William Tuttle

Bef 1607 - 1673  (> 65 years)

• Name	William Tuttle
  Birth	Bef 26 Dec 1607  [1, 2, 3]
  Baptism	26 Dec 1607	Ringstead, Northamptonshire, England   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 10 Mar 1673 and 27 Apr 1673	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut   [1, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Alternate death	Jun 1673	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut   [8, 9, 10]
  Person ID	I14868	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	14 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Simon Tuttle,   b. Abt 1560   d. Bef 15 Jun 1630 (Age ~ 70 years)
  Mother	Isabel Wells,   b. Abt 1565   d. Aft 1635 (Age ~ 71 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1592  [3]
  Family ID	F9372	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1609   d. 30 Dec 1684, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (Age ~ 75 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1631  [1, 11]
  Children	1. Elizabeth Tuttle,   b. Bef 9 Nov 1645   2. Mercy Tuttle,   b. 27 Apr 1650, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut d. Aft 1695 (Age > 46 years)
  Family ID	F9371	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated with his family in 1635 on the Planter. First at Charlestown; then at Boston in 1637, New Haven in 1639. He was a husbandman. "His descendants are famous for intellectual brilliance and, in some cases, for homicidal insanity." [David L. Greene, citation details below.] Great-grandfather of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, and great-great-great grandfather of Aaron Burr: William Tuttle (1607-1673) = Elizabeth (1612-1684) Elizabeth Tuttle (b. 1645) = Richard Edwards (1647-1718) Rev. Timothy Edwards (1669-1758) = Esther Stoddard (1672-1770) Rev. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) = Sarah Pierpont (1710-1758) Esther Edwards (1732-1758) = Aaron Burr (1716-1757) Aaron Burr (1756-1836), third Vice President of the United States; killed Alexander Hamilton William Tuttle (1607-1673) = Elizabeth (1612-1684) Thomas Tuttle (1635-1710) = Hannah Powell (1641-1710) Caleb Tuttle (1674-1751) = Mary Hitchkiss (1680-1723) Eliphalet Tuttle (1718-1755) = Desire Bradley (1722-1788) Esther Tuttle (b. 1747) = Nathaniel Lewis (b. 1740) Elizabeth Lewis (1767-1842) = Isaac Hale (1763-1839) Emma (Hale) Smith (1804-1879), wife of LDS founder Joseph Smith

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S1589] The Wetmore Family of America and Its Collateral Branches by James Carnahan Wetmore. Albany, New York: Munsell & Rowland, 1861., county and country only. [S6946] Travis Dodge Miscia, "The Wheeler and the Spokes: The Wells-Tapp-Tuttle Kinship Network -- Discussing the Immigrants Anne1 (Wells) Wheeler, Edmund1 Tapp, Elizabeth1 (Herbert) Corwin, John1 Herbert, Richard1 Tuttle, John1 Tuttle, and William1 Tuttle. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 177:197, Summer 2023. [S1528] Moore and Allied Families: The Ancestry of William Henry Moore by L. Effingham de Forest and Anne Lawrence de Forest. The de Forest Publishing Company: New York, 1938. [S3055] David L. Greene, "Origin of John Tuttle of Ipswich, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 54:167, 1978., year and place only. [S2044] George E. McCracken, "Who Was Aaron Burr?" The American Genealogist 40:65, April 1964., year and place only. [S7416] Frederick C. Hart, Jr., "Ancestry of William Weed of Stamford and Darien, Connecticut." Connecticut Ancestry 50:101; 50:145; 51:1, 2008. [S1559] Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler, With a Genealogy of the Ancestors of Prof. and Mrs. William S. Tyler, prepared by Cornelius B. Tyler. 1912. [S3763] Babcock and Allied Families by Louis Effingham De Forest. New Haven, Connecticut: De Forest Publishing Co., 1928. [S6946] Travis Dodge Miscia, "The Wheeler and the Spokes: The Wells-Tapp-Tuttle Kinship Network -- Discussing the Immigrants Anne1 (Wells) Wheeler, Edmund1 Tapp, Elizabeth1 (Herbert) Corwin, John1 Herbert, Richard1 Tuttle, John1 Tuttle, and William1 Tuttle. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 177:197, Summer 2023., says "spring 1673". [S388] FamousKin.com.