Hannah (Brown) Tolles (abt. 1735 - 1824)

Born about 19 Jun 1735 in Quinnipiac, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Asa Morris I — married 1 Mar 1758 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 1 May 1824 at about age 88 in Bethany, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Hannah Brown, daughter of Eleazer Brown and Sarah (Rowe) Brown, was born in Quinnipiac, New Haven, Connecticut on 19 June 1735.^[1] Note: Death records report she was 93 at time of death, which conflicts with birth record.

She died in Bethany, New Haven County, Connecticut, 1 May 1824, buried Sperry Cemetery, Bethany; member of the First Congregational Society, New Haven and the Congregational Society, Woodbridge; married first in New Haven, New Haven County, 1 March 1758, Asa Morris; married second about 1772 (based on death of Daniel Tolles' first wife and birth of Hannah and Daniel's child.), Daniel Tolles.

Donald Lines Jacobus wrote in 1924^[2]:

ELEAZER [BROWN], b 22 Jan 1696/7 NHV, . . . m 21 Jan 1724/5 NHV—Sarah da. John & Abigail (Alsop) Rowe . . .
v Hannah, b 19 June 1735 NHV, bp 20 June 1735 NHC1, d 1 May 1824 ae. 93 BT3; m (1) 1 Mar 1758 NHV—Asa Morris; m (2) Daniel Tolles.

In 1932 Mr. Jacobus wrote^[3]:

DANIEL [TOLLES], b c. 1705, bp 30 June 1728 NHC1, d 20 Jan 1782 ae. 77 BT1; m (1) Thankful da. Samuel & Mary (Cooper) Smith, b 30 Sep 1712 NHV, d 28 June 1769 ae. 58 BT1; m (2) Hannah da. Eleazer & Sarah (Rowe) Brown, wid. Asa Morris, b 19 June 1735 NHV, d 1 May 1824 ae. 93 BT3, WdC; Census, Hannah (Wd) 0-0-2.
[Lists children; by first wife: Thankful, Nehemiah, Daniel, Lazarus, Dorothy, Desire, Titus, Daniel, Lamberton, Jared, Abraham, and Mary. Children by second wife: Hannah.].

[JacobusAbbreviations: BT1 = "Cemetery in the Hollow," Bethany; BT3 = "Sperry Cemetery," Bethany; NHC1 = First Congregational Society, New Haven; NHV = Vital Statistics, New Haven; WdC = Congregational Society, Woodbridge; ae = age; b = born; c = circa or about; d = died; da = daughter; m = married; Wd = widow.]

Mr. Jacobus also wrote^[4]:

HANNAH⁶ BROWN (Eleazer⁵, Gershom⁴, Sarch³, Thomas², Peter¹), born at New Haven, Conn., 19 June 1735, died at Woodbridge [Bethany], Conn., 1 May 1824; married first, at New Haven, 1 Mar. 1758, (LIEUT.) ASA MORRIS, born at New Haven, 20 Feb. 1720/1, died there in 1760; married second, DANIEL TOLLES, born about 1705, died at New Haven [Bethany], 20 Jan. 1782. Mr. Tolles married first, Thankful Smith, who died 28 June 1769, by whom he had twelve children. Children by first husband, born at New Haven [Bethany]:

i. ELIZABETH . . .

ii. ASA . . .

Child by second husband, born at New Haven [Bethany]:

iii. HANNAH, . . .

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WX-64R : 7 January 2020), Hannah Brown, 1735.
2. ↑ Jacobus. Vol. II, p 347
3. ↑ Jacobus. Vol. VIII, pp 1842-1843.
4. ↑ Jacobus. The Bulkeley Genealogy

• "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7XD-GPX : 16 September 2020), Hannah Tolles, 1824.
• Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 (FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010). Hannah Tolles, FHL Film Number 3320. [Name: Hannah Tolles; Birth Date: abt 1731; Age at Death: 93; Death Date: 1 May 1824; Death Place: Sperry Cemetery, Bethany, Connecticut; FHL Film Number: 3320.]

• Connecticut State Library. Connecticut Church Records Index. First Church of Christ (Congregational), 1639-1937, New Haven, Connecticut, 1947. p 108. [Brown, Hannah, bp. June 20, 1735. [cites] Vol. 1, Page 37.]

• Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Records Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library. p 39, Headstone Inscriptions, 203-5, Sperry Cemetery, Bethany, CT. Copied by T.H. McKeon, 15 Oct 1934. Section B. [Tolles, Hannah, wife of Daniel, died May 1, 1824, age 95 yrs.]

• Jacobus, Donald. The Bulkeley Genealogy (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1933). p 472.

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven (New Haven Genealogical Magazine) Published New Haven: 1931. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1974, 1981, 1997. Originally published as New Haven Genealogical Magazine, Volumes I-VIII. Rome, NY and New Haven, CT 1922-1932. 1924. Vol. II, p 347; 1932. Vol. VIII, pp 1842-1843.