Elizabeth (Unknown) Tuttle (abt. 1612 - 1684)

Born about 1612 in England

Wife of William Tuttle — married 1631 (to Jun 1673) in England

Descendants

Died 30 Dec 1684 at about age 72 in Milford, New Haven, Colony of Connecticut, New England

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Elizabeth (Unknown) Tuttle migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

NOTE: It has been determined (see attached G2G questions) that Mrs. Elizabeth Tuttle is of unknown origin at this time. Do NOT change her last name without ample proof of her correct name and without discussing this change with project members and managers.

Note: AKA Matthews. No evidence has been provided that she was a Matthews. It is now in the AKA to allow for searches on this false name and to prevent further creation of Matthews profiles.

Disputed Origins

Her parentage is unknown.^[1].

Another attempt to discover the ancestry of the wife of Willian Tuttle concluded in this article sited:"Waterman and Jacobus (Hale, House, pp 773-774) and Prindle (in his Gillespie work pp 485-6) presented evidence that William Tuttle's wife Elizabeth was closely related to Robert Hill of New Haven or to his unidentified first wife, and that William (or Elizabeth) was uncle (or aunt) of Azubah Lamson, daughter of Thomas Lamson of New Haven." Attempts to follow these clues in Ringstead and other co. Northampton records have thus far been fruitless."^[2]

Maggie N writes: Please take a look at this web site & Jacobus's treatise in Ancient New Haven families that states that her parentage is unknown. From Find A Grave: "This memorial was created by the late Earl R. Loose and transferred for management to the current memorialist, Elizabeth's descendant. Mr. Loose claimed, from an unstated source that cannot be found by the present writer that Elizabeth was the dau. of Edward Mathews and Elizabeth Nashe, bapt. June 2, 1612 at county Devon, England. The benchmark genealogy of the William Tuttle family published in 1883 includes no statement as to Elizabeth's origins."

Can someone please cite on her profile evidence for maiden name , Southcott? Her husband's Grandmother was Elizabeth Southcut so perhaps the confusion ? Please take a look at : http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8395040 & Jacobuses treatise in Ancient New Haven families that states that her parentage is unknown. (Maggie N.)

Biography

Elizabeth immigrated with her husband, William Tuttle from England. She may have been born about 1609, calculated from her gravestone, or 1612 calculated from her age at immigration.

Elizabeth was age 23, when she, her husband and three children, came to New England on the "Planter" in 1635.^[3] So Elizabeth was born about 1612 in an unknown location, probably in England.

They first settled in Charlestown,^[4] and then Boston, where Elizabeth joined the church on July 24, 1636.^[5] They removed to New Haven in 1639, where "Mr." William Tuttle signed the New Haven Fundamental Agreement.^[6]

William Tuttle and Elizabeth had fairly prestigious seats in the New Haven Meeting house.^[7]
March 1646/7

In the crosse seates at the end 1st row, Mr. Pell, Mr. Tuttle and Bro. Fowler

Women’s seats ‘In the middle’ row 5 sister Tuttle and others.

Feb 1655/56

The cross seats at upper end – seat 1 Mr. Tuttill & also Mr. Jno. Davenport, William Fowler and Mr. Allerton Sr.

Mrs Tuttle is in the fourth middle seat on the women’s side

Feb 1661/2

Mr. Tuttle is in the long seats in the middle third row.

Sister Tuttle also sits in the third row.

Elizabeth Tuttle died December 30 1684, aged 76 years. She had been living with her youngest son, Nathaniel, who, at a court held in New Haven, July 28 1685, presented her will, but the other children objected and the court would not allow it. The inventory, taken February 3, 1684/5 by Moses Mansfield and John Alling.^[8] Her tombstone was removed with the others in 1821 from the Old Green in the Grove street cemetery of New Haven, and it now stands in the row along the north wall of that enclosure. A part of the inscription is still plain: a part is obscure by the crumbling of the stone, and a part is entirely gone.

Per the New Haven, Conn. Vital Records, "Elizabeth Tuttle widdow dyed ye 30th day of Decembr 1684." Her gravestone marker uses the pre-1752 numerical date of "31:10:1684", meaning she d. the "31st day of the 10th month (Dec.) 1684." The 3oth day is used in this memorial as the date of her death.

SOURCES

1. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, pp 138-145 (esp 142) calls her "Elizabeth ______"
2. ↑ "William Tuttle of New Haven," in The American Genealogist, vol 59 (1983):214
3. ↑ Hotten, John Camden. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others, who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. New York: Empire State Book Company, 1874.
4. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration 1634-1635, T-Y. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. p. 139 citing Charlestown Town Records pp 17, 25
5. ↑ “Boston Church Records” The Records of the Churches of Boston. CD_ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008 .)1636 p. 11 Amer.Anc 1639 p 15 AmericanAncestors
6. ↑ Source: #Hoadley1 NHCR 1:17
7. ↑ :History of the Colony of New Haven to Its Absorption Into Connecticut By Edward Elias Atwater, Lucy M. Hewitt, Bessie E. Beach. Meriden, Connecticut: 1902. For a seating chart see New Haven Colony
8. ↑ “New Haven Probate Records, Vol. 1-2, 1647-1703”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-G9N2-8 : 7 March 2021), New Haven, Connecticut, FHL microfilm 007626739, image 124. New Haven Probate Record, 1647-1687, Vol. 1, Part 1, page 209.

• What Is It with Those Tuttles?
• Divorce, Murder and Madness: The Puritan Tuttles of the New Haven Colony
• See Anderson GMI Vol VII T-Y for will and inventory.
• RootsWeb - Tuttle Family - William Tuttle web.archive ; archived 09/23/2015
• Memorial: "Find a Grave", database with images, Find A Grave: Memorial #8395040 (accessed 29 January 2024), Memorial page for Elizabeth Tuttle (1609-31 Dec 1684), citing Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA; Maintained by Don Blauvelt (contributor 46932939).
• Families of ancient New Haven.Scranton, Helen D. Love Jacobus, Donald Lines Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.ISBN10: 0806306068.ISBN13:9780806306063 Edition: (v. 1-9)
• Orcutt, Samual. History of the Town of Wolcott (Press of The American Printing Company in Waterbury, Conn, 1874) Page 570
• Dodd, Stephen. The East-Haven Register, In Three Parts (A.H. Maltby & Co., 1824) Page 163