Joseph (Sutlif) Sutliff (1712 - 1795)

Born 27 Jul 1712 in Durham, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah Sutliffe — married 1732 in Middlesex County, Connecticut,

Descendants

Died 1 Oct 1795 at age 83 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Birth

Joseph, son of Nathaniel and Sarah Sutlif, was baptized in Durham, Connecticut, 27 July 1712.^[1][2][3]

Marriages

Joseph married first Sarah _____,^[1][4] who was named as mother of his children.^[5] The wife of Joseph Sutliff died 10 July 1780, and was buried at the Farmingbury (presently Wolcott) Burying Ground.^[6]

He married secondly Katharine Seward, ^[1][7] who died November 11, 1791,^[1][7][6] and was buried at the Farmingbury Burying Grounds.^[6]

Waterbury

Joseph Sutliff was made a freeman, in Waterbury, 17 September 1751. (Joseph Jr. was not yet 21.)^[8]

A 1760 list of 28 taxable Waterbury inhabitants residing in the "East Branch [afterwards Wolcott] three miles [or more] from the meeting house" included Joseph Sutliff with an estate of eighty-six pounds, and Joseph Sutliff, Jr. with an estate of seven pounds.^[8]

In 1789 Joseph Sutliff (not Jr. ) was charged 4s 4p in taxes as a resident of Farmingbury, in Waterbury.^[7]

Joseph was enumerated in the 1790 census, living in Waterbury, himself and a female, no doubt his wife. The name looks like Stalief. Joseph 2nd is directly below his listing.^[9]

His house was "probably at the foot of Chestnut Hill on the old road going directly up the hill." He was a tailor. One leg was defective and he walked with a cane or crutch.^[7]

Note: It was his son, Joseph Sutliff Jr., who was appointed to the committee of fifteen to solicit articles of clothing for the Continental soldiers.^[10]

Death & Probate

Joseph Sutliff died 1 October 1795, in Waterbury, Connecticut.^[11]

His son Joseph, of Waterbury, was appointed administrator of the estate of Joseph Sutliff, late of Waterbury, deceased, on 6 October 1795. An inventory was exhibited 2 Nov 1795 and distribution of the estate was made in June 1796 to Joseph Sutliff, Nathaniel Sutliff, Sarah Scott wife of Timothy Scott, and Anna wife of Daniel Dean. ^[12]

The Waterbury Vital records list the death of Joseph Sutliff as 1 Oct 1795. It does not designate a Jr or Sr. 1795/6 probate records in Waterbury^[12] clearly indicate that this is the death of Joseph Senior, naming his heirs. 1800/01 probate for Joseph Sutliff of Wolcott named his known children as heirs.^[13] Old Joseph Sutliff d. 1795 and was buried in the Farmingbury Burying Grounds.^[6]

Children

1. Joseph Sutliffe, b. 1 Jan 1733, in Durham;^[2] bpt 7 Dec 1740 Durham;^[2][4] d. 1 Oct 1795 Waterbury; m. 2 April 1771 Waterbury, Zerviah (Webster) Cobb of Bolton
2. Sarah b. 5 October 1736, Wallingford;^[4][5] bpt. 7 Dec 1740 Durham Church; m. 9 November 1757, Waterbury, Timothy Scott.^[4]
3. Nathaniel Suttlif b. 5 Feb 1739 Wallingford;^[4][5] bpt 7 Dec. 1740 Durham Church; m. Hannah (Prichard) Strickland.
4. Titus Sutlief b. 11 Feb 1742/3 Wallingford.^[4][5]
5. Anna (no birth record), order uncertain, heir in her father's will, wife of Daniel Dean

Research Notes

A Katharine Sutliff, wife of Joseph, was buried,^[14] but so far no record has been located to make her the sister of Amos Seward. I checked his probate and her alleged father died in 1732 when Katharine was still single.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Sutliff, Samuel Milton, A history of the American and puritanical family of Sutliff or Sutliffe, spelled Sutcliffe in England : the first American family (A.D. 1614) connected with New England, and amongst the first to be connected with the settlement of the original English possessions in the New World, and a genealogy of all the descendants through Nathaniel Sutliff, Jr., (Downers Grove, Ill. : Kelmscott Press, 1909), Note: This book was written as a result of S.M. Sutliff's desire to join the Sons of the Revolution.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Lucius Barnes Barbour and Lucius A. Barbour, "Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records prior to 1850," 50 vols. (bound transcripts, 1874-1934, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, 1923), Town of Durham: Joseph Sutliff, baptism 27 July 1712, p. 80; digital images, AmericanAncestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/connecticut-vital-records-the-barbour-collection-1630-1870/image : accessed February 2024).
3. ↑ Fowler, William Chauncey, History of Durham, Connecticut, From the First Grant of Land in 1662 to 1866, (Wiley, Waterman & Eaton, 1866) Page 252. "REV. NATHANIEL CHAUNCEY'S RECORD" 27 July 1712 baptism? of Joseph, "son of Nath, and Sarah Sutlif,"
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5} Jacobus, Donald Lines (compiler). Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol I-VIII. and Index Vol IX 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). pp 1714
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} Connecticut Vital Records to 1850 "Wallingford" (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, (1928.) p. 304; citing Vol 5 pp. 540, 544 and vol 9, p. 544
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} Prichard, Katharine (ed.), Ancient Burying-Grounds of the Town of Waterbury, Together With Other Records of Church and Town, (Mattatuck Historical Society, 1917) app. "Farmingbury Burying Grounds" p. 314; "Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSZF-M9WY-5 : February 28, 2024), image 181 of 186; Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, 1842-1920, Griswold, Glenn E., Prichard, Katharine Adelaid, b. 1836. Text:"Sutliff, Joseph, Wife of , d. July 10, 1780. [Sutliff] Joseph, Old, d. 1795. [Sutliff,] Katherine, wife of Joseph, d. Nov. 11, 1791, aged 63 years."
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3} Orcutt, Samuel. History of the Town of Wolcott (American Printing Co., Waterbury, Conn, 1874), p. 211, Page 561.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Bronson, Henry, The History of Waterbury, Connecticut; the Original Township Embracing Present Watertown and Plymouth, and Parts of Oxford, Wolcott, Middlebury, Prospect and Naugatuck, (Waterbury: Bronson Bros., 1858), p. 249, p. 278.
9. ↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YYY-GJW?cc=1803959&wc=22Z7-BZF%3A1584071302%2C1584071307%2C1584071317 : 14 October 2022), Connecticut > New Haven > Waterbury > image 7 of 10; citing NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
10. ↑ Anderson, Joseph, The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut, (New Haven: The Price and Lee company, 1896), p. 442
11. ↑ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928; citing vol 2 p. 7; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/13115/298/234270332
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Waterbury Probate District, Vol. 2 1785-1795, pp. 328-336; digital images, Family Search, Film # 007627174, (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-5LL6 : accessed Feb 2024)
13. ↑ Waterbury Probate District, Vol. 3 1799-1820, pp. 214-222; digital images, Family Search, Film # 007627174, (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-5L46 : accessed Feb 2024)
14. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42494496/katharine-sutliff: accessed February 28, 2024), memorial page for Katharine Seward Sutliff (1728–11 Nov 1791), Find A Grave: Memorial #42494496, citing Edgewood Cemetery, Wolcott, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA; Maintained by C Greer (contributor 47180683).