothing butt beefe that none ellse would take”. The rent farm is now four years behind (almost £100 in corn) and almost another £100 in debts. Her husband’s cousin John Tuttle has offered to buy the horse. She is waiting for £50 from her son John Lawrence to help pay debts in London.

Joanna will soon move because her son-in-law, Hannah’s husband, has been transferred. So, she was obviously forced to live with her daughter because she had no money. Joanna is worried that should she have to move back to New England she will find her home and estate in terrible disrepair.

Joanna closes with a warning to not send any goods to Simon who “will bring my gray head with sorrow to the graue (grave) with tears”. Here is the third letter.

"These For her beloued sonne Mr George Gidding att Ipswich in
New England" ;
Carrickfargus, 20 March '57.
Sonn Giding I Receaued 2 letters from you and am glad to heare of 'your welfear with yours I wonder I heare nothing from Mr. Juete I heare he improues my estaet to his one advantag I praid him to pay my son martin 12li in good goods and he lett him haue nothing butt beefe that none ellse would take I pray you to take care of my estat att Ips and lett nott him do what he list butt take a count of what he doth ther is 4 yeres Rent this march which corns to aboue a hundred pound and in depts ninty seauen pound and I heare my cossen John Tuttle would by the horse he will nott lett him without he pay him Englich goods I sent to deliuer goods to my sonn John lawrence to send me 50 li worth of beuar. I have depts to pay in london and want it much Thomas burnum wold know what to do with the mares if he can not keep them all lett John Tuttell ore you take to of them and for the Rest of the Cattell if they be chargabell sell them ore lett them to some that will haue care of them I am to remoue againe 16 mills nerer my sonn that maried my daueter hannah hath the imployment that my husband was in the tresury is Remoued to another towne & we must goe with it the presence of the lord goe with us they are very louing to me and my life ther by Is very comfortable. If I should com to new Ingland I fare I should goe a beging if Reportes be true my estate de Cays apase for want of lookeing to I heare the house gos to Ruine the land spends it selfe the cattell dye the horses eate themselves outt in keeping so I am licke to haue a small a count butt I hop it will nott proue as I heare if it should he that knows all things will a veneg the widows cause I pray Rem me to your wife my Dear Child hannah Rem her loue to you all so doth Mrs haries the potecaris wife that liued in saint Albanes she dwellse next house to me I haue nott ellse att present butt the blesing of the lord be with you & yours
I pray send no goods to simon I heare that of him which will bring my gray head with sorow to the graue with tears I conclued
and Remaine
Your poore mother
Joanna Tuttell

The problems with Simon seem to have been smoothed out by 1662 because Simon acted as his mother’s attorney in the lawsuit against Richard Shatswell for non-payment of rent. Simon won but it’s not clear what Joanna received. The case was filled with huge disagreements. Simon brought witnesses that said that the home and farm were in terrible condition when Shatswell moved out. Also, the one time Shatswell paid his £24 in Indian corn, the corn was rotten. The £97 in expense mentioned in the above letter were probably for repairs done after Shatswell left. The oven was said to have been a total loss, there were two broken windows, the barn was in ruins and require 300 feet of boards for repair and fences needed mending. There were several other issues.

Shatswell produced bills for expenses and work he and others had done totaling over £48 (two years rent). Also, he produced several witnesses that said the estate was in just as good condition when Shatswell left as when he arrived. The fences were all in good repair.

It’s not clear how much Shatswell was to pay, how he was to pay it, or whether he ever paid.
It’s not known when or where Joanna died, except that she was dead by 1674.

Immigration:
The family arrived on the Planter.

Other Events:

• Will: 19 Dec 1627

Notes:

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]

Other Events:

• Name: Isabel Toothill or Towtills

Notes:

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

Notes:

Biography:
From Antrobus Pegegrees:
Walter Antrobus of St. Albans is mentioned in the Corporation Records as being a Warden of the Shoemakers Company in 1588, and in 1614 one of the "Assistants." He married Barbara Lawrence in 1579; but she died in 1585, leaving no surviving issue, and in 1586-7 he married Jane Arnold. By her he had several children

Walter married Joan Arnold about 1586. Joan was born about 1569. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Joan Antrobus
• Immigration: 1635, Massachusetts

Notes:

Biography:
She was on the Planter with her daughter heading for New England in 1635 at the age of 65, but nothing further was heard from her. She may have died in transit or shortly after.

Immigration:
The family arrived on the Planter.

Notes:

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]

Other Events:

• Name: Elizabeth Toothill

Notes:

Biography:
The Antrobus Pedegree lists him as "William Antrobus of Knottesford the bigger (de Knottesford Superiore), i.e., Over Knutsoford".
From Antrobus Pedegree:
William Antrobus of Over Knutsford was one of the seven sons of Ralph Antrobus of Peover. There is no will of his extant, nor have any references to him been found in contemporary documents. But it is recorded in the early pedigrees that he had four sons, of whom three are shewn as having settled in Hertfordshire, where the parish registers of St. Albans and St. Stephens and the municipal and other records contain many references to them from 1569 onwards.