Sarah (Frost) Tuthill (abt. 1635 - 1728)

Born about 3 Sep 1635 in New Haven, Connecticut Colony [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of John Tuthill — married 28 May 1690 in Southold, Suffolk, New York

Died 8 Nov 1728 at about age 93 in Southold, Suffolk, New York

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Biography

Sarah (Frost) Youngs was John Tuthill(-5)'s second wife and probably only the mother of his youngest child, possibly named Mary who died young. They were married in 1690 after his first wife, Deliverance King died 25 Jan 1689. The youngest of his children listed by name in Alva Tuttle's book - Nathaniel - was born in 1683. There is a 10th child listed as DY, (died young, making a total of three) who may have been named Mary. Sarah was the widow of Thomas Youngs and (according to Alva Tuttle) the daughter of John & Mercy (Paine) Frost. [This is almost certainly incorrect - see Research Note]^[1]

Thomas Youngs, Thomas, son of Rev. John was born c 1627, and died probably before 1686. He married 2) Sarah, daughter of John Frost in 1658; she "...probably m. John Tuthill in May 1690"^[2]

Research Notes

Sarah Frost, daughter of John and Mercy, was born 3 Sep 1675 (sic - impossible if she married in 1658) , and died 8 Nov 1727. She married 1) Thomas Youngs of Southold, and 2) John Tuthill on 28 May 1690, In 1698 they buried a daughter Mary, aged 8 years. ^[3]

While John & Mercy (Paine) Frost do seem to have had a daughter Sarah they were married in 1664 and Moore's 1698 Index states Sarah, daughter of John Frost, married Thomas Youngs, son of Rev. John in 1658, and that he had a son Thomas with her in 1660. ^[4] Also Tuttle gives her dob as 1635.

The Frost Genealogy states that:

"After 1656, all by the name of Frost had disappeared from Southold with the exception of Sarah, daughter of one John, (ie either William's brother John or their father also named John) who married Thomas, brother of the Rev. Youngs of that place, but at what date is not known. However, she as a widow with a family married in 1690 John Tuthill of Southold, they having one daughter who died young."

and additionally:

"WILLIAM FROST, who was born prior to 1635, was in Southold, Long Island, as early as 1655..." - so he wasn't born there, and later that John & Abigail returned to New Haven where son John married Mercy Paine in 1665.^[3] which may imply the children were born in New Haven.

"Thomas Youngs (Young-3418) was the son of John Youngs and Joan Jentilman, born 1 May 1625 in Southwold, Suffolk, England. He died in Elizabeth Town, N. J., between April and September 1686."^[5] quoted from WT profile.

In reference to Mary:

"MARY (daughter of [John Tuthill's} 2nd wife), d. 1I Jan. 1698/99, aged about 8 years."^[6] If Mary was about 8 when she died in Jan1698/9 and Thomas died in 1686 and Deliverance died in 1689 Mary was most likely the daughter of John & Sarah.

Sources

1. ↑ “Tuttle and Tuthill Lines in America; Compiled by Alva M Tuthill” Published in 1968 by the Compiler; pg 310
2. ↑ "Town of Southold, Long Island. Personal index prior to 1698, and index of 1698. Compiled and copied for the purpose of having corrections suggested .. ." Moore, Charles B,, New York, John Medole, printer, 1868 ;pp 3, 50
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "The Frost Genealogy, Descendants of WIlliam of Oyster Bay..." Josephine C Frost, Frederick H Hitchcock, New York, 1912;pp16,384
4. ↑ "Town of Southold, Long Island. Personal index prior to 1698, and index of 1698." Moore, Charles B; New York 1868; pp 17, 50
5. ↑ Youngs Family - Vicar Christopher Yonges - His Ancestors in England & His Descendants in America - Selah Youngs, Jr. New York 1907 https://archive.org/details/youngsfamilyvica00youn/page/49/mode/2up
6. ↑ Akerly, Lucy Dubois. The Tuthill Family of Tharston, Norfolk Co., England, and Southold, Suffolk Co., New York, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 1898 Vol. 29, Page 125